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Winter Average Volume (WAV)

Date Posted: 02/11/19

Members run WAV (Winter Average Volume) by cycle to calculate Winter Average Consumption for Sewer billing.  This process is configured and executed according to each individual business policy.  Members are using this process to calculate usage during the winter months.  This usage is then set within each customer’s account, so that throughout the year, sewer can be billed out no more than what was set for winter usage.

Typically Cities use a range of November – March as their winter months.  This process benefits residents during the summer months when more water usage is typically being used.  Water usage, such as watering lawns, does not go down City sewer.  The WAV (Winter Average Volume) process ensures that sewer is being calculated according to what each resident’s typical billable sewer usage is.

It’s important to note that each Member does use the WAV (Winter Average Volume) process a little differently. A typical example of how WAV is used is as follows:

February Billing (Winter Quarter of water for Nov./Dec./Jan.)

• Water Consumption was: 15 units
• WAV (Winter Average Volume) is set to: 15
• Water and Sewer for this billing is billed out at 15 units

October Billing (Summer Quarter of water for July/Aug./Sept)

• Water Consumption was: 24 units
• WAV (Winter Average Volume) is set to: 15
• Water is billed out at 24 units and Sewer is billed out at 15 units (otherwise known as lesser of current or winter)

Spend any time outdoors and you know Minnesota is within those winter months.  For our members:

1. Please remember to run the WAV process BEFORE calculating your winter quarter cycle billings.
2. Before doing the WAV process, make sure all water readings have been uploaded in CIS, including re-reads.
3. Make any necessary corrections of water readings in CIS.
4. After the above steps have been completed, you are now ready to calculate the cycle billing.

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CIS Infinity New Build Release 3.1.29

Date Posted: 01/02/19

Advanced has released a new build for CIS Infinity that is currently being tested by LOGIS. Testing has been going great so far, no issues to report. Build 3.1.29 will be rolled out in 2019. Testing has been done utilizing Windows 10 and Office 2016.

If you would like to volunteer to test the new build in your CIS TEST database, testing documents can be found on the LOGIS portal. To locate the document on the portal go to shared documents under the Utility Billing link on the left. Click on Build Testing Checklist_2018, please notify UB support on what processes you will be testing and if any issues occur.

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2018 Year-End UB Support

Date Posted: 12/10/18

As 2018 year-end approaches, members need to start thinking about the CIS Infinity UB year-end process. Year-end involves several tasks that need to be done in CIS Infinity and members must decide when they want to do their balancing and reporting.

Year-end reports are point in time reports and must be generated ‘last thing’ on December 31, 2018 or ‘first thing’ on January 2, 2019, after all 2018 batches are updated and before any 2019 batches are created.  These reports CANNOT be processed at a later date to obtain year-end data.

The year-end CIS Infinity process pertains to cycle billing batches, final billing batches, adjustment batches, penalty batches, ACH batches, etc.  Members will run an Interface Table Synchronization to ensure that all credit card and/or e-Check payments are picked up.  Members will reconcile A/R balances within CIS Infinity by first running non-zero balances, then zero balances.  A CIS Infinity process called the G/L Interface Routine will also need to be completed/run.  The G/L Interface Routine creates a journal entry in the financial software, of all transactions done within CIS.

CIS Infinity year-end reporting includes running a Multiple A/R Summary Listing and Single A/R summary, (if required), which displays the balances in each A/R Account.   An Advanced Search is then run in CIS Infinity in order to find/report the balance due on every account in CIS Infinity.

Members will need to generate the Aged Arrears Listing report, which tracks aging data, the Land Use reports, which track billed consumption, and/or the Block Summary report, which tracks billed consumption by zone.

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Category: Utility Billing