Utility Billing

The MSI-UTILITY BILLING SYSTEM developed by Municipal Software, Inc. was designed with the help of various utility professionals from communities with populations as large as 100,000. This insight has helped to produce a system that can support a broad range of utility billing situations, This system can help to maximize revenues often overlooked in manual and other computerized systems.

Features of the MSI-Utility Billing system include:

• User defined account information, messages, and codes
• UP to five billable services, three metered and two non-metered
• Allows for bill-to, owner, and service address data
• Lien identifier and counter
• Single, compound, and deducting meters supported
• Billing cycle, route number within cycle, and read sequence within route
• Multiple billing rate schedules per service
• Automatic reading entry in route/read sequence
• Estimates readings in both entire and partial cycles
• Multiple meter exchanges between billing periods
• Single-invoice group billing of multiple accounts
• Additional billing copies by account
• Previous residents supported for account termination
• Prorating of final and new account billing amounts
• Complete cash posting and adjustments entry
• Posting of penalty and interest fees
• Accounts receivable aging reports
• Billing register printing
• Label and meter reading card printing
• On-line account inquiry by number, name, or address
• On-line inquiry for billings, payments, adjustments, usage & financial activity
• Bar-code bill printing available
• Hand-held meter reading interfaces are available for most major interrogators
• History limited only by available disk space
• Telephone reads supported
• Automatic debit payments supported - optional