At Inventory Hive, we are always looking to bring new features to the software in an effort to make the user experience ever more efficient, and we are now proud to launch our latest app update with our biggest ever new feature.
Following a year of research and development, we are proud to announce the release of our new Diary Management with Maps add-on feature that promises to be a game-changer for co-ordinating property inspections and visits. Feedback from agents and landlords revealed that communicating inspection visits with tenants and co-ordinating those visits with inspection teams can be a logistical and costly nightmare, as well as a huge administration time-drain. Planned badly, those visits can also incur additional time on the road and mounting fuel costs.
The Diary with Maps add-on seamlessly integrates with staff diaries and schedules and provides a Google Map integration to visually plan the best route for an inspectors’ day, with travel and time calculations and mileage monitoring to help you track your carbon footprint.
Key features include:
- Manage all inspector staff diaries and schedules from a calendar and/or map view of their working area.
- Use Google Map integration to visually plan the best route for an inspectors’ day.
- Calculate travel times to set realistic routes for inspectors.
- Automatically schedule recurring interim property visits based on the last appointment.
- Automatically send appointment details to tenants without manually emailing or telephoning.
- Automatically receive tenant confirmation of their consent to using management keys or confirm their attendance.
- Re-schedule appointments based on real-time availability of inspectors.
- Link reports to appointments to monitor accurate data in terms of job timeframes for different job or property types.
- Download all daily appointments to the app to have all necessary information for the day in one place.
In addition to this, there are some ancilliary benefits to the software in general; some have already been released over the last two updates, but the main two additional benefits as standard with this update are:
- The ability to create contacts and assign them to each property that you require.
- A key code reference field at property level to assist agents with their key management.
“Scheduling and co-ordinating interim visits are the most time-consuming office admin tasks that a property manager can undertake. It requires frequent manual intervention in the form of tenant emails, texts and phone calls that take-up a lot of unnecessary time. Our Diary with Maps add-on has been built to give property managers back that lost time, whilst giving inspectors the tools to navigate between properties and reports effortlessly when out in the field.” Richard Abbots (CEO)
Short Demo Video
You can find our quickfire demo video here of the Diary with Maps add-on.
There is also a helpful support section for the Diary Management features here (must be logged in to view).
We are hosting a live webinar on Wednesday 5th July at 11am to introduce the Diary with Maps add-on; you can register here for the event.
Mandatory App Update Required – PLEASE READ
Our browser version updates have been pushed-live already – so there’s no action required there (happens automatically). An update is required to install the latest features on your iOS or Android devices though, which can be accessed here for convenience: iOS (Apple) Appstore found here and; Android Google Playstore found here.
Please ensure that you update your app version (if auto-updates are not installed on your device) otherwise you will not be use the app; due to the new changes to the software as standard as well as for the exciting new Diary with Maps add-on, all devices must be updated to the new app version.