Utility prepayment electricity vending system vending management user-friendly language independent

Calinpay is a Windows-based solution that offers customers reliability, stability and scalability; the solution is able to manage up to a million customers and their associated transactions, making it an ideal vending system for utilities . Calinpay is STS compliant, to ensure compatibility with our full range of products, as well as competitors' STS products. It covers from A to Z of utilites' daily vending operation.

The most favorable feature to utility user is its user friendly interface and simple operation , which uses graphic icons and simple menus, to ensure operators can quickly and easily handle the software. In addition, the software is available in a variety of languages, dependent on your requirements.

The system is centered by a vending management server situated within utilities' or service providers premises, responsible for managing both transaction and meter data. It is online with the vending units , or point-of-sale equipped with a home pc spread in various vending territories. The server supports concurrent multi-threaded transaction and Cloud drive for all the vending data including transaction, customers, and the meter.

Calinpay is designed as an open architecture, allowing it to interface to smart metering systems as well as integrate with a range of existing systems run by local authorities and power utilities, such as SAP, CRM, ERP or billing systems, permitting to transfer consumers' consumption data through API to these systems. Calinpay is also accommodating with any third party payment platforms such as GPRS POS terminal, mobile phone, Easy pay, or Pay-as-you-go, enabling utility and service providers to optimize and improve their business efficiency.

The system is also featured by a variety array of statistc reports which can provide any information you need for revenue collection analysis. The report can be customized according to your needs.

Key Features

1) Flexible and scalable to manage up to a metropolitan population

2) Multi-vendor feature operating with many SGC KMF within one system

3) Quick to install as well as deploy, and easy to learn

4) Working with all STS meters

5) Covers each step of prepayment workflow

6) Efficient database integration

7) Provides full audit history and reports for utility statistics data management

Utility and Landlord Benefit

1) Secured, convenient and quick revenue collection

2) Compatible and interoperable with any STS products

3) Secured and dedicated vending server within utilities premises

4) Easy and quick to set up

5) Satellites vending units are connected with central server via dedicated WAN /LAN or vPN

6) Low operational and maintenance cost

7) Interfacing with third part payment platforms, like mobile service provider, soda vendors, scratch card solutions

8) Flexible contractual controls by setting various tariff plans,billing cycles, and holidays, etc.

9) Integrates with AMI system for data acqusition and management

STS and AMI prepayment electricity meter Specification Datasheet

Calin, as derived from China League of Innovation, dates  back to the year 2006  when our team developed the new generation of CPU card electronic prepaid kilo-watt hour meter for China State Grid. Now there are over 1,000,000 pcs this type of smart prepayment electric meters operating  as key revenue protection devices for utilities and service providers in and out of China. 

Each member of Calin R&D team  ever served in top rank Chinese meter companies and contributed to the rapid development of smart metering industry in China. With vast forefront field experience and expertise, Calin offer a broad metering product range, comprising of conventional electric meters, water meters, prepaid meters, wireless communication meters, vending and management systems, AMR / AMI smart metering solutions, consulting, training and support.

Calin is the forerunner of prepaid metering industry in China. Our products and solutions are all developed on the concept of revenue protection and better management, and thus enjoy very high reputation in the industry. Even now China is supplying components, complete products as in OEM, and meter electronic design to many other meter manufacturers. With this OEM and trade partners, Calin’s business has expannded to over 30 countries and regions worldwide. 

To share with our clients the benefit from our constant innovation and commit to our clients’ request is Calin’s forever unchanging principle. Running away from responsibility is always condemed. Calin will keep servicing our clients with our best innovation and commitment to create best mutual benefit.