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Quotas

Take control of print and copy costs, stop waste, and ensure predictable spending. This smart allowance system is the ultimate tool for proactive budgeting and positive printing habits.

Proactive budgets & behavioral change

Quotas work proactively, setting a clear cost ceiling on all printing and copying to prevent budget surprises.

Set quotas for individual users or entire groups to make it clear that printing and copying aren’t endless commodities. This simple enforcement system acts as a powerful behavioral nudge that encourages mindful printing, saving paper and resources.

Dive into our guide for setting up quota allocations in the manual.

 

The PaperCut MF user table with the user balance and restricted column highlighted

Charge by user, group, and printer

Achieve total flexibility and granular control over your printing costs. You can set unique pricing rules and apply them based on:

  • Users: Give individual users a specific allowance or set pricing based on their role.
  • Groups: Apply a different charging model for a specific department or faculty.
  • Printers: Change the cost per page for an expensive color device or a specific printer model.

Click through to see some examples of how you might tailor charge rates to suit your organisation.

 

Accurate cost allocation & reporting

Charge a user’s printing and copying to a personal or shared account. Shared accounts are perfect for allocating printing costs to a group or project, such as a school faculty, a business’s Marketing team, or a law firm’s specific client matters.

Shared accounts can also be useful for reporting and monitoring printing habits without restricting user behavior, allowing you to track spending by department without hard limits.

Dive into the feature page to learn more about Shared Accounts and Professional Client Billing.

Automated quota management

Eliminate manual overhead by setting quotas to automatically refresh daily, weekly, monthly, or even per semester to align with your organization’s budget cycles.

You can also:

  • Decide whether users can “bank up” their unused allowance or if it’s a “use it or lose it” policy.
  • Allow users to go into a negative balance up to a defined “overdraft” or credit limit.
  • For advanced needs, use Print Scripting to create custom rules like daily color page limits.

Learn how to set and manage overdraft limits in our manual.

The PaperCut MF admin console, showing the quota scheduling section

Jobs stop when users are out of credit

Uncontrolled printing and copying at the MFD can lead to costly job overruns, causing negative balances and reconciliation headaches.

PaperCut MF quotas solves this by enforcing a real-time balance check for all transactions and stops jobs as soon as a user runs out of credit.

The account balance and the job cost preview are displayed right at the MFD before users release their job.

Read this page to understand more about Restricting users.

User payment & manual top-up options

Give users the ability to add credit to their account from within the PaperCut User web page, using a variety of convenient methods, including real money via credit/debit cards:

  • Online Payment Gateways
  • Prepaid/Top-Up Cards
  • Campus Card Systems
  • Cash Kiosks/Value Loaders
  • Web Cashier

Your questions answered in this Knowledge Base article: Common questions about Payment Gateways.