Billable Charge - Read Details
Optionally, you may specify meter read details associated with a billable charge. These are most commonly used when you need to print the read details that were used to calculate the bill lines that appear on the main tab.
Using these reads to derive billable consumption. The base package bill segment creation algorithm (BSBC-BC) simply sweeps billable charge read details onto the related bill segment as calculation / audit reads. This algorithm does NOT use these reads to derive billable consumption. This is intentional as most implementations that import reads also import billable consumption and therefore deriving billable consumption is unnecessary (and also error prone). If your implementation needs to derive billable consumption from these reads, you can develop your own bill segment creation algorithm to do just this.
Open and navigate to the Read Details page to maintain a billable charges service quantities.
Description of Page
The grid is a snapshot of the meter reads whose consumption was billed using the bill lines shown on the main tab. One row exists for every read that should be swept onto the related bill segment as a calculation / audit read when the system creates a bill segment for this billable charge. The following information is displayed in the grid:
- Final Unit of Measure is the unit of measure of the resultant billing quantity.
- Final Time of Use is the time-of-use code of the resultant billing quantity.
- Final Service Quantity Identifier is the service quantity identifier of the resultant billing quantity.
- Register Quantity is the resultant billing quantity.
- How To Use (SP) is the SA/SP's how to use code.
- Service Point ID is the unique identifier of the service point at which the meter was located.
- Meter Configuration ID is the unique identifier of the meter's configuration.
- Sequence is the sequence number of the register on the meter.
- Unit of Measure is the register's unit of measure.
- Time of Use is the register's time-of-use code.
- SQI is reserved for future use.
- Start Register Reading is the start register reading.
- End Register Reading is the end register reading.
- Measured Quantity is the resulting measured quantity.
- Register Constant is the constant on the register that is multiplied by the measured quantity to derive the register's billable consumption.
- How To Use is the register's how to use code.
- Use Percent is the SA/SP's usage percentage. A value of 100% is defaulted.
- Measures Peak Qty indicates if the unit of measure is one that measures peak consumption.
- Start Read Date/Time is the date and time of the start meter read. If the register is consumptive, (as opposed to subtractive) nothing will be displayed.
- End Read Date/Time is the date and time of the end meter read.
- Start Reg Read ID is the unique identifier of the start register read. If the register is consumptive, (as opposed to subtractive) nothing will be displayed.
- Read Type is the read type of the start meter read.
- End Reg Read ID is the unique identifier of the end register read.
- Read Type is the read type of the end meter read.
- Multiplier is the composite multiplier that converts the measured quantity to the registered quantity.
The multiplier is calculated by dividing the Register Quantity by the Measured Quantity (if the Measured Quantity is 0, then the result is 0). This is not stored on the database. There is a chance that the value is not precise due to round-off.