What We Did for Donna Return   About Donna Donna Sells New Homes ... and she does it well ... She wants to do it better. Donna works for a new home builder, dedicated to their existing paper system. In short, not only was she on her own in modernizing her sales operation; whatever she did had to mate exactly into the existing paper system and business practices of the parent company. What was done A program was constructed that : Duplicates and cleans up the existing agreement, schedules ( 21 of them ), change orders, amendments, mutual release and waiver forms Keeps a complete library of house model statistics Provides both photograph and floor plan libraries Provides a contact library of purchasers and lawyers which is used for the "One Click" entry into any agreement Provides a step by step agreement creation process Provides a step by step amendment creation process Allows an unlimited number change order items per request Allows an unlimited number of change orders to be completed Allows an unlimited number of amendments to be created Provides extensive administration capabilities, allowing the capture of execution dates for all documents Captures all subsequent changes to the original agreement and displays the current status of the contract values at all times Allows any agreement to be followed from inception to closing Provides facilities to edit the agreement forms from time to time without disturbing the agreements already written (Editable Forms) Allows the actual amendment of forms in a particular agreement (Live Forms) Prevents forms that have been fully executed from being further altered (Secure Forms) Provides extensive search facilities so that market research on the purchasing habits of customers can be conducted Provides networked performance for a three person sales office Provides a remote version of the program so that the program can be used in a satellite office Provides for synchronization between the networked and remote programs Follows the parent company's business rules Is useable by people with minimal computer knowledge The Result At last check, there are over 700 agreements and all of the ancillary amendments and change orders generated by the main program. There has also been deployed a remote version of the program for servicing a second site. Time savings have been obtained with the auto entering of most key information into forms, leaving more time for selling. This is also resulting in greater accuracy. The forms look great. The search facilities have allowed the creation of data lists for appraisers instantly, eliminating sales down time. The networking ability of the program has allowed the whole sales team to work as a team, without getting in each other's way. In general: The quality of the documents produced has improved The time to create documents has decreased The ability to monitor the current status of a deal has become instant Efficiency has increased The professional image of this sales team has been greatly enhanced A job that was being very well done, is now being done that much better.   Followup This program is now being used by both independent sales offices for this home builder, at the insistence of the builder. The second office had no need for networking so the program was deployed using a run time engine to reduce costs to the sales person. The original copy of the program now has well in excess of two thousand deals ... and counting. The Home Builder's sales documentation is now consistent through both sales offices. Return