ez1095 2021 Software Offers In-House Processing For Faster Results

Latest ez1095 2021 software is an excellent choice for saving time and money when processing ACA forms, in-house

PITTSBURGH (PRWEB)
June 29, 2022

Regardless of size, all employers that provide self-insured health coverage to employees must file an annual return, reporting certain information for each employee covered. Halfpricesoft.com announces the easier, in-house processing of ACA forms with ez1095 ACA software. The 1095C, 1094C, 1095B and 1094B forms for the upcoming tax season have been implemented and approved by the SSA to print on plain white paper for those wanting to print instead of efiling.

“Latest ez1095 2021 software is an excellent choice for saving time and money when processing ACA forms, in-house.” said Dr. Ge, the Founder of Halfpricesoft.com.

ez1095 software offers customers a user-friendly graphic interface and Windows menus to make the software quick and easy to set up, use and understand. Priced from just $195 for a single installation, ($295 for efile version)

Customers required to file Form 1095C , 1094C, 1095B and 1094B can download and try out this Affordable Care Act software from halfpricsoft.com before purchasing with no obligation by visiting https://www.halfpricesoft.com/aca-1095/aca-1095-software.asp

The main features for ez1095 include but are not limited to the following :

• Fast data import feature
• Print Form 1095 C: Employer-Provided Health Insurance Offer and Coverage Insurance
• Print Form 1094 C: Transmittal of Employer-Provided Health Insurance Offer and Coverage Information Returns
• Print Form 1095-B: Health Coverage
• Print Form 1094-B: Transmittal of Health Coverage Information Return
• Print ACA Form 1095-C, 1094-C, 1095-B and 1094-B on white paper for recipients and IRS with inkjet or laser printer.
• PDF print 1095-C and 1095-B recipient copies
• Efile version available at additional cost.
• Support unlimited companies.
• Support an unlimited number of recipients.
• Print an unlimited number of 1095 and 1094 forms.

ez1095 software is now compatible with Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 8, and 7. Designed with simplicity in mind, ez1095 software is easy to use and flexible. ez1095 software’s graphical interface leads customers step-by-step through setting up the company, adding employees, adding forms and print forms. Customers can also click form level help links to get more details regarding the software.

Ez1095 costs $195.00 for a single installation for print and filing forms. (Efile and network versions available for additional costs). To learn more about ez1095 ACA software, customers can visit: https://www.halfpricesoft.com/aca-1095/aca-1095-software.asp

About halfpricesoft.com

Halfpricesoft.com is a leading provider of small business software,

including online and desktop payroll software, online employee attendance tracking software, accounting software, in-house business and personal check printing software, W2, software, 1099 software, Accounting software, 1095 form software and ezACH direct deposit software. Software from halfpricesoft.com is trusted by thousands of customers and will help small Business owners simplify payroll processing and streamline business management.

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twine for Zoom

Built on top of Zoom breakout rooms, twine for Zoom automates away much of the work required to move participants in and out of Zoom breakout rooms, saving Zoom hosts time, while bringing serendipitous experiences to Zoom meeting attendees.

SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB)
June 28, 2022

twine, an employee connection platform for remote and distributed teams, today announced the public launch of twine for Zoom, an app developed on the Zoom developer platform, that makes it easy for Zoom meeting hosts to match attendees for timed conversations.

Built on top of Zoom breakout rooms, twine for Zoom automates away much of the work required to move participants in and out of Zoom breakout rooms, saving Zoom hosts time, while bringing serendipitous experiences to Zoom meeting attendees.

“We are thrilled to make twine for Zoom available to all Zoom customers,” said twine CEO and Co-Founder Lawrence Coburn. “At twine we are obsessed with building software that drives serendipity and human connection; twine for Zoom makes building connections among your Zoom attendees as easy as tapping a button.”

In addition to its matchmaking modes, twine for Zoom also offers a map mode that allows Zoom hosts to spin up customized virtual tables that appear in your Zoom meeting’s sidebar; Zoom meeting attendees can join a virtual table simply by tapping, and are free to move from table to table.

“We’ve built twine for Zoom to enable many, many use cases,” said twine co-founder and Head of Product Taylor McLoughlin. “Some of the use cases we are seeing in early testing are speed networking at virtual events, new employee onboarding to distributed teams, and all hands / team meetings.”

twine is free to use up to 25 unique users per month.

“As a completely remote company, we were looking for a way to have those water cooler moments, virtually,” said Meagan Allers, Head of Customer Success at video messaging app Marco Polo. “twine for Zoom took all the work of pairing people off my plate, and provided a quick way for our team to connect with those they don’t normally work with.”

