Tax Billing
Billing personal and real property tax is a crucial aspect of operating your municipality. Yet, it certainly is no small job or easy. You have to manage valuations, enable payment options, and track the process from start to finish.
This process is made easier with tax management software that automates the municipal tax billing process from preparing bills to accepting payments and placing liens. Review the comprehensive capabilities our municipal software offers.
Comprehensive Tax Billing Features
- Handle all types of personal and real property taxes
- Accept website payments and run reports on accounts receivable
- Automatically calculate and bill interest and penalties
- Connect to any computer-assisted mass appraisal (CAMA) system
- Easily import data from other sources or export data from our government accounting software
- Track multiple assessments per property; taxable or nontaxable
- Simplify the lien process
- Automate warrant and bill generation with unlimited billing codes
- Manage and notify multiple and percentage owners, seasonal owners, banks and mortgagees
- Integrates with utility billing software, permitting/licensing systems and accounting systems
Tax Management Software & Utility Management Solutions
Utility Management Solutions
Utility tracking and billing is complicated. Some services are metered, like water and electric. Others are not metered, like trash and recycling. And even once you’ve found a solution for measuring metered and non-metered utilities, you need a fully integrated utility billing software and accounting data with built-in automation and reporting.
BMSI’s Utility Management Solutions is a fully customizable cloud-based software that manages to collect usage data, billing customers and maintaining historical data. The utility management system can adapt to meet your municipality’s unique needs while delighting constituents with clear bills, easy payment options and usage data.
Easy Consumption Data Input
Use touch, phone or radio-read devices to input consumption data.
Customize Rate Tables and Billing
Bill each utility based on constituent agreements and custom rate tables.
Access the Software from Anywhere
Our utility billing software for municipalities is cloud-based and allows for remote access from anywhere, anytime.
Integration with Billing and Tax Software
Manage the billing using constituent information that integrates with the tax software.
Billing Features
- Bill based on both metered and non-metered utility services using one system
- Charge for miscellaneous items and receivables
- Customize how and when you bill each utility service and set billing cycles
- Choose whether to mail bills or send them via e-bill
- Automate bill payments using major credit cards and ACH
- Preview and print individual or group statements using custom- or system-provided forms
- Access historical data from service and payment screens and print statements
Usage Monitoring Features
- Input customer usage using your current methods
- Monitor and control abnormal usage
- Built-in alert system for leaks
- Add/deduct meters, meter change and turnover activity
Customer Tools and Features
- Customer portal for viewing historical usage, managing payment methods, entering a work order request, etc.
- Customer complaint tracking
- Work order request and management system
Government Software with Built-in Reports
Reports help you track down missed payments, understand utility usage and more. We’ve built in many helpful reports to put crucial data at your fingertips and automate processes. Report areas include consumption, usage history, accounts receivable, transactions, balances and much more.
- Pre-billing report
- Generalized user-created notifications/forms/mailing labels
- Customized or standard bill forms and statements
- Delinquency list and form letters
- Aged accounts receivables
- Cash receipts journal
- Balance report
- Customer listing
- Rate table listing
