ScanChex specializes in giving its subscribers an inexpensive & easy to implement means to get Independent Verification that your important assets and other critical items are being checked by your designated employees at the right time and at the right location.

Examples of how ScanChex might be utilized includes:

1.  Companies in any industry could use ScanChex to manage the prescribed servicing and routine inspection & maintenance of their critical assets that, if not carried out on a timely basis, could jeopardize the viability of their ongoing operations, such as Hotels, Attractions, Security Companies, Manufacturers and Municipalities. For example:
   • When last was the generator checked, and by whom?
   • Was the store opened up on time for business?
   • Did the restocking clerk miss one of the vending machines?
   • Were all four sides of a vacant house checked or just the front?
   • Were my pets fed on time while I was away on vacation?
2. Service maintenance companies could monitor their field technicians, helping to ensure that they are showing up for appointments on a timely basis, and alerting both management and their customers of any potential delays via emails or text messaging, helping to protect and enhance the company’s reputation tardy in carrying it out, and because each tag is geo-coded it must be scanned from the pre-established location.

2. ScanChex is a perfect solution to help healthcare providers ensure that patient visits are scheduled and maintained on a timely basis, providing independent verification to satisfy compliance protocols for all levels of care, mitigating audits for improper questionable practices.
3. Construction companies could use ScanChex to help confirm that their critical staff and sub-contractors are reporting to various job sites when they should
4. In Agribusiness, where management can receive independent verification that critical operations are being carried out by all levels of staff on a timely basis, thus enhancing productivity.

ScanChex® simply lets you know when an assigned individual has not shown up to do their prescribed task or is

ScanChex goes further, in that:

• Before they leave your facility, you can be sure that your employees will be fully equipped to service the customer with all the parts &/or other components that they’ll need to properly carry out their assigned tasks
• Clear and easy to follow driving directions are implemented helping to save time and money
•  Your employee will have at his or her disposal full documentation available such as schematics, help guides, technical references and the like to help save time and money as well as to deliver the kind of top-notch service that you would want
• Multiple detail written & voice notes, in addition to photographs and videos may fully documented on each ticket
• Customer sign-off and payments can be taken by your employee, helping to reduce accounts receivable
• As your employee wraps up their current job, an email notification can automatically be sent to the next customer along with your employees ID so they’ll know who to expect

ScanChex also provides a variety of management reports ranging from missed scan notifications, packing slips, employee schedules to employee speeding advisories, just to name a few.

ScanChex is a subscription, cloud based ‘Software as a Service’ which means that there is no software to download, and you can access the platform anywhere there is an internet connection.
Additionally, ScanChex is designed to be up and running in a matter of minutes without the need for specialized equipment and utilizes everyday smart phones as the scanning device.
ScanChex allows you to use our service in 6 broad categories:

• Asset Inspections
• Personnel Monitoring
• Check Out – Check In
• Service, Maintenance and Repair industry
• Healthcare industry
• The pet care industry

After three years in development, and having employed the highest standards of programming and security, you can be assured that our services are constantly being improved as the company rolls out new features and improvements, always staying on the cutting edge of the latest technological advances.

ScanChex, Inc is based in Miami, Florida, United States.

System Requirements

• Any computer with an internet connection
• A printer for reports if desired
• A smart phone

The ScanChex smart phone application (“App”) is currently available for on both the Android and iPhone platforms, and can be downloaded from the Google Play Store and Apple’s iTunes respectively.

Following are the System Requirements for each platform:

I-Phone:

In order to take full advantage of the features of the iPhone, we recommend that the latest version (7.0 or above) be installed. Some of these features are:

• constantly updating the location of the employees and clients and
• show the direction with interactive maps,
• push notification messaging

Any versions lower than 7.0 might have some errors in the GPRS mapping system.

Android:

In order to take full advantage of the features of an Android device, we recommend that the latest version (7.0 or above) be installed. Some of these features are:

• constantly updating the location of the employees and clients and
• show the direction with interactive maps,
• push notification messaging

Any versions lower than 7.0 might have some errors in the GPRS mapping system.

Company: US Property & Maintenance Services, Inc

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Requirements:

An overview of the steps required to set up your account and get started:

Register:

To avail the services of ScanChex, every customer is required to register, and we do offer a FREE 15 Days trial account to explore our services – this time period will help ensure that ScanChex is right for your business and your assigned account executive will help you configure and implement a proper trial along with goals within a limited area of your operation (please see our suggested Trial Period Guidelines which will help you during this time.

