Utility Deposit tracking must be turned on in the Utility Billing Setup to track deposits. Contact BIAS Support for assistance is needed.
Go to Cash Receipting > Cash Receipts
- Click Add New and enter your password.
- Enter User Password
- Select Type Utility Payment
- Enter the new customer by double-clicking in Customer field.
- Click Add New
- Check Is Utility Customer
- Enter Customer Address and Contact Info
- Click Save & Close

- Enter Utility Deposit amount
- Click Save & Close
- After Warning box will appears, Click Yes.

- Enter deposit Payment amount.
- Click cell under type of payment used and amount will populate automatically.
- Click Save & Close
- Click Print to print a receipt.

Go to Utility Billing > Customer Accounts
- Click to highlight customer that was entered in cash receipting.
- Click the blue magnifying glass next to Deposit.
- The deposit from cash receipting is visible under Utility Deposits.
Go to Utility Billing > Customer Accounts
- Click to select desired Customer
- Click the blue magnifying glass button next to Deposit.
- Click Issue Refund
- Select Apply To Balance to credit the customer's utility account or Issue Refund to create an AP entry to issue a refund check to the customer.
- Enter refund Date
- Select Bill Type Refund
- Select AP Status to
- Click Write

- Click Yes to confirm refund of deposit.

Deposit Balance will then be zero.

The Refund will now appear in the Customer Balance.


Refund will now appear in Transactions > Accounts Payable