About twine:

Founded by event technology veterans, twine is an early stage, remote first company that develops software to bring connection, belonging and community to remote teams. The company has raised $4.3M in seed funding, and works with customers such as Microsoft, Amazon, BP, and more. Core use cases of twine include speed networking, new employee onboarding, employee engagement events, and training & development.

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“There’s never been a better time for entrepreneurs and businesses to discover what Maryland can do for them.”

BALTIMORE (PRWEB)
June 21, 2022

The Maryland Marketing Partnership, created by Governor Larry Hogan in 2016 to help drive Maryland’s branding and marketing efforts to attract businesses, create jobs, and grow the state’s economy, today shared a summary of the latest news from companies and organizations that are part of the partnership.

“With the growing advantage of Maryland’s high-tech community, the emergence of a hearty entrepreneurial movement, the excitement of exceptional sports teams, and the support from a pro-business Governor, there’s never been a better time for entrepreneurs and businesses to discover what Maryland can do for them,” said Tom Riford, executive director of the Maryland Marketing Partnership.

Bozzuto, based in Greenbelt, has received the ENERGY STAR program’s highest honor Partner of the Year designation for the sixth year in a row, with recognition for Sustained Excellence for the fourth consecutive year. ENERGY STAR participants partner with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to deliver cost-saving energy efficiency solutions that protect the climate while improving air quality and protecting the public. The support of Bozzuto’s associates, clients, and partners has helped the company find innovative ways to offer sustainable opportunities and improve its energy efficiency practices. Bozutto’s Arcadia Power partnership allows residents to repurpose their utility bills to solar energy.

Cloudforce, based in National Harbor, is the leading force in the Microsoft cloud – creating, migrating, and maintaining custom cloud solutions for businesses and government. Cloudforce crafts and deploys accessible, scalable, and secure solutions to help clients manage and grow their business in efficient and innovative ways. In the first half of 2022, Cloudforce was named a Washington Business Journal’s Best Places to Work and won its Diversity in Business award, and also was included on the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America list. Cloudforce recently formed the Prince George’s County Tech Council (PGCTC) in collaboration with Maryland Tech Council (MTC) and other leaders of the tech community in Maryland to promote technology and innovation in Prince George’s County. Additionally, some of the company’s philanthropic activities have included raising funds for the purchase and donation of 100 notebook computers for underprivileged students enrolled in our local community college, and “Future Force” – an internal initiative to educate and expose local youth to cloud computing.

Eastern Watersports, based in Baltimore, is expanding its presence this summer with two new rental locations at Port Covington Marina in Baltimore City and Cunningham Falls State Park in Frederick County. Opened in 2014, Eastern Watersports now operates five rental locations across the state to allow Marylanders to enjoy time on the water kayaking, paddle boarding, jet skiing, sailing, and more. Beginning Saturday, May 28, Eastern Watersports sites at Middle River, Dundee Creek, Hammerman Beach, and Port Covington have been open for rentals seven days a week, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m., through August. Eastern Watersports at Cunningham Falls is expected to open in June. Eastern Watersports annual passes are on sale now, offering memberships for individuals, couples, families, and corporations to enjoy unlimited access to rentals at all locations year-round. Visit http://www.easternwatersports.com to purchase.

Kaiser Permanente, based in Rockville, is helping increase access to COVID-19 testing, most recently donating 9,400 at-home COVID-19 test kits to various community-based organizations throughout the Mid-Atlantic region— including several in Maryland, such as the Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless, the Greater Riverdale Health Fair, Baltimore County Public Schools, and several salons and barbershops that participate in Kaiser Permanente’s Good Health & Great Hair program. Kaiser Permanente and the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) also announced the nomination period for the fifth cohort of the Baltimore Inner City Capital Connections program – a tuition-free “mini-MBA” program that seeks to help local and diverse business owner raise capital and build capacity.

Peterson Companies, a longtime Maryland business, announced a new restaurant concept, Charley Prime Foods, to open this fall at rio, Gaithersburg’s premier open-air shopping, dining and entertainment destination. Charley Prime Foods, a spinoff of the popular D.C. restaurant Bar Charley, will focus on quality American eats and innovative cocktails. Additionally, National Harbor, Peterson’s waterfront resort destination, will add two new tenants to the mix including Brazilian Steakhouse, Fogo de Chao and specialty candy store and sweets experience, It’Sugar. The pair join a growing list of new restaurant and food retailers announced earlier this year at National Harbor.

Route One Apparel, based in Towson, recently announced a new collaboration with country music singer/songwriter and Maryland native Jimmy Charles to celebrate his summer hit “It’s a Maryland Thing (You Wouldn’t Understand)”. Additionally, the Maryland pride retailer’s founder Ali Von Paris was named an Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2022 Mid-Atlantic Award Finalist.

