Budget and Average Billing Plans

Learn about Budget and Average Billing plans in CIS.

CIS application has the feature to support Budget and Average Billing plans. The topics below discuss Budget and Average Billing in detail.

Billing Plan Description

Average Billing Customers are billed taking in account the average charges for a rolling 12-month period, or based on the number of active months for those that have less than 12 months of service. A Customer defined % of their outstanding rolling balance (may be positive or negative) is added.

Billing Plan	Description
Average Billing	Customers are billed taking in account the average charges for a rolling 12-month period, or based on the number of active months for those that have less than 12 months of service. A Customer defined `%` of their outstanding rolling balance (may be positive or negative) is added.
Budget Billing	Customers pay an equal amount each month (regardless of usage). Each month the Customer is billed their actual charges based upon the monthly usage (`867`) received from the Market. While the actual charges are billed to the Customer's account, the amount invoiced is the Budgeted Amount. The Customer's invoice shows the normal usage and charges incurred, but the Amount Due is equal to the Budget Billing Amount. Each month the Budget Balance goes up or down depending upon the difference between actual charges and the budget amount billed.

Budget Billing

Customers pay an equal amount each month (regardless of usage). Each month the Customer is billed their actual charges based upon the monthly usage (867) received from the Market. While the actual charges are billed to the Customer's account, the amount invoiced is the Budgeted Amount. The Customer's invoice shows the normal usage and charges incurred, but the Amount Due is equal to the Budget Billing Amount. Each month the Budget Balance goes up or down depending upon the difference between actual charges and the budget amount billed.

The ability to set a Customer on either billing plan is established per the client’s request. Some parameters that need to be considered when processing the billing plan are:

An Individual Customer cannot be on both Budget Billing and Average Billing plans at the same time for single premises.
If the Customer has multiple premises, one premise can be on Average Billing and others can be on Budget Billing. This is based on how the invoice charges need to be calculated during the application.