Billing & Invoicing
Universal bill and invoice generation engine — produces tax bills, utility bills, invoices, and statements across all revenue products with instalment plans, consolidated billing, and multi-format delivery.
Billing Run (100K)
Invoice Generation
PDF Generation
Financial Accuracy
Purpose-Built for Canadian Municipalities
Purpose & Scope
What this module owns
Clear ownership boundaries prevent duplication and ensure every capability has exactly one authoritative home.
Owns
8Delegated to
7Rate/fee calculation
GL posting
Payment processing
Collections follow-up
PDF generation
Delivery channels
Customer account lookup
These capabilities are handled by dedicated modules and consumed via stable API contracts — keeping boundaries clean and ownership unambiguous.
Core Capabilities
What it does
4 capability groups comprising 8 discrete capabilities — each with API surface, business rules, and data ownership.
Mass billing runs: calculate charges via rate-fee-engine, apply credits/adjustments, generate bill documents, assign due dates, post to GL; supports interim/final/supplementary cycles.
Mass Billing Runs
Calculate charges via rate-fee-engine, apply credits/adjustments, generate bill documents, and assign due dates in a single automated run.
GL Posting
Calculated amounts are posted to the general ledger via financial-core as part of the billing run.
Billing Cycles
Supports interim, final, and supplementary billing cycles for property tax and other revenue streams.
Due Date Assignment
Due dates automatically assigned based on configurable payment terms (default 21 days after bill date).
Individual invoices for one-time charges (permits, fees, rentals); invoice numbering, line items, tax calculation, terms (Net 30/60/90).
One-Time Invoices
Create individual invoices for permits, fees, rentals, and other one-time charges outside mass billing runs.
Invoice Numbering
Sequential, formatted invoice numbers with configurable prefix (e.g., INV-2026-001234).
Line Items
Multiple line items per invoice with description, quantity, unit price, HST calculation, and GL account mapping.
Payment Terms
Configurable payment terms: Net 30, Net 60, Net 90, or custom terms per invoice.
Every module owns a single bounded context, exposes stable APIs, and can be composed into any Civic product — that's the architecture that scales.
Krutik Parikh
Creator of Civic
Data Model
Entity Architecture
4 entities with 6 relationships — the authoritative schema for this bounded context.
Entities
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API Surface
Integration Endpoints
11 RESTful endpoints across 7 resource groups — plus 6 domain events for async integration.
/api/v1/billing/runs
Initiate billing run
/api/v1/billing/runs/{id}/status
Billing run status
Ecosystem
Products that depend on this module
8 Civic products consume Billing & Invoicing — making it one of the most critical platform services in the ecosystem.
Property Tax
Interim/final/supplementary tax bills, instalment plans
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Utility Billing
Water/sewer bills, monthly/quarterly cycles
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Stormwater Management
Stormwater charge billing
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Accounts Receivable
Invoices, statements, credit notes
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Cemetery
Interment rights invoicing
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Parking
Permit invoices, monthly parking billing
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Recreation
Program/facility invoices
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Waste & Recycling
Waste collection billing
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Technical Specifications
Performance, Compliance & Configuration
Billing Run (100K accounts)
Individual Invoice Generation
PDF Generation
Bill Delivery (email)
PAD File Generation (CPA 005)
Financial Accuracy
Availability
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
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