Advance (Excess) Payments - Release Notes

 

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Version1.0
Date15 July 2020
AuthorPrashant Tak

Overview


ProductAdvance Payment
EnvironmentQA, Staging


The objective of the release is to enable advance payment features in the DIGIT Platform. The products which are built over DIGIT will be able to now enable advance payment feature. The prupose behind enabling advance payment is to improve ease of payment for the citizen and avoid efforts of making payments every month.


Highlights


1. Ability to Pay more than the due amount

2. Pay/ Adjust advance (excess amount) against the demand generated

3. Generate Payment Receipt showing the excess payment

4. Generate Bill with advance amount adjustment

5. DCB Report modification to see the advance payments on ULB side


Release Features:


Sr. NoKey FeatureDescription
1The ability for Citizen to Pay more than Due AmountThe citizen will now able to enter the amount he/she would like to pay against the particular bill. This will help citizens to make the payment well in advance reduce their effort to make bill payments every billing cycle. Respective UI changes are made on a common pay screen.
2Adjustment of advance (excess amount) against the demand generatedIf the citizen has paid the amount in advance, the next bill which will be generated will have the advance adjusted head. This will help citizens to know what is advance amount adjusted from previous payment and how much he should pay for current billing cycle.
3Payment Receipts with Advance Amount Paid acknowledgmentWhenever citizen advance or the excess amount which is more than the due amount, a citizen will receive payments receipt which specifies how much advance amount the city has paid.
4Cap on Advance PaymentThe citizen will be able to pay advances only 'X' times of his billing amount, where X is a configurable number which states can decide.
5Modified DCB ReportThe DCB report is modified to keep the account of Advance Payment at ULB or state level which will help ULB employees in multiple ways.





Bugs and Fixes


ProductBugFix


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