Change a meter's commodity
It may be necessary to change the commodity of an existing meter—even if the meter already has bills on it. This often occurs when an organization decides to track commodities in a more granular fashion (split up water meter into water, water and sewer, and irrigation meters) or when they want to consolidate meters to a single commodity.
The most common situation for changing a meter's commodity deals with the water family.
- Irrigation
- Water
- Water and sewer
- Storm drainage
- Sewer
Example
An irrigation meter is mistakenly configured as a water meter.
Additional rules
- If no active accounts are linked to the meter, the meter commodity can be changed to any commodity.
- If at least one active account is linked to the meter:
- The vendors associated with the active accounts are checked to see if they contain rates with the same rate code on the new commodity.
- If no matching rate is found, new rates are automatically created for each vendor using the same name as the original rates. Old rates are NOT removed from the system.
- The meter is automatically associated with the new vendor and rate.
- Any existing bills on the meter are converted to the new commodity. The body lines of the bills are updated with the new commodity id and are recalculated for charts and reports.
Change a meter's commodity steps
- Select the meter.
- Choose Edit Meter from the Actions menu.
- Pick the new commodity from the drop-down.
- You can update the use unit (optional).
