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Twenty years ago, a person in the field would check utility meters. Now, new technologies allow for auto-reporting on utility and meter activity on an hourly basis or better, identifying billing mistakes, system disruptions and any developing risk factors. Zack Beck is the national sales manager for Conservice, a utilities and expense management provider, founded in 2000 in Logan, Utah by Dave Jenkins. “I get caught up sometimes and have to remind myself that there are a lot of business areas and competing priorities,” Beck said. “I have always looked at utility management as one of the larges gaps for property managers and place it can really make or break a property budget.
“By leveraging automation to quality check sensitive utility invoices, it becomes an insurance policy to one of your largest expenses and in most cases the second largest contributor to income,” Beck said of Conservice’s role in business management. “Most property managers may take a bit of time to look at the bill just to see that it costs about the same amount month over month. That’s not really an ideal way to ensure the invoices they are receiving from their providers are accurate, and what you miss certainly can add up.”
The Essence of Utility Billing Beck and others in the industry are seeing that the demand for utility billing and other automated, remote » MHINSIDER.COM | 19
