Universal is a cost effective residential sales software system, which has been designed to be simple to use but effective in helping estate agents and property management companies manage their offices, and get property details to customers quickly and economically.

There are several software packages on the market, with most of them requiring a substantial financial investment up front (especially to get a copy on each PC in the office), hefty ongoing charges and long contractual commitments. With Universal there is no large up front fee to find, the license is branch based so all PC's in the office can have a copy and no minimum contract period.

Universal (Sales) retails for a small monthly payment per branch and includes telephone support, property search for your website, branch synchronisation and upgrades. The additional costs of leased lines is not required, as all property details are automatically synchronised between branches via the Internet so all properties from all offices can be displayed and printed in any branch.

There is also a property search screen that can interface with touch screen technology, allowing your customers to search all properties from all branches themselves.

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Sophisticated applicant matching and emailing can save thousands of pounds a year in printing and mailing costs, and ensures that property details (including full details and images) are sent to customers quickly and efficiently. Match new properties to all existing applicants and e-mail them all in seconds with full property particulars. For applicants without e-mail addresses or do not wish to be contacted by e-mail, the applicant matching can produce summary sheets with images for traditional posting.

New applicants can also be matched with existing properties in the same manner. When a customer receives an e-mail, summary descriptions of all properties with an image are displayed in the received e-mail (the images are linked seamlessly from Thesaurus servers and are not sent with each e-mail, as the overheads needed in bulk emailing would be excessive). A full description hyperlink is also available for each property, displaying all internal room descriptions and additional images.

The package includes a customisable property search for your company web site and the ability to update it instantaneously at the click of a button. There is no need to change your ISP/Webmaster as Thesaurus can supply the code needed to imbed in your existing site. Click here to see examples of live customer property searches.

Universal can also upload you properties to many of the UK's most popular web portals such as Rightmove, Prime Location and many others on a daily basis. Subscription to the Universal software includes uploading to two portals, click here for available portals:

Producing customised sales particulars is simple. Universal comes with over 70 standard templates that can be simply edited to accommodate individual needs using the Microsoft Word interface. Once standard templates have been created, as many copies of window cards/full details/summary sheets can be produced as required.

Used in conjunction with a digital camera and colour laser printer, Universal assists estate agents in the production of sales particulars, advertising copy, generation of standard letters, forms and mailing lists. From initial valuation, through viewings and final notification of sale, Universal enables the tracking and production of documents on all aspects of property sales. Advertising dialogues allow you to create, print and monitor advertising literature.

An integrated diary enables staff to be aware of all appointments/viewings/meetings for everyone within the office. Accompanied viewings, financial advice, keys handover, valuations and many others meetings can be put into the diary for effective time/date management.

The diary enable users to follow up viewings that have taken place, so you can keep track of the appointments in section.

The reminders dialog gives an overview of outstanding personal and office tasks to be performed. Some of the example reminders are:

• Tenancy Renewal
• Landlords to follow up
• Applicants to Follow Up
• Gas/Electric/PAT/Fire safety certificates
• Viewings to follow up
• Unconfirmed viewings
• Tasks