Sovereign Property Partners office is going paperless
SOVEREIGN Property Partners has been in business for almost 10 years and over that time, they have grown a significant rent roll and sales team. With this growth comes a lot of printing and paper storage.
"We made the decision to move to electronic storage (to a cloud-based system) back in August. It hasn’t been easy after 10 years with the same systems and some mind-set changes within the office, but I am proud to say we are there and we couldn’t be happier," Tressa Lindenberg principal/director said.
"Probably one of the best tools our new system allows us to do is to give our owners access to their property portal where they can now see where the rent is up to, when it is due and the routine inspections as soon as they happen. Our owners are loving this new addition to our business."
Keeping everything stored in a digital format is cheaper than printing and storing it on paper. This also eliminates the cost of shredding services for paper with sensitive information.
"Consider that the average office worker still uses 10,000 sheets of paper per year, not to mention the cost of printing, toner and storage,” she said.
"Also, considering employees in paper-intensive businesses spend up to 40 per cent of their time looking for documents and 7 per cent of these documents are lost or misfiled, you would be crazy not to."
"I encourage all of our team every day to "think before you print" and I look forward to the time when we can be completely paperless. How much better for our environment it will be?” Tressa said.