Smarty Utility Management vs VerifEye BMO Tenant Billing

Smarty Utility Management is Punch’s sub-metering and utility management service for multi-unit properties. It covers prepaid and smart electricity, water, and gas metering, alongside automated billing, vending, collections, and arrears recovery. Punch meters are installed as secondary meters, leaving municipal meters untouched and the supply live. Property teams can use NERSA-aligned time-of-use, block, seasonal, fixed, and demand tariffs, as well as Free Basic Electricity support. Billing options include flat, usage-based, tiered or block, time-of-use, demand, reactive-energy, percentage-based, and fixed-fee methods. The STS vending dashboard supports multiple payment channels and automated token receipts. Monitoring includes real-time consumption data, remote connection and disconnection, tamper, bypass, and leak alerts, plus tariff switching among grid, solar, and generator sources. Residents can use an installable Progressive Web App to check balances and purchase history and make vending purchases. The service also offers single and bulk SMS, audit trails, and lookup. Pricing is on request; listed plans are Rent-to-Own (36 months), Monthly Rental (Evergreen), and Upfront Purchase.

VerifEye BMO Tenant Billing is web software for allocating and invoicing utility costs in multi-unit properties. Operators can assign tenant records and meters, allocate tenant and common-area costs, and apply simple, tiered or time-of-use tariffs at building level. The system captures whole-building electricity, gas, water, steam and BTU data, including 15-minute intervals. Users can create invoices for a chosen data range, email monthly invoices and export bills as PDFs. Management summaries and graphical energy-use information support billing periods, while tenants view usage through individual online portals. The data sheet describes cloud-based long-term storage while an active subscription remains and says it meets 36-month energy-code and LEED requirements. Applications include commercial, government, education, industrial, multiple-dwelling-unit and mixed-use buildings. Remote support covers activation, setup and configuration. The listed monthly license covers 50 data points, with pricing from $339.73/mo.