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Overview of new features on Universal
| Update Coming Soon - Early 2012 |
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- QR Codes - Display QR codes on brochures,
websites, property full details and email templates
- QR mobile integration
- Integrated Twitter functionality
- Extra functionality for tenant
receipts/remittance
- Insert a map for printing on
brochures/window cards
- Deposits updates
- Upload additional PDF documents
- Email from the tenancies screen to multiple
contacts
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| Mapping update - January 2012 |
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The maps used on the full details for all customers property
searches have been updated with improved controls. The update allows
for intergrated Google Street View within the full details. We have
also optmised the loading time of the full details page.
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| Update (Build 220) - November 2011 |
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- Board Management screen - record and order boards
- Document Store - attach documents to properties, people, valuations and tenancies.
- Free upload to Mouseprice website (Contact Thesaurus Technology to opt out)
- Address information recorded, used for mail merge tags and portal upload
- Images added for users and people
- Print user images in documents and send in emails
- KPI chart filters for sales and rentals
- TDS export facility
- Email Vendors and Landlords from the property list section
- Price change report added
- Email templates improvements
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| Update (Build 210) - June 2011 |
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- Free mobile property search for all customers, like an app but can be viewed on all smart phones
- Click here for more details
- Export appointments and contacts to Outlook
- As you type spellchecker
- Custom diary appointments
- Void partial rent collections
- Enhanced Universal Anywhere helper for printing
and adding images.
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| Update (Build 197) - November 2010 |
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- Word 2010 compatibility enhancements
- Filter Landlords Statements by Property
- Set commission as transferred from Client Accounts to Business Accounts
- Hold and return Landlords float
- Email templates added for matching emails
- Generated documents carried over for renewed tenancies
- Print bulk rent collections
- Tasks added to popup reminders
- Email direct from appointment screen
- Email references for applicants and tenants
- Set references and guarantor as required, reminders added
- Diary and history performance updates
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| Update (Build 192) - June 2010 |
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- Reminders Performance Improved
- Added template to set reminders on a user by user basis
- Matching updated to include match on exact bedrooms, exclude already viewed and expand match price
- Checklists added to new tab on property, applicant and tenancy
- Printing added for checklists
- Bulk emailing added to Valuations
- Email templates and Bulk emailing added to Other Contacts
- Memory Management and performance updates
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| Update (Build 180) - March 2010 |
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New fully customisable checklist feature for Properties, Applicants and Tenancies
- Rent Source of funds added to handle rent coming from multiple sources
- Commercial EPC's added
- Access levels updated to stop users sending emails and texts
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| Update (Build 168) - October 2009 |
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- Windows 7 is the latest operating system available from
Microsoft, released in the UK on 22nd October 2009
- Universal is now fully compatible with Windows 7
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| Update (Build 162) - 4 August 2009 |
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- Street view added
- Click here
for further details on Street view
- Diary and
Reminders performance improvements
- Multiple email addresses
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Property Search enhancements
- Full details tab and scroll added
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Separate email body and footer for sales and rentals
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| Update (Build 156) - 27 April 2009 |
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- Full Details screen updated
- Under referencing check box added to Applicants
- Applicants under referencing reminder added
- Supplier Credits added (option to select credit on enter agent bills)
- Pay Bills - Deduct Supplier Credits form bill payment
- Global Key Management screen added
- Negotiator dropdown added to property matching
- Exclude Applicants Under Referencing added to property matching (rentals only)
- Access levels - Option to stop users updating and deleting historic notes
- Record user and date when receive or make payments
- End time and large notes field added to tasks
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| Update (Build 151) - 23 March 2009 |
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- Add Videos to your property search using Youtube
- Upload videos to Youtube and add the link into the
Properties extra media
section on the Advertising Tab
- Click on the YouTube Button and paste the Youtube
URL
- The Video will show on your website and be
embedded with your company branding
- Click here for further details on this new feature
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| Update (Build 149) - 20 February 2009 |
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Time added to Tasks
- Valuation Source added to KPI charts
- Emailing added to pay landlord, invoices and rent
collections
- Sms rent reminder added to Rent collection
- Sync processing optimised
- Withdrawn Rentals Type added
- Income and Expenditure graph added to Account
Summary
- Updated sales offers and invoices to
Datagrids
- Balance date added to Statement Balances tab
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| Update (Build 148) - 26 January 09 |
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- Periodic Tenancies
- Reports added including:
- Landlord Financial (section 19) Report
- Received Payments Report
- Payments Made Report
- Detailed Invoice and Bill reports Report
- Deposit Report
- Property Maintenance Report
- Profit and Loss Report added to Account Summary
- Improvements made to Property Maintenance
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| Update (Build 140) - 01 December 08 |
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- Bulk Statement Emailing and printing added
- Single Statement emailing added
- Bulk Receive Rent
- Bulk Pay Landlords
- Add Commission Invoice to Landlord/Tenant Bills
- Added Scottish EPC's
- Pay Applicants/Other contacts
- Invoice and add credit notes for Other Contacts
- Landlord and Tenant email templates added
- Landlord and Tenant Bulk email added
- Rent held and Deposits held added to Accounts Summary Report
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| Update (Build 137) - 28 October 08 |
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- Property Maintenance Log added to Rentals Management
- Property Maintenance Reminders added
- Property Maintenance Tab added to property and supplier screens
- Print Remittance after Paying Landlord
- Vat tags added to statements and remittance for invoices
- Property Portal Upload Information / Order screen added
- None UK BER certificate processing added
- #prompt-ten-address# tag added, Asks which tenant address you want to use.
