Avoiding Disasters with fileSMART!

Published on September 26,2011 10:57 pm Download or Email - 0 comments

Do you have a disaster recovery plan? How would you run your business if you suddenly lost all of your management agreements, leases, and condition reports as a result of something you had no control of? This could have happened during the 2011 flood disaster in Queensland to First National Oxley, except for the one thing that saved them – they were a fileSMART user!

 

Picture this scenario; you’re a Real Estate business managing 400 residential properties. Your office is located in Brisbane during the 2011 flood disaster. Every paper file in the office is under water and completely destroyed

 

This was an unfortunate reality for many real estate business owners in Queensland including Geoff Hawker, principal of Oxley First National. Fortunately for Geoff and the team at Oxley First National though, they use fileSMART. 

 

“If it wasn’t for our use of fileSMART over the period of the last five years I believe the recent floods, where 2.7 metres of water entered our office, it would have been impossible to reconstruct all our files”.  

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fileSMART is Rockend’s electronic document management system that enables the scanning, electronic filing and fast search and retrieval of documents. It is tailored specifically to real estate offices to assist their property management, sales and general accounts departments. It also offers a secure, centralised location to store electronic documents safely with virtually unlimited filing capacity, protecting your most valuable asset – your rent roll.A special feature of this system that other document management systems do not have is its ability to ‘talk’ to your trust accounting software for reduced data entry, greater accuracy and fast search and retrieval.

 

“We were able to print out all documents that we required because we had diligently scanned them into fileSMART. Without management agreements, tenancy leases or entry condition reports it would be next to impossible to effectively run an office”. 

 

Oxley First National’s use of fileSMART also ensured limited downtime and continuity of service to their clients. Geoff explains, “We were back in business as soon as soon as the water cleared from the office thanks to our ability to retrieve documents from fileSMART”. 

 

As well as offering peace of mind by storing electronic copies of all your paper files, the fileSMART system also gives you the ability to automatically collate and send your owners statements with attached invoices, saving you hours of staff time sorting, collating and attaching landlord statements each month.

 

 

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