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enQuestamNewFeature List <br />Systems <br />a Software <br />Billing Rate Algorithm Tool <br />5.0 <br />All <br />The Billing Algorithm Tool <br />enables one rate to act <br />differently for different <br />., <br />accounts based on specific <br />E;N '' "" <br />account attributes. It enables <br />— -- <br />utilities to modify specific <br />billing -rate functions dynam- <br />�- F J "' ""' ` <br />ically according to variables at <br />Eoa <br />the account, premise, service, <br />o, <br />meter, or item level. <br />,..red. <br />A utility may sometimes want <br />to target -modify (at the account <br />level) an ordinarily -fixed <br />element of a rate (an operand). <br />Examples of such modifiable <br />operands are step -rate tier <br />size/charge, customer charge, <br />and discount amount. The <br />Billing Algorithm Tool modifies <br />rate operands automatically at <br />the account level according to <br />k� Type Usage Facter nE Winter Summer Formula <br />— <br />configurable formulas <br />1 5 12 Sen brCttizen6iscount 1 am 1 M7 Sans i 'c <br />_ <br />(algorithms) containing <br />2 0 12 1.8 1.9 <br />customer -specific variables. <br />'i R 44949g949 1 475 1 4RS <br />For example, the tool could <br />generate a formula for target - <br />modifying a Primary rate's <br />step -tier amount for customer <br />Zoom to see <br />accounts having a particular <br />SQL variables �<:'s <br />report code variable. <br />available as of <br />Or, modifying a discount or <br />April 2017 for <br />surcharge amount for accounts <br />use in rate <br />in a specific property class. <br />algorithm <br />formulas <br />Or, a particular step tier of a <br />(top left =most <br />particular rate might have its <br />recently added): <br />tier size set to zero by a <br />formula — causing the tier to <br />be intentionally ignored during <br />the Billing Calculation. <br />After you create an algorithm <br />you implement it within a rate <br />by selecting that algorithm in <br />the appropriate Formula field <br />within that rate record. Formula <br />fields exist adjacent to every <br />modifiable operand in the Rate <br />FLM. <br />Property of Systems & Software, Inc. 25d-U.Y 57 <br />