About cost centers

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Cost centers usually correspond to particular departments in an organization. One cost center represents one accounting unit. Every user is a member of only one cost center. New users are always placed in a virtual cost center named 0 (zero) by default.

Costs centers are used for Usage and Cost reports purposes and for assigning the same cost-related settings to multiple users, when it is important for a group of users to to have the same cost settings (for example, the same way of applying costs, or the need to use credit/payment accounts for printing and copying).

NOTE: To assign access permissions to the YSoft SafeQ Web Interface and to individual features, use roles (see Managing roles in the Roles list).

At a Glance

About cost centers
Displaying the Cost Center list
Working with the Cost Center list
Searching for and displaying only specific cost centers
- Additional filter options
Updating, importing, and exporting cost center data

Displaying the Cost Center list

To display the Cost Center list: in the YSoft SafeQ Web Interface, select Users > Cost centers.

On this page, you can edit cost centers.
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Working with the Cost Center list

	Create a new cost center.
	Edit cost center settings.
	Delete a cost center and all its settings.

To edit multiple cost centers, check all the cost centers you want to edit and select Actions ... > Edit selected cost centers.
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To select or deselect all Cost centers displayed on the page, select Actions ... > Select all listed records.

Searching for and displaying only specific cost centers

Use filters to search for and display only specific cost centers.
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Enter the number or description of the cost center you want to display.

Additional filter options

Button/Icon	Action	Description
	Apply filter	Search for an existing cost center according to the filter you entered.
	Cancel filter	Cancel the filter you entered.
	Show filter	Show filter options.
	Hide filter	Hide filter options.

Updating, importing, and exporting cost center data

To access options for updating, importing, or exporting cost center data, click images/download/attachments/21955600/ActionButton.png .

Icon	Action	Description
	Update data to ORS	Upload data to an ORS - forces immediate replication of all changes to connected remote spoolers. Applies only when Distributed Server System - Private Cloud is in use. See Updating data on ORS servers for more information.
	Import data	Use the Tools - Data Import function.
	Export data	Use the Tools - Data Export function.
	Import data from Active Directory / NDS / Open LDAP	Import data via the Tools - LDAP Integration function.