St. John Properties, Inc., based in Baltimore, has entered the Texas market with the recent opening of a new regional office in Austin. The company, one of the nation’s largest and most successful privately held commercial real estate firms, also announced that Second Sight Systems, LLC has signed a lease for 15,000 square feet of space at a 93-acre business community near BWI Airport in Anne Arundel County to establish a co-headquarters and hire approximately 50 employees. Most recently, St. John Properties announced a new lease with Medifast. The global company has opened the Medifast Product Innovation Center, a new 18,360 square foot research and development hub positioned within a business community developed and managed by St. John Properties, Inc. in Baltimore County.

TEDCO, based in Columbia, will receive up to $50 million from Governor Hogan’s small business relief plan that was approved for funding from the United States Treasury Department’s State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI). TEDCO is Maryland’s economic engine for technology companies and will allocate the funds into four existing programs targeting technology-based Maryland businesses and entrepreneurs. The Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission, a TEDCO program, will grant $7 million in award funding to research that will strengthen and advance stem cell treatments and technologies in Maryland. Recipients include 24 scientists accelerating research at Johns Hopkins University, Britecyte, Inc., RenOVAte Biosciences, Inc., RoosterBio, Inc., and the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Additionally, TEDCO announced its Builder Fund invested $150,000 in AudioOne, Inc., a technology start-up based in Maryland.

Weller Development, based in Baltimore, announced plans for growth and expansion in anticipation of completion of Phase 1B in Port Covington in the Spring of 2023. Weller will continue to manage construction of Phase 1B, the 1.1 million-square-foot phase currently underway, through its completion, while focusing on growth in several key markets both nationally and internationally. Weller Development will relocate its headquarters to Bethesda, Maryland as part of this growth and expansion plan and will continue working to develop community-driven mixed-use projects locally, regionally, and internationally. Learn more about Weller Development’s work and on-going projects here: https://wellerdevelopment.com/news/

About The Maryland Marketing Partnership

The Maryland Marketing Partnership, founded in statute as the Maryland Public-Private Partnership Marketing Corporation, develops branding strategy for the state, markets the state’s assets, and encourages the location and growth of new businesses in Maryland.

The early access program is our invitation to organizations that want to reap the benefits of our proven container optimization and software supply chain security technology as part of their DevOps workflows.

AUSTIN, Texas (PRWEB)
June 21, 2022

OPEN SOURCE SUMMIT—Slim.AI, the Boston-based software supply chain security company, today at Open Source Summit in Austin announced an early access program (EAP) for its enterprise-focused solution built to continuously analyze and optimize containers, improve container security and minimize software supply chain risk.

Interested teams can contact the Slim.AI team for early access here. Individuals attending Open Source Summit this week can visit the Slim.AI team and learn more about the program at Booth B2.

Slim.AI, founded by DockerSlim creator Kyle Quest and security industry veteran John Amaral, currently offers popular open source and free SaaS solutions for developers that help them understand, analyze and optimize containers. Slim.AI now offers a comprehensive software supply chain security solution built to help organizations continuously and automatically optimize all of the containers they run in production.

“Currently, tens of thousands of developers and teams use Slim’s open source and free SaaS software to understand what’s in their containers, reduce container attack surface, remove vulnerabilities and ship only the code they need,” said Amaral, CEO of Slim.AI. “This announcement is an exciting step for us because we’re moving from helping individual developers and small teams to a solution that enables organizations to continuously and automatically achieve these outcomes at scale. The early access program is our invitation to organizations that want to reap the benefits of our proven container optimization and software supply chain security technology as part of their DevOps workflows.”

The Slim solution imparts three important software supply chain security outcomes: deep understanding and control of the software in containers, the ability to ship only the code to production needed to run an application and automatic vulnerability removal. The benefits are lower software configuration complexity, reduced container attack surface and minimized software supply chain risk.

The Slim.AI solution is built to integrate with a software development organization’s existing container registries, CI/CD pipelines and tools so that facets of the core principles—the ‘Four Ss’ — of cloud-native software supply chain security can be automated and integrated into existing workflows that deliver secure software into production. Read more about the 4th ‘S’ of software supply chain security in a blog by Amaral, at Slim.AI.

Current and planned integrations include the Jenkins, GitLab, and GitHub CI/CD platforms, as well as Docker, AWS ECR, Google GCR, GitHub, DigitalOcean and Quay registries. API-level integrations are also available to Early Access Partners. Slim’s existing free SaaS developer tools are integrated with the new solution.

