Guidance for Energy Invoices schema

Introduction

These notes are gathered from Subject Matter Expert guidance and responses to participant questions.

See:

• CDS, Energy Invoice

invoiceAmount

The invoiceAmount field is inclusive of GST. It represents the amount charged to the customer at the time of issue. The corresponding gstAmount field specifies the GST that is included in the invoiceAmount field.

accountCharges

The accountCharges field is intended to capture any charges applied at an account level, such as account setup charges. It is not an aggregate of other charges for the invoice.

balanceAtIssue

The balanceAtIssue field reflects the current balance for a customer's account.

A negative balance means the consumer owes the data holder/retailer.

A positive balance means the data holder owes the consumer.

The current balance after the invoice is paid can be calculated as balanceAtIssue - invoiceAmount