Billing Account Notes

NOTE: We're in the process of rolling out the accounting API to all of the utilities we support. Accounting information is currently only available for PCE, PG&E, PSE&G, and SVCE.

We do everything we can to check the values that appear in a Billing Account but sometimes the utility simply doesn't provide the information we need or the information they do provide is conflicting. In these circumstances, we add a note to the billing account to make it clear that something is amiss so you can double-check the values against the source documents.

Attribute	Format	Description	Example
`type`	Note Type	The type of note. See list below for list of types.	`"billing_summaries_strange"`
`msg`	String	A human readable description of the note. It may be tweaked often, so don't rely on it always staying the same for a given type.	`"Some of the billing summaries had unexpected information and didn't pass our audits. The listed fields should be considered suspect."`
`ts`	ISO8601	The timestamp of note.	`"2016-01-01T12:30:24.653422+00:00"`
…		Extra attributes based on `type` (see below).

Examples

// Example strange note
{
    "type": "billing_summaries_strange",
    "billing_summary_note_type": "audit_failed_on_new_charges",
    "billing_summary_statement_date": "2016-01-31:17:00:00.000000+00:00",
    "billing_summary_uid": "123456",
    "msg": "One of the billing summaries has new charges that don't add up. Please double check to make sure the data is correct.",
    "ts": "2018-04-24T11:04:21.481999+00:00",
}

Billing Account Note Types

Type	Description	Additional Attributes
`billing_summaries_strange`	Some of the billing summaries had unexpected information and didn't pass our audits. The listed fields should be considered suspect.	`billing_summary_note_type` - BillingSummaryNoteType - The type of note on the affected billing summary `billing_summary_statement_date` - ISO8601 - The statement date of the relevant billing summary `billing_summary_uid` - UID - The UID of the billing summary with the note
Extensible: We may add variants to this enumeration type in the future, so be able to handle unknown values gracefully.