City of Oakland Gains Efficiency with Lockbox Functionality

The City of Oakland has sucessfully completed negotiations with Bank of America regarding the format and operating procedures to be used for processing up to 80,000 city business tax renewal payments.

PSI has successfully accomodated the import specifications.

The new procedures are expected to significantly reduce the labor expended in the processing of tax returns using the previous process.

'Red Flags' Rule Delayed to 5/1/2009

The Federal Trade Commission will suspend enforcement of the new 'Red Flags Rule' until May 1, 2009. To access the complete article please visit the link below:
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2008/10/redflags.shtm

Clarion Extends Room Block Deadline to Friday

The Clarion Hotel graciously agreed to extend the room reservation deadline (and the corresponding rate) until midnight this Friday, October 17th, 2008 for the PSI User Conference.

Website Upgrades

New features arrive! In the continuing effort to breathe life into the PSI website, accessibility and aesthetics have received some attention:

Forums

A forum has been made available for our customers to facilitate communication and to make sure questions do not go unanswered. Check it out!

Product Pages

Visually and functionally, the product pages have been given a new personality. Visitors will be able to more easily find information and assistance if needed. Pages are being updated progressively; please excuse the dust.

Events

The Progressive Solutions News blog now sports a fancy new Event feed providing a listing of upcoming events and links to their details.

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PSI to power National Bureau of Business Licensing Officials

For several years, PSI has been actively involved as a member of NBBLO.
We are pleased to announce that PSI has been selected by the NBBLO to provide membership management functionality to facilitate annual renewals, on-line member information access, internet forums and conference registration starting with next year's Atlanta conference.
We look forward to assisting the NBBLO to provide enhanced member services.

Red Flags Rule of the Identity Theft Program (FACT Act)

PSI is pleased to report that the current release of each PSI software application is configurable to facilitate Red Flags Rule (part of the Identity Theft Program) identification and notification compliance. Reporting to facilitate monitoring and augmented security shall be available by the due date of 11/8/2008.
PSI staff shall also incorporate Red Flag Rule automation opportunities during their presentations at: CMRTA in San Francisco-October of 2008 and the PSI User Conference in Anaheim-November of 2008.

National City goes live with AlarmTrack

Today National City staff received go live training for their new False Alarm Billing application from Progressive Solutions. Staff greatly appreciates the similar look and feel to the other PSI applications currently in use namely: CodeTrack™, ParcelTrack™, PetTrack™, LicenseTrack™ and Ca$hierCentral.
In fact even though two days of training were scheduled, after only one day of training staff was confident enough to go live.
The extra day will be used to provide ad-hoc training as requested.
According to Staff, the system is light years ahead of their prior system (Encompass) and offers substantial efficiencies.