Tenant Email Reminder Off Option

Prior to now there was no option to turn off automatic email notifications if you had a tenant whom you did not want email reminders delivered. Now, you have this option. You may turn off email notifications to individual tenants using the new check box on the Lease screen. This was suggested by a property manager who had outside arrangements with a particular tenant regarding payments. They did not want this tenant to receive the automatic system generated rent reminders.

Late Fee Options Added

Prior to now, our late fee was based on a per day basis only. Now, the property manager may set either a flat fee or per day rental late fee. This option was added to accommodate a property manager who charged a flat fee late fee rather than a per date late fee. This option is now present on the Lease screen. Enter the late fee desired then select 'Flat Fee' or 'Per Day'.

Patent Pending Lead Process

Yesterday our patent application was accepted by the US Patent Office regarding our innovative tenant and owner lead generating method. This method guarantees you and your clients will receive the most quality leads possible. Now that we have the patent pending status deployment of the process is begining. It is first being deployed to those currently using Internet Property Manager software. If you are interested in hosting this process on your own web site or would like more information contact our office directly.

Rent receipt branding

This is an enhancement to the rent receipt system which emails property owners and tenants when payments are received. The enhancement is that emails will be branded with your company logo and your custom web site logon page link rather than the Internet Property Manager logo and web site links. This will keep your clients more engaged with your web site for current information regarding your business.

New Employee Transaction Auditing and Page Security

This is an enhancement to IPM software employee transaction auditing. Whenever one of your employees make changes to information a log is archived linking the employee to the specific transaction. This enhancement is a result of a customer request to be able to track which employees were making changes to the database. You may add as many employees as you need and each employee will have their own logon credentials. Page security is also available if you want to restrict certain employees from viewing or updating certain information. For example if you want to restrict only one employee to be able to enter rent payments. Internet Property Manager Develops Property Management Software and innovative internet marketing strategies. InternetPropertyManager.com

IPM Landlord Network in Pilot Testing

The 'IPM Landlord Network' has been rolled out and we are signing pilot landlords to test the system. This system is designed to fill vacancies fast by allowing landlords access to tenant leads that have applied for similar properties which are already occupied. The system is available in two of our software editions, Property Manager Edition and Landlord Edition. If you are interested in participating in this pilot project please contact Tim and request IPM Landlord Network access.

Congratulations: MediaRealty

MediaRealty signed a one year Exclusive Property Management AND one year Exclusive Lease agreement for a lead generated from their IPM Network site. This single signing will generate revenue that pays for their entire year of IPM Network membership, software and marketing within the first month of management.

Exclusive IPM Network Membership sites are $250 for the first year which includes setup, optomization, integration and IPM Property Management Software licensing.

Congratulations to MediaRealty!

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NEW – Employee Logons

IPM Develops Property Management Software and innovative internet marketing strategies including the IPM Property Manager Network. – IPM added the capability for you to assign employee logons. In addition, page security is being added so you can control what each employee is able to view and/or update on the system. Coming soon – and interface for you to manage your employee logons and security.

Better Logon Feedback

IPM Developes Property Management Software and innovative internet marketing strategies including the IPM Property Manager Network. - We have deployed a new screen overlay when you first log in that displays while your user credentials are verified by our servers. Depending on network traffic it may take a few seconds for you to be authenticated and allowed into the system. We did not want people to mistake this short delay for inactivity. Now when this authentication process is occuring the entire screen is overlayed with a semi transparent friendly message that says your user credentials are being verified.

Automated Password Reset

If you ever forget your password or logon credentials there is a question mark to the right of where you logon. Click this question mark link and enter your email address. We cannot give out your password but our system will automatically reset it and email your logon credentials to your email address within just a few minutes. This works for anyone that uses IPM Software including Property Managers, Property Owners, Tenants and Contractors.

IPM - Internet Property Manager Software - New syndication link

IPM - Internet Property Manager Software - To help make syndicating vacant rentals more efficient I have added a new link to the Vacancies Listing page at the far right of each property listed. This means you no longer need to log out to get the formatted CraigsList, BackPage, UIPost and other site HTML. From the Vacancies page, you can either pick out the specific property you need to syndicate, or you can start at the top of your list and simply work your way down quickly syndicating every vacancy listing at one time.

