Building Permit User Group

We’ve had several questions recently regarding when we will be scheduling another session  for users of the Building Permit application.  We’re tentatively planning on having one in late August or early September.  But the actual date will be dependent on the response and availability of users.  So email us and suggest possible dates and/or specific days of the week that work best for you and we’ll let you know the details as we get feedback.  Meantime, we’ve almost finalized the next update — the details of which and distribution date will be forthcoming.  Thanks for your help.

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Lease Transfers: Owner to Owner vs. Lease to Lease

There is some confusion about when to select Owner to Owner vs. Lease to Lease in regards to processing a lease transfer for a customer who wants to transfer plates from their old leased vehicle to their new leased vehicle.

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Clerk/MV Hybrid Electric (HEV) Fuel Type

DMV has notified us that they will be adding a new fuel type of “H” for the Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV). This change will not require a system update from Avitar, as the Clerk system enables you to edit the fuel types maintained in your system.  Here’s how to do it…

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Important Information — Value Calculation Year

We recently discovered that several of our towns had incorrectly changed the Value Calculation Year while updating the current use rates and equalization ratio.

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Tax Bill Refresher Course

It’s tax billing time again. So, in order to assist you, we have created a document that will walk you through the process step by step. The document is not intended to replace the information in the Tax Collect manual or help file, but to be used as a quick reference. If you find you need more help on a topic listed, you can find the information in the manual or help file or give us a call.

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Online Dog & Motor Vehicle Renewals for Clerk Browser Municipalities

As you may know, Avitar and Invoice Cloud have partnered to provide our Clerk/MV clients with the ability to offer online motor vehicle and dog license renewals. Beyond just a typical online shopping cart, Invoice Cloud’s Electronic Invoice Presentment & Payment (EIPP) enables customers to opt to receive renewal notices by email and to view their entire invoice history online, in addition to the ability to make payments over the Internet.

Previously, this service was only available to municipalities using the fully-integrated MAAP version of Avitar’s Clerk/MV system. However, we are happy to announce that municipalities like yours which utilize the Browser Module in Avitar Clerk in conjunction with the DMV Browser can now also implement the Invoice Cloud service to offer online services to your customers.

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Critical Avitar Clerk/MV MAAP Update

We want to let you know about an important Clerk/MV update we’ll be distributing in the next 24 hours.  It is critical that you install the upcoming update this week or you will not be able to continue to process MAAP transactions next week.

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Utility Billing Update 4.2.5

We distributed this update several months ago, but we have learned that some users do not always get the accompanying update notes included on the disc itself.  If you’re one of these users and would like to review the update notes for version 4.2.5 you can find them here.

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Avitar Tax Collect Year End Notes

This is intended for tax collectors with a fiscal year end of December 31st . With the year end approaching, we wanted to send you the following information to assist you with this process.

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