- Users are redirected to the View Consumer screen from the home screen via
- Collect payments → Search Screen → Consumer Details Screen
- Download bills & receipts → Search screen → Consumer Details Screen
- Dashboard → Collections → Click on Consumer ID
- Household Register → Click on Consumer ID
- This screen contains all information related to HH
Static HH card displays the following details
- New Connection ID (also displayed as a heading)
- Consumer name
- Father's name
- Phone number
- Old connection ID
- Address - Door Number, Street number, Ward (attached)
- Property type
- Service type
- for metered connections - the meter number is displayed
- If the bill is not generated (Post rollout until the first month)
- Only the data Card is shown - No action is required
- Once the first demand is generated - A new consumer bill/card gets generated and displays the following data points and actions -
- Billing cycle – the latest billing cycle
- Amount -
- Current Amount - fixed charges applicable to the billing cycle
- Arrears - Arrears from the first month (From next month onwards this field displays any unpaid dues)
- Total Amount - Sum of current amount and arrears
- Action Items
- Download or Share Bill
- Clicking on download bill prompts users to download the bill (Bill details are given in a separate user story)
- Share bill (WhatsApp icon) opens sharing options to the phone OS and the user is able to share bills via WhatsApp
- Message to go in WhatsApp “Please find Bill for water charges with Connection ID WS-83121-8312 generated on dd/mm/yyyy” along with bill PDF
- Name of the PDF - “Bill ID”
- Collect Payment
- The Collect payment button takes the revenue collector to the payment collection screen
- Download or Share Bill
- Amount -
- Billing cycle – the latest billing cycle
- After the First payment collection is done
- A receipt history block is visible only after the first payment transaction is completed through mGramSeva
- A list of all the receipts is shown under this section as cards, with different data points as actions. Order of receipts is newest → oldest from top to bottom
- Each receipt card contains
- Receipt ID
- Amount Paid
- Paid Date
- Actions
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Download Receipt - downloads the receipt in the Revenue collectors phone as a PDF
- Name of PDF - “Receipt ID”
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Share (WhatsApp)
- Message to go in WhatsApp “Please find the receipt for water charges with Connection ID WS-83121-8312 paid on dd/mm/yyyy” along with receipt PDF
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- A receipt history block is visible only after the first payment transaction is completed through mGramSeva
New Connection Before First Bill Generation
First bill is generated - Payment Collection is pending
2 payments made
- If a bill is not generated (Post rollout until the first month)
- A data card is displayed on the screen
- Below the data card - the Card to generate a new bill is also displayed
- This card contains
- Last bill generation date - For the first time this is picked up from data entry. Next time onwards the system captures the last bill generation date
- Days from last bill generation date - indicates to the revenue collector the number of days passed since the last time a bill is generated
- Previous Meter reading - Displays the last read meter units
- Pending Amount
- Before the first bill is generated, the arrears are captured during data entry
- After the first bill is generated, the pending amount includes the entire amount due for the specific user
- Generate a new bill
- Clicking on Generate a New Bill initiates bill generation flow for metered connection
- Note - Users have to generate a bill to start collecting payments. Arrear amount collection also is not possible till the first bill is generated.
- After the first bill is generated
- A new consumer bill/card gets generated with the following data points and actions
- Last bill generation date - date of bill generation
- Amount -
- Current Amount - Volumetric charges between 2 latest meter readings according to rate master
- Arrears - All previously unpaid dues
- Total Amount - Sum of current amount and arrears
- Amount -
- Action Items
- Download, Share Bill
- Clicking on the download bill prompts users to download the bill for the respective amount (Bill details are given in a separate user story)
- Share bill (WhatsApp icon) opens the sharing options of the phone OS and the users can share bill via WhatsApp
- Message to go in WhatsApp “ Please find Bill for water charges with Connection ID WS-83121-8312 generated on dd/mm/yyyy” along with bill PDF
- Name of the PDF - “Bill ID”
- Collect Payment
- Collect payment takes the revenue collector to the payment collection screen
- Download, Share Bill
- Last bill generation date - date of bill generation
- A new consumer bill/card gets generated with the following data points and actions
- After the first payment collection is done
- A receipt history block is visible only after the first payment happens through mGramSeva
- A list of all the receipts is shown under this section as cards, with different data points as actions. Order of receipts is newest → oldest from top to bottom
- Each receipt card contains
- Receipt ID
- Amount Paid
- Paid Date
- Actions
- Download Receipt - downloads the receipt to the revenue collectors phone as a PDF
- Name of PDF - “Receipt ID”
- Share(WhatsApp)
- Message to go in WhatsApp “ Please find receipt for water charges with Connection ID WS-83121-8312 paid on dd/mm/yyyy” along with receipt PDF
- Download Receipt - downloads the receipt to the revenue collectors phone as a PDF
- If a new bill is generated again by clicking on ‘Generate a new bill’ - the revenue collector goes through the bill generation flow and a single new card appears between ‘Generate bill’ and ‘Consumer receipts block’
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