Thursday, November 29, 2007

Water Billing system


















GROUP 2



Leader: Mr. John Jeric G. Binuya
Members:
Ms. Jessidin Manuzon
Ms. Rachel Sangoyo
Ms. Marilyn Santiago
Mr. Jay Frie Bactol
Mr. Melvin Ramos
Mr. Victor Delara
Mr. Sammy Sulit

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

WATER DISTRICT is known to be the water supplier of the town. They supplies water in certain location in San Isidro. They have type of category that consumer will follow the residential, commercial and industrial. The residential cost is much lower in commercial. The commercial is lower than the industrial. The higher rate is the industrial.
The staff of WASSER DISTRICT none other than Mrs. Isabelita J. Ramos the manager, Mrs. Andrea G. Fiesta the operation’s head, Ms. Arlene Dela Cruz the computer analysis and the rest of the member.
WASSER is a German word “water”. The manager said that they have an agreement in municipal of San Isidro that they operate in 15 yrs.


EXISTING SYSTEM

The existing system is the system used by the WASSER DISTRICT in handling its billing system for the consumer. In traditional way they used pens and papers in manual procedure. By computing the bills of the consumers record and file. Unlike the in automated or computerized, only they do is type the information that the computer need. The rest computer will do.


STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The primary concern of the system is. Design it to become easier in preparing the monthly bills of the consumer of WASSER DISTRICT.
The following question are some pattern to construct the system.

1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the system?
2. What is the significance of the system?
3. Who are the beneficiates?
4. If this system helps our economy?
5. What the system do in making the billings of the consumer?


THE PROPOSED SYSTEM

The proposed system was design and developed using the application of Visual Basic version 6.0 for windows. It records the information about the consumers. Unlike in manual procedure that you need to chat down the information in the papers or bond papers.
The system also use for backup files. By using storage medium such as floppy disk, compact disk, flash drive and other kind of storages.


OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED SYSTEM

To know in how it made the bills. Filing and recording the consumer. And know the consumer, how the process of he bills.

The objectives followed by the researchers were:

1. To have records of the consumers of the company.
2. To compute the cost of the consumers.
3. To know if the consumers are paid in his/her monthly bill.


HYPOTHESIS

If the computerized water billing system of the WASSER DISTRICT could be implemented. Here are the speculation as a research will we expect and its advantages.
The work of the company will be easy and fast.
It will be more accurate and the records will not lost.
Lessen the time of work of the staff.


THEORITICICAL/CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

Of all the various use of the computer, that comes in our mind mostly is the bills. This is probably due the fact that our cost of bills in water. In the other side, managing the bills of the consumer is a necessary task since the consumers serve as them in a great way. The designing of the computerized water billing system is for the benefits of the WASSER DISTRICT as well as the consumers.


PARADIGM

Input Process Output
Computerized information of the consumers
Accurate bills of the consumers
Computation of the consumers
As well as the specify category
Consumer’s information
Consumer’s costs
The present and previous of the consumers use
Consumer’s
Consumer’s cost



SIGNIFICATION OF THE STUDY

The significant of the system is to know how its works. To gain more knowledge to the researchers and the consumers. Make the staff of the WASSER DISTRICT do their work accurate and easy.


SCOPE AND DELIMATION

The system focus on the records of the water billing system. The system do is, their work will speed up the process of computing the bills of the consumers. The study of the system is t helps to convert into automated or computerized to manual procedure.
We expect that the system will need 3 to 4 months to construct.
The system is developed in such way that the company will be able to obtain the following.

Maintain complete files in computerized form
Prepare billing reports in an easiest way
Compute the bills of the consumers


DEFINITION

Computer - a programmable device that can perform any programming language. Is one of the most imposing forms of information technology.
Computerized – is a process in automated or computerized method.
Data – is defined as any collection of facts, figures or numbers.
Storage – the data information and programs are stored in the computer in a form that can be accessed such as floppy disk, CD-ROMs, magnetic tape for future reference.
Flowchart – is a diagram representing the logical sequence in which combination of steps or operations is to be performed.
Database – set of several permanent files integrated into a single file which is available for many different uses.
Computation – set of variables that will compute the total.
Security – to secure the subject and to make it safe.
Software – it refers to programs that direct the activities of the computer system.
Users – also called knoware or peopleware represents the personnel involved in systems analysis programming, computer operation, system maintenance and many more.
Manual System – all operation from the data gathering to output preparation are perform by man without the aid of any single machine.


CHAPTER II


Easybilling:WATER and electricity BILLING SOFTWARE

Ease of use of the software for water or electricity billing
A powerful new billing system
Setup menu
Consumer menu
Readings menu
Billing process menu
Payments
Billing cycle
History

Ease of use
EasyBilling software is a software which belong to a new generations of softwares.
EasyBilling has been produced with the idea not to produce another complex software for water and electricity billing.
The main feature of this software is : Ease of use. This software is designed in order to be as easy to use as possible with very clear screens and a clear way to work.
The design of this software for water or electricity billing has been made in order to help the user. Everything is clear and staightforward.
Time of training is then reduced and the user can work fastly without the need to understand very complex concepts. In this way, utilities can be efficient in a few days and are able to bill all their consumers.
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A powerful new billing system
EasyBilling is a very powerful software for water and electricity billing and it can generate thousands of invoices in a few minutes only. It operates perfectly into a network with several PCs.
EasyBilling is also very reliable and it can store thousands of consumers data.
From the creation of a new consumer until the issue of an invoice, the user is guided through a range of menus which follow each other in a logical way.
EasyBilling gives power to the user.
Bills production has never been so easy.
EasyBilling software for water or electricity billing has been designed in order to store all data for a billing process.
These data are stored through a few screens which are very clear and understandable for any user.
All these screens can be run through these menus : Tools / Setup / Consumer / Readings / Billing process / Payments / Billing cycle / History.
All these menus are detailed below :

Setup menu

In Setup menu, the user can store all data about routes, water or electricity rates, standing charges, subsidies.
He can also enter all data about the water district which use the billing software and store some discount and layout parameters.
Consumer menu
In this menu, the user can store all data about consumers, billing addresses, meters…
He can produce consumer reports ordered by name, by route and by city. He can also produce labels containing consumers addresses, billing addresses in order to paste bills adresses on envelopes. He can also enter opening balance for each account .

Readings menu

The user is able to print routes reports with all meters/readings inside. When meters are read, he can then input all readings for each consumer.



Billing process menu



It is possible to calculate bills before producing them. The user can select one particular consumer and produce his bill. He can produce all bills which are linked to one route or bill all the consumers. He can also issue credit notes.




Payments

The user can issue a report about payments and have the balance for all payments. He can also input payments.
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Billing cycle

When payments are entered, the user can then run another billing cycle.









History

All bills are stored in a history file. The user can reproduce each bill at anytime and he can have detailed view of each account.

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