Billing Online

2018: Calculations for export of solid utility waste

On October 24, 2018 Billing of Online reported that automation of calculations for export of the solid utility waste (SUW) was in the home stretch. The cloud platform Billing of Online is ready to carrying out charges for export and processing of SUW. As the developer company provides a cloud service (billing system), the regional operator SUW from any region of Russia can use the program for calculations "for SUW".

The companies, it is important to them to make calculations for export of TKO in compliance with the changed legislation, besides taking into account regional features and traditions in municipalities address to Billing of Online.

The service connected with garbage removal can be included as in the uniform payment document on payment of housing and communal services, and to be issued to inhabitants in the form of the separate receipt on payment for export of TKO.

The Billing Online system for a long time in the market of calculations in housing and public utilities, we came to the Russian open spaces with cloud billing services for housing and public utilities in the SaaS model. Our cloud billing is successfully operated by settlement centers, management companies, the resource supplying organizations in the 73rd (data for October, 2018) regions of the country. And now we expand functionality of a settlement system for regional operators of solid utility waste. Boris Shtrikman, development director of Billing Online company

Together with an industrial billing system the regional operator receives also a personal account of the subscriber (web and mobile version) with opportunities of viewing history of charges, departure of addresses to a regoperator, online payments for service "export of TKO" at once. A system can be unrolled as in public, and private (corporate) clouds.

2016: As Billing of Online works at Alt Linux OS

Billing Online and Alt Linux companies agreed at the beginning of 2016 to expand technology partnership based on the replicated cloud solution on complex billing in the field of power and housing and public utilities.

The complete cloud solution on the Billing Online platform since 2010 is used by Alt Linux OS. The solution is provided in SaaS business model to the enterprises of housing sector - to power sales, water utilities, payment processing centers, management companies. The organizations of housing sector and residents of the cities and settlements from 27 regions of Russia on the Internet use a cloud billing system and personal accounts of subscribers.

Benefits from technology partnership:

• The Alt Linux – gains an access of the operating system in the segment of power and housing and public utilities confirmed with long operating experience in the industrial billing solution and permanent expansion of a coverage of end customers.
• Billing Online – gets continued support from the developer of the operating system, operational completions and corrections, possibilities of replication of a cloud complex software and hardware solution.

Development of a cloud solution Billing Online based on the protected Linux Alt operating system expands possibilities of application of the domestic software based on OPEN SOURCE in the field of housing and public utilities and power not only in Russia, but also beyond its limits. The utility power and housing sector more than ever needs the solutions allowing to reduce costs and at the same time with high quality to automate field operations. There is a big need for the cloud replicated Russian solutions based on Open Source. The Billing Online platform competes in the Russian market with solutions of the known brands of type Oracle, Microsoft or SAP. The Billing Online company is sure that partnership with Alt Linux will help to strengthen positions in the market and in the next one or two years to go out of Russia.

Complete billing solutions for housing and public utilities work in a difficult B2B2C segment. At implementation of the Billing Online platform in housing and public utilities settlement centers or management companies both inhabitants and management companies win:

• inhabitants, except a personal account of the Subscriber with an opportunity to watch charges, to hand over meter readings and online payments for housing and communal services, receive correctness and clearness of calculations for utilities and also guarantees of personal data protection;
• Payment processing center of housing and public utilities, power sales, water utilities, housing and public utilities management companies – receive wide functionality on automation of charges for housing and communal services, business process optimization due to application of Internet technologies, a possibility of control in online the mode behind charges and charges of payments of housing and public utilities, the ready-made certified solutions on data security. Also proposed solution is much cheaper than foreign products for billing in housing and public utilities and as shows experience, is implemented into Russian resursobytovy and the housing and public utilities companies significantly quicker.

Besides, the local or regional authorities receive decrease in level of discontent with housing sector, an opportunity to bring order to utility financial flows. And also to reduce costs due to use of the open source and import substitution in the field of IT as the western software products are significantly more expensive.

