Features of business charging system
The business system is the core system and basic system of the water supply company. A good charging system should provide the following functions for the water supply company.
1) Family file information management function;
2) Provide a variety of meter reading, metering and billing methods;
3) Support multiple collection modes;
4) Provide a simple and efficient reconciliation method;
5) It supports process based bill management mode and various statistical analysis reports.
Archives information management
As the basic part of the whole system, the household registration information should provide the following functions.
1) Comprehensive information management function. The archive information shall cover the user's basic information and water meter information, and reserve sufficient expansion information to facilitate future business expansion.
2) Complete business processing functions such as account opening, transfer, account cancellation, report suspension, demolition, meter management, file information modification, water meter information modification, and water use property change.
3) Perfect water meter information management and water meter life cycle management.
4) Support multiple types of user table management, such as one user with one table, one user with multiple tables, and one user with multiple tables.
5) Process measurement function: each business and operation has recorded the process, which is convenient for supervision and query. Other water meters, user related business processing tracking.
Meter reading mode
Meter reading plays an important role in the business process, providing calculation basis for the subsequent water bill nucleic acid. The meter reading function and method also affect the efficiency of tap water meter reading. A good meter reading mode of the billing system should have the following characteristics:
1) It supports flexible meter reading management function to facilitate meter reading management.
2) It supports the user-defined function of meter reading sequence to facilitate the adjustment of meter reading sequence.
3) Manual meter reading should be simple and convenient, save the time of manual input, and improve work efficiency.
4) At the same time, it supports manual meter reading, manual meter reading machine, remote meter reading and other meter reading methods to improve the efficiency of meter reading.
5) It supports the water volume detection function to detect the abnormal water volume at the bottom of the abnormal meter and improve the data accuracy.
Billing management
The charging link determines the monthly receivable amount of the water supply company, providing a data basis for the subsequent charging link. A charging management shall have the following characteristics:
1) Flexible water use nature and price.
2) A variety of charging methods are supported, such as current normal charging, over planned water price, and stepped charging.
3) The cost calculation should be accurate.
4) The expense report should be clear.

Charging method
The charging link plays a vital role in the management of the tap water business, determines the monthly operating income of the water company, and is also a function of high frequency of use in the whole business link:
1) The display of receivable data should be clear and intuitive, so that the toll collector can collect fees easily.
2) The operation shall be simple and convenient to provide charging efficiency.
3) The payment channels should be diversified, support WeChat, Alipay, UnionPay, banks and other payment channels, and improve the water fee recovery rate.
4) The reconciliation statement shall be clear and accurate.
5) The third party payment should support the reconciliation function to improve the reconciliation efficiency.
6) Bill support should be diversified from customized mobile phones to electronic invoices and machine printed invoices to meet the needs of different users.
Bill management
A good billing software should support bill management, which is convenient for toll collectors to check and manage bills and accounts. Bill management often has the following characteristics:
1) Streamline bill management, including collecting, issuing, issuing, printing, and voiding bills.
2) The classification of bills should be clear to facilitate the management of various bills.
3) The bill statistics should be accurate to ensure the accuracy of the bill details and various data of the bill summary.
Report Form
A good charging software should be able to provide various statistical reports to provide decision-making basis for the company's decision-makers. The charge report mainly includes the following categories:
1) The meter reading report is convenient for statistics of various meter reading data.
2) Accounts receivable statement, accounting accounts receivable.
3) Charge report, collect and write off data.
4) Arrears report.
5) Billing report.
6) User defined report. If the above reports cannot meet the needs of the water supply company, they can be implemented through user-defined reports.