The BillMaster Compass
  December 2009
Happy Holidays!
 
Greetings!

The Data West team sends their wishes for a wonderful holiday season and a prosperous New Year. For those of you at your fiscal year end, don't forget to print your A/R reports on December 31, 2009.  If you need any support for year end help please contact support@dwcorp.com. We look forward to helping you achieve all your utility billing and customer relationship management goals in 2010. 
Mountain ViewPlanning Ahead for Next Year

The 2010 BillMaster Users Conference will be held August 11-12 at Durango Mountain Resort.   A special pre-Conference workshop will be held on August 10.   We intend to make this one  as fun and informative as the 2009 Conference.  If you have suggestions for session topics that would be helpful to you, please email them to Mary Graziano.  The Conference details will be emailed to you early in 2010.
Keeping Up With the Power of Voice
Woman on Phone
Change is inevitable in the world of technology and it can be difficult to keep up with all the advancements. Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems are no exeception. In an effort to make it as easy as possible for their customers and potential customers to know all things about IVR, Tele-Works has established a blog. So whether you already use Tele-Works IVR or are thinking about purchasing an IVR this is a useful resource.
Automate It!Payment Import
 
The Data West team strives to help our clients work fast and efficient.  One of those ways is to automate part of your manual payment processing.  A payment import process allows you to receive payments via an electronic file sent to you by the check processor. For more information read the blog post or e-mail Julie Patterson.
Data West Calendar

Holiday Hours: Data West will be closed on Christmas Day and New Years Day.

December Webinar: Rate Study: Run trials on prospective rate changes using historical consumption data; run various scenarios by adjusting multiple rate tiers, as well as charges for each tier.
December 10th - 9:30 AM (MST), December 17th and 24th - 12:30 PM (MST).  Send an e-mail to sign up.

BillMaster User Conference - August 11th and 12th, 2010

Data West Out and About in 2010:
  • AWWA ACE10 - June 20 -24, 2010 in Chicago, Illinois.
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In This Issue
BillMaster User Conference
Keeping up with IVR
Automate It!
Data West Calendar
Tech Tip
Whenever you run a process, a log is created.  Instead of just clicking on the 'Done' button, take time to review the new log.  If errors were encountered a message will be displayed.   For example, when an account is skipped by the Cycle Update you would see a message similar to:
Unable to determine rate code for Account 12320-01 Charge 'Water Base Chg'

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