Utility Expense Management
Discover Usage Spikes Fast. Identify Utility Service Theft. Minimize Late Fees.
Why Care About Utility Expense Management?
An effective utility expense management program helps you conserve energy while reducing risk, delays, and vacant unit costs. Our program goes further, however. Designed to help you control costs, we help you save on unnecessary utility charges.
How RealPage Reduces Your Utility Expense
Our expense management processes and automation quickly capture not only the total amount due but also line items and metrics such as effective rate and usage. RealPage tracks your invoices, then actively works to reduce late fees by capturing invoices quicker, paying faster, and continually monitoring missing utility bills. Performance reports including metrics provide insights and show savings.
Utility Expense Management Delivers Cash Flow and More
Identify Utility Theft
Recapture utility expenses that haven’t been appropriately transferred to residents.
Minimize Late Fees
Your properties’ utility invoices are processed and paid fast, minimizing late fees.
Discover Usage Spikes Fast
Get quick alerts on unusual water, gas and electric consumption.
Manage Rate Changes
Make your forecast and budget more reliable.
Minimize Shut-Offs
The process automatically flags missing bills, immediately addresses utility notices, and minimizes shut-offs.
Guarantee Financial Security
Transparency and insight into what is for many firms the third largest category of controllable operating cost.
Comprehensive Utility Expense Management for Your Properties
Benchmarking
How does your properties’ utility use compare to your competitors? RealPage sustainability reports help you quickly score your properties for both water and energy.
Analytics & Reporting
Track month-over-month and year-over-year usage and cost. All available through RealPage’s advanced analytics tools and reports.
Rate Forecasting
Rate forecasting, our intelligence on rate changes can increase the accuracy of your forecasts. We research rate data regularly, using multiple methods and sources to make rate predictions more reliable.
“The RealPage team has been instrumental in implementing what was a very broad project, yielding excellent improvements so far. It's an ongoing project of continuous improvement that is core to the Panco mission.”
5 Common Mistakes to Avoid in Processing Utility Invoices
Learn How to Optimize Cash Flow, Increase Visibility, Save Time and Money
Don’t miss this enlightening webcast led by RealPage Utility Management experts Tamra Goodman, Jacki Caputo and Howard Berends. Discover all that a high-performance utility expense management program can do for you, such as tracking usage, expenses and other invoice data. Find out how to avoid common mistakes and make the most of every cost-saving opportunity.
