The Bill Extract Records

Numerous different types of records are interfaced to the document composition application. However, they all share a common structure for bills:

• The first 4 bytes are called the Printer Key. This field is a record type used by the document composition application bill template.
• The next 244 bytes are called the Sort Key. This field is used to ensure the various records used to construct a printed bill appear in the correct order in the interface file.
• The next 12 bytes are called the Mailing Key. This field is used to control the order in which the formatted bills are printed.
• The next 3 bytes are a filler that is available for future use.
• The remaining bytes contain the Bill Information that appears on the printed bill. The type of information differs for each type of record.

The topics in this section describe each component.