econveyancePro Updates

Good Morning,

DID YOU KNOW you can change the font or text size in your browser! This will change the way that you view web pages such as econveyancePro.

HOW TO CHANGE THE FONT SIZE OR TEXT SIZE IN FIREFOX BROWSER:

1. Click on Tools on the browser Menu Bar
2. Click on the Content Icon in the top menu bar
3. In the Fonts & Colors section select the font face and size that you prefer
4. Click OK and you will see a change in the font size on web pages

HOW TO CHANGE THE FONT SIZE OR TEXT SIZE IN INTERNET EXPLORER BROWSER:

1. Click on View on the browser Menu Bar.
2. Highlight Text Size with your mouse and notice that you now have 5 text size choices ranging from Largest to Smallest.
3. Click on the Size you Want and you will see a change in text size on web pages

UPDATES:

• For greater flexibility in dealing with addresses we have added a “copy address from property” link to the Buyer, Seller and Borrower screens. Clicking this link will copy the address from the first property to the Buyer, Seller or Borrower.
• Do you have to deal with family transfers? To simplify this we have added a Transaction Type of Family Transfer to a purchase file. If you have selected this transaction type, any charges flagged to be removed by the Buyer Lawyer/Notary will appear on the Buyer Statement of Adjustments tab.  If you prefer not to generate a Statement of Adjustments, an Order to Pay – Family Transfer document is available to you on a purchase file. This document contains all entries that appear on the Buyer Statement of Adjustments tab in accounting.
• All required fields are now clearly marked with a  red asterisk in edit mode
• When funds are due to clients, their full names, including middle names will now appear on the Order to Pay and Trust Rec

BUG FIXES:

• Periods have been added after the items in the Title drop down (eg. Mr. or Mrs.)
• When downloading documents, if you select the delete after download option, the screen will now refresh immediately to remove the documents
• On a sale file, the cost to obtain a tax search and a utility search will now reflect correctly on the order to pay
• Copying a project master file will now copy the notes as well
• You will no longer be prompted to save your changes when opening a new file after using the search feature on the lawyer/notary file list

If you have any questions or comments, please call us at the very helpful desk at 866.326.6839!

- Cathy G.

econveyancePro Updates

DID YOU KNOW that you can find and generate any document available in the system by using the search feature in the All Documents group? You no longer need to put documents into a group!

When you first access the Document Manager, the All Documents group is selected by default. To find any document do the following:

• Enter your search criteria into the search box located at the bottom of the Documents in Group table on the left hand side of the screen . Note: For a quick reference sheet on key search words click here. This quick reference sheet can be printed and utilized as an ongoing reference.
• Click the Search button or press your Enter key
• Only documents that match your search criteria will be displayed in the Documents in Group Table
• Select the documents you wish to generate and click the single arrow to the right to move these documents into the Selected Documents Table.

Note: You may find it more efficient to search in the All Documents group for lender documents rather than have your own group. The reason is that the All Documents group will always contain all available documents, including any new lender documents that we add to the system. Your own group will not.

UPDATES: 

• To faciliate quicker searching, the search box will now be open and available by default on the Documents In Group table in the Document Manager. Also, based on your feedback, the clear button has been changed to a search button. You can either click the search button or press enter to start the search. The contents of the search field will be deleted automatically when you change your group selection. 
• Many of our users indicated that they needed to be able to edit the way their company is described, ie. Barristers and Solicitors or Barrister and Solicitor. To accommodate this we have added a description field to the company profile. The contents of this description field are utilized in the applicant section of the land title documents. This description field will be completed for your firm by default however you can edit it by going to the profiles, company profile ink.

BUG FIXES:

• EFS Form C release will now pick up the middle name of individual charge holders 
• CTIC title insurance order no longer requires that you enter Canada as part of the civic address of the property
• You should no longer encounter problems when changing lawyers on a file
• BSOA no longer has a space before the description of each item

If you have any questions or comments, please call us at the very helpful desk at 866.326.6839!

- Cathy G.

OneMove is a success story with the Canadian Government

The National Research Council of Canada (NRC), through the Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP), has been very excited about helping OneMove create an electronic process to revolutionize the conveyance procedure within the lawyer/notary office.

