e-Billing with Essentials - saves you time, effort and paper

When you use e-billing with Essentials, you do away with the need to enter data manually. It gives you the ability to handle electronic billing, as well as fully automated processes for bill validation, verification and payment authorisation.

Automatic import of utility billing data avoids the need for manual input

Essentials billing file support includes:

• the de facto Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) standard, Tradacoms Utility Bill File, File Format 26
• supplier-specific file formats
• user-defined text formats

We work closely with energy suppliers to ensure we fully support their electronic billing services and we add new formats as they become available.

Audit Trail tracks the status of all your bills

The Audit Trail automatically logs bills as they are imported. Status flags are applied to every bill, so it's impossible to lose track of utility bill queries throughout the following key processes:

• data validation - all billing quantities are compared, and configurable exception parameters either pass or fail the bill
• bill verification - to ensure you never pay an inaccurate supplier bill
• payment authorisation - to prevent duplication of payment

Bulk Bill Management validates and verifies in bulk

Once the bills are in the system, the Audit Trail status flags show which ones have passed validation and verification, which have failed, and which haven't been checked yet.

• select bills based on their status and other criteria and, in a single process, pass them all through Bulk Bill Management for validation and verification

e-Payments fully configurable file export to general and purchase ledger

Essentials makes moving to electronic bill payment very straightforward.

• e-Payments creates user-defined export files to match the format required by General and Purchase Ledger systems and VAT reconciliation reports