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Utility Management with BILLPAY by UMC Utility Management Solutions

Is Your Utility Bill Management Process Performing Optimally?

If your company is like most, utilities are a major operational cost. From water costs to energy usage, operating a modern business is resource-intensive. To stay competitive in today’s business world, you need a modern utility management solution that supports utility management. How do you know if you’re succeeding in implementing a more efficient utility billing solution? See how well these questions match your experience:

Are you currently providing the latest utility management software to your team members?

Are team members entering auditing, and storing utility bill data in a centralized location?

Is your current utility services payment and reporting system outdated?

Do you know, on a month-to-month basis, who your utility providers are and roughly what your utility costs amount to?

At UMC Solutions, we help clients in various markets be more profitable with our innovative BILLPAY utility management solutions.

Introducing BILLPAY from UMC

If your company is still using paper billing, all your utility bill processing must be done manually, which can complicate the utility payment process. All invoices need to be opened, sorted, and manually keyed into a spreadsheet or accounting program. If some of your utility accounts use electronic billing, then you’ve also got to integrate those bills with your paper system. For large or multi-site businesses, a “simple” invoice collection process can quickly become immensely complicated, with the likelihood of lost or mistaken utility invoices and loss of potential savings.

That’s just the beginning. All of your utility charges need to be audited and accounted for, and any billing errors need to be resolved. When you don’t have a dedicated team to perform these tasks, billing exceptions sometimes get overlooked, and you run the risk of payments being late. All of those preventable mistakes can significantly lower your company’s bottom line, as well as damaging long-term objectives like green energy sustainability goals.

BILLPAY from UMC is an all-encompassing utility management solution that includes data entry, analysis, and invoice reconciliation for virtually any recurring bill payment. BILLPAY works for nearly any business across a wide range of industries, providing financial assistance in the form of utility payment solutions. Once you place your trust in BILLPAY, entire departments of UMC energy experts, invoice analysts, and reconciliation specialists, along with state-of-the-art EnergyCAP bill management software, start working around-the-clock to help your organization more effectively manage its utility costs.

How BILLPAY Works

UMC’s time-tested BILLPAY formula includes these reliable steps to ensure that your entire portfolio of recurring utility data is being managed in the most efficient and resourceful way possible:

All invoices are automatically captured and audited by EnergyCAP software as they are received. This significantly reduces the time involved in the auditing process while also increasing audit accuracy through real-time data analysis. Even in cases where auditors have to resort to manual processes, such as entering an account number, BILLPAY ensures that utility bills are carefully audited as they come in from the service providers.

Any billing exception is flagged and then forwarded to UMC’s Research Department for further analysis by our team of billing resolution experts.

The next critical step in the BILLPAY process highlights any exceptions found during the auditing process, to ensure that those errors or abnormalities are identified and promptly resolved.

Any bill that doesn’t pass seamlessly through the auditing process is automatically flagged for follow-up by a UMC team member.

UMC then pays your bills on time so that you don’t get hit with costly and unnecessary late charges.

Looking for an even better way to reduce utility costs? Ask us about our Shared Rebate program today!

By combining the basic functionalities of an accounts payable department and a utility invoice processing service, BILLPAY streamlines the payment process, offering an effective utility bill management solution for any business.

As an additional bonus, our Energy Star portfolio manager tool can be used to track your company’s energy consumption, operational performance and greenhouse gas emissions!

Data Management: The first step in developing strategies to reduce recurring transaction costs is to capture and convey bill data in a cost efficient manner. UMC is a certified dealer and service provider of EnergyCAP bill management software. EnergyCAP is one of the most robust energy accounting platforms for data security, analytics and bill management on the planet.

Bill Audit: All invoices are filtered through an intense series of audits to insure accuracy. Any problems identified in the utility billing process are investigated by UMC’s research department. A journal or Issues Report is created at the onset for record and review. Unless withheld by client request, invoices are available for online viewing the next day. Click here to learn more.

Bill Exceptions: When an error or abnormality is identified during the audit process, the system “flags” the bill, and a Bill Exception is sent to UMC’s Research Department. Upon receipt, Bill Exceptions are researched with the utility and/or customer until a resolution is reached. Not only does this save you time, it often helps identify problems such as water leaks and faulty meters.

Invoice Processing: UMC’s bill processing and payment services include data entry, analysis, and reconciliation of invoices for electricity, gas, water, waste, telecom, and other recurring costs. By virtue of UMC’s web-based platform, the invoice data captured is instantly available for client access and reporting.

Virtual Payment: UMC persistently searches for innovative payment solutions that bring value with data security to our clients. Virtual Payment is an electronic payment method used to pay participating vendors with ease, while reducing the risk of fraud and processing costs. Ask us about our shared rebate program!

EnergyCAP: With the EnergyCAP platform, you can do pretty much anything you could want or expect from a Class A energy information software program; even customize your own dashboard. And now, you or any of your associates can get the reports you want, when you want, by the touch of a button. ASK us HOW?

Start Boosting Your Performance with BILLPAY Today

Inefficient and outdated utility bill management methods chip away at your company’s bottom line. On the other hand, our BILLPAY utility management solutions help clients streamline their billing processes to be more profitable. Since 1987, UMC Solutions has been changing the status quo when it comes to full-service utility expense management. If we can assist you with your recurring utility bill auditing, bill analysis, invoice reconciliation or utility bill payment needs today, please call UMC Solutions at: 601-948-2360, or use our convenient contact form now!

UMC Provides Utility Bill Management Services For:

ELECTRIC

NATURAL GAS

PROPANE

INTERNET

RECYCLE

DIESEL FUEL

TRASH

BUTANE

TELECOM

FUEL OIL

SEWER

RENT

CABLE

PEST CONTROL

SECURITY ALARM

WATER

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