Commodity overview

A meter tracks resources such as electricity, water, and non-utility resources like telecom. These tracked resources (also called commodities) are assigned to the meter when it is created.

Commodities and units

The rollup unit is the common use unit for reporting purposes. A rollup unit is required because vendors may use different units on bills.

Over 50 different commodities are available.

Vendor hierarchy views

• List by Vendor—Subtotals are grouped by each vendor.
• List by Commodity—Subtotals are grouped by each commodity.

Here is an example Commodity View.