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Customer support Concept course
Kislap

Paid Isn't Posted: How Bills Payment Works

A frontline course that teaches new agents why a bill Kislap shows as paid can still show as unpaid at the biller, and exactly what to say.

Learners
New frontline support agents, weeks 1 to 2
Format
Narrated motion graphics with app and console screens
Runtime
4:48
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The brief

Customers panic when a biller says "overdue" after they've paid, especially when their power or water is at stake. New agents either over-promise or blame the biller. The course needed to show where a bill payment really is, and how to reassure with proof and a date.

What learners can do after

  • Explain why "paid" in Kislap doesn't mean "posted" at the biller
  • Name the three stages of a bill payment and place one from the record
  • Work out the expected posting date from the biller's file schedule and cut-off
  • Tell an entry error from a payment that is still processing
  • Reassure with proof and a date, and escalate once the posting window has passed

The framework

A bill payment moves through three stages, and the biller, not Kislap, sets the clock for the last one.

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Kislap
  1. 1

    Paid

    Kislap takes the payment and issues the receipt.

  2. 2

    Sent

    The collecting partner sends it to the biller in the next daily file.

  3. 3

    Posted

    The biller applies it to the account, within its own posting time.

How we built it

One case runs the whole course: Tess, who runs a small store, pays her electric bill at 9:42 PM, after the biller's 8 PM cut-off, the night before it's due. Two days later she gets an "overdue" text. Learners follow her payment through all three parties and stages, then learn the five common causes and how to tell an entry error from a payment that's simply waiting.

It reuses the design system and teaching templates from How Money Actually Moves, so a second module costs far less than the first.

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  1. 1
    Paid
    Q3
  2. 2
    Sent
    Q1
  3. 3
    Posted
    Q1Q2

Try the knowledge check

Three scored questions with new scenarios, so agents have to apply the rule rather than recall the story. In your LMS, the score is recorded automatically through SCORM 1.2.

Question 1 of 3
A customer paid a water bill on Friday at 7:50 PM. The biller takes a daily file with an 8 PM cut-off and posts within 1 banking day. When should it post?

What a client would receive

  • SCORM 1.2 package with the scored knowledge check
  • MP4 master in 1080p
  • Caption files (SRT and VTT)
  • Full transcript
  • Quiz questions and answers in an editable document