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Your Paperless Office: Five Great Reasons to Move Payments Online

Posted on 28. Apr, 2010 by Jim Semick.

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A single check seems small enough. But added up, the checks your property management company deposits or prints can ultimately bury your staff under a mound of paper. If you are on the way to a paperless office but haven’t yet tackled electronic payments for receivables and payables, you are paying more than you need to run your operation.

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Rent Week Pain Relief: What’s the Best Online Payment Solution?

Posted on 24. Mar, 2010 by Jim Semick.

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It’s rent week again, and all hands are on deck. If you’re like many other property management firms, you have an unwritten rule: no vacation during rent week. You realize that rent checks cost your company time and money with unnecessary handling, data entry, errors, staff frustration and other inefficiencies. Surely there has to be a better way.

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Seven Reasons Why Rent Checks Cost More than You Think

Posted on 11. Feb, 2010 by Jim Semick.

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More property management firms are discovering that they can save a significant amount of time and reduce headaches during rent week by moving their resident rent payments online using ACH (automated clearinghouse) and other electronic methods.

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Ditch That Rent Check: A World of Online Payment Options

Posted on 28. Jan, 2010 by Jim Semick.

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Sure, the lowly check will be with us for a while. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t help send checks the way of the dodo bird. According to a Federal Reserve System study, check usage is in steep decline, and checks now represent only 30 percent of all non-cash payments. Electronic payments are now the clear winner with consumers.