“We embrace a developer-first model: we started Slim.AI by building technology tuned to the needs of individual developers and will continue to deliver developer tooling and support in our software supply chain security solutions,” continued Amaral.

About Slim.AI

Slim.AI is a developer-first solution to software supply chain security for containers. The startup helps developers create, build, deploy and run their cloud-native applications more efficiently and securely. The unique approach used by Slim.AI moves the focus on container optimization upstream in the DevOps lifecycle, giving developers the tools they need to author, manage and ship production-ready containers more effectively. More information at https://slim.ai and @SlimDevOps.

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Quality Tech Using DISCUS

“DISCUS IDA is extremely impressive. It provides tremendous productivity improvements in the extraction of information from 2D drawings.” – Mike Parsley, Quality Assurance, 110 Metalworks

FAIRBORN, Ohio (PRWEB)
June 22, 2022

Fairborn, Ohio-based, DISCUS Software is proud to announce their latest software update, DISCUS 2022. DISCUS 2022 is a huge update to the software and makes great strides in the speed and accuracy of DISCUS. In DISCUS 2022, we’re moving from OCR to Intelligent Drawing Analysis (IDA™). The move to IDA™ represents a powerful evolution in manufacturing and quality engineering software solutions and comes with several important benefits for you. Why the switch? OCR technology has limitations and IDA™ offers endless room for innovative solutions and improvements with its underlying AI technology.

This major upgrade includes enhancements to DISCUS Desktop and includes a major release of a new module called DISCUS IDA™. According to Jake Hart, Director of Sales and Marketing for DISCUS, “This release focuses on the feedback we’ve received from our customers and responds to a critical and long awaited industry need: Intelligent Drawing Analysis of PDF and Tiff files.

Hart adds, “The goal of this latest release is to push DISCUS to a new level. DISCUS 2022 allows users to automatically balloon entire drawings in just a few clicks. This technology is groundbreaking in the 2D world of PDF drawings and shows our commitment to our customers and their needs: ballooning automation.”

DISCUS customer, Mike Parsley from 110 Metalworks, commented, “DISCUS IDA™ is extremely impressive. It provides tremendous productivity improvements in the extraction of information from 2D drawings.”

DISCUS 2022 is the result of internal and external feedback from nearly 2000 customers. We strive to enhance the DISCUS experience across all of our DISCUS modules.

DISCUS 2022 has improvements that include:

Intelligent Drawing Analysis (IDA™)

• 
  IDA™ is an add-on module that replaces the OCR add-on module
• IDA™ will automatically analyze the entire drawing and propose candidate characteristics
• Candidates and characteristics allow review, editing, and disposition within the drawing panel via respective popovers
• Improved characteristic type detection
• Reduces the amount of time required to complete an FAI on most good quality digital PDF drawings

DISCUS 2022 3D add-on module

• Implemented the concept of model views, retiring the separate, secondary legacy Illustration Manager mode
• Integrated model view creation and modification directly into the Model display panel
• Improved the model toolbar
• Moved most 3D features which required dialogs to drawers at the left and right sides of the model panel
• Improved the measuring tool
• New Sectioning Tool with simpler, intuitive user interface, retiring the Cutting Planes dialogs
• Improved model support
• Improvements to the rendering of GD&T in the Model Panel of the DISCUS 3D add-on module
• Added the ability to orient model PMI to the screen

DISCUS License Server (DLS) product

• DLS replaces the legacy on-premise DISCUS Floating License Server (DFLS) product
• DLS is compatible with DISCUS versions 0.0 and greater
• DLS only applies to licenses which have an Internal Floating share type
• DLS is a subscription-only product. Existing customers will be offered the subscription at no cost during the sunsetting period and then may elect to purchase a subscription to DLS or switch their license to an External Floating share type at no cost.

And more…

We are committed to customer satisfaction and are dedicated to making your DISCUS experience even more positive. Visit our website to download this latest version: http://www.DISCUSsoftware.com

“DISCUS IDA is extremely impressive. It provides tremendous productivity improvements in the extraction of information from 2D drawings.” – Mike Parsley, Quality Assurance, 110

Metalworks

DISCUS 2022 provides upgraded features that continue to help the user have a great experience while using DISCUS.

To try out DISCUS 2022, Download the free trial installer by clicking here.

For questions or a demo, contact sales@discussoftware.com or call 614-360-2424 ext. 1.

