Getting Started with Tenant Billing

Following on from the outline of the components of Tenant Billing described her and displayed in the image below, there are a number of activities that need to be done in order to create these items and getting the system ready to start producing Tenant Bills.

It is suggested that the following sequence is used when setting up Sigma for Tenant Billing.

Note the items can be modified as required after they have been created.

1. Create Core Estate Structure

This is about creating the Organisation, Site Groups, Sites, Building Units, Meters and Data Channels

2. Create Core Associated Data

This is to setup and data applicable to the Tenants supply that may need to be used to support the calculation of charges (e.g. capacity information or floor area)

3. Create a Tenant Provider

To capture details of the legal party fulfilling the billing activity.

4. Create Cost Definition(s)

These are the prices that are to be used when calculating charges for the bill, if these are specified (rather than using the supplier invoices as a basis for recharging).

5. Create Contract(s)

These are the specific Contracts that hold the details that can be linked to a particular Tenant Account for a configurable period of time.

6. Create Tariff(s)

These capture the individual charges that should be billed as part of a Contract, and how they are to be calculated.

7. Setup Tenant Bill Validation

This is to setup the validators that will run over bills that have been calculated before they are issued to highlight any potential issues.

8. Create Tenant(s)

These need to be created to recharge a particular Tenant.

9. Create Tenant Account(s)

Needed to recharge a particular commodity onto a Tenant.

10. Create Supply Point(s)

These need to be created to link the Tenant Account with the charging Contracts and applicable meters.

11. Create Tariff Connector(s)

These need to be crated where Associated Data or Supplier bills are being used as a basis for charging the tenant

12. Create Tenant Billing Group(s)

These need to be created to manage the triggering of a bill run.