- Forwarding Address added to Tenant
- Tenancy, popup screen added when post rent and invoices
- Task List printing added
- Printing added for landlords to pay and tenants to pay
- General Fixes and improvements
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| Update (Build 133) - 01 October 08 |
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- Credit Notes added to Rentals Management
- Pie Charts added to KPI charts for Applicant, Vendor and landlord Source
- Printing added to Tasks
- Key Management added to Property screen.
- General Fixes and improvements.
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| Update (Build 130) - 12 September 08 |
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- Sync processing optimised
- KPI charts improved, added to
Reports menu
- Rentals Management improvements
and fixes
- General improvements and fixes
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| Update (Build 127) - 15 August 08 |
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- Rentals Management
Released. Please phone Thesaurus Technology on 0845
83 82 666 for more details or to Upgrade.
- Added Account Summary and Report
screen
- Online Landlord Statements
implemented
- General improvements and fixes
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| Update (Build 125) - 01 August 08 |
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- Rentals Management
Released. Please phone Thesaurus Technology on 0845
83 82 666 for more details or to Upgrade.
- Create Invoices, Rent Collections and Bills
- Manage Deposits
- Receive
Payments
- Pay Landlords
- Reconcile Bank Accounts
- Generate Statements
- Plus many more features
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| Update (Build 120) - 10 July 08 |
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- Rentals Management Beta version 2
Released. Please phone Thesaurus Technology on 0845
83 82 666 for more details.
- Property Search Local Map links
changed from Multi Map to Microsoft Virtual Earth
for better quality maps and no adverts.
- Applicant
filter enhanced to include features.
- Reliability and
performance updates.
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| Update (Build 116) - 01 June 08 |
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- New improved Reminders Screen added.
- Gas Safety Certificate, Electrical Safety
Certificate, PAT Safety Certificate and Fire Safety Certificate
Tasks added, Reminder added for each.
- Meter Readings Tab Added for Rental
Properties
- Comparables screen added.
- Features added to Valuations, copied
to property when valuation won.
- Landlord Follow-up added to Reminders.
- Performance improvements for Windows
Vista.
- Added Rentals Valuations, task and navigator
buttons.
- Added Navigator Screen.
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| Update (Build 106) - 19 April 08 |
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- User Access control added to allow/disallow
users to take properties off the market.
- HIPs tab enabled for rental properties.
- Task option moved from Rentals menu
to Tools menu.
- Negotiator added to Correspondence reports.
- Reliability and performance updates.
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| Update (Build 105) - 19 January 08 |
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- Postcode lookup address search added.
- People history, changed to datagrid, popup
added for addition of notes.
- Task tab added to people and property screens.
- Reliability and performance updates.
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| Update (Build 101) - 01 January 08 |
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- New Icons added to menus and forms.
- Appointment History tab added.
- New Appointments and Updated Appointments
added to negotiator reports.
- Reliability and performance updates.
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| Web Reports (Build 97) - 10 December
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- New Web Reports - Let your Vendors
and Landlords login to your website to view reports.
- Reports on viewings, offers, marketing plus
more.
- Output user defined messages to your vendors
and landlords to view online.
- Embedded into your website in the same way
as the Universal property search.
- Vendors and Landlords login using their
email address and web password set on the summary screen.
- View the reports offline in the web reports
viewer by selecting Tools/Web Report Viewer.
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| Google map coordinate finder (Build 91)
- 15 November 07 |
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- The new Google map coordinate finder allows
you to pinpoint the exact location of the property.
- Enter the properties address and click on
the Find Coordinates button on the property summary screen.
- Drag and drop the pointer on the Google
map to select the exact location of the property, click save
to save the coordinates.
- International properties can now be searched
for using the Geosearch.
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| Update (Build 88) - 29 October 07 |
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- Reliability improvements
- Database updates
- Visual and usability improvements made to
lists.
- Postcode Lookup facility added to Quick
add - people screens.
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| Hips (Build 83) - 15 September 07 |
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- Security and reliability improvements
- Mail merge and report enhancements
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| Postcode Lookup Software (Build 82) -
15 August 07 |
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- Thesaurus Technology have released cost
effective postcode lookup software
- Only £5 per user per month *
- Quarterly Updates
- 80% reduction of keystrokes entering addresses
- Eliminate spelling mistakes
- Save hours of wasted time & boost productivity
- To order please call Thesaurus Technology
on 0845 83 82 666
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| Hips (Build 81) - 01 July 07 |
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- Build 81 includes improvements and enhancements
to the EPC processing
- Improvements have also been made to the
Email template section
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| EPC - Energy Performance Certificate (Build 79)
- 01 June 07 |
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- Generate your own Energy Performance Certificates
- All you need to do is simply enter the numbers
and the charts are automatically generated for you.
- Uploads to your own website and to any property
portals.
- Generate the EPC into documents/brochures.
- Simply access this new feature by selecting
the property and clicking on the new 'HIPS' tab along the top.
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| Email Templates (Build 79) - 01 March
07 |
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- Generate emails from user defined templates
- Use mail merge tags to customise the content
of the emails
- Refer customers to HIPs companies with new
templates
- Use your own branding by adding your own
company colours and logos to emails.
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