BILL VAL is a big part of our system and contains many sub-sections.  We know that our customers like to make notes to keep track of changes or, leave messages for other agents that might work on the same invoice.  We thought it would be good to highlight when a note has been made, so you can now see a little green rectangle underneath the reference wherever a note has been left, no more missing notes!

Over the years we've added the ability to upload more and more supporting documents to your contracts, but now we've made it more efficient to re-download them all into one place.  You'll now find a 'Download All' button within View Contracts which allows you to export all your contract attachments at once, meaning you no longer have to click multiple buttons to retrieve your important documents.

We’ve made more UI improvements this month.  In our Pipeline there’s a really useful tooltip when you hover over the customer’s name; it tells you who the Account Manager and Lead Generator are, without having to click into the customer details screen.  We’ve copied this functionality into the Procurement tab so you can get the same quick and easy access to info about a customer.

We've made managing Supplier Terminations easier by automatically setting up each new supplier with a 'Termination Required' flag, this will help you keep on top of your contracts and prevent terminations from being missed in the future.

The Monies Received table in Financials (Tables) has always been great for reviewing the forecasting history of a meter, but we’ve now made it even better by adding in the date and time that the forecast was last updated, which should help save time and make your audits more accurate.

When you’re creating meters, it’s possible to choose their AMR status, but previously if you chose Non-AMR it would leave blank cells in your Portfolio export - our logic being that there is no AMR status, so don’t populate the cell. However, we understand that Portfolio exports can be large and it can cause confusion to see blank cells, so we’ve made a simple but effective change that populates the AMR status to Non-AMR when required.

Our contract generation tool is designed to save you time by collating information from customer details, contracts and products to create a quick and accurate contract to send off to the supplier. We’ve added even more functionality to it this month by allowing you to add bank address details to each customer, and easily map them to your supplier contracts.

When uploading bills there are often differences between what has been entered into the system and what is in the supplier bill, these manifest as failures within Bill Val and need to be manually fixed. Previously, there were over 6 steps to take to navigate from failure to failure, now we've made the journey much swifter by adding a 'Next' button to the failures page.

Previously, you could only enter one serial number per MPAN and there was no work-around to track consumption to individual meters. You can now add multiple serial numbers to a single meter, making it possible to track usage to specific locations.

One of our biggest priorities right now is improving our brilliantly, unique BILL VAL service. This month we’ve made big updates to allow consumption and meter reads to be logged at serial number level to cope with the demand of MPANs with multiple meters.

We understand that keeping track of flex products can be quite tricky, so this month we added some new functionality that will make this task easier for you. Now, when you’re quoting, you will see a flag underneath your flex products, and we’ve also made it easier for you to find these products within the pipeline by adding a Flex/Fixed filter.

A while back we added functionality that allowed negative values to be entered into your bespoke charges, but our unit options were limited. We’ve now added the option to add a negative charge value on a 'per contract' basis, giving you more flexibility with your bespoke charge types.

Our Customer Portal gives you monthly meter and site usage stats which we know are really important to you when it comes to reporting. Sometimes this data can be inaccurate due to partial/unimported data. We’ve made those inaccuracies really obvious by flagging any months that are missing days of consumption data and showing you a tooltip to explain how to fix it.

You no longer have to do any manual calculations if there is an incorrect value in your Supplier Receipts. Now you can enter both consumption and commission value, and if the calculation doesn’t add up, we’ll let you know of this mismatch underneath the consumption value.

Contracts are full of handy little bits of information that you need to access quickly, and while we don't want to overwhelm you when viewing your contracts, we do want you to be able to see the likes of tax rates, zones, capacity and transmission tags at the hover of a mouse.

Sometimes there are multiple failures when validating a bill; stepping through these failures can be really time-consuming and clunky. We’ve added a Next button to each failure page so you can quickly navigate through your errors and automatically open the next page without the hassle of clicking back, remembering the last failure you checked and finding the next one in the list.

We're always working hard to make our system more user-friendly. We noticed that the meter lookup tool wasn’t quite up to scratch when multiple results were returned for a postcode. We've now added some user-friendly messages to give a better idea of why things might have gone wrong for you.

Budget Consumptions can be a little confusing so this month we’ve made some really useful improvements to how you set them. You now have two options: Annual and Period – annual allows for a consumption to be calculated as an annual figure and Period allows for the consumption to be calculated based on the start and end period set by you.

We know Bill Val was already great, but we noticed that there could be some little improvements to the Search page.
Our new Advanced Search options allow you to search by reference number, date range, customer and meter number making it super quick to find and update your batches.

When pricing, this optional feature allows UK customers to set a negative value for any EBRS required so that the overall unit rate p/kWh cost of the quote is reduced. You can find this section when creating a new tender (or editing an old one), under the area marked "Add Bespoke Charge for pricing results". This is an optional feature so please contact your account manager for more information.

If your organisation utilises our integration with Microsoft's single sign-on technology (i.e. you sign in to UtilityClick using your Microsoft credentials), it's now possible to have emails sent via our software to have them appear as they've come from an alternative email address than your own (known as an alias). This is an optional feature so please contact your account manager for more information.