Scale-Pak
Soft-Pak’s NTEP/CTEP certified Scale House Management solution easily facilitates transaction control and material tracking at all of your scale sites. The automatic sharing of information between Scale-Pak and other i-Pak and e-Pak modules significantly reduces data entry while seamlessly passing scale transactions to the poweful billing and productivity systems. The Scale-Pak product was developed by scale operators, so ease of use and data collection was critical. When your scale data is tied to i-Pak or e-Pak, you can now truly generate productivity reports based on your operational data. Extending the features and functionality of your scale house while integrating your entire operation with one system. Improve productivity, efficiently increase the number of trucks crossing your scale, and effectively calculate your operation... Scale-Pak is designed to assist your operators and allow management to make decisions based on accurate real time data.
The Scale-Pak module is certified by the National Conference of Weights and Measures and will interface to most any scale system and indicator. Hence your scale operations investment is protected. Below are a few highlights why you need to consider Scale-Pak for your operation.
- Seamless integration with i-Pak and e-Pak.
- Corporate wide integration with a single platform
- Centralized pricing, credit and taxation control
- Vehicle ID or license number search options
- Box or container ID (pre-stored tare weights)
- Flexible incoming / outgoing override options
- Flexible material codes and ticket generations
- Security controls
- Ease of use for the scale operator
- Flexible customer payment options right at the scale house window.
- Detailed vehicle information direct from i-Pak or e-Pak.
The core scale management features include the following, with additional options like unattended scale operations available in 2008.
- Vehicle information
- Material inventory
- Scale ticket generation
- Point of sale transactions
- Special waste tracking
- Variable reporting tools
- All interactive with i-Pak and e-Pak (work orders, drivers logs, route costing)
Vehicle Management
Soft-Pak’s Vehicle Management module is used to assist the tracking and analyzing of all major equipment costs — the same equipment that you rely upon to keep your business going.
- Rolling Stock: Trucks, Maintenance Vehicles, Administrative Vehicles
- Stationary Equipment: Bailers, Compactors, Containers
Your fleet is one of your most significant business investments. Effectively managing and maintaining your fleet assets is another way that Soft-Pak can help improve your bottom line. The i-Pak or e-Pak Vehicle Management module effectively monitors, tracks and manages repair orders (preventative maintenance and ordinary repairs), parts inventory controls, labor hours, service costs, warranty tracking and much more! No more manual tracking and reporting.
Just like other i-Pak and e-Pak value added options, Vehicle Management operates on the same integrated system and the same database. Your users will appreciate the fact they do not have to learn different software systems for the different business units in your enterprise.
Web-Pak
Soft-Pak’s newest module allows haulers to extend the power of i-Pak and e-Pak to the customer. The application can run locally on a web server, or on the e-Pak ASP hosted server. By extending service and payment options directly to your consumer, you enable your customer base to efficiently order and securely make payments at their convenience.
E-commerce is already available on the web, and consumers have become accustomed to web based payments. With Web-Pak, you offer web based payments services to your customers, providing flexibility and convenience while improving your cash flow. Web-Pak is interactive with i-Pak and e-Pak, meaning your customer can view their account activity in real time while you securely allow web based credit and debit card payments directly to your bank account. All payments are posted in real time, allowing instant feedback for your clients, customer service operators and collections individuals.
- Web based credit and debit card payments that fund directly to your bank account and are immediately available for viewing in i-Pak and e-Pak.
- Real time access to financial information.
- Real time account activity and updates for your customer.
- Established with our partner e-onlinedata - https://www.e-onlinedata.com/softpak
Imagine collecting more, with less people. That's what Web-Pak allows you to do. Managing accounts receivable more efficiently, schedule work orders over the web and collect on payments quicker… all real time; all with no interaction from customer support. Lower your overhead while providing better customer service, all positively impacting the bottom line. If you are not allowing your customers to pay online, your competitor might be?
Just like all i-Pak and e-Pak value added options, Web-Pak operates on the same integrated system and database.
Dash-Pak
Soft-Pak’s newest module allows management and users to leverage the power of the i-Pak and e-Pak reporting and data collection. Dash-Pak comes with standard visual presentations of financial, inventory, sales and accounting snapshots (or DASHBOARDS) in real time. Benefits and standard features are the following:
- Real time availability for inventory tracking
- Visually track different route & driver profitability
- View different business segments (residential, commercial, roll off) to instantly determine what is profitable and where changes need to be made
- Allow for a visual representation of accounts receivable and sales reports
- Custom reports are offered. Call Soft-Pak to see what we can visually provide you with
Reviewing data in Excel is one thing, but a “dashboard” is another. There are many components to your business; we present this data in an easy to read, easy to understand graphic format. Let us know, we’ll show you what you’re missing, and how quickly you can identify gaps in your business.
Just like other i-Pak and e-Pak value added options, Dash-Pak operates on the same integrated system and the same database / server. The standard reports can be delivered seamlessly to your users and management can validate their decisions with real time visual displays of critical information.
On Board Computing
An increasing number of waste industry companies are interested in OBC/GPS systems to increase driver efficiency, decrease operational costs, monitor vehicle usage, access route information, and increase overall operational efficiency. The i-Pak OBC Interface links i-Pak data directly to these systems, allowing users to exchange messages with drivers, create electronic run sheets and manifests, receive actual pickup and delivery results, gather vehicle specific data, and much more.
Soft-Pak has successfully delivered interfaces for Fleetmind® and RouteWare® OBC systems. Capabilities vary between OBC vendors, give us a call to set up a demonstration or talk with other satisfied OBC / Soft-Pak clients.
Additional Modules
Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) Module
The optional EFT Module improves your cash flow by automatically debiting customer accounts for recurring charges. The EFT module will export records of authorized EFT customers to a work file during the billing process; this file conforms to the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA) format.
Sales-Pak
Sales-Pak is an optional, value added i-Pak and e-Pak component that seamlessly integrates with the customer service module and provides these primary functions:
- Event Tracking
- Contact Manager
- Quote Generator
- Sales Reports
Designed specifically to help improve your bottom line, the Sales-Pak module will significantly increase your sales team productivity while allowing management to forecast anticipated sales and create productivity and sales reports based on sales representatives. All tied to one central database, the Sales-Pak module is a must for any hauling company with multiple sales representatives.
Accounting Interface
The accounting interface exports general journal entries to your existing accounting package. Why do manual data entry when Soft-Pak has automated the process directly into your system; providing an efficient and accurate method of processing your financial data. The i-Pak customer service software interfaces to a wide variety of accounting and other financial packages which include but are not limited to, QuickBooks, JD Edwards, Solomon, Great Plains, AccountMate, etc., providing accuracy, timeliness and ease of exporting journal entries directly into these products.
Lockbox Module
Today's increased automation in payment processing has allowed banks to reduce the cost of their lockbox banking services enough to make them economical for businesses of any size. Soft-Pak’s Lockbox interface provides an automated process of importing cash receipts from a bank file, thereby ensuring timeliness and accuracy of the data and improving your cash flow. Soft-Pak has interfaces to most major banks.
Outsource Interface
The i-Pak outsource (Mail House) interface program exports a file containing invoice or statement details that can be sent to an outsourcing company for processing. This allows the Soft-Pak customer to take advantage of discounted printing and postage rates that can be offered by our partners CTP Graphics and DataProse (see partner section).
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