Project Resource Rates

Hello
we're using EPM 2010 and soon 2013 to manage our clients' projects.
we are using a centralised resource pool and people will enter Timesheet for project tracking.
one particularity is that every project is having a specific agreement on a rate for resources.
I know that we have 5 rate tables in EPM but I see this as a limitation because someone in his life will surely be assigned to more than 5 project and starting to play with talbles AND effective dates leads to management nightmares.
so my question is : do you see a way we can edit the resource rate per project?
do you see any other alternative for our use case?
regards
Jérome

Hello Jerome,
I've written a utility that allows you to define ratecards externally to your project, and then apply them as and when required. So say you had a rate card per customer, you could build that ratecard once, and then use the ratecard import utility to apply
those rates to each project you are executing for that customer.
It's not open source, but it is freely available within our MS Project add-on. See the middle section of this webpage ("Rate Card Utilities") for a description:
http://www.eversight.co.uk/#!dataimport/cuqb
Get in touch if that would be helpful,
Andrew
Andrew Simpson
Founder – Eversight Ltd
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