VANCOUVER, WA ? Columbia Ultimate, the industry expert in providing software and integrated solutions for collecting money, yesterday announced the release of The Collector System 2005.2. This newest release includes enhanced capabilities for skip tracing services, court assignment features and reprint of statement summaries to further increase efficiency for improved profitability and success in collections. Users can also select to add further reporting functionality and flexibility through the use of third-party applications such as Crystal Reports.
Columbia Ultimate’s The Collector System is an industry standard collections tracking and management system that simplifies and automates tasks to make the collections process easier and faster. Used by more than 25 percent of the collections market nationwide, The Collector System is a comprehensive and cost-effective collections system that is flexible and customizable to meet the needs of any organization.
“The Collector System 2005.2 continues to deliver critical and value-added functionality to help agencies, collections litigation firms and debt purchasers increase productivity and gain competitive advantage,” said R. Fred Houston, president, Columbia Ultimate. “These new enhancements are a direct result of listening to our customers and evolving our offerings to continuously meet the needs in the market.”
The Collector System 2005.2 features the following enhancements:
- Litigation functionality that enables a user to create a file of Courts from a Legal Menu. Account records can then be associated to the court and information specific to the court can be tracked in the Collector Screen.
- New Interface for skip tracing services provided by Accurint, which improves collections for agencies by locating current demographics, and additional information such as relatives and associates of debtors. The batch interface allows users to request reports from and transmit to Accurint using CU-Transit, and update the returned records to The Collector System.
- ODBC Reporting Data Interface provides a select data set from The Collector System to be exposed for added reporting flexibility through the use of third party reporting applications like Crystal Reports.
- Statement Summary that provides users the ability to reprint statement summaries from previous statement runs from within the current month.