DISCUS Software Company specializes in the development of software tools for accelerating manufacturing and quality engineering. Its software products are productivity solutions that dramatically reduce the time it takes to complete first article inspection reports, in-process inspection planning and process planning. DISCUS was the first software product to automate engineering drawing annotation and manufacturing inspection requirement extraction. DISCUS is the innovator, not the imitator, in the First Article Inspection Reporting automation market. DISCUS is compatible with many of the requirements used by companies such as Boeing, Ford, GE, Lockheed, and Siemens. For more information visit https://www.discussoftware.com/about-us/.

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SAS and ClearBlade are helping operations managers in industries like manufacturing, oil & gas, and transportation to maximize the effectiveness of their operational technology (OT) equipment

“SAS and ClearBlade offer an AI-driven, no code application designed specifically for operations users that makes it easier and less expensive to quickly uncover actionable insights from fast moving data generated from connected assets across applications and industries,” Jason Mann, SAS VP of IoT.

AUSTIN, Texas (PRWEB)
June 22, 2022

IoT Slam ‘22 – Pioneering partners SAS and ClearBlade are helping operations managers in asset intensive industries like manufacturing, oil & gas, and transportation to maximize the effectiveness of their operational technology (OT) equipment by unlocking the value of all streaming data in a simpler and cost-effective way. The partners are using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning on IoT connected assets to empower OT leaders to access, analyze and act on streaming data at the Edge and in the Cloud without depending on IT and data scientist support and speeding the process to weeks from months.

SAS and ClearBlade announced their partnership during the IoT SLAM ‘22 being held live this week at SAS world headquarters in Cary, NC. Learn more about how the partnership accelerates OT asset productivity with predictive analytics in this partner solution brief.

“Operations leaders need to balance resource constraints with their ability to take advantage of all the data streaming from their assets in a timely manner to improve key metrics such as OEE. Combining connected IoT assets with predictive analytics in the OT environment presents such an opportunity,” said Dalia Adib, Director – Consulting at STL Partners. “What OT needs is a lower cost, less resource intensive repeatable process to scale AI initiatives whether on premise, at the edge, or in the cloud – no matter how many assets they have and where they are located. Without the ability to run edge analytic workloads in real time, OT leaders are leaving valuable data unanalyzed, which can lead to undesirable outcomes, such as costly unplanned downtime.”

“Digital and analytics capabilities can extend the value of, or even replace, legacy operational technologies, helping IT, digital business and operational technology (OT) to better collaborate and leverage common infrastructure – for example, on the factory floor, in the engine room or at the wellhead,” Gartner®, Top Trends in Data and Analytics for 2021: Data and Analytics at the Edge .

“SAS and ClearBlade offer an AI-driven, no code application designed specifically for operations users that makes it easier and less expensive to quickly uncover actionable insights from fast moving data generated from connected assets across applications and industries,” said Jason Mann, SAS Vice President of IoT. “This partnership accelerates real-time decisioning by ensuring that full value is realized from all streaming data generated in the OT.”

The ClearBlade Intelligent Assets platform gives OT leaders an enterprise-scale productivity solution that doesn’t depend on the availability of scarce data scientist and IT resources. “Our industrial-grade asset productivity platform offers a simple, repeatable, customizable solution that puts the industrial operations user in the driver’s seat,” said Eric Simone, ClearBlade CEO. “When combined with the power of AI-driven SAS Analytics for IoT, we’re helping enterprises enhance intelligence and productivity at the Edge without the burden of coding.”

Visibility Breeds Better Industrial Operations

Together, SAS and ClearBlade are creating a smarter way to converge IT and OT by simplifying the delivery of AI and machine learning in edge computing environments. The partners’ work will optimize the enterprise operational environment in several ways:

• Making real-time decisions at the edge. OT leaders can gain visibility about inefficiencies, failures, and anomalies by using the cloud and industrial IoT (IIoT) edge computing.
• Scaling effectively. SAS and ClearBlade apply AI to IIoT data enabling OT organizations to scale up no matter the number of connected IoT devices. Tiered pricing and capabilities from edge to enterprise deliver cost justification from the very first asset with increasing ROI as asset volumes scale.
• Easing IT reliance. The SAS and ClearBlade no-code approach allows OT leaders to configure applications and business logic to ease cross-organizational collaborative decision making without leaning on IT or stretching resources too far.

About ClearBlade

ClearBlade is the industry-leading Edge Computing software company that enables enterprises to rapidly engineer and run secure, real-time, scalable IoT applications. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, ClearBlade is an award-winning, fully scalable, secure, flexible, and autonomous IoT edge platform that enables companies to ingest, analyze, adapt, and act on any data in real-time and at extreme scale. ClearBlade provides a consistent platform across the edge, cloud, and on-premises environments. For more information, please visit https://www.clearblade.com.