2015: Promotion Billing of Online

On December 4, 2015 Alyans Prof companies (Competence Center on Astra Linux) and Billing of Online announced an output to the Billing Online market - a cloud solution for charge of a payment for housing and communal services.

The Billing Online platform working under Astra Linux OS will be available in SaaS business model to the enterprises of housing sector - to power sales, payment processing centers, management companies and even condominium. Customers will receive the transparent tool for regular charge of a payment for housing and communal services, optimize costs for actions for personal data protection, will reduce the total costs on transaction connected with billing for physical persons and legal entities.

Purposes of alliance:

• Billing Online LLC will get continued support from the developer of the operating system, operational completions and corrections;
• Alyans Prof LLC will provide entry of the Astra Linux operating system into socially important branches of the economy – housing and public utilities and power.

According to partners, development of SaaS service Billing of Online on the platform of the Astra Linux operating system will allow to expand possibilities of application of the Russian solutions based on Open Source in the field of power and housing and public utilities, both in Russia, and beyond its limits. The utility industry needs cost optimization and high-quality automation of activity therefore is the need for really working domestic solutions based on the free software is high.

For consumers also declared benefits to the company:

• inhabitants will obtain more information, will receive exact charges for housing and communal services, a convenient personal account of the Subscriber and a guarantee of protection of their personal data;
• the companies of housing sector and power engineering specialists will receive the next version of software, it is even more control opportunities via the Internet behind charges of a payment for housing and communal services, behind collecting of payments, behind work of personnel, the certified solution on data security, etc. Besides, participants of housing sector will reduce dependence on more expensive and frequent less qualitative foreign software;
• the state and municipal authority will receive the clear and transparent instrument of monitoring of a situation in the field of housing and public utilities, without increase in budgets will fit into the state trend on import substitution and on transition to Open Source. For authorities "transparency in housing and public utilities" at last from a political slogan it is transformed to really working technology.

Boris Shtrikman, the development director of Billing Online LLC company, noted:

- We are sure that consolidation of competences will give synergy effect. We are engaged more than 6 years in automation of calculations in housing and public utilities and power, constantly we develop, we catch up and we overtake leaders, consistently we increase a separation from competitors. With the advent of such partner as Alyans Prof, a part of tasks for big customers who in addition to primary activity also act in a role as the supplier of utilities, for example, the Ministry of Defence, the Russian Railway, Gazprom, Rosatom and other departments which in a zone of their responsibility have many residential and non-residential premises will become simpler. Today we work in 26 regions of Russia, we conduct negotiations with the CIS countries and we are convinced that the protected complete billing solution in a private or public cloud is demanded by regional and republican power supply companies, the regional information calculating centers.

Roman Mylitsyn, the director of Alyans Prof LLC, told:

- To us as to Competence Center on Astra Linux, it is interesting to cooperate with the partner who uses the operating system in complete solutions for automation of housing sector, has experience with large volumes of calculations and a geographically-distributed structure. We plan that use of the complete industrial solution "Billing Online" based on the protected Astra Linux operating system will help to output the Astra Linux operating system from Olympus of the closed security agencies where our system and is deservedly respected long ago, on the public economic market and to apply our competences of space of "national economy" for the country benefit.

2013

The Billing Online company renders services in automation of calculations for utilities, housing and additional services for physical persons and legal entities via the Internet. The services rendered using Internet services are intended for the organizations operating housing and non-residential stock, the organizations of housing sector, the resource supplying organizations, ERTs, payment processing center. The cloud billing system for housing and public utilities has the Personal account of the subscriber with online payment for housing and communal services.

As of 2013 in the Billing Online system about 160 organizations from 57 MO of 22 regions of the Russian Federation are serviced.

2007

Solution SaaS Billing of Online is implemented into housing and public utilities of the Russian Federation since 2007, develops constantly and napityvatsya by intelligence.