Pennsylvania Banner Users Group 2008 Fall Conference

E-Billing

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General Announcements:

Please turn off all cell phones/pagers If you must leave the session early, please

do so as discreetly as possible Please avoid side conversations during the

session Questions will be answered …..

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Lehigh Carbon Community College

Located in Schnecksville, PA Current Fall 2008 Credit Student Enrollment

– Approx. 7400 students Bursar – Diane Trainer Banner/Application Support – David Slater

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Why E-bill??? Potential Cost Savings Time savings Save the environment! No more Paper –

almost… Faster access to bill for students Update bills with current data Electronic connection to TouchNet payments

via BannerWeb Automated billing process (mostly automated) –

Eventually (Implemented second term)4

E-bill Project Timeline

Jan. 2008 – Began discussions investigating alternatives Evisions TouchNet

February 2008 - Began testing with Evisions ‘FormFusion’

April 2008 - chose Evisions Product and began official E-Bill project

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E-bill Project Timeline – Cont.

April 2008 – Marketing Meeting Initial kick-off letter Emails Postcards Brochure Video Marquee Educate Staff

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E-bill Project Timeline – Cont.

May 2008 – Banner Web Development May and June 2008 – Student Orientation June 2008 – Created Cron scripts in Unix to

automate E-Bill generation July 2008 – Ran mass E-Bill manually (NOT

repeated for next term)

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E-bill Project Timeline – Cont.

September 2008 – Post Mortem Meeting What we discovered

No more mass E-Bill Update E-Bill more frequently Included more events that generated E-Bill

Financial Aid awarded Payments Dropped courses

Re-Educated Staff One Statement per term (Optional Mod to

BannerWeb)8

E-bill Project Timeline – Cont.

November 2008 – Spring and Summer 2009 registration begins; E-Bills generated hourly (previously once a day).

December 2008 – Email reminders

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LCCC E-bill Example

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View Bill in BannerWeb

Link OpensE-bill in PDF

Bill Date in Drop-down Box;LCCC Modified to display Term Description

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View Bill in Banner - TGISTMT

Click ‘View Statement’; E-bill open as PDF

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Used Evisions Formfusion to Develop E-bill

Newest version of FormFusion REQUIRED.Newest Version of FormFusion Required.

Three separate Forms for each of our semesters.

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Primary Evisions Component - FormDirector

We chose to generate E-bills in PDF format.

SQL to generate E-bill in TBBSTMT and GORBLOB tables.

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E-bill notification emailed to students when bill generated

Variable studentEmail; matches toEntry in TBBSTMT-Displays onTGISTMT screen.

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Primary Components in Banner- TGACTRL

Controls the # of months to displayE-bills in BannerWeb.

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Primary Components in Banner- TSADETC - Optional

Check if you want Payment History to display in the BannerWeb section of the E-bill.

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Primary Components in Banner- TSASBRL

Rules affect the Banner data that will print on the E-bill.

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Primary Components in Banner- TSASBRL - Continued

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Primary Components in Banner- TSASBRL - Continued

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Primary Components in Banner - GLRSLCT - Optional

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Primary Components in Banner - TSRCBIL

Evisions Form Name

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Primary Components in Banner - TSRCBIL - Continued

Use SCHEDSTMTto generate VERYImportant Statement Number On TBBSTMT table

Matches TSASBRL

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Primary Components in Banner - TSRCBIL - Continued

Bill and Due Dates Display on BannerWeb and Print on the E-Bill

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Hourly E-bill processing – Unix CRON script (Partial)

Ebill cron and UNIX script:

cron entry: 00 06 * * 0-6 su - oracle -c "/u01/app/sghe/scripts/create_ebill.shl" >/u01/app/sghe/scripts/logs/create_ebill.log 2>&1

create_ebill.shl script: #! /bin/sh Clear echo ======================================= echo Starting EBILL tsrcbil ${BANNER_HOME} echo ======================================= 200840 $TODAY 1MA EBILL STUDENT DSLATER SATURN N EBILL % Y SCHEDSTMT $TODAY 11-AUG-08 Y Y N

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Unix CRON script (Continued)

E-bill generated by the following events (Credit Students Only): Registration Course Drop Payments Financial Aid – Memo or Award

One set of scripts/E-Bill for each term Spring, Summer, Fall

Only one E-Bill exists per term (New bills replace existing)

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E-Bill Related Banner Tables

TBBSTMT – Primary table; stores unique data about each E-bill; Statement Number created from TSRCBIL.

GORBLOB – Stores the actual Bill (eg, the PDF that represents the E-bill)

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Open to the Floor

Questions Comments

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