About SAS

SAS is the leader in analytics. Through innovative software and services, SAS empowers and inspires customers around the world to transform data into intelligence. SAS gives you THE POWER TO KNOW®.

SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. ® indicates USA registration. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies. Copyright © 2022 SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved.

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“The recent increase in digital transacting has heightened awareness about the need to improve privacy and security measures. The insurance industry is adopting some of the digital safeguards used by other financial services sectors,” said Beth Robertson, managing director, Keynova Group.

WILMINGTON, Del. (PRWEB)
June 21, 2022

Keynova Group, the principal competitive intelligence source for digital financial services firms, today announced the results of the Q2 2022 edition of its semi-annual Online Insurance Scorecard. Progressive earned top honors for its online user experience, ranking first in Overall Score in a comparison of the websites of the 12 largest U.S. auto and property insurance carriers. The Scorecard’s key trends show carriers are enhancing privacy and security measures to protect policyholder information, implementing digital assistant best practices and continuing to streamline digital quotes and forms.

“The recent increase in digital transacting has heightened awareness about the need to improve both behind-the-scenes and customer-facing privacy and security measures. As a result, the insurance industry is adopting some of the digital safeguards used by other financial services sectors,” said Beth Robertson, managing director, Keynova Group. “Insurers house a significant amount of confidential information making it paramount for them to enhance the digital protections afforded their policyholders.”

Key Findings:

Increase in Digital Transacting Drives Privacy and Security Improvements

Since most insurers retain an array of personally identifiable information (PII) about their policyholders, many are enhancing customer-facing privacy and security practices to help protect confidential data and reassure digital users. More than half of carriers now offer secondary authentication for unknown devices or as a standard login option for users, providing access codes or alternatives via options like email, text or voice messaging, biometrics, or PIN numbers. Insurers are also making passwords more secure, with nearly all now conforming to NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) standards for password complexity. Last login date and time information is also now supplied on the secure site landing page by 30% of carriers, an important consumer protection offered by more than 80% of leading banks according to Keynova Group’s Q2 2022 Online Banker Scorecard.

Digital Assistants Become a Norm in Online Insurance Servicing

Today, 75% of carriers provide digital assistants on their websites, helping to enable self-service and improve the customer experience while also augmenting support from live agents. As the use of digital assistants expands, carriers are increasingly focused on developing their capabilities—including deeper natural language skills and personalization that supports requests for specific policy-relevant information. In the desktop website environment, 42% of insurers’ digital assistants can help policyholders access their auto insurance ID cards and 25% can supply a premium amount due and due date. Four leading carrier-based digital assistants—from GEICO, Nationwide, Progressive, and State Farm—offer predictive support, providing access to content or links associated with a user’s current navigation location or task. To minimize frustration, 42% of carriers’ digital assistants can also help a policyholder quickly reach a live agent on request or link directly to a live agent after no more than two failed automated responses.

Carriers Revamp Digital Forms, Simplify Information Entry

Carriers are also making investments to ease information entry for policyholders and prospects. Digital quoting, policy updates, and claims processes originally modeled on paper forms are being revisited with improvements targeted to digital channels. Two-thirds of carriers have recently improved their quote forms and one-quarter have made changes to their claim forms. With modest to extensive updates, these enhancements improve usability, mitigate errors and reduce the time and information that must be entered to get a quote, update a policy, or file a claim. For example, to simplify form fill, 42% of carriers enable autocomplete address options and 67% provide dynamic lookup in relevant quote fields. Three-quarters of insurers include intelligent error checking to immediately notify a user of an invalid entry, and 25% of carriers incorporate dynamic component and total premium pricing that enables policyholders to tweak coverage and instantly see any related pricing impact.

About the Online Insurance Scorecard

Keynova Group’s semi-annual, fact-based Online Insurance Scorecard, offered for more than two decades, evaluates digital user capabilities, customer experience elements, and best practices to identify evolving trends and insights that drive digital strategy in the auto and property insurance industry. The evaluation encompasses the websites of Allstate, American Family, Esurance, Farmers, GEICO, Liberty Mutual, Nationwide, Progressive, State Farm, The Hartford, Travelers, and USAA. For more information, please visit https://www.keynovagroup.com/scorecards/#insurance.

About Keynova Group

Keynova Group is the nation’s foremost competitive intelligence firm providing trusted benchmarking insights and analysis of consumer and small business digital financial services, including banking, credit card, home lending and insurance. Since 1999, Keynova Group’s Scorecards have served as the go-to source for leading financial services firms to obtain reliable competitive intelligence and actionable insights. The firm’s proven methodology and highly detailed results help its clients maximize the value of their digital channels to deliver a premier experience to customers and prospects.

