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Collective billing – how we allocate payments

Collective billing – how we allocate payments

Find out how we allocate payments when multisite business customers on collective billing pay against their account statement.

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Written by Dee
Updated over 2 months ago

Summary

When multisite customers pay toward their collective account statement, we credit the individual bills in date order. We start with the bill with the oldest due date.

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How we bill you and what we send

If you’re an Origin multisite customer and you’ve opted in to collective billing, we'll invoice you monthly. We send you a collective account statement that includes:

  1. the collective account summary, where you can see your overall balance for what's owing across all bills across all your accounts. We list those bills, showing you the invoice number, supply address and current charges for each

  2. all individual bills, combined in a single file

  3. a csv file, that contains a breakdown of usage and charges for every child bill in this collective

Why we allocate in date order

We want to make sure that no account of yours is forgotten or unintentionally left unpaid.

If this were to happen, you’d be in danger of a property falling into debt and risking disconnection.

To avoid that, we make sure that when you pay against your collective account statement, we credit the individual bill account with the oldest due date first.

We keep crediting accounts in date order until the payment amount has been exhausted.

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