Advance Payments Release Notes

DIGIT 2.0 changes to the Advance Payments

Overview

Advance payments feature helps citizens to make a payment more than the pending amount. The platform informs the citizen about the excess amount paid and the amount available as an advance in the bills and receipts.

Release Highlights

1. Pay/ Adjust excess amount against the demand generated

2. Generate Receipt showing the excess payment

3. Generate Bill with advance amount adjustment

Release Features

Key Feature	Description
Advance Carry Forward Tax head	If excess amount present against the consumer no. is displayed on the UI under this Tax Head on Bill Summary Pages After the creation of new demand, this amount is adjusted against the other Tax heads and displayed on the UI
Ability to pay more than Bill Amount	Provision to make a payment under either 'Full amount' or 'Custom amount' options A citizen can enter the desired amount under 'Custom amount ' option Amount entered can be either less or more than the bill amount. So partial payment and advance payment both are possible.
Changes in Receipt Format	Two extra fields are provided in the Common Receipt Format Total Bill Amount: Includes arrears, taxes, demand, advance adjusted Advance available: Advance amount available against a particular consumer
Changes in Bill Format	Two extra fields are provided in the Common Bill Format Advance available: Advance amount available against a particular consumer Advance adjusted: Amount available under advance which is utilized against a particular demand

Known Issues

Issue	Description
Bill amount incorrectly calculated	'Due amount' miscalculation, if multiple meter readings are added without payment
Advance adjusted incorrectly calculated	'Advance adjusted' miscalculated in the bill PDF

Upcoming Release Feature

Key Feature	Description
Cap on the amount entered	There is a check provided to inform the user about the amount entered when it crosses a certain limit. The user gets an alert message in the form of warning when a certain amount is entered which crosses the limit. Check is provided based on two conditions, any point of time it is the maximum of either Fix amount, or 10 x Bill amount Note to be taken that, there is no restriction over the maximum amount that can be paid
Changes in Bill PDF	Tax heads must display 'unadjusted' values on the bill PDF

Reference Doc Links

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