AutoAlert Newsletter

We are proud to launch our first Okappy Job Management Newsletter ‘What’s new in the Q‘ which provides quarterly updates on any new features, exciting news in the company and any tips which we believe could add value to your business.

Our mission is to provide companies with Real-time Visibility over their Field Workers and Jobs. Allowing you to streamline your operations whilst freeing up time and reducing your costs. How do we do this?

• You can create your jobs and allocate them to your employees or subcontractors – no more paper job sheets and admin.
• View the real-time status of your jobs- no more chasing phone calls.
• Raise an invoice with one click as soon as job is done – no missing invoice and better cash flow.
• Connect to your customers, employees and subcontractors,
• Available where it suits you, on your desktop, tablet or mobile.  Simple!

 So…What’s new in the Q

• We’ve created a new short video showing how our web and mobile based Job Management Application can benefit you. Check it our Demo.
• We are growing with 2 new directors coming on board this year.
  • Simon Marley, Sales Director with 18 years in software sales, joined in January. Simon says “I liked AutoAlert because the software is so simple to use and so sticky, once customers sign up its hard for them to leave!“
  • Gerry So, Finance Director with 10 years in Banking, joined in April.  Here’s what she has to say –“Doesn’t matter which industry you are in, Optimisation is the key to success. Find out for yourself how AutoAlert can help you to take your business to the next level.”
• We have been shortlisted in the ‘Green Light’ programme sponsored by Capital List and the London Co-Investment Fund. It’s an 8 week programme which offers workshops to support start-up growth (us!) and introductory meetings with the co-investment partners.

  New features

We’ve been busy listening to your comments and suggestions and looking at ways we can make your lives easier.  New features this quarter include:

• You can now email your completed job sheets to your customers, direct from the job
• We’ve added the ability to create different job types with different check sheets
• You can now use your customer job sheets
• We release a big update to our iPhone and iPad apps, check out the latest updates to AutoAlert iPhone and iPad App.
• You can now export you invoices to Xero Accounting.
• We’ve seen heavy traffic over the last month, so we’ve been spending a lot of times behind the scenes trying to streamline and improve the system to make sure it continues to run smoothly and quickly.

Useful tips

Do you know the Top 5 reasons our customers give for getting rid of paper job sheets?

1) Missing, late or incorrect invoices – the biggest drivers for our customers. Is it one of yours too?  This is often a direct cost to the bottom line and can be eradicated by moving over to a paperless job sheet system.

2) Not enough time in the day – not only is it inefficient to manually fill in job sheets, you then spend time collating the info, inputting them in the system. Surely time can be better spent on business growth, training or even go home on time.

3) Forgotten information – rather than scribbling down on a bit of paper, it’s good practice to have all key information stored in ONE centralised system. Saving time searching and retrieving job information. It’s always good to have the information to hand when it comes to disputes with customers/ employees.

4) Create first class customer and employee relations – no more chasing phone calls, every party in the chain can see the job status in real-time.  You can also send instant messages from your desktop, tablet or mobile to improve communication.

5) It’s environmentally friendly after all – let’s go green!

Find out more about AutoAlert’s job sheet software and how it could benefit your business.

Upcoming focus

• We’re currently looking for business angels/investors to help us grow.
• We’re promoting AutoAlert – yes you’ll be hearing more from us via Facebook, Google+, Twitter…

If you would like to contribute to our newsletter, or have any suggestions of what you’d like to see covered, then get in touch.