See http://irap-pari.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/success/onemove_technologies_e.html

OneMove Technologies Inc. has designed the first ever web-based SaaS system that requires no investment from the user community. Nothing … no license fees…. no maintenance costs….. no upgrade costs. Users are provided the system on-demand from any location provided a PC and internet access is available.

A key objective of creating the econveyance platform, very much supported by NRC, was to enable all participants involved in a real estate transaction to reduce the carbon footprint by decreasing paper output. This is not just a noble cause but a collective imperative for future survival.

By moving towards a paperless process, and recognizing that some documents have to be printed, I have tried to predict the savings in terms of paper sheets (8.5” by 11”) that should have been occurred by the use of the econveyance system – for a typical buy/sell transaction:

Actions	Paper Savings Est. (sheets)
Realtor – Faxes Purchase and Sales Contract Realtor Instructions Econveyance platform allows electronic files to be forwarded and automatically created for lawyer/notary with all data robotically populated.	10 – Note this is to be implemented late 2009
Buyer lawyer/notary sends docs to seller lawyer/notary in triplicateLawyer/notary community would use document pick up option in econveyance and share the file. Seller lawyer/notary would only need to print 1 set of docs for client signatures	15
Report package created for buyerIn econveyance this data is shared	50
Mortgage Registered copy Report Delivered electronically via econveyance	10
Filing at Land Titles Office 2 copies sent to the LTO Electronic filing reduces copies	10
Total Savings:	85

Since April 2004 to Feb 2009, econveyance has completed approximately 70,000 transactions leading to a potential saving of approximately 5.95 million sheets of paper. This would make approximately 714 trees (1 tree makes 8,333 sheets of virgin copy paper) and if stacked on top of each other as 2” packaged sets of 500 sheets (as they come in boxes of copy paper) would rise to a height of 1,983 ft. That is higher than the CN Tower in central Toronto which is 1,815 ft.

If only half the amount is saved it is still a saving.

- Parmy V.

The time is NOW!!!

DON’T MISS OUT ON YOUR CHANCE TO GO TO HAWAII AT OUR EXPENSE!

With business picking up and EFS gaining traction there’s no better time than NOW to share all the benefits of using econveyance™ with your colleagues. The winner of our last contest, Leila Bauer, did just that and got to monkey around in Mexico for a week on our dime!

Leila making friends in Mexico!

The majority of entrants into the contest to win the trip to Hawaii have just one demo to their credit so it’s still a wide open contest! YOUR trip to Hawaii could be just a couple of phone calls away. All you have to do is call someone you know who isn’t using econveyance™ and tell them everything you like best about it. Then call the very helpful desk and tell us who we need to call to book the demo.

 

The contest closes on April 30 – make sure you don’t miss out!

 

ALOHA!! 

 

- Marci H.

Winter Referral Contest Update

Aloha!  It’s already February 20.  That means that the first month of our Winter Referral contest is almost over! Just a little over two months left to do what’s necessary to make sure you get entered to win that trip for two to Hawaii!  All you need to do is tell those non-econveyance users how great you think econveyance is, then call us and we’ll take it from there. 

Want to know an easy way to find out who is and isn’t using econveyance?

On the transaction screen when you are searching the public library for the name of the other lawyer or notary, look to the left of their name and if you see the word Public, that means they haven’t signed on yet! So pick up the phone, call and tell them what you like best about econveyance.  Remember, it’s the econveyance user who provides us with the most referrals that result in a demo that will win that trip!

- Marci H.

econveyance newsletter is now Connector

We’ve changed the look of our quarterly newsletter and given it a name – Connector. We chose the name because we would like to believe that, through econveyance, we are assisting in building and connecting the conveyance community. If you haven’t received it directly from us yet, go to our newsletter page to pick up your copy. Among the items of interest in the first newsletter of 2009 are a couple of EFS related articles.  I hope you enjoy the newsletter and I would welcome any and all ideas for future issues. Also if you would like to contribute an article, please let me know.

- Marci H.

Connector 2009 Q1 newsletter

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