Business Licences

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Tempest’s Business Licences application is fully integrated with the Tempest Land system, providing easy retrieval of businesses by civic address or by property owner. The Business Licences application provides a full range of Licence processing features including renewal generation, fee re-calculation, payment entry and adjustment entry. It also provides complete workflow tracking for each licence from the application phase through to approval, rejection, closure or paid status.

Business Licences acts as a subledger to the majority of industry leading General Ledger applications, allowing you to perform a transaction upload of all transactions or produce reports for input into your GL.

Benefits

• Workflow reduces time and effort ensuring a smooth renewal process
• Reduces risk with workflow processing for your inspection process
• Integration to the Tempest Land system ensures that, based on zoning, business history and land use, you are not open to potential legal exposure

“The Tempest Business Licence Application is an essential part of the Township of Langley’s Business Licence department. As the departments main data base, this land linked application provides a large range of features that allows us to service the needs of the department and the customer. It is great that the system allows us to incorporate the primary needs of the Business Licence department which include the tracking of licences, cash transactions, invoicing, and reporting capabilities for resident and non resident applications. As a key user of the Tempest Business Licence system, I find it to be very user-friendly and the ability to integrate with the Tempest Land system is an important factor to me, whereas time management is significant in maintaining an effective use of resources.”

~ Bev Weller
Business Licence Inspector
Township of Langley

Features

• Full integration with Tempest Land system for address verification
• Category structure allows for the production of business directory and similar reports
• Allows for annual or anniversary based renewal structure
• Renewal generation process
• Workflow processing for inspection process
• Allows for creation of units within existing properties for non-taxed properties
• Handles out-of-town licences
• Maintains licence information over multiple years
• Single and range licence printing and reprinting
• User definable business attributes
• Multiple fee structures
• Separate trade name and addresses where required
• Maintains contact information and comments for each business as required
• Fully integrated with contact information from the Tempest Land system and any other system where names are stored to streamline entry and validation
• Maintains subledger of payments, adjustments and levies
• Allows for inquiry only security
• Link to Tempest GL Interface system for uploading financial data
• Integrated with Cash Collections for payment entry
• Payments can be imported from banks
• Payments can be made through Tempest’s eCommerce application
• Provides licence transfer process and historical tracking of moved businesses
• Any type of file can be attached to a licence record (documents, images, etc.)
• Supports remote input for multiple departmental distribution and payment
• Allows for full range of reporting, including GL transactions, licence listings, prepayments, overdue, seasonal and label generation
• All historical bills are archived for future reference
• Optional integration with electronic billing through epost™