Automate Meter-to-Cash. Accelerate Order-to-Cash.
Speed up order-to-cash with our robust sales and billing portals. Turn quotes into revenue faster with powerful quote-to-contract automation allowing retail energy suppliers to price accurately, generate contracts in minutes.
Cash Delays. Disputes. Lost Confidence.
Sales-to-billing gaps, complex tariffs, and slow collections lock up cash and erode trust from the very first bill.
Inconsistency
Complex tariffs and manual checks create errors, disputes, and rework, while siloed data across CIS, CRM, and metering delays decisions and prolongs reconciliation efforts.
Sales-to-billing gaps
Quote and contract details fail to flow smoothly, causing delays, missing terms, and first-bill errors that damage trust, drive disputes, and require rework.
Data complexity
Multiple data sources from meters, contracts, and payments overwhelm legacy systems. They slow decisions, hide risks, and drive up costs.
Total Revenue Lifecycle Management for Utility Providers
Optimize cash flow and gain full control of billing, invoicing, and payments with one integrated platform.
Supercharge Your Sales Teams and Partner Brokers.
- Boost new energy offerings. Accelerate time to market for new products/service offerings and generate accurate complex quotes.
- Energy sales and brokers. Drive more sales and keep track of progress. Create agreements, manage contract renewals and configure the pricing rules.
- Multi-site price quotes. Give sales teams and brokers the ability to package complex offers for multi-site customers. Contract lifecycle management has never been easier.
- From sales portal to CRM. Sync customer info from the broker portal to the CRM automatically to keep sales data accurate and current, reduce manual entry, trigger next steps, and ensure smooth handoffs into activation and billing.
From Stable Meter-to-Cash Process to Accurate Billing
- Meter-to-cash. Orchestrate the end-to-end workflow in utility services, from measuring energy consumption to generating invoices and receiving payments, while ensuring meter data accuracy and integrity.
- Accurate live billing. Real-time billing information that minimize errors and reduce costs-to-serve with simultaneous invoicing of multiple services provided to your clients.
- Total billing view. Access a centralized 360 billing view. Easily check customers’ bills and payment history, current balance, contract details, payment details. You name it.
- Transparent billing reports. Let customers see their consumption in a blink of an eye. Allow them compare energy consumption across periods with easy-to-use advanced filters.
Optimize Revenue Operations and Improve Cash Flow
- Automated payment. Offer various payment options with instant confirmation to reduce late bills, speed collections, and deliver a smoother customer experience.
- Product bundling. Save time and resources by bundling related products or services into one invoice. Combine payments to cut transactions and fees, and simplify reconciliation.
- Debt management. Prioritize at-risk accounts, set tailored repayment plans, and reduce bad debt with smart reminders, early outreach, and clear, flexible options.
- Marketing campaigns. Launch targeted promotions and retention offers with transparent terms and audit trails. Win qualified leads or upsell with confidence.
Ensure Smooth Data Flow Across Industry Players
- Industry data integrations. Take advantage of automated communications tool, designed to transfer information between suppliers and industry participants in retail gas and electricity markets.
- Industry data integrations. Take advantage of automated communications tool, designed to transfer information between suppliers and industry participants in retail gas and electricity markets.
- Meter-to-cash data flows. Move validated meter reads from AMI/MDM into billing and settlements seamlessly. Support validation, estimation, and editing, switching, estimates, corrections, and dispute evidence.
Create Smooth, Predictable Cash Flow Without the Manual Work
- Quotes and contracts creation
- Pipeline summary/dashboard
- Sales agents tasks creation
- Generation of meter measurements
- Task management for meter reading errors
- Mass generation of periodic invoices
- Payments tracking
- Mass generation of periodic invoices
- Coverage for electricity and gas data flows
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Got questions? We've got answers!
Our FAQ section addresses your most common questions, providing clear, concise answers to help you understand how Methodia can benefit your business.
How does Methodia accelerates Order-to-Cash?
We roll out in phases, run in parallel with your current stack, and migrate data safely. We integrate early with CIS/CRM/MDM, pricing, payments, and market gateways, then train sales, billing, and finance teams so cash keeps flowing while you switch over.
What is meter-to-cash process?
Meter-to-cash refers to the end-to-end process in utility operations, from capturing meter readings to invoicing and collecting payments. It includes meter readings, data validation, billing, invoicing, payment, collection, records keeping, analytics, customer communications and exceptions management.
What is the connection between meter-to-cash and order-to-cash?
In utilities, meter-to-cash (M2C) is the operational backbone inside the broader order-to-cash (O2C) cycle. M2C turns usage into billable, auditable charges, while O2C turns a signed deal into collected cash. When M2C is clean and automated, O2C becomes faster and more accurate.
What should utilities look for in utility management software to accelerate order-to-cash and be meter-to-cash–ready?
Choose software that ties quoting to cash and meters to bills. Automate quote-to-contract (CPQ), integrate AMI/MDM with full validation, estimation and editing, for clean reads, and rate/bill in real time. Support multiple payments with instant confirmation, smart dunning, and automated market messaging/switching for settlements. Add revenue-leakage analytics, role-based security, and modular roll-out to integrate with CIS/CRM/ERP without disruption.
Outpace the Competition with Smarter Utility Operations
Methodia’s utility software solutions are specifically tailored for gas, electricity, and other utility providers and keep you ahead, no matter how complex the challenge.