Increase Speed, Reduce Paperwork
ARS offers three different options for managing preliminary notices. Each option builds upon the first and successively reduces the workload on the client’s end. The goal is to eliminate as much redundant paperwork and manual entry as possible.
What is RWS
RWS or "Remote Worksheet" is a term created by ARS to facilitate in the collection and management of preliminary notice information. This term is actually a throwback to earlier versions of our electronic preliminary notice software that was wildly successful in the early nineties. The "Remote" part originates from the customer being remote to ARS as opposed to local and the "Worksheet" part originates from the name of the base form used to collect and manage preliminary notice data. Going forward, everything is now hosted on the web and available 24-7, but the name still remains applicable and recognized in the industry.
Many Options
RWS Web Level I
Our 24/7 accessible web forms allow ease in entering, managing and tracking notice requests, with logging, reporting and record-keeping. Our hosted database sub files make repetitive manual entry of lenders, owners and contractors lightning fast and managers love our ability to provide differential access, individualized reporting and waiver creation to users by login. RWS Web at its basic level is the perfect solution for small companies with occasional noticing needs and lesser technical expertise.
RWS Web Level II
Asset Research Services, Inc. at its second level of service allows companies wishing to forgo manual web entry of preliminary notices to extract raw notice requests from their system and have that data imported into RWS Web electronically. Exchange files are extremely simple and follow industry-standard CSV-formats. Extract files can be uploaded to our server 24/7 for immediate import and processing usually within the hour and always on the next ARS working day if ARS is closed. RWS Web on the second level is a great option for medium-sized companies with medium-sized noticing needs and moderate technical expertise.
RWS Web Level III
Asset Research Services on its third level of service allows companies to utilize ARS automation resources. These resources include the ability to automatically track job dollar value thresholds and make quick decisions about what needs to be noticed and when. In addition, ARS’s system can notify via email when original preliminary notice amounts are exceeded by subtotaled invoices.
RWS Web Level IV* Partnership Program
Conducting business profitably as a Preliminary Notice Service in today’s market is difficult at best. Steadily rising overhead for technology and human resources, increasingly complex state laws, a litigious business environment and a smaller new-construction market, all make doing so a considerable challenge. Imagine your preliminary notice service doing what it does best – maintaining and growing your relationships with your customers on the "front-end", and leaving all the data management, verification research, creation and mailing to a trusted service in the "back". Asset Research Services at its fourth and commercial level of service is exactly that. By full utilization of RWS WEB Level III EDI technology, our significant human and technical resource set becomes yours on demand, completely invisible to your customer base, doing the grunt work of filing notices with time-proven integrity, at a cost efficiency you never imagined, all with you at the helm. Sound unbelievable? Believe it, we’ve been making other services profitable for years.