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WebFindYou Pay is a fixed-rate plan for both in-person and online transactions, allowing companies to pass on the processing fees to their customers if they choose.

WebFindYou’s business model is to simplify digital marketing, and merchant processing is a core piece of that puzzle. It made sense to provide a solution, so we launched WebFindYou Pay. We’re providing businesses with a seamless way to handle transactions at the best rates in the market.

MIAMI (PRWEB)
June 21, 2022

WebFindYou launches WebFindYou Pay to provide businesses utilizing its True Digital Marketing Technology with a more streamlined payment processing solution, superior credit card transaction rates, the ability to pass the processing fees onto their customers’ purchases, a free virtual terminal, fraud protection, and so much more.

What makes WebFindYou Pay seamless is its integration into the WebFindYou Technology. Users have one less interface and company to use for merchant processing and fewer login credentials to remember.

WebFindYou’s Technology enables companies, agencies, and freelancers to implement the most successful digital strategy — True Digital Marketing — in the most simplified and cost-effective manner possible. This allows businesses of all sizes to maximize brand awareness, leads, conversions, and sales via an optimized web platform that provides step-by-step and easy-to-follow tasks with supporting video tutorials without relying on third-party plugins and/or apps.

Unlike most payment processing vendors, with WebFindYou Pay, there are no signup costs, annual contracts, or monthly statement fees, its processing rates are fixed versus variable, the pricing is simple versus confusing, it comes with a free virtual terminal, and it provides the ability to pass the processing fees onto the user who is purchasing.

WebFindYou’s CEO, Robert Blankenship, when asked about why he launched WebFindYou Pay, said: “I’ve seen how confusing and frustrating merchant processing can be for companies, and one of the core attributes of the WebFindYou business model is to simplify digital marketing for all businesses, and merchant processing is a core piece of that puzzle. So it made sense to provide a payment processing solution, hence why we launched WebFindYou Pay. We’re providing businesses with WebFindYou a seamless way to handle transactions at the best rates in the market,” said Blankenship.

WebFindYou Pay is a fixed-rate plan (not variable) for in-person and online credit card transactions. WebFindYou equips businesses with a free mobile card reader to manage in-person purchases with the option of other hardware and point-of-sale (POS) systems. The in-person rate is 2.5% plus 10 cents, and the online rate is 2.89% plus 25 cents. However, merchants can also choose to pass the processing fees onto the user, thereby eliminating their credit card transaction fees altogether and saving them even more money, making WebFindYou Pay even more attractive.

WebFindYou Pay uses the payment processing infrastructure of PayProTech, a registered ISO/MSP of Wells Fargo Bank, which is responsible for billions of dollars of transactions per year. Merchants, therefore, have the confidence that WebFindYou Pay is backed by a solid foundation for accepting credit cards in a safe and 100% secure way.

WebFindYou clients using WebFindYou Pay can also easily add on additional payment options for free like Google Pay, Apple Pay, PayPal, Zelle, Buy Now and Pay Later, as well as auto-renewal functionality and more.

WebFindYou clients using WebFindYou Pay will have a completely secure credit card interface built directly within their website to ensure conversions are maximized, and their customers can store payment methods while ensuring PCI compliance for faster and one-click checkouts to help further boost repeat purchases, conversions, and sales. In addition, it has built-in and state-of-the-art fraud protection so merchants can have greater peace of mind with their online stores.

WebFindYou clients simply log in once to their standard WebFindYou administrative back-end and can view their pending and past transactions, void transactions, and issue partial or complete refunds, all while automatically adjusting required inventory. Furthermore, they are equipped with a virtual terminal at no additional cost. Within this same back-end, they can manage all their add-on payment options like Zelle, PayPal, Google and Apple Pay, and more. They can also set convenience fee values for each payment option to pass applicable transaction fees onto the paying customer. This is one of the critical pieces that truly sets WebFindYou Pay apart from any other payment processing option.

Additionally, WebFindYou Pay will soon be available for non-WebFindYou users who wish to take advantage of the company’s superior technology and payment processing rates.

WebFindYou Pay provides next-day funding, exceptional customer service, superior technology, and so much more.

To learn more about or to signup for WebFindYou Pay, visit https://www.webfindyou.com/pay or call WebFindYou toll-free at 1-866-SEO-WEBS (736-9327) or directly at (786) 347-2770. To learn more about the WebFindYou True Digital Marketing Technology, visit https://www.webfindyou.com/.

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We will always look to upgrade our offerings to ensure our clients can offer the most convenient paying experience to their customers.