Click on the “Learn more” link to view a briefly video explaining what ScanChex is all about. Already explored the options? Click on the “TRY it FREE!” link to sign up today and enjoy 15 days free of charge.

 

Create an Account:

To register for your 15 Days FREE trial Account:

• Complete the registration form with correct information. The email address given should be up-to-date, as the confirmation email will be sent to you there, along with your account number and temporary password (which you will be able to change once you log in).
• All entries with * are mandatory.
• Check out the Monthly Packages that ScanChex offers chose the one that fits your business the best.
• Read the Term and Conditions that apply before you register.
• Select the Check box to agree with the terms and conditions.

Registration Successful:

Registration is complete. Kindly check the email that you have provided to obtain your account number and for temporary login details.

• You will need to change this temporary password once you log in.

Registration Email Confirmation:

• Check for an email from ScanChex, confirming your Registration.
• Kindly check your Junk Folder and authorize emails from ScanChex to land in your Inbox.

Open the email for your login details.

Login Details:

• The email received from ScanChex contains your Login details.
• A unique Customer ID is assigned to you by ScanChex, which both you and your employees will need as part of your login credentials.
• Username is the same as you entered in your registration form.
• Your password is auto-generated by ScanChex. You can change it once you login for the first time.
• Click on the link “Log in here” in your email. This will redirect to you login page on scanchex.net.

To log in to your Account:

• Type your Customer ID which you received in your confirmation email.
• Type your Username that you have provided at the time of registration.
• Type your Password form the confirmation email.
• Click on Sign In button to Login your Account.

When you Login for the first time you can change the temporary password which was auto-generated and sent to you in the Registration Confirmation Email. The password should be unique and alphanumeric. And meet the following minimum criteria:

• Be at least 8 characters in length
• Contain at least 1 capitalized character and
• Contain at least 1 numeric or other special character (eg !#@&)

Each user (Administrator, Supervisor or Employee) will each have their own password, but will need the Company ID to be able to log in.

• Your password is changed – write it down carefully and safely so you won’t forget it!

Just in case you forgot your password, you will need to change it by the following this procedure:

• Click on the on the “Forgot Your Password” Link on your main Login page
• Enter the email you used to initially create your account
• Check your email for the temporary password sent
• Log in with this password
• You will be asked to change it when you log in

Check your Email for the new Log in details for your account. Use the Customer ID, Username and new temporary password to log in to your ScanChex Account.

You can change your password to your desired one by going to the “Utilities Tab” and click on “Password Change”.

Once logged in, you can logout from your account by clicking on the Green “Log out”button on the top left. This will end your session immediately and automatically re-display the main “Log In” screen, where you can log in again, should you wish. Any completed work you have done will be saved automatically once you are logged out.

When you are logged in successfully, you will be taken automatically to the Control Panel. This is the ‘heart’ of the system – from here you can navigate around the 4 main menus, in addition to being able to see the following three (3) main ‘panels’ at a glance:

• Map Panel

• Color coded employee symbols on the map showing current location or last known location if not logged in
• Color coded ticket flags reflecting the status of each ticket (overdue, in progress, completed, etc)
• Various ‘tab’s which become ‘active’ once a ticket has been selected in the ticket panel.

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• Calendar Panel:

• Color coded tickets on dates due.
• Simply grab and hold the ticket and move to a new time to change the start time &/or duration
• You can configure the system to send an email to both your customer and employee when any time change has been made as described above
• Click on any date to expand the calendar to more detail

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• Ticket Panel:

• Ticket information with detail such as Customer, asset information, start time, employee assigned, status flags
• Can filter tickets by employee, date, status
• Add or edit tickets, assign services etc, inclusive of re-assigning employees

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Additionally, there is a “MESSAGES” button at the very top which is where you can send a message to any or all of your employees instantly and from them directly to you. An alert symbol contain the number of unread messages will be show beside it, if this is the case.

The top band also contains the menu items in addition to the other short cut buttons: CONTROL PANEL, MESSAGES, TICKETS, LOG OUT. Your name and current time (at your logged in location) is also shown.

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Finally, just below the menu, you will see a message indicating:

• When you last logged in (as a security feature)
• When your current subscription expires

The website Interface will give you access to Add / Edit / Delete your Employees, Components, Services, Customers, Profile, Tickets and your Assets.

You can manage your View / Edit / Print your QR codes, Reports and Employees performance.

You can upload the Requirements, Questions, Documentations, Videos and audios that are required for your employees to carry out the efficient work in minimum amount of time.

