E-Bill: Development of Web Based Application. Generating Online Electricity Bills for Albanian ”CEZ Distribution” Customers

Indrit Baholli; Anni Dasho Sharko; Elvin Meka

Authors

Indrit Baholli Head of Department of Department of Computer Sciences, European University of Tirana
Anni Dasho Sharko ICT Director, SHSA Albania (ex CEZ Albania)Lecturer, FE, UET
Elvin Meka Deputy Dean and Head of Department of Finance, Faculty of Economy, European University of Tirana

Abstract

Based on the very difficult situation of distributing energy bills to all customers in Albania, for “CEZ Shperndarja” Electricity Company was necessity to come-up with the development of E-BILL web based platform to help all our customers to print the invoice, see the monthly consume of the electricity, see even the whole historical consumption and one more steps were the data-cleaning forms updating those contract personal data. Why E-BILL was the first question? And the answer immediately was as e-bill is fast, correct, and secure and you need to spend less time staying in line for hours to our customer care centres. All clients can have possibility to see their invoices and print them from home, office, or internet cafe computers.We choose the WAMP platform as a dynamic web-based application of type client-server developed and implemented in a Windows-Apache-MySQL-PHP platform. It ends up with the conclusions, which indicate the usage of E-Bill platform from actually registered customers getting monthly bills and facilitate the data cleaning process through fullfillment of the forms.

DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2013.v2n9p655