Multiple Flat bill rates in Projects

We have a requirement to capture and store multiple bill rates for an employee in a project and use one of those rates (based on time cards) to calculate revenue and invoice.
There is no logic or relationship between these rates. So we can’t use any multiplier or markup. They are just flat rates – rate1, rate2, rate3 etc..
So when employee enters time cards, he will chose that rate type (rate1 or rate2...) and our billing extension has to calculate based on that rate.
For this we need some place in project to store rates against the rate types for employees by project (because the rates for the employee may vary from project to project).
Please let me know if you have come across any such scenarios and how did you handle it.

Hi
You may consider utilizing the Rate Schedules form.
I assume there could be several projects, several employees and several rate types involved.
You could setup a separate schedule for each project and rate type. Within such schedule you can update the rates values per employee.
The name of the schedule could include a text indicating the rate type. You may enable a DFF attribute on the rate schedule header to hold the project number.
Dina

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data : v_FILE_EXISTS type c.
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