First tools come online for selected users
Tuesday, 7 October 2008
After weeks of additional coding, we're finally there: our first tools are ready to be given a glimpse of daylight, but only to a selected handful of users.
Portfolio Executive will ultimately offer a full suite of tools tailored to the needs of buy-to-let property investors and managers. We believe in innovation at every step, and so the first tools in our range have challenged conventional methods and redefined processes.
Our selected users will benefit from automatically generated tenancy documents, together with rent accounts and alerts. Previously, creating tenancy documents was a laborious process taking anything up to half an hour. Surprisingly, there were only a small handful of other sites that automatically created the documents -- and all of them left plenty to be desired.
What's so unique about our system is that it takes under a minute to set up a whole new tenancy, complete with alerts and rent accounts. We spent days looking at all of the data we needed to capture and redefining user interactions until we had stripped it down to the bare minimum.
We went from about 16 individual data fields to just four -- because we figured out innovative ways of extrapolating what the other 12 fields should be. There are also a few scenarios in which our data capture form dynamically changes itself in real time to account for what the user has entered, thereby ensuring the form is always 100% relevant to the user.
These first tools will stay accessible only to our selected user group until we are satisfied that any major bugs have been captured and we have had adequate opportunity to listen to feedback and make changes where necessary.
Portfolio Executive will ultimately offer a full suite of tools tailored to the needs of buy-to-let property investors and managers. We believe in innovation at every step, and so the first tools in our range have challenged conventional methods and redefined processes.
Our selected users will benefit from automatically generated tenancy documents, together with rent accounts and alerts. Previously, creating tenancy documents was a laborious process taking anything up to half an hour. Surprisingly, there were only a small handful of other sites that automatically created the documents -- and all of them left plenty to be desired.
What's so unique about our system is that it takes under a minute to set up a whole new tenancy, complete with alerts and rent accounts. We spent days looking at all of the data we needed to capture and redefining user interactions until we had stripped it down to the bare minimum.
We went from about 16 individual data fields to just four -- because we figured out innovative ways of extrapolating what the other 12 fields should be. There are also a few scenarios in which our data capture form dynamically changes itself in real time to account for what the user has entered, thereby ensuring the form is always 100% relevant to the user.
These first tools will stay accessible only to our selected user group until we are satisfied that any major bugs have been captured and we have had adequate opportunity to listen to feedback and make changes where necessary.
Labels: buy to let, hard at work, new features, private beta, property management
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