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Vendor Database: Share Vendor information among Managers

Maintaining a community or several communities takes work. One of these types of jobs is managing vendors or service companies working in and on your properties. In my experience with management companies, finding reputable and reasonably priced vendors is a task all its own. Due to this type of need, we decided to design a feature, which is standard on all management company web sites, to help manage this information in one central location: The Vendor Database feature.

This feature has several facets to help streamline communication and make the right choice when choosing a vendor. First, the vendor database is accessible via the Internet or the World Wide Web. It can be accessed anywhere there is an Internet connection: coffee shops, restaurants, gyms, and other wireless internet hot spots as well as from the office. Second, it allows each manager to share the vendors they use, including the availability to upload comments, forms (W9, Bonding, Licensing, Insurance, Pricing sheets, etc.), contact information, and other useful information. Third, the manager selects what category each vender is in: Plumber, Electrician, Networking, Landscaping, Attorneys, etc. Finally, each manager can post prior experience with each vendor. Information such as speed of work done, quality, warnings, accolades, references, previous projects, etc can be shared.

We hope you utilize this feature to help ease the manager’s job, even if it is just a little bit!

Susan Sanders
TOPS Web Sales

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