Why use HomeGauge Internet Services?

• Stand out from your competition!
  Provide service to your agents and customers they can't get with another inspector.
• Instantly appear to be "High Tech" to your customers and agents, while we work for you in the background! Your image will be the latest and greatest in service technology.
  
• Add cutting edge technology to your business without any effort/coding on your part!
  Have a whole staff working for you to provide services for your customers and agents, while paying a fraction of the cost for just one staff person.
• Brand your company's name and website by having the agent and buyer come to your site to pick up the report!
  We can place the sign in window on your website. The uploaded report will then link them to your site.
• Build agent loyalty using HomeGauge Services!
  As long as they use you, we will store all their reports for them.
• Get jobs with our inspector search engine!
  Many inspectors get enough jobs from our search results to pay for their HomeGauge Services.
• Never ever lose data!
  Use our upload service — if your computer or backups crash, HG Services can you give you back everything! You lose nothing (all your reports, buyers' contact info, agents' contact info, and your template(s), including your comment library).
• Confirmation of everything that happens to the report!
  HomeGauge tracks when you upload the report, when it was sent out, to whom, when they pick it up, when they forward the report to someone else, when that person views it and more!
• Operate virtually your entire business from one place!
  Online click agreement, appointment scheduling, report delivery and confirmation, payment of the inspection, a website for your company, stats of where you are getting your hits from, backups (automatically) of all your data, and more!
• One support call does it all!
  You can rest assured that you can get help when you need it! HomeGauge provides unmatched support and service for virtually all your business needs.
• Upgrades to the software are free!
  As long as you are in our HomeGauge Services, you get upgrades first (before anyone) and free!
• Unlimited toll free phone support!
  Inspectors using HomeGauge Services get free unlimited toll free support!
  Note: All HomeGauge users get free email and message board support.
  
• Agents love HomeGauge Services!
  Agents can forward the report (with the buyer's permission) quickly and easily. All their reports are stored for them through you. They can access their reports anytime from any computer just by going to your website!

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Some of the unique features of the HomeGauge Internet Services

Upload reports
When you complete a report, you can upload it to the HomeGauge website and email a password protected link to your client and agent, using our automated email delivery system. The home inspection report delivery and retrieval are time-stamped, so you can be sure that the report was viewed and you can document on-time delivery. Your uploaded reports are stored in your password protected vault for up to 5 years.* This is your off-site secondary backup of all your reports that can be accessed by you in seconds from any computer, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. (You can use HomeGauge Inspection Software to upload your finished reports, or upload reports in PDF format.) See what makes our inspection report upload service better. The Internet delivery system makes a great marketing tool because every report you send to that agent gets stored in their password protected vault as well! This saves time you would have spent digging up a 6 month old report — plus the agent loves the immediate access. Now you can call up your agents and tell them they will never have to fax or overnight a report again! You can even send it to the listing agent when permitted by your client, which creates another business lead for you.

Report delivery validation
When you upload a report, a “Time Stamp” is created and posted on your behalf of when the report was uploaded. When you send the link to your customer and agent, you get a time stamp showing when the report delivery notification was sent. When they sign in to view the report you also get a time stamp, which validates that the report was delivered. Enjoy the peace of mind of knowing when they viewed it, or if they didn’t.  

HomeGauge Mobile
With HomeGauge Mobile, use your Pocket PC/Windows Mobile phone, iPhone, or similar device to view report status and more! With your mobile device you can confirm viewing or report pick up, check payment status of any report, confirm electronic agreement signature receipt, edit/give viewing permission, resend email report notifications, and send 3rd party email notifications. Great for checking up on your uploaded reports while on the road! With your mobile device, go to homegauge.com/mobile to get started.

Online calendar/scheduler
You can now have your agents and clients see your available appointment times online and schedule your services at their convenience, using our unique online calendar/scheduler. When a new appointment is made, a notification is immediately sent to your email account and cell phone. If you are using HomeGauge software, the report information can be downloaded into your software. This eliminates double entry and ensures accuracy. Then you can export the report info to QuickBooks and never have to type the basic report info, not even once!

