Project Accounting assists IST customers with logging onto the Shopping Cart page, understanding their bill statements, and investigating billing discrepancies on their statements. Project Accounting can answer questions concerning the location of lines, the description of all services and how to update chartstring and user name information on your on-line billing statements. We also provide information on how to access our webpages and secure on-line ordering website.

How to order services on Shopping Cart

First, all users must have a Calnet Passphrase in order to login to our Shopping Cart page. This is to ensure that only authorized users from your department are ordering services or looking at your departmental information. Second, after a Calnet passphrase has been obtained, a user must be assigned particular permissions. These permissions are assigned by the department's Access Rights Administrator, who can be found by logging into Shopping Cart, then click on "Permissions" and from the selections which appear on the right, choose "See User Permissions" The Access Rights Administrator is usually a manager or signature authority in your department. Contact that person to assign you permissions for your particular task. Once you have been assigned, you are ready to go!

How to access your bills on-line

Once you have obtained a Calnet Passphrase, you will need to be assigned the permission View Bill Statements by your Access Rights Administrator. Then you may login to our Shopping Cart page and select "CNS Bill Statement and Summary"(located on the lower left side of the page). The most common and easy-to-read and print format is the RTF or PDF format in the first column. Or you may select a simple summary or even an extensive spreasheet detail format.

How to see a list of your services

To see a list of all your services, use the Shopping Cart page and select "Review". Additional choices will then appear on the right. Select "View Voice Services". The page which then appears is an "inventory" of all the active services your department is paying for. It includes even authorization codes and calling cards which you may not see on your regular monthly billing statements (if there is no usage). Use this valuable tool to learn "what's out there". It's even downloadable and sortable for your convenience.

How to change chartstrings for your CNS services

CNS currently has interactive web pages for you to make on-line chart of account changes. You no longer have to send an order for these changes to happen. If you want to update the funding for an individual service, again use the "Shopping Cart" page and place your curser on "Change Funding". Additional selections will then appear to the right. From these, select "Change Individual Funding". or moving all services from one chartstring to another, use "Change Mass Funding". You must have permissions to use these links. After you have obtained a Calnet Passphrase , your Access Rights Administrator can then assign you permissions to access these pages. Your changes are immediate, and are good in the month that you make them. You may make as many changes as you like in one month, but by month-end, whatever changes are present in the system will be reflected for that month's cycle.

How to make a name change on your bill

Since July 2002, customers have been able to make changes directly online. These changes are effective immediately and you will receive instant e-mail confirmation that your changes have been made to your bill. Click HERE to go to our name change page. If you receive a message about not having the rights/permission to do this, please contact your Access Rights Administrator.