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Top Users Report
Summary
The Top Users Report will display a list of the top users of a service. The UB customer accounts included in the report can be filtered by New Billing batch, service rate, billing cycle and/or account class. Top users can be ranked by the dollar amount of the bills or billable consumption.
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Step by Step
1 Open the Top Users window (UB> Reports> Top Users).
- When generating a Top Users report, you must select either a New Billing batch, billing cycle, or account class. You cannot filter the report by more than one of those options. For example, you cannot filter the report by billing cycle and account class.
- The Service Rates field is used to select the service rates you would like to include in the report. Only those accounts that include the selected service rates will be included in the report.
- This field will display the available service rates associated with the Service selected to the right.
- All service rates will be selected by default.
- The Batch Number field allows you to filter the accounts in the report by committed New Billing batch. Click the search button to select a committed New Billing batch from a list.
- The Billing Cycle drop-down menu is used to filter the accounts included in the report by billing cycle.
- You can view the billing cycle attached to a specific UB customer account on the Account Master Maintenance window (UB> Maintenance> Account> Account tab> Account sub-tab> Billing Cycle field).
- The Account Class drop-down menu allows you to filter the report by the class attached to the lots.
- Account classes are created and maintained in the Class Maintenance window (UB> Maintenance> Classes).
- Account classes are attached to lots using the Lot Maintenance window (SS> Maintenance> Lot> Lot tab> Classes drop-down menu).
- The Service drop-down menu is used to select which service will be used for the top users report. Consumption or billings on the selected service will be used to generate a list of the top users.
- Consumption on a meter is associated with a bill type not a service. In order to calculate the consumption on a service, the report matches the consumption on meters with the service rates of the same bill type. The service associated with those service rates is then used as the service associated with the consumption.
- The History Date To and History Date From fields are used to filter the transactions that display on the report by transactions date.
- You can view the transactions date of a transaction on a customer account on the History tab of the customer maintenance window (UB> Maintenance> Account).
- Select how you would like to determine the top users in the Calculate by drop- down menu.
- Select Billable Consumption if you would like to generate a list of top users by billable consumption. This option will generate a list of top users by the consumption read on meters during the date range entered in the History Date From and History Date To fields. The report will include both billed and unbilled consumption on the report.
- The consumption on the report will be filtered by the read date of the meter readings. If a meter reading does not fall within the date range entered in the History Date From and History Date To fields the consumption on that meter reading will not be included on the report.
- Consumption attached to subtract or exempt meters will affect the consumption that displays on the report. For example, if a subtract meter is attached to a customer account, the consumption on the subtract meter will be subtracted from the consumption on the meter on the report.
- Select Calculated Consumption if you would like to generate a list of top users by calculated consumption.
- Calculated consumption is calculated as: (consumption) x (cons multiplier or cons divisor on the UB device)
- Select Dollar Amount if you would like to generate a list of top users by the billed amount on the service selected in the Service drop-down menu.
- Select the number of records you would like to display on the report in the Results drop-down menu. For example, if you would like to generate a top ten users list, enter 10 in this field.
- Once the required report settings have been specified, click the Print button to print your report.
- Click the options arrow on the right side of the Print button to see other print options.
- Select PDF to print the report in the default Springbrook PDF format.
- Select Excel to export the report data to an Excel spreadsheet as unformatted data.
- Select Excel (Formatted) to export the report data to an Excel spreadsheet that includes much of the Springbrook formatting found on the printed version of the report.
- Once a print option is selected, that option will automatically be selected the next time you access the report. For example, if you select Excel from the drop-down menu, the next time you access the report the Excel button will be displayed by default.
- Click the Schedule icon next to the Print button in order to schedule the report to generate at a later date and time.
- Enter a Date and Time to generate the report and click SUBMIT.
- Users can also regenerate a report with the same configuration as a prior report via the report history section. This can help improve efficiency when an identical report is frequently generated.
- Once a report has been generated, the date and time it was generated will display in the report history accessed via the Expand Arrow button on the right side of the window.
- Expand the report history and click on a previous report record to automatically populate the report criteria with the criteria specified on the previously generated report. This section will display the last three times the report was generated.