1.  Enabling the remote verification of connections required by some results-based financing programs.
   
1.  To learn more about submitting connections and using remote verification, please refer to the Odyssey user guide.
   
2. Enable analytics and visualizations of the data via Odyssey’s Analytics platform; providing insights into the operations across your mini-grid sites or solar home system installations; and joined with other data on the Odyssey platform.
3. Sharing operating data with other users of the Odyssey platform, such as investors or financing program administrators.
   
1. When you share, what you share, and who you share with, is entirely up to you and controllable via the Odyssey Project Sharing User Interface. 

Integration Set-Up

FIELD NAME	DESCRIPTION	NOTES
ID	Unique ID for the payment
TIMESTAMP	Date and time for the reading	Required Time of payment in UTC timezone using ISO 8601 format yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'
PAYMENT_AMOUNT	Amount paid	Required
PAYMENT_CURRENCY	The currency of the transaction	Required
TRANSACTION_TYPE	Possible values: FULL_PAYMENT, INSTALLMENT_PAYMENT, NON_CONTRACT_PAYMENT, DISCOUNT, REVERSAL, ENERGY_CREDIT	Required
TRANSACTION_CHARGES	Charges associated with the transaction	Not Required
REFERENCE_ID	Payment reference ID	Not Required
CUSTOMER_ID	The customer ID of the user of the device (SHS device or mini-grid meter). This may be required by the financing organization in order to verify the sale.	Required
METER_ID	This is the serial number of the stand alone solar system The system serial number will serve as the primary identifier in this program. Required – For remote verification, this must match the external_id value entered in the connections section of the project. Learn more about verification here: https://help.odysseyenergysolutions.com/portal/en/kb/articles/submit-remote-verifie#Complete_Remote_Verification	Required
CUSTOMER_NAME	Name of the customer	Required
CUSTOMER_PHONE	Phone number of the user of the device	Not Required Example : +234xxxxxx
CUSTOMER_CATEGORY	Category of the customer who uses the property applicable Required Description device. Dependent on the provider.	Example values are Public, Prepaid, Residential, Commercial, Business, etc.
FINANCING_ID	ID specific to the financing provider or program.	Not Requiried
AGENT_ID	The agent facilitating the transaction, such as a sales person's name	Not Requiried
LATITUDE	Latitude of the location of the device	Not Requiried
LONGITUDE	Longitude of the location of the device	Not Requiried
UTILITY_ID	A unique ID for utility	Not Requiried
FAILED_BATTERY_CAPACITY_COUNT	This field will track the number of instances where batteries fail to reach their capacity limit, a crucial metric for understanding payment and operational efficiency.	Not Requiried
ACCOUNT_TYPE	This is the customer type	Not Requiried
STATUS		Not Requiried
NOTES	Any other notes you want to add	Not Requiried