The document discusses five alternatives to manually keying in utility bills: 1) Direct bills from vendors in flat file or EDI format, 2) Optical character recognition of paper bills, 3) Screen scraping data from vendor websites, 4) Outsourcing bill processing, and 5) Investing in a utility bill and energy management system like EnergyCAP. It provides considerations for each alternative and notes that EnergyCAP has over 30 years of experience in bill processing, energy reporting and analytics for organizations with many utility bills.