If you’ve set up a company organisation in MachShip with a parent company and multiple child companies, each child company can create (or have created) consignments under its own company. By default, MachShip generates separate invoices per child company. That means: one invoice per child company, based on the consignments created against that child.
MachShip has provided an option where you can set one invoice across an organisation. To enable this, you can set a Billing Parent Company for a child company.
When a Billing Parent Company is set, MachShip will direct that child company’s invoice charges to the selected billing parent, allowing you to generate a single invoice for the organisation (rather than one per child).
Common Use Case: Broker and Reseller Models
The Billing Parent Company feature is commonly used in broker and reseller scenarios. In these models, a parent company (the broker or reseller) operates multiple child company accounts on behalf of clients. The parent company typically owns the carrier accounts, and child companies access these accounts via Company Carrier Accounts with markup pricing applied. By setting the Billing Parent Company, all invoices from child companies are consolidated into a single invoice for the parent company.
Example
Company A has three child companies: A1, A2, and A3.
•If Company A wants one consolidated invoice covering A1, A2, and A3: