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

 

01/09/2009        New option added to revert the read type back to Actual after the type was changed.

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12/18/2008        Billing reports will now recognize meter change dates as billing from/to if there is no current read on new meter.

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11/18/2008        Fixed Problem with Owner and Other information not saving properly.  Only a critical update for users running 11/10/2008 and 11/17/2008 versions. 

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11/12/2008        A minimum amount option was added to the seasonal service calculation screen

 

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11/10/2008        Issue with Name and Address changing by users with no access has been fixed.

                  User Security feature to View/Edit Driver’s License # added.

 

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11/07/2008        Summary Zip Code option has been added in Billing Options.

                 

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11/04/2008        The billed usage will now be calculated and stored so it will print on the billing register.

                  (even if it does not fit the step low amount on the rate setup)

             

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10/28/2008        The Export Delinquent Utility Bills to Tax task will now have the option to add a minimum and                   

              maximum additional penalty amount

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10/16/2008        FB Post Card will now print full 35 characters on the bill detail porting of the post card.

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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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