Clearer focus for InternetPropertyManager.com site

Clear focus to InternetPropertyManager.com. The deployment of our first two new IPM Network web sites which are focused on the business of property management and attracting localized leads, this is a huge burden off of our single site InternetPropertyManager.com which was serving way too many roles as advertising listings, collecting leads promoting IPM software and Promoting IPM Network (everything). With the deployment of our first two new localized sites, InternetPropertyManager.com is undergoing a much needed face lift so that it is focused entirely on advertising our software and growing localized network of independent sites. This should also help our rankings in major search engines given a more vertical market approach to each site.

New Toll Free Support Phone Number (888)298-3613

This weekend our new Toll Free Phone number was turned on. As the IPM Network will be deployed soon this toll free number is part of its infrastructure.

New Generic Online Payment System

We have taken the online credit card payment system using PayPal and created a generic version of this for property managers to use for any service they provide. This allows you to use major credit cards, PayPal accounts or e-payments for any service you provide. This is separate from the online payment system Tenants use to pay rent. The payments made with this new system are not captured in the general ledger system because they are not rent payments. For example, if you charge a client for a trip you make that has nothing to do with your property management, you could use this system to accept instant credit card payments...

Weekly Status Report Branding

Weekly Status reports are automatically generated and emailed to each owner Monday morning. Startging next Monday these reports will be branded with your company logo and links. The Internet Property Manager logo and links have been replaced with yours. Your clients will be directed back to your custom logon screen.

Performance Improvement

This week I deployed a new technology on the web site to improve performance. After you log on and begin to navigate the pages you will notice the improvement. Searches and sorting no longer require the entire page to refresh. That action took several seconds. Now the sorts and searches do not require the page to refresh and are much faster and smoother.

New! Text Messaging Notifications to your cell phone

This feature is turned on by entering a Cell Phone number in your Property Manager Profile. If there is not a Cell Phone listed in your profile text messages are not sent. This is a great feature if you are frequently out of the office or will be away from your computer for an extended period of time. Or perhaps if you want an employee to be on-call with regard to filling vacancies, enter their cell phone number. Whenever someone responds to your online listing and you have your cell phone entered in your profile, you will receive a short text message containing the persons Name, Phone number, Rental Unit they applied for and Amount of Cash they have Available. Currently this feature only exists for Online Call-Back Requests. Although if anyone wants it could also be applied to other functions such as when payments are made? If you receive emails on your cellular device already this feature may not be needed. However, if you want to stay connected without having to constantly check emails or your web site this may be a great tool. All of the major carriers are supported including T-Mobile, Virgin, Cingular, Sprint, Verizon, Nextel. If you use another carrier and would like this feature please let me know. This may be a value added feature you promote to property owners that they will receive a text when payments are made?

Branding - Enhancement to the Online Call-Back Request System

When someone responds to your online rental/sales listings the email notifications sent out (to you, the owner, and applicant) from now on will be ‘branded’ as if they are being sent directly from your company web site rather than IPM. The Email will have your logo at the top and contact information including phone number and contact person at the bottom. The links contained in the email will return to your company home page rather than the IPM home page. Links to your company rental and sales listings on IPM will remain on the email. However, rather than going to the full list of IPM listings the links will go to your 'branded' IPM pages that also contain your logo and information and only the listings you have posted. This means applicants and owners are constantly being pushed to pages that are either part of your existing web site or pages that are 'branded' in a way that they look like yours.

Integrate Client Portals into your existing company web site

New IPM capability: Add the Complete Property Owner, Tenant and Management Web Portals of IPM seamlessly into to your Existing company web site. This is a Key step in turning IPM into a customized set of component that Property Managers/Realty firms can add to their existing web site. Rather than diverting clients to IPM, send them to your existing company web site (you are likely doing that already). When they log on from your site (live links for each of you below) they enter the IPM client portals. Upon exiting they are returned to your company web site. Building on this concept I talked with Lavonne and she had a brilliant idea that will soon be enabled. She requested that the email notification system which sends emails to applicants / owners / tenants / etc on your behalf highlights your company. So instead of IPM logos and contact information it will be replaced with your logo and contact information. I think that is a Great idea and would make the software much more marketable to firms. Your links are live now so feel free to give them a try with any of your current client logons (owners or tenants, anyone you want).

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