City of Battle Creek, MI
The list of high points and benefits of BS&A’s tax/assessing software are many. Here is a bullet list of just a few:
- User-friendly screen / information access;
- Compatibility of the databases, including links;
- Ease for making changes; tracking of same (prime example are Board of Review changes that can be automatically imported to the tax file instead of entering each one manually);
- Ability to create custom documents (such as tax bills);
- Compliance with state tax law (and changes that come along);
- Sorting capabilities that leads to ease of blocking data for reports;
- Many reports and processes that make my job so much easier;
- Ability to move between databases with ease.
Features I like include:
- Board of Review changes made in Assessing can be automatically imported to tax database;
- Linked fields allow name and/or address changes to made in only one database but carried through to the other databases (or not if you do not want it);
- Changing receipt posting date on tax payments by block when we made a mistake;
- Importing parcel information from tax file (by blocking marked parcels) to create new parcels set up a new special assessment roll in the S.A. database;
- Quick entry feature for marking parcels;
- Overpayment/underpayment report to find potential problem parcels;
- Database compare between assessing and taxes for ease of locating balancing problems.