The ability of flexibility
Our Solution can solve problems for any type of organisation wishing to take control of any type of contract.
Be it energy or environmental products, water or widgets, we are confident we can help you improve your productivity. No expertise is required.
Take a look at the examples below to find out how you can benefit. If you have a specific use case and you would like to find out how we can help, please feel free to contact us to discuss your requirements.
Products
Overview
Buying electricity is often an essential element of running a business. Producing and selling electricity is also becoming commonplace for many businesses. At Captrics, we understand that managing electricity contracts can be a complex and frustrating undertaking. Our aim is to make the complex simple and put you back in control of your contracts.
Whether you are an SME managing the electricity spend of a single site, a corporation with a multi-site portfolio to manage or a consultancy overseeing thousands of customers, our solution will help you get to grips with your contract administration and save you money.
Our software provides you with a centralised, digital warehouse for all of your electricity contract data, automatically checks your bills and gives you the tools to explore and interrogate your data.
Contract Types
- Our software will assist you with the administration and validation of any contract type, no matter how complex.
- Whether you are managing a single site, a multi-site customer or a portfolio of customers, we have a solution for you.
- Our software can be used with all supplier organisations.
Administration
- Register all stakeholder organisations and entities, including MPANs, meters and sub-meters.
- Interface with external systems or upload to the application via a web browser to register meter data for both fiscal and non-fiscal meters.
- Register all environmental and tax schemes such as Climate Change Agreements and CHPQA certificates.
- Consultants can upload and manage their client LOAs and consultant contracts.
Validations
- Check your bills and contracts in seconds. We have an extensive catalogue of default validation rules and can create new, bespoke rules to meet your requirements, without the need to write new code.
- Validate every element of your electricity bill. From AAHEDC to TNUoS, we interrogate every line item.
- We have a central database of all industry charges, including line loss factors, BSUoS rates, CFD rates, DUoS charges and lots more.
- Validations are performed down to a half hourly granularity.
- Our software will automatically factor in any relevant schemes into the validations such as Climate Change Levy discounts.
- Add bespoke validations such as sub-metering sense checks to ensure the integrity of market data.
- Receive alerts for missing invoices, contracts due to expire, missing tariff data etc.
Trading
- If you operate flexible contracts, you can register your trading activity and ensure your trades are correctly accounted for in your invoices.
- Our software can validate your weighted cost of electricity (‘CoE’) including any complex imbalance calculations.
- Our trade position reporting gives you an insight into your hedging activity, with insightful charts.
Analytics
- Interrogate your data against any Settlement Run.
- Validate all Mutualisation costs.
- Analyse your contract history for cost recovery opportunities.
- Optimise your agreed connection capacity to ensure you’re not overpaying.
Overview
Gas is one of the key pillars of the UK’s energy mix. Many parties are involved in the process of supplying gas, leading to a number of governance frameworks and several key processes. Consequently, invoicing for gas supplied to businesses is a complex subject. At Captrics, our aim is to make the complex simple and put you back in control of your contracts.
Whether you are an SME managing the gas spend of a single site, a corporation with a multi-site portfolio to manage or a consultancy overseeing thousands of customers, our solution will help you get to grips with your contract administration and save you money.
Our software provides you with a centralised, digital warehouse for all of your gas contract data, automatically checks your bills and gives you the tools to explore and interrogate your data.
Contract Types
- Our software will assist you with the administration and validation of any contract type, no matter how complex.
- Whether you are managing a single site, a portfolio of sites or a basket of contracts, we have a solution for you.
Administration
- Register all stakeholder organisations and entities, including all supply point details such as supply type, settlement class, AQ and SOQ.
- Interface with external systems or upload to the application via a web browser to register meter data for both fiscal and non-fiscal meters.
- Register all environmental and tax schemes such as Climate Change Agreements and CHPQA certificates.
- Consultants can upload and manage their client LOAs and consultant contracts.
Validations
- Check your bills and contracts in seconds. We have an extensive catalogue of default validation rules and can create new, bespoke rules to meet your requirements, without the need to write new code.
