Billing & Payment Leadership Council

Customers Expect a Seamless Billing and Payment Experience

Based on Chartwell’s consumer research, billing is the #1 factor affecting the experience of the utility’s customer.

The Chartwell Billing and Payment Leadership Council enables you to take the lead in maximizing your organization’s billing and payment as well as credit and collections efforts. Membership provides you exclusive opportunities for collaboration with your peers and access to industry experts as well as invaluable insight into new programs and practices. By sharing insight into the issues facing your fellow executives, the Billing and Payment Leadership Council helps you remove billing and payment pain points, create a better customer experience, reduce costs and recover arrears as well as streamline payment processes through cutting edge tools and strategies.

Members of the Billing & Payment Leadership Council benefit from:

  • Peer-to-Peer Collaboration: Join roundtable discussions with industry leaders on the latest issues impacting the industry.
  • Council-Only Networking Events: Attend monthly video conference calls, an annual virtual meeting, and an annual face-to-face meeting promoting in-person collaboration with industry leaders.
  • Connect & Collaborate: Leverage a rich network of industry leaders who meet monthly to ensure they are finding the most effective, efficient, and timely solutions to their problems.

Our shared cost model means you gain access to best practice strategies, tactics and thinking you would expect to find at a top consulting firm at a fraction of the investment. Council membership means your utility will never have to make decisions in a vacuum again.

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Areas of Focus Include:
  • eBill Adoption and Retention
  • Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Rate Plan Options (e.g. Time-Of-Use, EV Rates, Green Rates)
  • Bill Redesigns
  • Managing Arrears
  • Proactive Customer Communication (e.g. High Bill Alerts)
  • New Payment Channels (Mobile Wallets, Zelle, PayPal, Text to Pay, etc.)
  • Mobile Apps
  • Credit Card Fees and Third-Party Partners
  • Payment Programs: Autopay, Budget Bill, Prepay, Pick Your Due Date
  • Systems (Customer Information, Billing, CRMs)
  • Unbanked Customers, Payment Centers, Kiosks
  • Customer Preferences (Billing and Payment Methods, Channels, Communications)
  • Trends and New Initiatives in Billing, Payment, and Collections
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Chartwell Services

Our membership services can help your utility identify strategies to impact customer experience and operational efficiency: A research subscription to our Insight Center membership allows unlimited access to hundreds of research reports, case studies, benchmarks, webinars, and more. Our peer-to-peer Leadership Councils, focused on customer-facing areas such as billing, outage, CX, vulnerable customers, EVs, and business customers, provide a collaborative, utility-only peer network. Our post-event transactional benchmarking study called Tranzact enables utilities to compare their customers’ outage experience perception with peer utilities. Chartwell Advisory Services and Executive Services provide leadership development with industry experts.

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