Sigma Online User Manual

Understanding the Approve and Issue Bills Activity

There are two ways to access the Activity:

Opening the Approve and Issues Bills Activity

Opening the Approve and Issue Bills Activity

  • Click on Tenant Approve and Issue Bills from the Welcome page

         

The Tenant Approve and Issue Bills Activity opens:

On entry:

  • The Billing Group dropdown list is set to 'All Billing Groups'
  • The Bill Start Date is set to the first day of the previous month
  • The Bill End Date is set is set to the last day of the previous month
  • No data is displayed in the Bills table

Moving to the Approve and Issue Bills Activity from the Tenant Bill Run Management Activity

Alternatively, if you have created a Bill Run and want to see the Bills from that run you can link from Tenant Bill Run Management to Approve and Issue Bills Activity:

  • Right click on the Tenant Bill Run
  • Click Go to Approve and Issue Bills 

         

         


The Activity filtering will default to:

  • The Billing Group
  • The date range of the Bills
  • Display the Batch Run id

Filtering

To filter, use the filter options in the Bills section on the left of the screen.

Filtering options are:

Basic Options

FieldDescription
Billing GroupChoose from the dropdown list (list of all Tenant Billing Groups)
Bill Start Date and Bill End DateEnter the required Bill Period (either using the date pickers or entering date values in these fields)
StatusSelect the required Status from the dropdown list (list of all Bill Statuses) to only include Tenant Bills with this value
Document TypeSelect the required Document type from the dropdown list (Invoice or Credit Note) to only include Tenant Bills with this value
Bill MethodSelect the required Bill Method from the dropdown list (Periodic or Ad-hoc) to only include Tenant Bills with this value
CommoditySelect the required Commodity  from the dropdown list (list of all Commodities) to only include Tenant Bills with this value
Invoice IdEnter a value in the text field to only include Tenant Bills with an Invoice ID that includes this value
SiteEnter a value in the text field to only include Tenant Bills linked to a Site that includes this value in the Site Name
TenantEnter a value in the text field to only include Tenant Bills linked to a Tenant that includes this value in the Tenant Name
Tenant Bill Batch 

Enter a value in the text field to only include Tenant Bills with  this value.


Advanced Options

Field Description
Property Key 1Select the required Property Key from the dropdown list (list of all character-based Property Keys that can be applied at Global or Tenant Account level) and enter a value in the text field to only include issued Tenant Bills linked to Tenant Accounts with the selected Property Key that includes this value.
Property Key 2Select the required Property Key from the dropdown list (list of all character-based Property Keys that can be applied at Global or Tenant Account level) and enter a value in the text field to only include issued Tenant Bills linked to Tenant Accounts with the selected Property Key that includes this value.
Property Key 3Select the required Property Key from the dropdown list (list of all character-based Property Keys that can be applied at Global or Tenant Account level) and enter a value in the text field to only include issued Tenant Bills linked to Tenant Accounts with the selected Property Key that includes this value.
Property Key 4Select the required Property Key from the dropdown list (list of all character-based Property Keys that can be applied at Global or Tenant Account level) and enter a value in the text field to only include issued Tenant Bills linked to Tenant Accounts with the selected Property Key that includes this value.


When you have chosen your filtering options:

  • Click  to see the results

Note: If you have run more than one test run for a period, you will see the bills more than once in the table.

Note: If you have run more than one live run, you will see a cancelled bill and then a bill.

Tip:  If you have run Test Runs and Live Runs and you want to see just the Live Runs, filter as follows:



Note: A maximum of 4,000 Tenant Bills are displayed.

If the selected filter options / criteria have returned more than 4,000 Tenant Bills a Note pop-up is displayed:

  • Click OK to close the Note pop-up

Available Options

There are 13 options at the top of the page:

IconName 

Enter External Invoice ID

Approve Bill

Undo Approval

Issue Bill

Cancel Bill

Withdraw Bill

Withdraw and Rebill

Print Bill

Energy Intelligence Actions

Export to Excel

View Aggregate PDFs

View Aggregate Consumption CSVs

Expand the screen (removes the filter)

Changing the display (adding/hiding columns)

To add/hide columns, click on the downward arrow on the Column Header 

  • Click on Columns


  • Tick / Untick to add / hide Columns

Click here to see a full list of the available columns.

Summary field

A summary appears at the bottom of the screen

Right click options

Each bill can be assessed individually by using the right click option.

  • Right click on the Bill
  • Choose from the list

         


Alternatively, if you choose more than one bill:

  • Highlight the Bills
  • Choose from the list

         

Printing the Tenant Bill Table

To print the contents of the Bills table:

  • Click on the Print Bill icon at the top of the screen

         


The Print Preview pop-up opens showing details of all the Tenant Bills currently displayed in the Bills table according to the columns that are currently enabled.

The selected Tenant Bill(s) are also highlighted



  • Click Print to print the details

         

Exporting Bills to Excel

To export details of Tenant Bills to Excel:

  • Click  Export to Excel at the top of this section

         


  • An Excel document is download

         

Energy Intelligence Options

This enables you to refresh the Tenant Billing related data in Sigma Energy Intelligence.

  • Click Energy Intelligence Actions

         

The Energy Intelligence Actions pop-up opens.

The table provides a view of the last 10 refresh actions.

         

FieldDescription
Energy Intelligence ActionsChoose from the dropdown
Notification EmailEnter an email address to receive a notification the refresh has been actioned (not mandatory)

Click to action the refresh. 

click Yes on the pop-up


         

  • The refresh is displayed with a status of Pending

         

When the refresh has been actioned, the status will be updated to Complete.

Cancelling a Refresh

Right click on the refresh line

Click Cancel

         

  • Click on the X to close the pop-up

Refreshing the pop-up

To check in the refresh has completed:

  • Right click on the pop-up
  • Click Refresh

The updated status will show.

Once complete, go to Energy Intelligence to run reports with the refreshed data.


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