Green Legal Billing Service with Client Super Sites
By Jim Hammond, President, RainMaker Software, Inc.
Law firms spend a considerable amount of time and cost each month printing thousands of pages of paper bills that get sent to clients, who in turn image the bills into their own paperless systems for processing. In many cases these same bills end up being shredded because of security and confidentiality issues, only adding to the carbon footprint for both parties.
Green Legal Billing eliminates all the paper by providing law firm clients with an email notification indicating that their bill is available for download in a digital format from the Greenlegalbills.com web site. This “Client Super Site”, a highly-secured hosted portal, allows clients to not only access all current and past bill images, but also review billing and payment history, account balances, trust and retainer balances and payment inquiries. Law firms subscribing to this service will foster collaboration between attorneys and clients since both parties can jointly access the site to review services performed by the firm. Both firms and clients benefit from substantially reduced costs while “going green” with law firm paperless billings.
Law firms can now take advantage of the technology that is commonly employed by credit card companies, banks and brokerage houses with the electronic delivery of bills and on-line account access. Firm clients will receive their bills five to seven days faster, therefore, potentially reducing Days of Sales Outstanding (DSO). Electronic billing costs a fraction of paper-generated billing and email reminders statements help clients pay bills on time and provide strategic customer contact. Firms can benefit from secure on-time, and accurate delivery of their invoices, which should result in faster payments.
Stop by and visit RainMaker Software, Inc. at Booth #727 to learn more.
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now days everything can be done online almost and it only makes sense to stop printing all that paper and start using the net to transfer money and information i think it is great idea i think going help both sides greatly ^^