Pricing

    Pricing you can actually see before you sign.

    Most utility bill management providers make you sit through a sales cycle before you learn what anything costs. We'd rather you know now.

    One rate per meter, per monthThe whole operation included. No add-on rate card.
    Onboarding quoted up frontOne-time, scoped to your portfolio before you sign.
    A tailored quote in one business dayEvery line explained, on a call or in writing.
    Prove it on your own portfolioA fixed-scope assessment, run alongside your current process.How the Utility Operations Assessment works
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    Where pricing typically lands

    Utility bill management

    $10–$15 per meter, per month

    Plus one-time onboarding, quoted up front.

    Benchmarking compliance

    $500–$1,500 per property, per filing

    A standalone project, not a subscription.

    Your exact number depends on your portfolio. We walk you through the quote line by line, so you know exactly what you're paying for and why.

    How utility bill management pricing works

    One rate per meter, plus onboarding. That's the whole model.

    MeterID prices utility bill management per meter, per month, plus a one-time onboarding fee scoped to your portfolio. No per-component pricing that makes your invoice a puzzle — every line is quoted up front.

    Here's what to check before you put our number next to anyone else's:

    A typical market quote

    Billed as add-ons

    Daily AP file deliveryadd-on fee
    Custom reportsper report
    Historical data (CSV) processingproject fee

    Often not in scope at all

    Portal health monitoringno line item
    Missing & expected bill trackingno line item

    Ask for the add-on rate card — then ask who's watching the portals.

    The MeterID quote

    Utility bill management$10–$15 per meter, per month
    Onboardingone-time, quoted up front

    Already in the meter rate

    Daily AP file deliveryincluded
    Custom reportsself-serve, in minutes
    Historical data (CSV) uploadlive from day one
    Portal health monitoringincluded
    Missing & expected bill trackingincluded

    Everything on the left, in two lines — both quoted before you sign.

    Where you land inside the $10–$15 range — and what onboarding costs — depends on a few things:

    Portfolio size

    Monthly rate

    More meters, lower per-meter rate. Volume is the biggest single lever on where you land in the range.

    How your bills arrive

    Monthly rate

    Electronic delivery from portals and email runs cheaper than paper mail, which has to be received, sorted, and matched by hand.

    How many utilities

    Monthly rate

    Five vendors is one operation. Thirty is another — each with its own portal, billing cycle, and quirks to track.

    How much history you need

    One-time onboarding

    Loading 24 months of back-billing is a bigger lift than starting from today. This one shapes the onboarding fee, not your monthly rate.

    Notice what isn't on that list: a service tier. A few more differences show up when you put quotes side by side:

    Service tiers

    Typical market provider

    Tiered plans, with some capabilities gated to higher tiers.

    MeterID

    One version of MeterID. Everyone gets the whole operation.

    Custom reports

    Typical market provider

    Defined on sales calls and delivered on the provider's timeline — often 3 to 6 months out. Changing one starts the process over.

    MeterID

    You configure them in the app and run them in minutes. Changing one is just as fast.

    Historical data

    Typical market provider

    A separate data project: quoted, scheduled, then months of waiting.

    MeterID

    Upload it as a CSV and it's live immediately — reports and analytics from day one.

    Built for

    Typical market provider

    Portfolios of thousands of meters.

    MeterID

    Portfolios of roughly 5 to 150 locations.

    When we quote you, we show you exactly how these factors apply to your portfolio and shape the number.

    What's included

    Everything in the operation. Not a menu of add-ons.

    Every MeterID engagement includes:

    Bill collection across portals, email, and mail
    Two layers of validation on every bill, checked against itself and against your account's history
    Missing and expected bill tracking, with gaps reported
    Cost and usage alerts at thresholds you set
    Due date tracking and alerts before bills are late
    Credential vault with monitoring for broken portal access
    Payment-ready files for your accounting team, on whatever schedule works for them
    Custom reports you configure in the app — ready in minutes, no per-report charge
    Portfolio analytics dashboard
    Historical data import via CSV — live from day one, scoped into onboarding

    Onboarding and implementation are scoped as a one-time fee and quoted alongside your subscription — you'll see exactly what it covers before you sign, and it's our job to get it right.

    Comparing quotes

    Every provider looks cheap until a bill goes missing.

    Before you put our number next to anyone else's, add up what managing bills costs you today: late fees, staff hours spent chasing portals and keying data into spreadsheets, errors nobody has time to catch, and the scramble for months of utility data when an audit lands. Those costs are already on your books — they just don't show up as one line item.

    The same math applies between providers. Two quotes might be a few dollars per meter apart. A bill that gets caught and a bill that doesn't aren't a few dollars apart at all.

    What one missed bill actually costs

    Late fee

    Staff hours reconciling what actually got paid

    A vendor relationship to repair

    Service disconnection

    Only the first one is refundable.

    Any good provider will make a late fee right if they caused it. We would too. What separates two quotes is how often that check gets written.

