Merry Christmas.

From Management and all the staff of the Novtel Group we wish you all a Merry Christmas and a prosperous new year.
 • May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace,
 • The gladness of Christmas give you hope,
 • The warmth of Christmas grant you love.
For the Christmas season and the New Year 2012 Novtel are running a special for all the Schools in South Africa the offer we make are as follows:
 • Novtel’s Pastel Statements to web – See Novtel Goes Green article.
 • Novtel Hospitality to manage bookings for:
         — Sport grounds.

         —School residence if applicable.
         —Other school facilities that are rented out.
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  Latest Release: Paperless Customer Statements

The cost to business and organisations to send out statements on a monthly basis can be a costly exercise in the long run especially when 1000 to 2000 statements needs to be accommodated on an monthly basis.
Go green effort with the new Novtel statement solution works as follows:
 • Put Pastel customer statements on the World Wide Web (web).
 • Use Pastel Partner as basis and as direct source of statement information on the web.
 • 100% real time display of Pastel Partner data directly to the web.
 • Create standard web portal for viewing of statements.
 • Interface business or organisation’s website directly with our secure system 128bit encryption.
 • Setup and activate web service on business or organisation Pastel main computer.
 • Automatic creation of login portal for statement receiver directly on web.
 • Allow statement receiver to change contact and login details directly on the web.
 • Printing of statement and invoices directly from the web.
 • Statements are available 24 hours a day 7 days per week, 365 days a year.read     

 
  Featured Articles
     
Terminal Services
 
Authorizations
 
Back Office
Novtel has been using Microsoft’s Terminal services to remotely support their products. “It works extremely well with a low overhead of bandwidth usage” says our CEO Johan Grabe. Some of the benefits of using Terminal Services are the following:
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All clients who use the Novtel products pay a monthly fee per workstation. The fee is deducted by debit order.In cases where no debit order is installed and the client pay by EFT, no auto authorization is allowed. The clients who pay per EFT, must send through proof of payment to allow read more The importance of back office management cannot be emphasized enough. Timely and efficient accountability of work done is the key in management and growth in any business. Without the figures at hand it is so easy to lose control over expenses and read more...  
Tips & Tricks  
Relations Managment
  Water Meter Reading  
 
   
When moving the mouse over bookings on the Novtel grid the detail information of the tenant will be auto displayed on the information box bottom middle of the grid screen, did you know that when pressing Ctrl + I buttons on the keyboard the Invoice related read... 
Novtel Relations Management 2 (due for release June 2012) is packed with new features. This program is being created to assist clients to effectively communicate with their clients and to effectively allow clients to track communications within their companies. This read... The Novtel Meter Reading system is a necessity for any business that has the need to keep track of any meter readings. The system gives you not only the ability to manage your meter readings but also the ability to call up the history of any of your readings. read...  
Development Department
Novtel Property Management
On 10 November 2011 Novtel had a meeting with 5 property management firms in Cape Town
The future software developments of Novtel were under discussion. There is a need to expand the current meter reader system as follows:
  • Provision should be made for more than one meter per property 6 meters will be enough.
 ( http://www.novtel.com/forum/index.php?topic=531.0
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Latest product releases
For product releases for December 2011, click here , locate product and click on latest release.
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