May 2010            

                                                       DOMICO 7-Release Notes

Auction ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­


The eagerly anticipated DOMICO Auction Module provides these functions to make scheduling
and managing auctions easy:

    • Auction place and time scheduling and management in a dedicated Auction.
    • Selective assignment to Auction from among eligible customers.
    • Public Notice: Statement of customer names, unit numbers, description of goods, Auction
      place and time, issued by mail or email to newspaper of choice. A default Public Letter
      template will be provided with the DOMICO 7 software update.
    • Customer Notice (of Auction) letter generation and reporting.
    • Report filters: Print mailing labels, customer histories, customer notes, rent roll detail, and
      collection report filtered for customers assigned to Auction.
    • eDOMICO online payment system administrators can exercise further control by
      choosing to prevent online payments made by customers assigned to Auction as of X
      numbers of days before the Auction date.

      Auction configuration and management procedures will be available in the Owner Manual and 
                                                                       User Manual

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      Enhancements to Reports

      Marketing Studies

      When scheduled for a monthly Report Batch, display only marketing information from previous month

      Customer Directory

      Now includes:

      Column for email address; Filter for customer with/without email, email letters checked, assigned to auction, and for customer with auction notice printed; Print mailing labels format; Excel export refined

      Cash Posting Report

      Export format available for Yardi

      New Move in Report

      Now includes:

      Columns for email address, user ID; Rent totals; Sort by size code

      Print Customer notes

      Now includes:

      Time stamp; ‘Critical’ column replaced by User ID

                 

      Enhancements to Payments

      Email Receipts

      Option to send to customer email address at time of payment or receipt reprint. Requires MAPI-compliant email client, e.g. Microsoft Outlook, etc. (This is the same requirement for sending reports and letters by email.)

      Credit Card Info

      Option to delete for individual accounts in Payment menu; Global option to prevent saving credit card info for all but payment plan accounts; Payment Plan: possible to save credit card info without posting payment

      PPI Pay Mover

      Payer name sent with transaction for inclusion on Pay Mover report.

      ACH

      Payment plan option for automatic checking account transfer improved (PPI only; provided for Global East and FDMS processors only; PPI does not provide this solution to account holders in Canada)

      Pin Debit

      PPI only; provided for Global East and FDMS processors only; enabled with use of Verifone PIN Pad and card swipe device provided by PPI. One time fee payable to DOMICO for $250 per pin debit-enabled site; without PPI pin debit interface, pin debit transaction are entered by selecting Debit from credit card type dropdown, and entering approval code.



      Enhancements to Customer Action­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­

      Move-out

      Prompts for user input before processing move-out to prevent move-out of incorrect unit on multi-unit account

      Vacated Account Add Move-in

      Enables use of original customer info and history for returning customers.

      Customer Notes

      ‘…’ button changed to ‘Add Note’

      Customer Info

      ‘Third ID’ field available; ‘Lien Holder’ tab re-titled ‘Additional Information’ with the following modifications; Employer information; Lien Holder information; General description of Occupant’s property (for each unit); User prompted to enter email address if ‘Email Letters’ is checked, or uncheck ‘Email Letters’

      Enhancements to Letter Writer

      New Parameters - General:

      <MOST RECENT PAYMENT LESS TAX>

      Amount of most recent payment less tax

      <MOST RECENT PAYMENT TAX>

      Amount of most recent payment tax

      <THIRD ID>

      Third form of customer identification

      <ALTERNATE CELL PHONE>

      Alternate's cell phone number

      <ADMIN FEE CHARGED>

      Amount of last Admin Fee charged

      New Parameters - Auction:

      <AUCTION FEE>

      Amount of last Auction Fee charged

      <AUCTION LOCATION>

      Location of scheduled Auction

      <AUCTION ADDRESS LINE 1>  

      Address Line 1 of scheduled Auction

      <AUCTION ADDRESS LINE 2>  

      Address Line 2 of scheduled Auction

      <AUCTION CITY>

      City of scheduled Auction

      <AUCTION STATE>

      State of scheduled Auction

      <AUCTION ZIP>

      Zip Code of scheduled Auction

      <AUCTION DATE>

      Date of scheduled Auction

      <AUCTION TIME>

      Time of scheduled Auction

      <AUCTION FIRST PUBLISH DATE>

      Public Notice first publish date

      <AUCTION SECOND PUBLISH DATE>

      Public Notice second publish date

      <AUCTION CORPORATE EMAIL>

      Corporate email to send Public Notice

      <PUBLIC NOTICE LIEN LISTING>

      Public Notice listing of customer's goods

      <PUBLIC NOTICE LIEN LISTING CUSTOMERS ONLY>

      Public Notice listing of customer name and unit

      <PUBLIC NOTICE LIEN LISTING PLUS ADDRESS>

      Public Notice listing of customer's goods (including customer address)

      <PUBLIC NOTICE LIEN LISTING PLUS ALL ADDRESSES>

      Public Notice listing of customer's goods (including customer and alternate contact addresses)

      <SITE NEWSPAPER ADDRESS EMAIL>

      Site Newspaper's email address

                                                                                                                                   

        New Parameters - Employer:

      <EMPLOYER ADDRESS LINE 1>

      Employer's address line 1

      <EMPLOYER ADDRESS LINE 2>

      Employer's address line 2

      <EMPLOYER ADDRESS CITY>

      Employer's address city

      <EMPLOYER ADDRESS STATE>

      Employer's address state

      <EMPLOYER ADDRESS ZIP>

      Employer's address zip code

      <EMPLOYER ADDRESS PHONE>

      Employer's address telephone

      New Parameters - Lien Holder:

      <LIEN HOLDER ADDRESS LINE 1>

      Lien Holder address line 1

      <LIEN HOLDER ADDRESS LINE 2>

      Lien Holder address line 2

      <LIEN HOLDER ADDRESS CITY>

      Lien Holder address city

      <LIEN HOLDER ADDRESS STATE>

      Lien Holder address state

      <LIEN HOLDER ADDRESS ZIP>

      Lien Holder address zip code

      <LIEN HOLDER OTHER INFO>

      Lien Holder other information

      Enhancements to Site Health

                 

      Add Note

      No longer returns error

      Corrections to Reports

      Facility Summary

      Rent collections performance calculation corrected

      Insurance Transmittal Report  

      Multi-unit transfer credit no longer causes duplicate insurance  credit

      Marketing Studies Report        

      Reservations no longer counted as move-in

      Rentals and Vacates by Size   

      No longer causes error in on demand batch

      Rent Roll- Units in Lien

      No longer omits units in delinquency step later than lien

      Corrections to Customer Action

      Change Due Day

      Insurance prorate corrected

      Net PTD

      No longer advanced by discount if previous month’s payment is still due

      Payment Reversal

      “System Reallocation” function improvements- now able to reverse old payments without first reversing most recent payment

      Corrections to Letter Writer

      <INVOICE BALANCE>

      Corrected for multiunit account

      <NEXT CHARGE AMOUNT>

      Corrected for multiunit accounts

      Tax exempt account

      The following parameters will not include tax charges:                                         

      <ACTUAL RENT RATE TAX>
             <ACTUAL RENT RATE PLUS TAX>
             <MONTHLY CHARGES

      Tax rounding

      Parameters round appropriately to match calculated charges