WILMINGTON, Del. (PRWEB)
June 21, 2022

Leading financial company, SumUp, is pleased to announce that they have surpassed three million merchants. SumUp debuted in 2012. The company provides powerful and affordable tools to small businesses looking to accept payments both online and in-store.

In their first decade of business, SumUp has acquired more than three million merchants thanks to its ability to offer payment solutions that evolve with the times. In early 202, SumUp expanded their product offerings to include a 360° payment solution launching invoicing, gift cards, mobile payments and more.

Daniel Klein, a key SumUp employee, explains the company’s expansion saying, “We are committed to empowering small business owners by enabling them to accept card payments in a secure and cost-effective manner.”

Daniel Klein continued, “We will always look to upgrade our offerings to ensure our clients can offer the most convenient paying experience to their customers.”

SumUp thanks their three million merchants and pledges to continue to offer an incredible service in the decade ahead and beyond.

About SumUp

SumUp is a leading financial technology company, operating across 34 markets on three continents. SumUp is building a world where small businesses can be successful doing what they love. SumUp empowers business owners by enabling them to accept card payments in-store, in-app and online, in a simple, secure and cost-effective way. Today, their card readers are used by over 2 million merchants around the world. SumUp is continually developing new ways to help their customers do business, and its solutions are always intuitive and inclusive. They’ve launched multiple new products in 2020, including SumUp Invoices and Mobile Payments. For any press inquiries, please get in touch with us: press@sumup.com

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Heather Herr, Founder of Private Real Estate Collection

We’ve achieved success at Team Herr by branding agents according to best practices, producing creative marketing in-house, and investing heavily in a strong back office support and sales team

CINCINNATI (PRWEB)
June 20, 2022

Team Herr today announced Private Real Estate Collection and its partnership with Side, the only real estate technology company that exclusively partners with high-performing agents, teams, and independent brokerages to transform them into market-leading boutique brands and businesses. The alliance will ensure that Private Real Estate Collection, a members-only network that will scale $15 million teams into $100 million businesses, is powered by the most advanced platform in the industry.

Private Real Estate Collection was founded by Heather Herr, who is ranked in the top 1% of Cincinnati agents.

Herr, Team Herr, and Private Real Estate Collection have been strengthened for this venture by Front Street Equity Partners, a private equity investment and strategic advisory firm also based in Cincinnati. Front Street Equity Partners is a prolific developer of experiential brands and has extensive experience developing and scaling emerging brands to the national level.

“The partnership with Front Street Equity Partners will help facilitate the next chapter of our growth as we rapidly expand nationwide. To my knowledge, we are the first and only real estate team in Cincinnati to be backed by a private equity company to scale nationwide,” Herr said.

In addition to achieving 600% growth for her team in just four years, Herr has brokered record-setting sales in five key Cincinnati neighborhoods, including 992 Marion Ave. Cincinnati, OH 45229, in North Avondale at $1,799,000; 1059 Celestial St. Cincinnati, OH 45202, in Mt. Adams at $3,025,000; and 218 W. 15th St. Cincinnati, OH 45202, in Downtown Cincinnati, sold for $1,975,00. Private Real Estate Collection is modeled after her success with Team Herr, which is set to top $105 million in production this year.

“We’ve achieved success at Team Herr by branding agents according to best practices, producing creative marketing in-house, and investing heavily in a strong back office support and sales team,” Herr said. “We’ve partnered with Side in Private Real Estate Collection to make our unique blueprint available to the top teams in the U.S.”

Side works behind the scenes, supporting Private Real Estate Collection with a one-of-a-kind brokerage platform that includes proprietary technology, transaction management, public relations, legal support, vendor management, infrastructure solutions, and more.

“Side will play an integral role in my objective to become the No. 1 boutique real estate brand builder in the country,” Herr said. “Side is tailor-made for building boutique companies like mine because its team understands our desire for freedom in how we run our businesses.”

About Private Real Estate Collection

Private Real Estate Collection is a members-only network for the nation’s top teams and agents. Its goal is not to grow the largest brokerages, but to scale small boutique brands that serve clients at the highest level with the highest level of personalization. It achieves this with a close-knit community, agent-centric service, and powerful sales, support, and marketing teams. Private Real Estate Collection is headquartered in Cincinnati. To learn more, visit http://www.private-re.com.

About Side

Side transforms high-performing agents, teams, and independent brokerages into successful businesses and boutique brands that are 100% agent-owned. Side exclusively partners with the best agents, empowering them with proprietary technology and a premier support team so they can be more productive, grow their business, and focus on serving their clients. Side is headquartered in San Francisco. For more information, visit http://www.sideinc.com.

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