6. Checking Past Billing Runs (billlog)

Every time you generate a batch of bills, your system records how and when you ran them in the billlog. You can use the billlog program to find out when you last ran a batch of personal bills and which categories or groups of accounts were included in that batch.

billlog can be very useful if you manually cycle your bills using the aging categories, the alphabet, or a range of zipcodes. If you are worried about missing a week's worth of bills, or if you want to double-check that you remembered to update the end-date for a bill run, you can find out in the billlog.

You can run the billlog program inside the "Personal Billing" window in the "Billing Functions" window of Partner. You can also run it from a command prompt by typing billlog.

While viewing the billlog, or any report that uses the less program, type shift-G to quickly drop to the bottom of the report where the most recent events are recorded. You can also use the Page Up and Page Down keys.

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On Thu Apr 26 10:16:49 EST 2004
A billing run for the period 01/01/80 to 04/25/04
for the alphabetic range t to z
for the zip codes from 00000 through 99999
for normal, overdue 30, overdue 60, overdue 90, and overdue 120 days bills

On Wed May  9 10:20:48 EDT 2004
A billing run for the period 01/01/80 to 05/08/04
for the alphabetic range a to f
for the zip codes from 00000 through 99999
for normal, overdue 30, overdue 60, overdue 90, and overdue 120 days bills

In the above example, you can see the date and time that the bills were generated as well as the selection criteria used. The example shown uses an alphabet range to break up the bills. Notice that there is no entry for the alphabetical range of "g to s", indicating that this cycle may have been forgotten.