The Website interface will give you full command over all your business modules, including to ability to send messages to any or all of your employees instantly and update their work priorities.

Here a glance of the main control panel of your ScanChex Account.

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Main Menu:

The main menu contains four tabs, “Maintain”, “Reports”, “Utilities” and “Help”. These tabs have menu items grouped according to the type of functionality and which will give you easy access to the specific action you wish to carry out:

• Maintain contains functionality to create and manage your Assets, Customers, Employees etc, in addition to your Profile settings– these are your default settings
• Reports provides you will all the reports necessary for keeping track and records of your business.
• Utilities provides you with backup & restore, import and export utilities.
• Help provides access to this Help Guide in addition to how to get support as well as a place where you can report issues and even request feature you think would be beneficial to all users.

As stated before, the very first time you log in, there are a few things that you will need to do, to set up your account properly:

• Complete your profile
• Add at least one employee
• Add At least 1 customer
• Add at least one asset

In fact, in keeping with the above, the system will guide you through these steps,the first time of you log in (after you have changed your password from the temporary one).

The screenshot below shows the employee panel containing your own information. A server message is displayed on the top of the panel reminding you that you need to add at least one employee. Note that your information is already added for you here as the “Administrator”, shown as “Admin” under the “Level” column.

The Main Control tabs are always on the top of every screen:

• The “Control Panel”tab will guide you to your Control panel where you can see all the current activities, add and assign tickets, etc.
• The “Message” tab will open you chat panel where you can send messages to any or all of the employees. These messages will be shown as push massages on their devices. Any unread messages (and number)will be indicated by a red circle
• The “Add Ticket” tab allows you to add tickets any time you want.

These will be described in greater detail later in this guide.

Finally, on the top right of the side, the current time according to your time zone is displayed.

The Profile settings are very important in that it contains the information that will reflect on almost every section of your account.

In updating your profile, you will upload your logos, default settings, create and maintain your documents library, default questions for your employees, and many more. Updating is very important as you information will reflect on your statements, reports, employee cards etc.

Here is a step by step guide to update your Profile settings.

1. Open the Maintain tab and click on Profile link.

Edit or Update your contact information. This information will be displayed on your statements, reports and employee ID cards. The Account Summary will show you the package that you are presently subscribed to, along with the maximum capacities allowed within the package as well as show how many of each you are currently using and how many you have left. These include:

• Number of unique assets allowed
• Number of checkpoints
• Number of Administrators
• Number of Customers
• Number of Locations
• Number of Employees

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2. You can upgrade your monthly package by clicking on the upgrade link and select the package best suited for your business. You can subscribe for your monthly package instantly. See the Monthly package payment option for more details.
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3. Assets added to your account are summarized and compared against the package you have subscribed for, leaving the amount available– show in a separate line.

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4. You can also cancel your account when you click on the cancel link on your profile page. Confirm your selection if you are sure you want to cancel your account permanently.

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5. Click on the Questions Tab on the top of your Profile panel to enter the Questions that you require your employees to answer before the start a job. These questions can be any, like ask your employees if they carry all the tools with them before leaving for the service of the asset.

6. Click on Add button to start adding your Questions into to your profile.

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7. Write the Questions in the Question section and choose the type of answer for the question that your employee has to submit.

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8. There are 3 types of answer choices available.

• Yes / No- the answer of the question will be either yes or no
• Multiple Choices- you can add multiple answer to the questions from which the employee must choose
• Written Answer-your employee will right the full detail for the questions

9. Save the answer of the questions.

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10. You can update these questions and their answers any time you want by clicking on Update button in the end of each question. You can also add more questions.

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11. The next step is to add the documents.

12. Click on the Documents tab and then add. Your Employees can read these documents anytime through their devices at the time of need. These documents can be your rule or guide book, manuals or anything which might help your employees to perform best.

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13. Select the Document you want to upload by clicking on the Choose File button. Navigate to where the file is located on your computer and then click upload to upload the document.

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14. The documents will appear in your Document panel where you can Edit or delete them.

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15. The last step in the set up process is set some additional default information as follows

• Prefix Ticket ID
• Inspection and Travel Time
• Set your Date format for your system
• Your own desired Encryption Key used to encrypt your data
• Default cancellation Reasons
• Select whether or not notifications are sent upon Ticket Creation, a ticket being rescheduled or when the employee is on his way.
• Enter the email of your company officials who will receive the alert notifications on various ticket statuses.
• Upload your Company Screen and Reports Logo, Employee Card and QR Tag logo as you want them to display on your reports, statements and employee cards – see note below

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Let’s look at each of these settings in turn:

Click Save to save the changes you made in to profile settings.

