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Main views
The Data Inventory is organized into three main views, each accessible from the top-level navigation or the cards below.Bills
Browse processed utility bills with charges, usage data, and original documents.
Accounts
Manage utility accounts, track billing status, and view associated meters.
Meters
View physical utility meters, usage history, and identifier mappings.
Common table features
All three views share a consistent table interface with the following capabilities:| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Filtering | Narrow results by site, utility type, date range, connection, status, and more |
| Sorting | Click any column header to sort ascending or descending |
| Column customization | Show or hide columns to focus on the data you need |
| Row click | Click any row to open a detail page or a slide-out sheet with a quick preview |
| Bulk actions | Select multiple rows to perform batch operations like export or delete |
Filtering
Open the filter bar above any table to narrow results. Each view offers filters relevant to its records — for example, site, utility type, date range, connection, and status. Filters can be combined, appear as removable chips, and are preserved in the page URL so you can bookmark or share a filtered view.Location filters
The Street, Zipcode, and Country filters are available on the Bills, Accounts, Meters, and Sites tables. Each is a text filter with two match modes:| Match mode | Behavior |
|---|---|
| Contains | Matches rows whose address includes the text you type. This is the default. |
| Is | Matches only rows whose address value matches exactly. |
How location filters search related records
A bill, account, or meter doesn’t always carry its own address — the address often lives on a site or on the meters underneath it. So when you filter by location, Nectar looks beyond the row itself and searches the records it’s connected to:| Table | Where the location filter looks |
|---|---|
| Sites | The site’s own address. |
| Meters | The meter’s address and the address of the site it belongs to. |
| Accounts | The addresses on every meter linked to the account and their sites. |
| Bills | The bill’s service address, plus the meters and sites the bill covers. |
Street = Adelaide returns an account when any of its meters — or the sites those meters sit on — has “Adelaide” in its street address.
Location filters also scan the full address text, so records that don’t yet have a cleanly separated street, zipcode, and country are still found by a matching word or value. Because of this, the Is (exact) mode can still match an address line that contains your value rather than equals it.
How changes affect your data
Your data objects are all connected. When you change something in one place, it affects what you see elsewhere.| What you change | What happens |
|---|---|
| Move a meter to a different site | All of that meter’s usage data moves immediately. Analytics for both the old and new sites update right away. |
| Exclude a usage data record | That record disappears from all aggregate totals, charts, and exports. Your site’s consumption drops by the excluded amount. |
| Edit charges on a bill | Cost analytics and cost exports reflect the new values immediately. |
| Disable tracking on an account | Nectar stops collecting new data for that account. Existing data is preserved — nothing is deleted. |
| Flag a bill | The bill is excluded from exports by default, preventing questionable data from reaching your downstream systems. |
Related pages
- Data Input — the three methods for getting data into the inventory
- Data Quality — review flagged bills and completeness gaps
- Analytics — visualize inventory data as charts and trends
- Sites — site-centric view of bills, accounts, and meters
- Glossary — definitions for every entity, field, and concept in Nectar
- Methodology — how Nectar processes bills and organizes data into meters and sites
FAQ
What's the difference between an account and a meter?
What's the difference between an account and a meter?
An account represents a utility account number — the billing relationship between your
company and a utility provider. A meter represents a physical metering device at a
site. One account can have multiple meters. For example, a single electric account might cover
two meters at different parts of a facility.
Can I delete bills?
Can I delete bills?
Yes. You can delete bills from the bills table using bulk actions (select rows and click
Delete) or from an individual bill’s detail page using the Delete action in the toolbar.
How does data get into the inventory?
How does data get into the inventory?
Bills, accounts, and meters are created automatically when data flows through any of the three
Data Input methods: connections, uploads, or manual entry. You
can also create bills and usage data manually from within the inventory.