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Management

 

The OnTime Management module manages all of the settings and data used throughout the OnTime System and your company. It provides the capability for everything, from customer pricing to automated payroll activities. Portions of the OnTime Management application are found in OnTime Standard and Professional products with the entire application available in OnTime Enterprise.

Module
Feature
Results
Benefits
Vehicle Management
  • Vehicle management, including maintenance tracking and vehicle capability recommendations.
  • View Example
  • Track mileage by individual drivers and vehicle
  • There is one less thing to worry about when you allow OnTime to track your vehicles and their required maintenance.
  • When a scheduled mileage or date is reached, you are notified that a particular vehicle is in need of maintenance.
  • Improved vehicle management
  • Long term cost reduction.
  • Improves quality of service to the customer.
Community Support
  • The OnTime Community, with 24/7 access to forums, blogs, and other community related tools.
  • View Example
  • Easily share ideas and ask questions of fellow couriers, getting real world input on subjects such as cell phones and courier technology in general.
  • Improved information
User Management
  • Management tools for organizing drivers, dispatchers, and managers
  • View Example
  • Whether they are employees or subcontractors, take charge of managing wages,
  • Automatically generate time sheets
  • Enforce permissions so that users only have access to the features and programs you approve.
  • Enhanced security
Customer Management
  • Comprehensive tools that store your customer's contracted rates, preferences, and history with your company.
  • View Example
  • Using price sets, store contracted rates directly in OnTime
  • Easy for dispatchers to create orders with the appropriate pricing.
  • Give customer's access to the OnTime customer center, a web site giving them access to dispatching tools, order history, and their address book.
  • Improved productivity
  • Better customer management
  • Reduced costs
Order Tracking
  • The tracking table displays every order in the system, with the ability to sort, filter, and search. 
  • View Example
  • View, in real-time, the status of any order in the system.
  • Reassign packages on the fly to different drivers, while OnTime takes care of all the necessary notifications.
  • View proof of delivery information as it is captured in the field.
  • Cancel orders in a smart way, allowing OnTime to notify the appropriate people when such an action takes place.
  • Improved informaton management
  • Reduced cost
Location Management
  • Organize all addresses your company has picked up from and delivered to.
  • View Example
  • Generated over time by your customers and dispatchers
  • Can be sorted and organized to get a better view of your company's reach.
  • With the smart assignment feature, OnTime can even recommend the zones that these addresses fall into, making it possible for customers to get real-time pricing quotes later on.
  • Reports for customers
  • Sales tool for selling additional prospects
Zone Management
  • Create a master list of zones served by your company.
  • View Example
  • Associate one or more zip codes with a zone and OnTime can start recommending zones for locations to dispatchers.
  • Improved efficiency
  • Improved driver routes
Route and Presence Scheduling
  • Configure routes that consist of routine, scheduled pickups
  • Indicate when and where a driver will be during certain periods.
  • View Example
  • Offer customers lower rates on routine pickups scheduled in advance.
  • OnTime will plot out the driver's route and suggests the proper order to visit locations.
  • Noting what zones or regions a driver will be in at certain time periods allows OnTime to suggest the most appropriate drivers to the dispatcher when creating a new order.
  • Utilize routes to automatically schedule recurring orders and enable the dispatcher to track the location of drivers for on-demand pick-ups.
  • Improved information for sales people
  • Improved information for customers
  • Improved productivity
  • Improved planning
  • Improved efficiency
Price Sets
  • Maintain the prices charged to customers
  • Maintain the wages paid to employees and subcontractors.
  • View Example
  • Price sets offer a virtually unlimited number of pricing configurations
  • Allows you to set up pricing exactly the way you want it.
  • Store details of a specific customer's contracted rates.
  • Now the dispatcher no longer needs to guess at prices charged to a given customer; OnTime will simply calculate it.
  • Improved billing accuracy
  • Improved customer communication
  • Improved customer satisfaction
Invoicing
  • Facilitate customer billing
  • Gathers all order information
  • Generates a detailed report to facilitate customer billing.
  • Improved billing accuracy
  • Improved productivity
Reporting & Analytics
  • Meaningful reports work off of your live data, giving instant access to your company's standing.
  • View Example
  • New predefined reports added continually
  • Easy access to reports that show valuable information. For example, a summary of customer activity during a particular period is a report that can be utilized in billing.
  • Reports can be saved as Excel spreadsheets, PDFs, web pages, or text files.
  • A valuable operations and sales tool
  • Helps "raise the bar" for customer expectations
  • Ability to stay ahead of competitors
Wage Calculator
  • Track employee hours
  • Track subcontractor hours
  • Utilize the unique payment calculator which allows pay rates to be set up in several ways and automatically calculate wages.
  • Automatically generate time sheets
  • Track mileage by individual drivers
  • Reduced cost
  • Improved payroll accuracy
  • Improved productivity