How a 12-municipality rollout cut audit prep from weeks to hours

MetroMeter Solutions manages prepaid electricity metering across 12 separate municipality contracts — 3,800 meters in total, each governed by its own tariff structure and its own audit and reporting obligations.

Before switching to VeriBills, generating a single monthly billing run took a team of six people three full working days: pulling meter reads manually, cross-checking tariffs per municipality, and assembling the reports each contract required.

"We manage 3,800 prepaid meters across 12 municipality contracts," says Mpho Ndaba, Operations Director at MetroMeter Solutions. "Before VeriBills, monthly bills took a team of six three full days. Now it runs automatically overnight."

The billing cycle itself now runs unattended overnight, with every bill generated against the correct per-municipality tariff and delivered through the appropriate channel. Because every reading, rating decision, and bill is recorded in the same audit trail as it happens — rather than reconstructed afterward — audit preparation that used to consume days of manual reconciliation is now a matter of pulling an existing report.