The chart below provides a detailed summary of the functionality
within Advance, Advance Solo and Advance Central. The chart is only intended
as an overview and is not exhaustive or fully descriptive. For more information
please contact us on 08701 149988.
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MAINTENANCE
AND SETUP |
Work Provider Schemes (inc. rates & terms) |
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Insurers (inc. rates & terms) |
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Variable Discount Structures by Vehicle Manufacturers |
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Clients (inc. rates & terms) |
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Engineers |
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Fleets |
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Repairers |
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Customisable Time Allocation from Estimate to Job |
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Standard Charges (inc. Automated Charges) |
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Formulaic Charges |
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Suppliers (inc. preferred suppliers) |
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Salvage Operators |
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Individual Logon & Permissions |
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Shop Floor Location Management |
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Customisable Shift Patterns for Productives |
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Customisable Work Stages for Repair Process |
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Customisable Departments and Users |
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Customisable Document Notes |
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Custom Help by Work Provider |
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advance |
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+ central |
CLAIMS HANDLING |
Electronic Claims Logging |
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Manual Claims Logging |
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Manage Claims by Work Provider |
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Auto-Apply Work Provider Terms per Claim |
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Standard Document Designs |
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Complete Audit Trail of Claim Activity |
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Full Audit of Parts Removed from Job |
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Job Copy Facility |
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Measure Claim Conversion and Reasons for Non-Conversion |
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Postcode Allocation |
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Auto-Addressing from Post Code (1) |
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Custom Job Categorisation |
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Customisable Document Designs (by Work Provider) |
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Documents Printed history |
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Auto-Update Remote Claims |
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advance |
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+ central |
COURTESY CARS |
Booking Diary |
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Courtesy Car Management |
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Transport Planner |
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Links to Microsoft Autoroute (2) |
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Fleet Management |
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Immediatetly Identify the Driver on a Given Date and Time |
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advance |
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PURCHASES |
Parts Management |
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Stock Management |
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Orders, Receipts, Returns, Credits |
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Preferred Suppliers |
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Work Orders |
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Supplier Document Management (Invoices, Credits) |
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Purchase Ledger Posting (Sage 50/100, Pegasus) |
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Electronic Parts Orders and Receipts (3) |
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Non-Job Related Purchasing |
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advance |
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+ central |
WORK IN PROGRESS |
Online Operative Labour Bookings |
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Realtime Job Progress Monitoring on Shopfloor |
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Monitoring Non-attendance |
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Track Vehicles by Shopfloor Location |
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Realtime Visibility of Productive Labour |
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Attendance Recording for Productives and Non-Productives |
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Customisable Job Priority |
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Immediate Notification of Shop Floor Delays |
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Immediate Notification of Possible Late Completion |
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Proactive Workflow |
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advance |
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+ central |
WORKSHOP LOADING |
Instant visibility of repair schedule and possible bottlenecks before they happen |
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Automated scheduling of bodyshop resources |
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Recommended book in date for optimum repair cycle |
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'Work-to' list for all productive staff |
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advance |
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SALES |
Standard Pre-invoice Checking |
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Automated invoice generation
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Sales Ledger Posting (Sage 50/100, Pegasus) |
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User Definable Pre-Invoice Checking |
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Invoice Multiple Parties |
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Partial Crediting and Re-Invoicing |
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Record Payments |
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advance |
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+ central |
COMMUNICATIONS |
Email |
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Point to Point / FTP / Dial Up Networking / Internet |
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SMS Text Messaging(4)
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advance |
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+ central |
ESTIMATING |
Audatex (inc. Operations mapping and header export) |
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Glassmatix (2, 3 and .NET - inc. header export) |
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Quoits |
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Motex |
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Inter-Est |
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ARCS |
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AutoQuote |
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Authorisation Management |
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Estimate Progress and Yield Analysis |
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Multiple Estimates per Job |
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Change Original Estimate Mid-Job |
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Allocate Time Directly to Repair Stage |
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Own Times Estimating |
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Estimate Copy Facility |
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Tick Sheet Estimating |
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advance |
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+ central |
LINKS |
Accountancy Suites (Sage, Pegasus) |
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TWAIN Imaging |
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Paint Scales |
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Wurth OrsyScan, StockIT and Allocator 2
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Parts Suppliers (3) |
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Customisable Links |
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advance |
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+ central |
ANALYSIS |
Standard Reports and Documents |
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Various Report Export Formats (PDF, XML, HTML,
MS Word, MS Excel, etc.)
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Reports via Email |
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Detailed Cycle Time Reporting |
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Detailed KPI Reporting |
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Customisable Reports & Documents |
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Scheduled Reporting |
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advance |
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+ central |
CENTRAL SITE MANAGEMENT |
Centrally Manage Multiple Remote Sites |
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Centralised Claim Handling |
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Automated Progress Feedback From Remote Sites |
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Centralised Data Warehousing |
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Electronic Claim Notification |
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advance |
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+ central |
OTHER FEATURES |
Comprehensive On-Line Help in all Applications |
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Full Telephone Help Desk Support |
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Backup From a Dedicated Team of Consultants |
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Single User System (Hardware Supplied) |
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Low Cost Hardware Solutions |
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Networked System (5)
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