The following are descriptions of fields and options available on the Global Settings—Master Information panel.
Project Information
Auto Increment Project Codes:
Select this check box to have Web Suite automatically increment project codes. For example, if you fill this is 2-{001}-R, the next project code would be 2-002-R. Web Suite will automatically fill the Project code when you create a new project.
Last Project Code:
Web Suite automatically assigns Project Codes, counting one unit up from the value entered in the field here. You can choose numbers, letter, or a combination to track your projects. Enter the value that you like to be incremented within curly brackets in the Last Project Code field.
Contract Amount Includes Main Taxes:
Select this option so that the main taxes (Main Service Tax and Main Expense Tax) are included in the project's contract amount. While using the Percent Complete of a project in the Billing Review, the taxes will be included in the Contract Amount and calculations made accordingly. If not selected, the tax amount will be added separately to the pre-tax amount.
Auto Track Important Project Changes:
When checked, Web Suite automatically tracks any major changes done to the projects in a project note. Changing some key attributes of a project like the Client, Project Manager, Contract Type, Contract Amount, Due Date or Project Status in the Project screen creates a project note automatically, providing the date and time of change, original and new amounts, Employee ID of the logged-in user and a note. This ensures that a perfect history of projects is maintained without you having to enter any data. By default, this option is selected but you can turn it off.
Expense Part of Contract Amount:
If the 'Evaluate Time & Expense Billable Status Based on Billable Value' global rule is unchecked, Web Suite includes only non-billable expenses in the contract amount, not the billable ones. To include billable expenses as part of the contract amount for all projects, check this option. Unchecked, billable expenses are considered in addition to the contract amount. You can also set this rule at the project level.
The Total Amount Spent is calculated against the total contract amount including the expenses.
Total Amount Spent = [(Hours x Bill Rate) + Billable Expense Amount + Non-Billable Expense Amount].
Use Rates from Activity List:
Typically, Web Suite follows the rate
hierarchy and uses the fee schedule rates for billing. If you want
to use the bill and cost rates of the Activity screen instead, this option
should be checked. This global rule is inherited by all existing projects
when you click Apply 
.
Allow Zero (0) Rates in Service Fee Schedules:
When selected, allows zero rates to be used from the Fee Schedules. If not selected, zero rates will be not be allowed to be used against items in fee schedules.
Employee Information
Standard Employee Hours:
Number of standard hours an employee works per day and per week. E.g., 8 hours per day and 40 hours per week. You can enter decimal values as well. When standard working hours are specified here, they are automatically entered in every new employee profile.
Time Off
Web Suite tracks your vacation, sick, holiday and compensation time by providing pre-defined activity codes. You can, however, change the mapping from the pre-defined activity codes to some other desired ones. They are used to produce standard reports.
Vacation/Sick/Holiday/Comp Time:
You can customize the default activity codes here by selecting the desired code for the vacation, sick, holiday and compensation time from the drop-down lists. For example, GEN:VAC label can be changed to GEN:PER for personal time.
It is possible to assign the same code to multiple activity codes.
Exclude Vacation, Sick, Holiday and Comp Time When Calculating Overtime:
Some companies do not consider vacation, sick, etc. in the calculation of overtime as it must come from actual hours worked. Check this option if you don't want to include vacation, sick, holiday and compensation time of employees for calculating their overtime. Web Suite then ignores the vacation, sick, holiday and comp-time activity hours in the automatic calculation of overtime.