Transactions & payments
Utility Billing
A water bill that arrives in the resident's language.
Run utility accounts, usage, and statements from one system. Every bill generates in the language on the account, and residents read it in a bilingual portal — with their payment recorded against the same ledger as everything else they owe you.
The challenge
Utility billing usually lives in an aging system that prints English-only statements and posts payments where nobody else can see them. Residents who don't read English hand the bill to a relative or carry it to the counter, and a misread due date turns into a late fee — or a shutoff notice.
In practice
The bill that explains itself
On the first of the month, statements go out across town. On the west side, a retired couple's water bill arrives in Spanish, because Spanish is the language on their account. It shows this month's usage next to last month's, in plain terms, with the amount and due date impossible to miss. The señora pays from the portal in two minutes and the receipt is in her inbox before she closes the tab.
Downtown, a resident calls about a bill that doubled. The clerk pulls up the account and sees the whole story on one screen — usage history, past statements, every payment — and walks her through it without transferring the call. No second system, no "let me check with billing and call you back."
What it does
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Accounts in one place
Every utility account, its holder, its language, and its history live in a single record.
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Usage on the record
Track usage per account and show it on the statement, this month next to last.
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Statements people understand
Clear bills with the amount, the usage, and the due date front and center — no decoder ring.
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Bills in the customer's language
Each statement generates in English or Spanish based on the account, automatically.
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A portal to read the bill
Residents see current and past bills in a bilingual portal, so a due date is never missed for want of reading it.
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Payments post to one ledger
Utility payments are recorded in the same ledger as every other payment, through the Payments module.
How it works
Statements generate
Each billing cycle, every account's bill renders in the language on the account.
Residents read and pay
The bill arrives, makes sense, and gets paid — by check or at the counter — posted to the same account either way.
The account stays whole
Usage, statements, and payments sit in one record staff can actually answer from.
English and Spanish
Bilingual by design
The statement itself, the portal where it's read, and the payment receipt all follow the language on the account. A household that chose Spanish never has to translate its own water bill.
Premium AI add-on
CiVQ AI: explain the bill, flag the leak
When a bill doubles, CiVQ AI can explain why in plain English or Spanish — the usage, the rate, the dates — before the resident has to call. It also watches usage for anomalies on each account, so a likely leak gets flagged in week one instead of showing up on the next statement.
Who it's for
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