The first Step you are required to perform is to add employees for your company. In this section you can Add / Edit / Delete your employees and assign username and password. The username and password is required by the employee to login to the application on their mobile devices. Once logged in successfully, they are able to perform their required tasks according to the services set on each ticket by the manager / administrator.

Some of the features include:

• Preview ticket information and work to be done
• Use the mapping feature to get driving directions
• Send / receive messages from the Administrator
• Access a full library of documentation such as schematics
• Make written & voice notes, in addition to videos & images
• Review prior ticket history

Following is a step by step guide to demonstrate how to add and modify an employee.

1. Click on the Maintain Tab and click “Employee”.

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Or if the window is already being displayed, click on the Add button to start adding your company Employees.

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2. Enter your Employee’s First Name, Last Name, and Email ID.

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3. Choose the level of your Employee. There are currently three levels:

a. Manager
b. Supervisor
c. Employee

The Manager level employees have full access to the entire scanchex.net ‘back-end’ to administer the system and perform any function such as adding tickets, customers, assets run reports etc.

Managers and Supervisor level employees have access to a special administration panel of the mobile application where they can perform certain functions such as the ability to take new asset pictures and pin-point its physical location more accurately.

The Employee Level represents your mobile workforce., responsible for actually doing the work as contained on each ticket.

4. Choose the status of your Employee.

a. Active
b. Inactive

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If the employee is available to work set this to Active.

If an employee is not working with your company in this position again, set this status to Inactive.

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5. Enter the Username and Password for the Employee. This Username and Password will be used by the employee to login to their devices to carry out their assigned tasks.

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6. The Username and the Email of all Employees should be unique as the system will verify if either Username or Email ID of any employee matches with any others, within your organization.

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7. Upload the Picture of the Employee. The picture option is used for making the Employee Cards for their verification purposes, and for the best resolution you should make the size 300×300 pixels / dpi.

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8. Click on “Save and Add New” button on the bottom of the page to add a new Employee of your company.

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9. All the Employees of your company are shown in your Employee Panel where you can see their information and Add/Edit/Delete your Employees.

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10. To Edit / Update and Employee, simply double click on the name of the employee you wished to update and or click on “Edit” button on top of the panel, after selecting the employee first.

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11. Update the information of your employee. The username and password can also be updated. Click save when you finish updating the current employee.

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12. To print the Employee Card simply click on the name of the employee in the Employee panel and click the button Edit. In the Update User page you will see a button on the button of the page “Print ID”. Click on Print ID.

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13. A separate window will open with the Employee card. The Employee card will show Employee’s Name, Designation, Picture, Your Address and a QR Code. This QR code is unique to this particular employee and allows him or her to scan in in cases where:

• The customer is going to a new customer who may not have an QR tag on the asset
• There is a QR tag but it has been damaged in some way, and is not adequately scan-able.

There is also an area for you to add your company’s logo which is needed for your employees ID card.For the best resolution this image needs to be.
This is added under your company’s profile.

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14. To Delete an Employee you need to go to your Employee Panel. Select the Employee you which to delete and click on the Delete Button next to Add / Edit.

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15. This will permanently delete your Employee from the system. The system will reconfirm before deleting any employee as to be sure whether the button is clicked by mistake or not.

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ScanChex is ‘customer based’ and you can add as many customers as you want, depending on your monthly package. Your customers may be located anywhere in the world and each will have a designated time zone.

Following is a step by step guide to help you create your customers properly.

1. Open the Maintain tab and click on the Customer link.

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2. You will see a summary customer panel, which will list any previously entered customers. To add a new customer, click on Add button on the top of your panel.

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3. Enter the complete customer’s details. Note that the longitude and latitude fields are automatically created.

4. You can enter multiple addresses for the same customer. You can enter different managers for each location with their email and telephone numbers. All this information is required for your employee to reach on the specific location and for payment options.

5. The interactive map will pin-point your customer’s location visually.

6. Click Save and Add new to add more customers.

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7. The information will be saved in your account. Click OK to add the next customer.

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8. You can Add you customers later also by clicking the add button on the top of your panel.

9. If you wish to Edit / Update some specific customer information select the customer from the summary panel and click the Edit button. This will allow you to make changes to that customer’s information. Click save in the end to confirm the changes.

