Pennsylvania GFOA learns Query Writing

The Pennsylvania Government Finance Officers Association offered a Visual Reporting session at their 2011 spring conference taught by Chris Sturm, Capsoft, and Dennis McGovern of McGovern Consulting.  Over 45  finance officers participated in this multi-hour session.

"It was an exciting session because we taught the students how things work behind the scenes," commented Sturm.  "This approach puts them on better footing when they need to interact with their vendors."

Dennis McGovern led with topics including integrating financial statement with Excel for eye popping charts and graphs.  "I wanted to keep things usable.  We have found that users are often discouraged with trying to use visual tools in their financial reporting because it seems difficult," says McGovern. "I wanted to break down those barriers and show them how quality fund accounting products like Sage MIP make interaction with products like Excel easy and friendly."

Chris Sturm added sections on query writing, crystal reports creation, internet based reports and new audio visual tools on the market.

To learn more about visual reporting for government you can contact 

Dennis McGovern / McGovern Consulting Group 888-876-1544

Chris Sturm / Capsoft / 888-553-9991

Capsoft Advanced Property Tax for Maryland

Capsoft is welcoming the City of Aberdeen, Maryland as the newest Capsoft property tax billing software user.

Penny will lead the Aberdeen team as they process over 5,000 real and personal property tax bills.  The Capsoft system is using the new assessment import wizard to creat a map for the Maryland state assessment file.  This import wizard will give Penny total control over the import process which is something only provided by Capsoft.  While onsite for training, Penny told the Capsoft team that she believes the Internet search and pay portion will have a big impact.  She fields over 20 calls per week from mortgage and title companies that now will go to the Internet site.

Capsoft welcomes The City of Aberdeen, home of Cal Ripken's training stadium.  It is cool, you should check it out.

Point of Sale processes all payments in Virginia

Gretna, Virginia is excited about easily processing a payment from one screen for whatever a customer wants to pay using Capsoft Point of Sale Collection Module.  Gretna collects thousands of payments for utility bills, real and personal property taxes, business licenses and more.  Now with the new Capsoft POS module, staff

can scan barcoded bills and instantly locate a customer's bill across any revenue application.  Officials, like Wendy Scearce, Town Clerk, have integrated WASP point of sale equipment offered by Capsoft to eliminate keying errors, improve customer service and present a professional image.  The scanner reads the bill.  The system 3 inch wide thermanl printer generates a detailed customer receipt.  The cash drawer secures good audit controls. The keyboard mag strip reads credit cards and the pole display shows user controled messages to the customer during the transaction.

Capsoft Point of Sale is affordable and installs in minutes.  Best of all, it can be installed in remote offices as long as they have an internet connection.  Image accepting payments at parks, stations and various location throughout the community.  If you have an interest click on this product page link on the Capsoft website.  Give the Capsoft sales team a call if you are interested in consolidated counter collections in your office at 888-553-9991 x2.

Amazing Growth with Warsaw KY

About six years ago, Capsoft sent all its customers a nice little 6 inch tall potted plant.  Well Carolyn Marksberry is serious about growth.  Here is the Warsaw KY Capsoft plant today

Jeff McDonald, Manager was onsite configuring their Capsoft Wasp Point of Sale Solution and found this beautiful plan by the window.  For those of you who know Jeff, he is all of 6'4" and he said this plant was taller than he is.  Wow, you can grow them Carolyn.

City of Montgomery renews over 18,000 business licenses with Capsoft

The City of Montgomery Alabama will process over 18,000 business license renewals using their Capital Software, Capsoft Tax Collection Management System.  This automation has saved over 3 months of preparation and processing time from their old system. 

Montgomery is excited to enter into phase two where they will allow their customers to process their sales tax returns online.  This process has the potential to save over $100,000 in processing.

Correcting Dropped UDL Connection in 2011 Installs

In the new 2011 installs of our suite of software’s there is a new file that is created in each product folder. The file is called a UDL file. (UDL is the extension on the file i.e. License.udl) It acts as a front door that points the system to the correct BDE entry. This new feature allows us to have multiple installs of the same product on one server or machine.

We have discovered, through extensive beta testing, that it is possible, however unlikely, to corrupt this file. This may occur if the network drops the connection as a user is logging on.

If an alert is received saying that the BDE entry is not registered check the UDL file within the product folder first. The file can be edited in notepad.

A good entry looks like this: (for this example the License software is being used, Prop32 or Utility may be substituted)

{dbase}
BDE=LICENSE;Data Source=C:\capsoft\lic32
(The data source would be the path used on your particular server or workstation)

Eastern Virginia User Group Meeting 2010

User group meetings are a great opportunity to get together and discuss new ideas.  Because of the economy our users have been unable to travel the past few years so with our users' help Capital Software is launching a new and exciting idea.

ON LOCATION USER GROUP MEETINGS

15 Eastern Virgina Municipality Users joined us on location in Virginia.  One City graciously hosted all of us.  Jeff McDonald, Capital's Manager of Client Services, traveled onsite for a one day visit covering a variety of topics.  Following a tight agenda, Jeff was able to highlight exciting new features in the 2010 updates, discuss and teach situational processing and everyone had access to an indepth question and answer period.  The energy was great.

We received many positive emails from these users about the new release and the overall team approach to learning and future product development.  One such nice comment was sent by Neil Showalter, Finance Director of Mt Jackson VA.

"Hi Jeff,

Just wanted to thank you for coming all this way to meet with us in Woodstock yesterday. I thought your presentation was informative and helpful and a productive use of time for all of us there.
Hope to see you again soon."

"The local user group idea makes it possible and affordable for all of us to get together while being smart with time and money.  We are going to work with other regional users across the country to schedule more dates.  It is very exciting," added Jeff McDonald.

To discuss hosting a regional users group contact support at support@capitalsoftwareinc.com.