Realtor Increases Efficiency And Client Service In The Field With Mobile Phax

Jeffrey Douglass describes himself as “a reformed/recovering manager of a large real estate brokerage and now the Owner/Broker of RealtyV2, in San Diego, California.”

We met Jeffrey on Twitter and turns out he has uncovered some pretty cool uses for Mobile Phax.

As a Realtor, Jeffrey spends a lot of time out in the field, meeting with clients, showing properties and as is necessary in his business a lot of paperwork.  Jeffrey has a portable scanner/copier that he takes with him sometimes to client meetings but he’s recently started using Mobile Phax on his iPhone to accomplish many of the tasks he used to do with his portable scanner.

Now, when he’s meeting with a client and they would like to send a counteroffer, or give a check as a good faith deposit, instead of pulling out his portable scanner, taking his laptop out of the bag, booting them both up and scanning the document or check, he just pulls out his iPhone and sends it as a Phax.

The counteroffer or check is sent, and the recipient receives it right away and when he gets back to his desk, his copy is waiting there for him as a PDF.

We like the idea that Realty 2.0 includes Mobile Phax.  Our bet is that Mobile Phax is going to be part of a lot of businesses being reinvented over the next few years.

Are you using Mobile Phax in an interesting way?  We’d love to hear from you at press at miteksystems dot com.

Also, if like Jeffrey, you’re on Twitter, find us there at Twitter.com/MitekSystems

Mobile Receipt – Part of a road warrior’s suite of travel apps

Phil Covert travels quite a bit in his role as a Director at a SAAS, software as a service, company. Since he’s on the road so often, he has put together his own suite of Apps that he uses on his iPhone when he travels for work.

Mobile Receipt is as important a part of his travel suite as Flight Status, Yelp and Southwest Airlines.

Here’s what Phil had to say about Mobile Receipt:
“Mobile Receipt is a fantastic product for the iPhone that has greatly improved my productivity while traveling on business.   Now, instead of taping and faxing receipts, I just take a picture of them and Mobile Receipt creates an expense report for me.”

“Then I insert that report directly into the ADP Concur software used by our company which allows receipts to be entered electronically.  I’m done.”

What Apps do you use when you’re on the road for business? If you’re using Mobile Receipt let us know at press at miteksystems dot com.

PS – Phil it looks like you have two missed calls

Helping business get down to business, one app at a time – Our app is Mobile Receipt

Those aren’t our words. Those are Apple‘s. If you were reading the Wall Street Journal this morning and turned over the front section, you would have seen this:

Page A24 of the Wall Street Journal on October 14

Look in the left column. That’s Mobile Receipt. This ad captured what we are doing with Mobile Receipt and all of the apps in Oomph, Office On My Phone, our suite of apps for mobile professionals.

If you’re having trouble reading the text of the ad with their description of Mobile Receipt, here you go:

“$4.99 – Keep business receipts organized. Use your iPhone to snap a photo of a paper receipt and it will automatically scale, crop and digitally save it in one tidy place.” We would like to add that it also quickly and easily formats it into an expense report.

Like the ad says, get down to business, go buy Mobile Receipt in the App store.

What’s Hot in Banking Technology? Mobile Deposit

We know that Mobile Deposit is great, and have known that for a little while, but turns out we’re not the only ones. The Wall Street Journal asked several mobile industry luminaries about the hot trends.  Our favorite was from Christine Barry of Aite Group:

DIRECT DEPOSIT: As electronic banking takes off, depositing physical checks becomes more and more of a hassle. The solution: “remote deposit capture,” which enables a customer to bank an electronic image of a check. Once available only to corporate customers, the technology is moving into the consumer market. Financial-services giant USAA has made it available to customers, who use a scanner to send in copies of checks, while a technology vendor, Mitek Systems Inc., has an application for smart phones that captures check images and sends them directly to a bank.

Thank you Christine. We think it’s pretty hot too. The complete article is here.

Great Moments in Customer Returns – Mobile Receipt & Best Buy

We thought we had thought of most of the ways people would use Mobile Receipt. We were way off.  Mobile Receipt users are apparently incredibly creative.  Below is from a customer email we received.
“I went to Best Buy to return an item and didn’t have my receipt.  I asked if a PDF of the receipt would work.  The customer service rep said yes, but how would we view it.

I said, “Wait!”
He was so impressed, he called his co-worker over.  He said he had an iPhone but didn’t know about this application and was going to get it.  Fortunately for me, the receipt was all he needed to do my exchange.”

How are you using Mobile Receipt in a way we probably didn’t think of?  Send us a note at press at miteksystems dot com or post a comment here.

See Mobile Receipt in Action

We get asked how does Mobile Receipt work?  Hopefully this video will help out a bit:

Mobile Receipt is part of our Oomph suite of products. Oomph? Office On My PHone.  You don’t always have a computer and a scanner with you, but you usually have your phone.

Have a video of how you used Mobile Receipt? Post a link in comments below.

TotalApps Likes Mobile Receipt!

“Mobile Receipt employs the camera on your iPhone to take photos of your receipts. The application then converts the photo into a high quality image and with a single touch, converts the data into a professional looking expense report.”

We couldn’t have said it better ourselves. Well, we don’t have to, because David Johns of TotalApps did it for us.  He took a complete look at Mobile Receipt in his review.

His review has a lot of great screenshots of Mobile Receipt and great information about the product. What are you waiting for?

There’s a lot of Oomph around here

You’re going to see quite a few references to “Oomph,” here.  What’s Oomph?   Office On My Phone or Oomph for short. Say it with me “Oomph.” OK, see that wasn’t so hard.

Oomph is a powerful suite of applications that basically buys you time: Mobile Phax, Mobile Receipt, and Mobile Deposit. Office on your phone and in your pocket.  Apps are small applications that do small things very well.  We’ve got that. We’re going to have more coming up.

If you have questions about our Oomph, or our apps, send us a note at info@miteksystems dot com.