How Choice Digital and Enertia Deliver Digital Royalty Payments

For over 40 years, Enertia Software has been the operating backbone for upstream oil and gas companies, running the accounting, land, and production systems that keep operators paying their bills, partners, and royalty owners on time. 

However, most operators still send payments the same way they did decades ago: by check. But checks get lost, they’re cashed late, and they cost money to print, mail, and reconcile. Plus, they give mineral and royalty owners limited choice in how they'd like to be paid.

Offering prepaid cards, ACH, and several digital options is exactly the gap Choice Digital and Enertia are closing together.

"The relationship with royalty owners runs on trust, and how you pay them is part of it. We built this partnership so operators can strengthen that trust instead of leaving it to chance with paper checks."

- Judd Moritz, Chief Customer Officer, Choice Digital

Enertia's ERP already handles the hard part: calculating who's owed what, when, and why. Now, as digital payments become the expectation, Enertia can offer a modern way to get money into owners' hands — disbursing payments via prepaid cards, ACH, and other electronic rails, with real-time visibility into the status of every payment.

And the best part is that both platforms share data directly, so royalty and revenue payment information already sitting in Enertia's system can be routed straight into Choice Digital's disbursement engine. There's no workflow rebuild or duplicate data entry. The integration is designed to sit on top of what operators are already doing in Enertia today.

For the roughly 200 upstream operators running on Enertia, this partnership means:

• Fewer checks, less overhead: Every payment moved to ACH or prepaid card is one less check to print, mail, track down, or reissue.

• Faster payments, happier owners: Royalty owners get paid more quickly, reducing delayed or lost payments and improving satisfaction. 

• Let recipients choose their payment method: Not every royalty owner wants the same thing. Giving owners digital payment options — instead of a one-size-fits-all check — reduces the calls, complaints, and "where's my check" tickets to owner relations.

• A recurring payout platform built for the job: Royalty payments aren't one-off transactions; they run month after month, owner after owner. ChoiceWallet was built around that kind of recurring, high-volume disbursement, not adapted from a generic one-time payment tool.

• No new system to learn: Because the integration lives underneath Enertia's existing ERP, revenue accounting and owner relations teams keep working in the platform they already know.

• Real-time reconciliation: Instead of waiting on bank statements to confirm a check cleared, teams get visibility into payment status as it happens.

In an industry where trust between operators and the owners they pay is everything, this is more than an operational win.

"Enertia is committed to providing our customers with convenient, flexible royalty payment options. Through Choice Digital, we’re expanding those options with prepaid debit card payments, giving royalty owners faster access to their funds while reducing the costs and administrative burden associated with paper checks."

- Bill Lane, VP Business Development, Enertia

Oil and gas revenue accounting isn't forgiving of guesswork. Royalty payments affect legal obligations, owner relationships, and audit trails that must hold up over time. That's exactly why this partnership was built the way it was: instead of asking operators to rip out and replace their ERP, Choice Digital plugs directly into the system of record they already trust.

If you're running Enertia and want to see what modern royalty disbursement looks like inside your existing workflow, book a strategy session with our team here.

P.S. If you’re coming to the Enertia User Conference in Nashville on September 3-4, we’d love to connect and discuss what modern owner payments look like. Reach out to ken.cowan@cdco.io.