Overview
Bill Genie is an automated bill generation system developed on the DIGIT platform for enabling . It enables citizens to pay property tax in a simple, smooth and transparent property tax payment process for the citizens. The application generates the bill of property tax payable based on calendar triggers through a batch process and shares the same with the citizens in advance. The citizens can review the bill and once satisfied can do the payment of the property tax using the payment link shared along with the bill. This application also facilitates the functionality of grouping, merging and downloading of bills for field distribution as well as sending push notifications to citizens for pending property tax bills with due dates as a reminder. The intended advantage for citizens by the Bill Genie application is to make it effortless for a larger proportion of citizenry (manner.
It is possible for the ULB employees to set calendar triggers to generate bills for the amount of property tax payable. This allows the ULB to share the bills with citizens in advance. Citizens review their bill and pay it online using the payment link shared in the bill. Citizens get email and SMS notifications for pending property tax dues as reminders on or before the due date. Since the bills are provided in advance, citizens get lead time to plan for the finances to pay their tax.The application also allows the ULB to group, merge and download bills for field distribution.
The Bill Genie application makes it effortless for citizens who do not have any changes in their property records) , to pay for the services consumed and give citizens lead time to financially plan to pay their tax in advance. For ULBs, this application will result in increase of . This layer of citizens is a significant number, allowing ULBs to increase revenue by moving away from “citizen-initiated” to “ULB-initiated” collection drives.
Highlights
- Automatic A batch process executes automatic generation of property tax bills based on a set of calendar triggers through a batch processtriggers
- Option to the group, merge and download property tax bills for field distribution
- Provision to send push notifications as a reminder email and SMS reminder alerts to citizens for pending bills with on or before the due dates to so that they can plan or take action
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Application Workflow
The following diagram depicts the application workflow.
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Release Features
Automated Bill Generation for | Description |
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| Generate Property Tax Bills Automatically |
Description | genie | Genie application generates property tax bills automatically for properties registered in the |
Property Tax generation process is executed in backend and is based on triggers as dates and financial year. Key Feature| application executes this as a batch process from the backend based on financial year and calendar dates as triggers. |
| Grouping of Property Tax Bills |
Description | | The ULB employees can group property tax bills based on |
criteria of | locality and financial year |
. It will lead | , leading to an improvement in the efficiency of on-ground distribution of bills. |
Key Feature |
| Merge, Download and Print Property Tax Bills |
Description | After the bills are generated |
in the system create bill batches to | download and print bills in batches by merging them. |
Key FeatureDescription | genie provides reminder notifications | SMS and email reminders to the citizens |
through SMS | with the due date and tax amount to be paid. |
This helps citizen to plan their financial activities for property tax payment| These notifications help citizens plan their finances to pay property tax. |
Future Release Features
Following additional The following features are planned to be the part of for the next release of the Bill Genie application :
- Notification to the The citizen notification will include the link to pay property tax bill payment and a link and to download link for the payment receipt after the payment of tax
- Availability of the A user interface for citizens to search and pay property tax bills for citizensAvailability of the tax
- A user interface for ULB employees to generate property tax bills for ULB employeesbills
- Availability of triggers for custom notifications to citizens