Why have we brought out v4?

Regmarks was (is) a Windows PC based system which is all that was really available in the mid 1990's but with Apple bringing out the Mac range of products it was inevitable that some registration dealers were going to use the Mac and so they had to install Windows within the Mac to use it. Amazingly 30 years after the original ListMan was released, dealers are still using RM2K v2. However, we no longer support it or develop it and therefore we no longer sell it to any dealer looking for a solution. If you, as a dealer in vehicle registration numbers (number plates) were out of the office - either on holiday or at an auction, or just taking a day off, you had to remote control into your PC to gain access to Regmarks. Given Microsoft are now altering Windows on a regular basis (turning it into a commercial advertising board from what we've seen), one day, probably sooner rather than later, they will change something that means the Regmarks PC based system won't work any more.   We felt it was about time that we developed a new system that will be supported into the future, that gets around the "architecture" issue of Windows or Mac, iPad or android tablet, and resolves the remote access issues by providing a web based solution. After all, your emails are online,  your Office 365 documents are online, your website is online, and now your registration management system can be as well.

Regmarks 4 The Web does not run on our servers. It does not run alongside other dealers installations. It runs on your web server. We wanted everything under your control so we opted to have it running on your infrastructure so you have full control over it. If its not going fast enough, you can update your server  to whatever spec you want because you have control. We don't see your data, and we have no "back door" to get into your system. It's effectively an extension of your office, under your control.

What problems does it solve ?

If you are not an existing PC based user, you are a registration dealer and you have your own stock and your own direct commissions. That might total a few hundred or a few thousand records. Maybe even 20,000+ if you've been trading for quite a while. Your website won't offer much in the way of choice if you only offer a few thousand options. So, you reach out to other dealers and say "can you send me your stock and commissions, I'll put a markup on them and sell them on your behalf". That is precisely where Regmarks4 comes in. You get lists of numbers from other dealers - stock and commissions, and you put a markup on them and advertise them on your site as if they are your commissions. However all the other dealers are doing something similar, so when Fred Smith says they have ABC 123 on their commissions list for £5k, you are not aware that they are getting it from Jim Jones who is selling it for £4,750.  However, if Jim Jones is on your list of contacts as well, and they send you their list, it might be on their stock list, in which case you have found the source of the registration, or it's on their commission list as well so you now get that registration in your system with a buy price of £4,750 so your selling price is now cheaper because you found a source higher up the chain. 

Stock Management. Regmarks 4 The Web (RM4) allows you to manage importing lists from other dealers' stock and commissions and works on the basis that your own stock is King and your own commissions are King. Nothing will overwrite these. If you pull in a stock list from someone and you already have it in your system down as someone else's commission, it will change to a stock record and now it won't be overwritten by a commission, even if that commission is cheaper, because you have found the source. It's in the commission space that the "price wars" take part. You get ABC 123 from Dealer A for £5k, then you import another commission list from Dealer B and its £4.75k and you import a list from Dealer C and its £5.5k so that is ignored but we record the fact that they have it listed for £5.5k, and then you import from Dealer D who has it as a direct commission and they've got it for sale at £4,250. RM4 is constantly looking for the cheapest commission number and stock records from other dealers, without compromising your own stock and commissions

Mark Ups. You need to mark up the incoming numbers. If you import from Dealer A, you might want to put £50 onto every number you list of theirs. If you import from Dealer B, you want to put a 5% markup on the cheaper numbers, maybe up to £1000 and from £1,000 up you want 4% and from £10,000 up you want 3%. Then there's Dealer C. You've been mates for years and you've got an agreement with them that you will advertise the numbers at the buy price so technically you make no markup,  but they will give you £50 for each sale. 

Tags and Categories. When you pull in numbers, its really good if you can "tag them up". If the number contains a 911, 914 etc you might flag it as "porsche" so if someone chooses to search for porsche, they will see those numbers. You can also categorise, so the Porsche  tag might have a category of "cars" so if someone went to your Cars link, they might see Porsche, Aston Martin, etc. You can also categorise by  registration size and specify a "3x3" category for anything that has 3 number and 3 letters (or vice versa)

Exports To Website. You are managing your numbers in RM4 but you want the details on your website so people can search for them. You can choose which dealers data you want to include in with your commissions. and set an automated export, whether it be every hour or every week, it's your choice. When you import numbers, you get to determine whether to flag the number as advertisable (ie able to be exported) and whether you are happy with it being bought online. These flags get sent out with the data so your website can make the decision as to whether to offer it for online purchase or be enquiry only. Of course, if you are building a new website (either through us or under your own development) you can interact directly with your data in the system which means no exporting is required and your website is always up to date

Exports to Dealers. whilst you are asking other dealers for their stock and commissions numbers (both direct commissions and from other dealers), they will likely request the same information from you. You can set up an export containing your stock and whatever commission numbers you want to send to them. You can even send different information to different dealers. If you get on well with a group of 5 or 6 dealers, you might choose to send your stock and all of your other available numbers to them, but for everyone else you might choose either just your stock, just your stock and your direct commissions, or maybe include the stock items from a few other dealers. It's your choice.

Wants Lists. If someone enquires for an ABC number and you go through all the options for them and can't answer their requirement, you can log a Wants request in the system to say that someone is looking for a 2 digit ABC dateless number. Every day an automated wants matching system will identify possible new options and can either email the customer (from your email address, not ours), or you can look at the list of matches and call people up. It's your choice as to whether you collect an email address from them.

Enquiry Logging. If you take a call and log an enquiry so that someone else can deal with it, you can log the details in the system so that it doesn't get lost. If your website has an enquiry form, you can get your website to log the details into the system too.

Email communication with Clients. If you are talking to someone on the phone and you are offering them various registrations, you can add them to a list of interested numbers and when the call has finished you can offer to email them the numbers you've spoken about and this email also gets logged as an enquiry so someone can follow up later  

Multi User Logins. Being web based, you can have multiple users making use of the system.

Website Module. We have an optional Website Module available, where we can design and build your website so it's fully integrated into Regmarks and you have the ability to create new pages, create new blogs, manage FAQs etc, This is not part of the main Regmarks 4 pricing. To gain access to the Website Module, you need to purchase a  website build from us. E-commerce based websites are priced individually depending on the needs of the client. Please get in touch for details. The Website module will log your online orders, and allow you to manage the status of those orders, handle valuations within the website so users can log in and see that you have updated the status of their valuation, they can then approve it and convert it into a mark on the system