June 20 2021
The pandemic put a spotlight on the crucial role digital transaction management solutions play in keeping America's real estate engine running. Agents and brokers can no longer rely on paper-based transactions. Cloud-based transaction management programs, like Form Simplicity, offer brokers an array of tools to manage better and monitor their agents – and their deals.
Recently, we looked at five of the most common problems that Form Simplicity helps brokers solve. Here are five more common problems that Form Simplicity can help brokers tackle:
Two of the top goals of all brokerages are recruiting new agents and retaining current ones. When brokers focus on agent attraction and retention, Form Simplicity Ultimate Edition can be one of the sharpest arrows in a broker's quiver. You can remove hurdles agents face and reduce out-of-pocket expenses as:
Offering your agents the best edition of Form Simplicity can become a cornerstone of your recruitment and retention efforts.
You can learn more about the Ultimate Edition and broker benefits here.
Brokers who want to mitigate risk focus their efforts on compliance, which can be remarkably time-consuming. Form Simplicity helps you close transactions properly by automatically tracking everything related to a specific transaction and keeping it all in one place for easy access.
By making transactions transparent and keeping communication open, Form Simplicity helps brokers and their agents remain compliant.
With Form Simplicity, everyone who needs to have access to contracts, files, and communications of a transaction can retrieve the information quickly. Form Simplicity's backbone was built for compliance.
By automating the tracking of your transactions with Form Simplicity, brokers can reduce the amount of time they spend on compliance-related issues and reduce the fear of an audit. You can learn more about Form Simplicity and compliance here.
For brokers who hate missing approval deadlines, Form Simplicity keeps you on time and track by showing you the status of your agents' transactions with great detail.
With Form Simplicity, you can set up task lists for your agents' transactions. You also can create templated checklists for agents to use when submitting their documentation for broker review. Agent and broker workflow is improved as brokers can easily approve the submissions or, if needed, communicate with their agents about what is needed next for each transaction.
Form Simplicity allows:
You can learn more about how Form Simplicity can help you improve agent workflow here.
For brokers who want to make sure their transactions are centralized, digitized, and safe, Form Simplicity can help. You can provide your brokerage with an instantly better-organized system based in the cloud. You and your agents will have fast and easy access to all the information related to their transactions by keeping it all in a single digital place.
Nothing will be lost, misfiled, misplaced, or accidentally tossed, as it can happen with a paper-based brokerage. Form Simplicity can help your brokerage accelerate quick adoption, eliminate user confusion and the business delays a poor implementation can cause.
With Form Simplicity, your brokerage will get:
Learn more about Form Simplicity advantages for brokers here.
For brokers who want to make sure all of their transaction documents are safe from unforeseen consequences created by a fire, flood, theft, or other disasters, Form Simplicity stores all documents digitally and securely. For additional protection, files are also stored in redundant locations to prevent digital loss.
Think about what happens in your brokerage every day. Do your agents lock all their file drawers every night? Do you have time to check and make sure?
The chances for loss, theft, or fraud with a paper-based transaction management system versus a digital one are clearly much higher. With bank-grade security, Form Simplicity protects every file that is created or shared online. Only those with permission can access information that is in Form Simplicity. Think of Form Simplicity as your office transaction vault.
Form Simplicity gives brokers:
Here are more ways Form Simplicity helps brokers.
Remember, we packed Form Simplicity with broker management tools and features to help you every step of the way. From its very beginning, Form Simplicity was designed with brokers in mind and the challenges you face every day. Every time we update and improve Form Simplicity, we focus on how new features can help you do your job better.
You can learn more about Form Simplicity Broker tools at formsimplicity.com/brokers.
Tricia Stamper is Director of Technology at Florida Realtors®, which owns and operates Tech Helpline and Form Simplicity.