Steve Hall | Implementation Manager

Published in A*QUA Issue 004, December 2010

Included in this edition of our A*QUA newsletter, you will find a variety of checklists of things to do, warnings, important reminders and important year-end advice. I will attempt to avoid repeating that which you have already been reminded of, and instead offer a few additional insights and year-end reflections.

Ironically, this time of year comes around every year, and every year we find ourselves less prepared for it than we had planned. Inevitably, every year we vow to do better next year. Well it’s not too late, yet. You may have just enough time to take care of those last-minute transactions and adjustment to your finances to put yourself in the best position for income tax purposes. There are many creative, smart strategies that can be used to save you money now and in the future.

Read more: Year-End Reflections

Steve Hall | Implementation Manager

Included in this edition of our A*QUA newsletter, you will find a variety of important reminders, warnings, and advice regarding year-end. I will attempt to avoid repeating that which you have already been reminded of, and instead offer a few additional insights and year end reflections.

This time of year comes around every year, and every year we find ourselves less prepared for it than we had planned. Inevitably, every year we vow to do better next year. Well, it’s not too late. You may have just enough time to take care of those last minute transactions and adjustment to your finances to put yourself in the best position for income tax purposes. There are many creative, smart strategies that can be used to save you money now and in the future.

Read more: The End is Nigh

By Mike Speights

With everything that has happened in our market in the last few years, dealers have found themselves looking for ways to save money, streamline their business and improve the processes involved in contracting a deal and, more importantly, eliminate any chance for errors.

We have all heard the stories of contracts that were void due to misprinting. We have all had issues with outdated contracts or incorrect non-compliant forms. We have all seen wasted forms when they misprint or a when a deal has to change. Add to this, the disposing of obsolete contracts when a minor change has been made and fines that dealers have to face when these mistakes are made. It starts to make sense that there has to be a better way to contract a customer and complete a deal. The answer is AutoStar’s plain paper laser forms.

Read more: The Benefits of Plain Paper Documents

By Blaine Morgan

In the last newsletter, I described how CollectorPro can make you more money by creating accountability for your collectors when making the contacts necessary to get the payments from the customer. But what about when the collector gets a customer willing to make a payment while they are on the phone? How does your collections department currently handle this scenario? With the integration of PortalPay with the AutoStar Fusion and CollectorPro systems we have made it easy for any collector to take these payments immediately and schedule future payments that will automatically be debited to the customer’s ACH or credit card account. The benefit of this is that you do not have to pay someone to contact or take that payment in the future.

Read more: Tech Corner: Making CollectorPro and Portal”Pay”