As a building certification company, we know it can be difficult for you to stay on top of everything. What with chasing up clients for information, obtaining permits and staying current with legislation, it's often hard to keep your head above water. And that's all BEFORE you begin working on a job or managing the approvals process. What if there was a way to work more efficiently and increase profitability? As the leader in integrated building certification software, we are happy to share with you, our 12 reasons why Visual Approvals will equip your business to excel.
12 Reasons:
- Reduce administrative time and improve productivity by up to 26%
- Moving from manual office process to an electronic paperless office reduces cost, improves productivity, reduces the likelihood of certification errors and increases savings. These benefits combine to counteract the 'leaky bucket' effect that plagues many certification companies - which is when lots of little things add up to drain huge amounts of money from your bottom line.
- Keep track of outstanding paperwork for every stage of the approval process
- With our inbuilt electronic checklist functionality, you have the ability to track all outstanding documentation - not just a word document.
- Store, stamp, distribute and annotate plans electronically
- Avoid the laborious task of manually stamping and signing multiple sets of plans for each job. Our integrated plan functionality manages all of this and measures true to scale.
- Create reminders for anyone involved in the job
- Be reminded of outstanding documentation with automatic reminders which can be customised as "pop-ups" or work lists. Your choice made easy with Visual Approvals.
- Centralise all job data including photos, emails and letters providing instant access to all staff
- Complete transparency and visibility across all jobs with our powerful records management
- Reduce errors with your own fully electronic checklists for the approval and inspection process
- Enjoy the flexibility of customising your own electronic checklists dependent on the type of job and work you do.
- Easily track client communications on every job
- Improve your business interactions and build more meaningful customer relationships with our purpose built CRM.
- Manage invoices, payments and expenses with our completely integrated accounting package
- Your accounting staff work in the same system as the rest of your team. One integrated system ensures the data flows from the beginning to the end of the job without any disconnects between departments.
- Utilise our Inspection Application for iPads to increase efficiencies on site
- Give your inspectors the Visual Approvals advantage with electronic onsite inspections using any mobile device running IOS, Android or Windows Operating Systems. Instant access to notes, plans and checklists from any location and you don't even need an internet connection!
- Connect with your Clients through the Client Portal
- An online portal where your clients view their open jobs, upload documentation, provide feedback or request a quote.
- Real-time Management Dashboards
- Do you spend hours collating data each month to see who your best performers are? Who issues the most approvals? What jobs have unpaid invoices? Visual Approvals Dashboards deliver real-time business intelligence to you every day so you can see how your business is performing while identifying opportunities for improvement.
- All in one 'Self-Service web portal reducing your time fielding questions from your team
- All Visual Approval users have access to our online Knowledge Base where they can easily find answers to frequently asked questions through articles, short training videos and posts. Our knowledge base provides the answers you need, quickly and without making a phone call. The perfect solution for new staff and keeping your VA champion's up to date with the latest release of features.
If these "12 reasons why" have piqued your interest, we would love to hear from you. Learn More!