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To help Managing Agents and Property Management Companies address some of the headaches and frustrations they experience dealing with the administration of supplier invoices, Blocks Online software has enhanced supplier invoice approval functionality that makes it easier to manage the day to day processing of what can be a tedious and time consuming task. When…

An example of how our software helps make block management easier is the best practice workflow nature of accessing a holistic view about a Property enabling you to quickly deal with enquiries from owners and other relevant stakeholders. Below is a screen shot of our ‘Unit Search’ functionality. The key elements showing are: Unit Search –…

Notification Function For Agents that have the Blocks Online Ticketing module within the block management software, we have updated the Notifications and emails function sent to system Users. In the User Workbench screen if you have any Ticket messages that are relevant to you as the User then the Notifications icon as highlighted will show…

Dashboard Updates We have released a new Dashboard which we hope will add value to our users. Previously you would log into the Blocks Online Workbench via the block management software and view the list of blocks. This time, in addition to the blocks, the new Dashboard includes ‘widgets’ on the right-hand side of the…

Blocks Online Anniversary Wow, today marks the 5TH ANNIVERSARY OF BLOCKS ONLINE. It was back on 20th September 2013 that Blocks Online was launched ….. however, this was not beginning of our story. A few of us had spent several years prior to Blocks Online developing our block management software. We saw an opportunity to…

Recipt Processing Blocks Online has a Bulk Import Receipts processing facility which allows for receipt transactions, which have been extracted from an online banking system, to be loaded directly into the system, removing the need for the manual keying of receipts. The Import Receipts function on our block management software allows receipts from a banking system…

BLOCK MANAGEMENT PROPERTY PORTAL TICKETING CREDIT CONTROL AND MORE… We aim to make block management as easy as possible for all of our managing agents, leaseholders and property owners, so as part of our services, we provide an online property management portal. This allows account holders to access key information and tools relating to the running of…

Workbench Reports Blocks Online provides a number of reports to support staff with the management of all blocks loaded into the system. The system has various reports in both the Workbench and Block Area. The Workbench reports run across all blocks whereas the Block Area reports run for one specific block. Below are some examples of…

How To Clear Your Browser Cache When you use a browser, like Google Chrome, it saves some information from websites in its cache and cookies. Clearing them fixes certain problems, like loading or formatting issues on sites. This is useful when new changes are implemented on our system. The new changes need to overwrite the…

Setting up a Supplier To record expenditure in Blocks Online with our block management software (via Supplier Invoices) you need to set-up your Suppliers: Access via the menu option: Agent Management -> Agent Suppliers Enter the name of the supplier and the default service that they provide along with any other information you wish to…