Billing system and method

Details Billing system and method Billing system and method

1995-12-29

1998-06-02

Hayes, Gail O.

Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co

Automated electrical financial or business practice or...

Accounting

705 40, 707513, G06F 1500

Patent

active

057616507

ABSTRACT:
A bill editor, generator, messaging and insert system and method comprises a portion of a bill production processor designed to create monthly billing statements which are sent to customers and which detail charges incurred over the course of a billing cycle. The bill editor and generator allows billing personnel to design a bill using static text, dynamic text and paragraph areas. Once the report/bill is defined, the report definition is stored in temporary memory for later use. The report definition file defines how the report is to appear and where the data used in the report is stored. The report generator, when subsequently run, uses the predefined report definition to retrieve data from the database and generates the report as defined by the report definition file. The bill messaging and insert system determines, based on assigned priority, criteria and weight and space limitations, the messages and notices to be included in a customer billing statement.

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