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Lodestar guides employees through the steps to get their job done, supported by a comprehensive customer management system.

Lodestar will

• Optimize your Processes
• Structure your Data
• Automate your Workload
• Reduce your Overhead Costs
• Increase your Revenue

Lodestar properly links the interaction of entities in your business, organizing their information and relationships. Viewing an entity provides you with an informative summary, and every entity includes basic sections such as Comments, Detailed Information, Call History, and Current Tasks. Specific features include

Accounts

• Unlimited Contact Entries
• Inspection Results
• Custom Account Settings
• Complaint Resolution

Franchisees

• Financing Tracker
• Offer History
• Inspection Breakdown

Prospects

• Appointment Tracking and Scheduling
• Detailed Interaction History

Lodestar has a proven record of increasing sales by maintaining a steady follow-up relationship with prospects

Employees

• Task Tracking and Management
• Event Calendar
• Lodestar Permissions

Ensure that your employees are only seeing the information they need to do their job

Offices

• Inspection Assignment Map
• BAR Report, Franchisee Statements, and Account Invoices
• Custom Office Settings

BPM allows you to

Identify

how your business works, capturing the flow of information and effort

Define

your processes in dynamic, rules based process trees

Refine

with explicit improvements over time, for permanent gains in efficiency and revenue

Eliminate Busywork

By automating trivial, but time-consuming tasks, Lodestar handles the details so you can focus on the big issues.

• Automatic scheduling of inspections and customer service calls
• Automatic event notification emails to accounts and franchisees
• Background calculations

Forget to call back that promising prospect six months later?

Lodestar didn't.

Ensure Best Practices

Gather Proper Documentation

Enforce Legal Requirements

Custom Tailored to Your Company

Nothing gets lost in the shuffle

Those faxes that never arrived when people said they did, the stack of inspections that were not taken care of, the mental note that was forgotten a day later. As a consolidated repository of every activity, document, and person involved in your business, nothing slips through the cracks with Lodestar.

Detailed Activity Histories

Lodestar's detailed histories of activity keep you up to date on what's happening in your office, and allows for an easy reference of the past. It can help you answer

What

is happening in your office

Where

employees are at in their duties

Why

an account is in jeopardy

Timeline

High-level timelines give a broader view of the history of an account or franchisees, listing when and why major processes have occured.

Quickbooks Integration

• Always on
• No exporting necessary, direct data transfer
• Consistency of entries
• No human input errors

Franchisee Statements and Checks

Automatic generation of franchisee statements and checks saves time and hassle.

Invoicing

Financing Oversight

An interactive financing panel on franchisees allows you to monitor and edit their outstanding financing and financing history

No Refreshing

Lodestar utilizes AJAX, a popular approach that eliminates page refreshes, providing seamless interaction with surprising speed.

Logical Layout

Information is organized with a common sense approach in mind. It's easy for users to find what they need even if they aren't experts. This logical approach results in reduced training times and a clear comprehension of business practices by employees.

Rich Interaction

• Click-to-edit fields
• Text autocompletion
• Easy date selectors
• Informative popups

Dynamic Maps

View your office, accounts, and franchisees on an interactive map, with toggle-able groups and quick information tooltips!

Easy to use

Quick selectors and smart defaults help you view the relevant data quickly, without feeling like you're having to construct a report on your own

Easy to reference

Keep reports open to reference while using other portions of Lodestar!

Exportable to every major format

PDF, HTML, Excel spreadsheet, Word document, CSV, XML, and even Open Office!

From prospect to customer, back to prospect, Lodestar tracks it all.

Upload lead lists from multiple sources, and watch their progress from a phone number to an account!

Structured Telemarketing

• Automatic feeding of prospects for high efficiency
• Call volume and outcome tracking
• Public and private prospect categories

Pipeline Transfer

Need to transfer one employee's prospects to another? Do it with one click.

Concise History

Lodestar presents a full history of interaction with the target prospect, so you'll be prepared

Templated Documents

Save time and energy with Lodestar's templated documents. Simply click the document to generate and Lodestar fills it in with all of the proper information, ready to print.

The only missing piece is a signature.

Customizable by Office

Lodestar's default templates not quite what you need? No problem!

Localized Templates

Foreign language support allows you to generate documents for franchisees or accounts in their preferred language!

No Human Error

Lodestar's generated documents contain no spelling or punctuation errors, and its handwriting is always legible.

Environmentally Friendly

It's simple, less paper means less trees.

Organized and Associated

Documents are available on their relevant page, an entity's document page displays all of their associated documents, so you can easily find the one you're looking for.

Nothing Lost

Nothing to file, misplace, or lose to an unfortunate spill!

Access Anywhere, Anytime

As a web application, Lodestar allows you to access documents from anywhere with an internet connection!

Permissioned Access

Sometimes documents contain confidential information, control visibility with Lodestar

Document Approval

All submitted documents go through an approval step before being accepted, so you can be confident that you are obtaining the proper, legally binding documents.

Listen360

Lodestar is proud to have partnered with Listen360 in providing a hassle-free method of utilizing their surveys and referral system.

• Customer Satisfaction Surveys
• Seamless Integration with Lodestar
• No Exporting Necessary
• Automatic Data Exchange
• Visit Listen360

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