municipal utilities

Customer communication solutions for municipal utilities

Improve utility billing communications, outage notifications, customer service, and community engagement with multichannel messaging designed for municipal utilities.

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Purpose-built to solve mid-sized utility challenges


Utility customers expect timely updates, convenient service, and clear communication. Mid-sized and municipal utilities must balance those expectations while managing billing operations, payment collections, outage response, conservation initiatives, and regulatory communications.

Effective customer communication helps utilities reduce service inquiries, increase on-time payments, improve outage response communications, drive program participation, and strengthen relationships with the communities they serve.

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Common municipal utility communication challenges

Purpose-built to solve municipal utility communication challenges

Increasing customer expectations

Customers expect timely, personalized communications across SMS, email, voice, and digital channels.

Aging infrastructure & service disruptions

Planned maintenance, outages, boil water notices, and infrastructure projects require proactive communication.

Limited staff resources

Municipal utilities often operate with lean teams responsible for customer service, operations, and community engagement.

Payment and revenue pressures

Reducing delinquencies and improving payment outcomes requires consistent and effective customer communications.

Solutions

Solving utilities challenges

Transforming customer engagement for municipal utilities

Deliver proactive service communications

Keep customers informed about outages, maintenance activities, emergencies, and service updates.

Automate customer workflows

Spark personalized communications based on billing events, service requests, account status changes, and operational events.

Improve collections, revenue recovery, and payment outcomes

Reduce late payments and increase customer engagement with automated billing and payment reminder workflows.

Build community trust

Increase transparency with consistent, timely communications that strengthen customer relationships.

essentials

The essential multi-channel engagement solution for mid-sized utilities

Whether you’re sending outage updates, billing reminders, conservation program communications, or service notifications, Convey Essentials helps mid-sized and municipal utilities deliver relevant communications through SMS, email, and voice channels while improving operational efficiency.

Powerful analytics platform

Evaluate performance by all messages and campaigns.

Rapid time-to-value

Onboard and get started in days, not months.

Multichannel templates

Deploy proactively via email, SMS, voice, and print.

Real-time crisis messaging

Instantly scale up for outage events and cut inbound calls by 75%.

Effortless compliance

Built-in TCPA and FTC DNC compliance and consent management.

Platform maturity

High Throughput platform integrates with CIS, CRM, and OMS.

execution

Applications

Discover how our solutions power every stage of the customer journey through SMS, email, voice, and RCS for Business, supporting scheduling, payments, emergency communications, high bill alerts, high bill usage notifications, and outreach for vulnerable customers.

Outage communications & emergency notifications

Deliver proactive outage notifications and restoration updates. Communicate quickly during storms, water advisories, and public safety events.

Improve payment outcomes with automated billing and collections communications. Notify customers about planned maintenance, service interruptions, and infrastructure projects.

Promote conservation initiatives, seasonal restrictions, and rebate programs.

Welcome new customers with automated service activation communications.

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Case study

Creating reliability with Convey

Mansfield Municipal Electric Department (MMED) serves 10,000 customers in Southeastern Massachusetts. As extreme weather events increase and ISO New England prepares for possible load curtailments, MMED needed a more responsive, localized way to notify residents of outages and maintenance events.

our expertise

Compliance and security

As leaders in managing experiences in regulated environments, we strive to raise standards for our clients’ industries.

Compliance

We follow FINRA, HIPAA, GDPR regulations, and more.

Encrypted data

All communications are secured with advanced encryption.

results

What we’ve achieved

24%

decrease in inbound call center activity

19%

increase in program enrollment

21%

preference ingest rate per contact

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Solutions

Convey builds intelligent workflows that transform customer experiences.

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Public Sector

Streamlining experiences for the public sector.

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Outage Management

Deliver relevant messages at scale and speed.

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Billing & Payment

Manage streamlined transaction experiences.

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Service Automation

Give teams and customers peace of mind.

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AI-Demand Response

Facilitate intelligent conversations.

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Call Center

Deploy urgent information at scale.

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Customer Engagement

Build long-lasting customer relationships.

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