    Every provider promises the same things during the sales cycle — fast onboarding, complete coverage, reliable delivery. The difference shows up after you sign, when promises have to become operations. Here's how to see that difference before you sign:

    Onboarding & transition

    With MeterID

    We build the portfolio baseline before go-live — every account, meter, vendor, delivery method, and portal login. Gaps get worked before they become missing bills, and a provider switch is tracked against that inventory.

    What to ask

    What specifically has to be verified before an account is considered successfully onboarded — data loaded, or confirmed bill access and coverage?

    Bill access

    With MeterID

    Having an account number doesn't mean you have the bill. We track how each invoice should arrive and whether that path still works. A bill that doesn't show up becomes an exception someone has to close.

    What to ask

    How do you know when an active account has stopped producing bills? Who notices, and how long does it take?

    Account continuity

    With MeterID

    Ownership changes, account renumbering, portal migrations, and mailing changes all interrupt bill flow. We track the service relationship beyond any single account number and work it until access is reestablished.

    What to ask

    What happens when an account changes number, ownership, or portal access? How is the old history connected — and who verifies bills are still arriving?

    Portal credentials

    With MeterID

    Credentials live inside MeterID with monitoring for broken access. A login that stops working surfaces as an exception to fix, not a missing bill you find at month-end.

    What to ask

    Where are credentials tracked, and how does the system know access has broken?

    Bring these questions to every provider you're considering — including us. We'll walk you through our answers live, or you can see how the operation runs across a composite 42-location portfolio, drawn from real engagements: zero late fees, zero disconnect notices, zero lost accounts.

    Or skip the promises entirely: our Utility Operations Assessment runs MeterID alongside your current provider or in-house process for two billing cycles, so the comparison happens on your portfolio instead of in a sales deck.

    Benchmarking compliance

    Energy benchmarking compliance: $500–$1,500 per property, per filing

    Benchmarking is a separate service with its own pricing. It's a done-for-you compliance project, priced per property, per filing, rather than as a subscription.

    For properties we benchmark year after year, subsequent filings are often less expensive — the Portfolio Manager setup, property configuration, and utility mapping are already in place.

    Where your property lands in the range depends on:

    • Data availability. Whether utility data is in hand, in portals, or needs to be requested from the utility
    • Property complexity. Number of meters, utility types, and tenants with their own meters
    • Filing requirements. Which ordinance applies and what the submission requires

    MeterID is on New Jersey's official Certified Building Benchmarker List. If you own or manage property in NJ, start here. We also handle benchmarking for ordinances in other cities, including Detroit, Denver, Chicago, and New York.

    As with everything else, we walk you through the quote before you commit. You'll know exactly what the fee covers for each property.

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    How quoting works

    From inquiry to a number you understand, in one business day.

    1

    Tell us about your portfolio.

    Locations, meters, utility types, and how your bills arrive today. Five minutes on the quote form.

    2

    We scope it.

    We map your portfolio against the pricing factors above and build the quote.

    3

    We walk you through it.

    Line by line, on a call or in writing, whichever you prefer. If something in the quote isn't clear, that's on us to fix before you sign anything.

    No pressure sequence, no expiring discount, no "pricing available upon request." Just a number, the reasoning behind it, and time to decide.

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    Pricing FAQ

    Pricing questions, answered directly

    How much does utility bill management cost with MeterID?

    Utility bill management typically runs between $10 and $15 per meter, per month. The exact rate depends on portfolio size, how bills arrive, vendor count, and service level. Most engagements also include a one-time onboarding fee, scoped to your portfolio and quoted up front.

    Are there setup or onboarding fees?

    Most engagements include a one-time onboarding fee that covers account mapping, portal and credential setup, and historical data import. It's scoped to your portfolio and walked through line by line before you sign — no surprise line items later.

    How does MeterID pricing compare to legacy providers?

    Legacy utility bill management providers typically price per component and build their service around portfolios of thousands of meters. MeterID prices per meter with the full operation included and every fee quoted up front, and is built for portfolios of roughly 5 to 150 locations. Speed differs too: custom reports are configured by you in the app and ready in minutes rather than spec'd and billed per report, and historical data uploads as a CSV and is live for reports and analytics immediately instead of running as a months-long data project.

    What does benchmarking compliance cost?

    Between $500 and $1,500 per property, per filing, depending on data availability, property complexity, and the filing requirements of the applicable ordinance. It is priced as a standalone project rather than a subscription, and delivered separately from utility bill management. For properties we benchmark year after year, subsequent filings are often less expensive because the Portfolio Manager setup, property configuration, and utility mapping are already in place.

    Does MeterID pay our utility bills?

    Bill payment is not part of the standard offering. MeterID collects, validates, and delivers your bill data and AP-ready batch files so your team can pay on time, and nothing is late, missing, or wrong before payment happens.

    Is there a long-term contract?

    Engagements are scoped to your portfolio. We'll cover terms in your quote, and we'll never bury anything in them that we didn't walk you through first.

    Can I get a quote without a sales call?

    Yes. Fill out the quote form at meterid.com/request-quote and we'll respond with a tailored quote within one business day. A call is available if you want one, and skippable if you don't.

    Get your number.

    Tell us about your portfolio and we'll send a tailored quote within one business day, with every line explained.

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