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10. If you want to delete any customer form your system, you can select the customer form your panel, click on delete button on the top of the panel. The server will confirm and your selection. Your customer will be deleted from your account. If there are any active tickets pending on the customer’s account, you will be notified.

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Services are comprised of components or parts

As shown below the components A .. Z are what comprises Service #123.

Services are placed on your tickets for your employees to perform, and you have the ability to print a packing slip for so that you can be sure the employee takes the correct components (and quantity) to ensure that the work is done efficiently, without back and forth to the office to get the parts needed.

Additionally, you can track your component costs, and also assign a retail value for your customers. As your employee works through a ticket, they check off each service as it is completed, so you are able to keep track of the progress they are making.

You can have as many services as your company needs, and each can be comprised of as many components or parts as required.

This section is intended to guide you through the procedures to set up the components and services needed by your company.

To maintain your components (Add, Edit, Delete), simply select “Components” from the Maintain menu.

1. Select the Maintain menu and click on “Components”.

2. You will see the Components Panel. Click on the Add button on the top of the panel to add your first component.

3. Enter the Component ID, Description of the component, Cost and Retail of the item and the Supplier. The Component ID should be unique and not match any other component ID used before.

4. After Adding all the information for the component, click Save and Add New to add the next component.

5. After adding all the components, you can see those components in the summary panel with the description of each component.

6. The components panel also stores the information regarding the Last Use, Last use by and total component used to Date. You will find this information useful by helping you to keep track of how many components are used and in how much quantity.

7. Once you add components to your service you will see the service that uses that specific component. Choose the service for each component. All the components will reflect in your services. If any of the components are required for the asset you can choose when you generate the ticket.

9. If you wish to Edit / Update some specific component information select the component from the summary panel and click the Edit button. This will allow you to make changes to that component’s information. Click save in the end to confirm the changes.

10. If you want to delete any component form your system, you can select the component form your panel, click on delete button on the top of the panel. The server will confirm and your selection. Your component will be deleted from your account. If there are any active tickets pending using the component, you will be notified.

Services are where you record all the service that you provide for your customers. You can populate your services and add the components that make up or comprise this each particular service.

Here are the steps to populate the Services you need for your organization:

1. Open the Maintain tab and click on the services link.

2. You will see the summary Service’s panel. Click on Add button to start adding services.

3. Enter your Service Code, Description and Default Estimated time. The Service Code should be unique and not match any other assigned code.

4. Choose the components that are related to the service.

5. Enter the Quantity of the component.

6. Click Save and Add New Service to add the next service that your company provides.

7. The Service is added to your account. Click OK to add the next service.

8. Once you finish adding all the services, you can see them populated in the summary Service Panel.

9. In the Service Panel you will see the Components on the right hand side. The Components are shown in the drop down menu. The last option in drop down menu is add more components. You can easily add more components in your service by clicking on “Add More”.

10. By clicking on the Add more you will see the list of components you have already added in your Components section. You can choose the desired components that you need to add to this particular service by clicking the check box. Enter the Quantity of the Components that are required for the service. Click “Save” and the new components are added to your service.

11. To Edit / Update Services, select the service, click on the Edit tab on the top of your Services Panel.

12. After updating the service, click Save to save the changes.

13. You can delete any service you desire at any time you want. If that service is currently used on a ticket, the system will inform you that it is currently active. Select a service that you wish to delete, click the Delete button on the top of your service panel. Confirm your selection to be deleted.

14. Your service is deleted from the system. The components that were a part of the service will be updated automatically.

This Section of ScanChex will help you in populating your assets.

1. Open Maintain tab and click on Asset link.Add an image to open asset
2. Click on the Add button on the top of your summary asset panel to start populating your Assets.Add Image to add asset
   
   Please note the following:

   • Company ID, Create Date and Assigned Asset ID are all automatically created.
   • Assigned Asset ID is a long unique alphanumeric code automatically assigned according to the following schema:
   •                                                           CC-999999-XXXX-YYYY-ZZZZ

     Where:

     CC           = COUNTRY CODE

     9999999                  = UNIQUE ACCOUNT NUMBER

     XXXX    = CUSTOMER ID

     YYYY    = LOCATION CODE FOR THIS CUSTOMER

     ZZZZ       = ASSET CODE AT THIS LOCATION

3. LONGITUDE and LATITUDE is computed from the address entered and may actually be refined in the Map window to the right
4. This fine-tuning is useful for large properties such as farms and industrial complexes where a single address is not adequateenough and may actually be quite far from the recorded street address