UTILITY BILLING UPDATE LOG

·        Only changes that apply to all customers are noted in the Change Log

·        This log only contains one year's worth of changes

·        Red text represents a CRITICAL UPDATE  

 

 

 

Date of Change     Change Details

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05/01/2008        Ability to print the work order types added to the system

                  Ability to change the Work Order Type on a saved invoice added to the system

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04/17/2008        Ability to choose the meter status upon a meter change-out added to the system

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03/26/2008        New Report Category for Comment Reports added to system.  This category will consist of one report, Comment Report, which will basically list Location ID, Comment Title and Comment Text. 

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03/17/2008        System updated for the 2008 Leap Year.  During the final bill process, the prorating was not identifying the extra day in the leap year.

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03/11/2008        When ‘Days of Service’ option is checked on the Billing Register Report options window, the report will give a total of days in the summary of the report.

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03/07/2008        Found and fixed problem with option report columns on Billing Register.  If the Location ID field was not chosen to print, the report was not populating the correct columns on the report with the correct data fields.  This has been fixed.

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03/06/2008        Meter User Fields added to the Meter display line setup options on the SLC export type

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02/26/2008        Message will appear when changing the posting date on a history entry.  Message will warn user that the posting date will not be changed on the journal entry or the linked receipt when changed in history.

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02/25/2008        When adding a billing item while within the Work Order Wizard and the account already has that billing item, the program will now simply add the work order fee to the already existing billing item and will not throw up an error regarding the billing item already existing.

 

                  Advanced Rate option added to rate setup.  The option “Multiply all Step Low and Step High Amounts by Billing Item’s Number of Units”.  This will take the number of units off the customers bill item setup and multiply the step low and step high amounts on the rate by the unit number.  The multiplied usage will then use the new multiplied step high and lows to calculate the rate.

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02/15/2008        Problem found and fixed with the billed usage by size report has been fixed.  

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02/11/2008        New Advanced Billing Option added (Program Setup/Billing Options/Advanced). “Group all ACH bills at the end of print job” will group all bills that are to be paid via ACH at the end of the bill print job, in order for them to be pulled from the group easier.  This will apply to bill prints only and not past due/shut off notice print jobs.

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02/01/2008        ACH Export log will now display the path and file name that was exported to

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01/25/2008        Final Bill Wizard will now utilize the Send Bill To flag on the Account to populate the ‘Customers New Mailing Address’ field. 

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01/23/2008        Added option to change a work order number.  Click on Tools button from the Work Order screen and this will open up the work order number field to allow for changing.

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01/22/2008        Changed barcode encoding/decoding scheme very slightly to correct problems with CR to UB scanning.

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01/15/2008        Option added to Billing Options/Advanced for the “Last Payment Amount” to not print on bill reports.

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12/18/2007        Cycle name will now print on the Bill Print Summary notepad after printing bills. The cycle name will only print if all accounts printed are in the same cycle.

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12/07/2007        Problem with scanning payments directly into UB found. Wrong account numbers were being pulled up during scanning.  New control added to remedy the problem.  

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11/26/2007        When running the Billing Register Report and having it break down the total/usage by section, it was throwing up an error when the number of sections exceeded 15.  The number of sections has been increased to 30 for this report.

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11/14/2007        Any flat charges that are set up on a usage rate table, will now display on the Rate Report when printed.

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11/5/2007         When mass adding work orders to the system, it will now link any services that exist to the work order for report purposes.

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10/19/2007        Problem found and fixed with Pummil Laser Post Card Bill.  Usage will now print all digits.

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10/17/2007        Problem with incorrect amounts printing on the Full Page Shut Off notice has been corrected.

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10/3/2007         Receipt tree sorting method is now using the posting date rather and the receipt number.

 

                  Option added to the History Register Report.  If you check on the “Don’t Display User Name” option, the user name will not display on penalty entries on the report.

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09/24/2007        Copy/Paste function added to the Individual Bill Message Screen

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09/17/2007        Flags entered onto an account will now scroll across the screen at a slightly faster speed

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09/06/2007        Found and fixed bug where if two line items on a receipt were for the same customer in UB and CR was set up to post real time, the system wouldn’t allow you to reverse the receipt in UB.  This has been fixed

 

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08/13/2007        Message added to system when a posting date in history is changed.  The system will warn the user that the linked journal and receipt records will not be changed.

 

                 

08/02/2007        Special Utility report added to system.  The new report will display each service address filtered out by cycle code, and the number of Active, First Bill, Final Bill and Inactive accounts with for that same service address.  If no active accounts are located for a service address, the report will display “No Active Accounts Found”.  Report is located under Utilities->Special Reports->Print Service address/account status listing (by cycle).

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07/27/2007        When a service is added to an account and a new billing item added when prompted, you will also be prompted to add additional billing items to the account. 

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07/16/2007        Ability to change just one effective rate date on the rate setup screen added.  

 

                  Ability to change the background color of flags has been added

 

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07/16/2007        Ability to find Electric Only and Electric/Water/Sewer services added to “Find Water/Sewer Only” utility

 

                  Bug found and fixed with deposit refunds.  If a Deposit Refund Billing item already existed on an account with the classification of ‘Do Not Bill’, the system was not flipping the classification on the billing item to ‘Deposit Refund’ to allow for a new deposit refund.  This has been fixed.

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06/20/2007        Problem fixed while running a history register to Excel.  The program was not printing any history reports correctly after a History Register was run to Excel.  This has been fixed.

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06/12/2007        “Do not print if late amount for ‘Final Bills’ option added under Program Setup/Billing Options/Advanced/’Do not print late amount for ‘Final Bills’.  This option will omit the ‘if late payment’ amount on bills for those who don’t charge a penalty on final bills. 

 

                 

05/24/2007        User option added into system.  "Prompt to use BSA editor when editing/viewing a Letter"

option will allow for choice in editors when using the letter writer process.  This option

                  will default to off and will use the default Windows Editor.

 

                  When history screen is sorted by something specific, the related history reports will

                  print those entries only.  For instance, if you have a history screen sorted by Payment

                  Posted, when you click on Print History and choose a history report, it will only print

                  the payment posted entries within that time frame.

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05/21/2007        *Critical Update* Report bug fixed - mailing names were not printing (only applies to the 5/21/2007 version).

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05/15/2007        When adding a work order to an account, there is now a choice of adding the work order fee to the account right away or just adding the billing item and having the fee bill out with the next bill calculation. 

 

List of attachments may now be sorted by date if chosen.

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