- Validate every element of your gas bill. From the Climate Change Levy to Transportation Charges, we interrogate every line item.
- We have a central database of all industry charges, including National Transmission System charges, Local Distribution Zone charges and Calorific Values.
- Our software will automatically factor in any relevant schemes into the validations such as Climate Change Levy discounts.
- Add bespoke validations such as sub-metering sense checks to ensure the integrity of market data.
- Receive alerts for missing invoices, contracts due to expire, missing tariff data etc.
Trading
- If you operate flexible contracts, you can register your trading activity and ensure your trades are correctly accounted for in your invoices.
- Our software can validate your weighted cost of gas (‘CoG’) including any complex imbalance calculations.
- Our trade position reporting gives you an insight into your hedging activity, with insightful charts.
Analytics
- Interrogate your data to ensure the optimal operation of your contracts.
- Analyse your contract history for cost recovery opportunities.
Organisations
Overview
Be it for electricity or water, gas or widgets, invoices are generally assumed to be correct, but this is not always the case. Invoice validation can be a time consuming, labour intensive and tedious task, and that’s without considering the effort required to keep yourself informed of industry specific developments that could impact your costs.
If you want to keep in control of your contracts, prefer not to use a consultant but find that you don’t have the time or systems needed to ‘do a proper job’, you have come to the right place! Utilising our software can help you improve your contract administration and save you money.
Improve Your Administration
- We provide a secure, structured infrastructure for the storage of all of your contract related data.
- Combine data from different sources and view your entire contractual portfolio in a single portal.
Save Time
- Automatically upload and validate your invoices in seconds.
- Replace your labour intensive manual tasks with our automated solution.
Boost Your Bottom Line
- Ensure you don’t pay incorrect charges.
- Boost productivity and free-up time for value adding activities.
- Interrogate historic data to recover costs from billing errors.
- Analyse your contract data to ensure optimum procurement, our powerful reporting and analytics tools provide invaluable insight.
Overview
Consultancies and third party intermediaries can play a vital role in assisting end customers with the understanding, operation and optimisation of their contracts. However, managing hundreds or even thousands of customers contracts and the associated data can be a huge challenge.
Our software helps consultancies provide their services more efficiently. Having a properly structured data storage facility will help you in your day-to-day administration as well as ensuring you are able to perform to the highest of data security and privacy standards. Automating manual tasks means freeing-up your business to perform more important, value adding activities and utilising our powerful validation engine will improve the accuracy of the services you provide.
In addition to the extensive range of standard functions and features that are included in our software, we also provide additional tools to address the additional requirements of Consultancies.
If you are looking for some bespoke functionality, please feel free to contact us to discuss your requirements.
Customer Contract Management
- Our software enables you to manage the contracts you have with your customers, in addition to the contracts you will manage on behalf of your customers.
- Configure the services you provide to your customers to assist with your service delivery (e.g. automated reporting, tender packs, payment files etc.).
- Receive notifications of when your contracts are due for renewal.
Team Management
- Manage your workload by creating teams and assigning tasks to either teams or individuals.
- Align the software work flows to match your processes.
- Configure bespoke Dashboards with charts, tables, work flows and widgets.
- Set-up notifications on a per user basis to keep informed of progress on the issues that matter to you.
Integrations
- Integrate with your existing applications and databases.
- Automatically retrieve data directly from external sources.
White Labelling & Personalisation
- Align the application’s logos and colours with your companies branding.
- Customise your content using our widget-based portal structure.
Overview
Suppliers can often find themselves so engrossed in creating sales invoices that they overlook the need to have quality mechanisms in place for the administration and validation of their purchase contracts and invoices.
Our software can help suppliers in your day-to-day administration as well as ensuring you are able to perform to the highest of data security and privacy standards. Automating manual tasks means freeing-up your business to perform more important, value adding activities and utilising our powerful validation engine will save you money.
Please get in touch with us to discuss your requirements.