Seller's inspection
Aggressively promote the "seller's inspection" to real estate agents to increase your business. The listing agent can link to your inspection on the HomeGauge site from their listings of the home.

Inspector Web listing and zip code search
Buyers and agents come to our site frequently to search for an inspector by zip code (or state/city/county). Many inspectors say that they get enough inspections a year from their listing to pay for their HomeGauge Services and more. We are listed in many search engines and we get many visitors each day. Your listing will be viewable when the prospective buyer comes to HomeGauge.com and searches by zip code. One call from your search listing can potentially pay for a year of HomeGauge Services!

Schedule appointments
After a customer finds you on the HomeGauge website, let them schedule appointments right there, right then, using your online calendar/scheduler.

Online agreements / electronic signatures
You can require your customer to "Click to Agree" to your inspection contract before allowing them to see the online report. Most licensed states require the contract to be signed before you perform the inspection. Now you can give the buyer or customer easy access to agree to your contract before you arrive at the inspection address. If you thought you were going to get a signature, but didn’t, you can now prevent viewing of the report before they agree to your contract. If they don’t agree, they don’t see the report. It’s that simple!

Radon testing integration and special delivery
Purchase radon kits from HomeGauge and deliver the uploaded results automatically to the client with the inspection report. Increase your profitability on each inspection and provide a more comprehensive service to your client and realtor. With our partner Air Chek (www.radon.com), the radon test results will be delivered automatically to your "My Reports" area beside the report of the home inspected. The client will also automatically receive an email notification when the radon report is online and ready to be viewed. Not only does this save you from entering in the same information again for the radon test, but also saves you from having to check on the status of your radon reports.

Integrated with American Home Warranty
If you provide limited warranties with your inspections through American Home Warranty to help market your business, you can easily assign pre-purchased warranties after you upload your report with just a couple of clicks. Other inspectors that use AHW have to separately send the info to AHW through a fax or by signing in to the AHW website. With HomeGauge, the information from the report is sent to AHW and the warranty is automatically filled in from the report information.

Accept credit cards online
We have created a service to accept credit card payments online. Use our Force Payment feature to block viewing of any uploaded report until payment has been made. If a customer has not made the payment, they will be able to pay online and view the report right away — even at 3 in the morning! Virtually eliminate collections by forcing payment before they can view the report.

Your own website
Having your own website shows the customer and agent that you are a professional. Build your own website with no experience needed. Update the look or content of the website at any time. Some sample websites made using our builder: http://foundationsmhi.com - http://homesafewtn.com - http://hcisllc.com - http://mioreport.com - many more templates are available!

Build your own website with our HomeGauge Website Builder! To try it out, sign up for a free trial account. Then login to HomeGauge.com, and click on the "My Website" link.

Virus and spam filtered email addresses
Use a browser to read and set up different email addresses for your company. All email will pass through a virus and spam filter

Statistics reported for all visitors to your website
You can view how much traffic is coming to your website and which pages they are visiting. The web stats also let you know where they are coming from and is very helpful when paying for advertising at other sites, or for watching search engine activity. The stats page helps you budget your advertising dollars by knowing where you are pulling in the most hits.

Access to our inspector only message boards
Communicate with other inspectors in our Message Board Community to discuss important issues that affect us all. It's a place where inspectors can come together for help, insight, questions and true teamwork. Sharing problems, ideas, goofs, and "unusual finds" keeps us all sharp and continually learning.

*Note: If you upload your report using the PDF format, only the PDF file will be uploaded. This means that you will not be able to download that report in the future in a form that can be opened and edited directly in HomeGauge Software (uploading in the standard html format is required for that purpose). However, your PDF report will be backed up for 5 years and will be easily accessible at any time. Only the html format documents that include the main report will be downloadable to be opened and edited in the HomeGauge Software.