Features and Comparisons
3. How does SASSIE help us with billing, expenses and invoicing?
- 3.1 - Shopper Expense Control
- 3.2 - PayPal
- 3.3 - PayPal Screening
- 3.4 - Shopper Invoice Consolidation
- 3.5 - Three Payment Statuses
- 3.6 - Shopper Payment Status
- 3.7 - Configurable Billing Export
- 3.8 - Invoice Search
- 3.9 - Skip Excluded shops
- 3.10 - YTD pay and Tax Export
3.1 - Shopper Expense Control
I only want to reimburse shoppers for what they actually paid, up to a certain limit.
SASSIE automatically calculates shopper reimbursements, capping the amount if a shopper exceeds the allowable purchase amount. Example: For a shop that allows for $10 in expenses, a shopper who spends $7 will be reimbursed $7, whereas a shopper who spends $12 will be reimbursed $10. (Note: these amounts can be hidden from your client).
3.2 - PayPal
Paying shoppers is costing us great amounts of time, postage, and labor, and still shoppers complain it takes too long for them to get paid.
The combination of SASSIE and Paypal can dramatically reduce the time and cost it takes to process shopper payments, compared to the traditional writing/printing of checks and sending via conventional mail.
Here's how it works:
- Step 1: Select the invoices you want to pay (individually or in groups).
- Step 2: SASSIE exports a file for your records and a file for PayPal processing.
- Step 3: You upload this PayPal export file into PayPal's secure website. PayPal issues electronic payments to all of your shoppers.
SASSIE and Paypal can eliminate checks, postage and a long waiting period for your shoppers.
3.3 - PayPal Screening
Some companies only use PayPal in certain situations. SASSIE's autoscheduler and shopper sign up procedures enable you to limit certain shops to only PayPal-accepting shoppers.
3.4 - Shopper Invoice Consolidation
For additional savings, SASSIE combines payments for multiple shops by one shopper into one payment. Don't cut 5 checks (or pay for 5 PayPal transactions) for the same shopper!
3.5 - Three Payment Statuses
You control the payment status of shops as follows:
- New (unprocessed payments)
- Pending (payments that have been earmarked for processing)
- Paid (payments that have been issued)
With a few clicks, you can change the payment status of one specific shop or thousands of shops.
3.6 - Shopper Payment Status
Shoppers can immediately see in their log when a payment has been processed, saving you the hassle of replying to dozens of "when is my payment coming?" shopper inquiries.
3.7 - Configurable Billing Export
Have an accounting program that you're already using. SASSIE's billing engine allows you to customize an export file that can be accepted by your billing program.
3.8 - Invoice Search
Need to find the payment status for a specific shop? SASSIE's "Search Invoice" feature makes invoice finding a snap.
3.9 - Skip Excluded Shops
Some shops are abandoned by shoppers or could not be completed for some reason. However, these shops cannot always be deleted (sometimes you need to keep a record of a failed shop). SASSIE allows schedulers to put these kinds of shops into "Excluded" status and to remove these shops from any payment exports.
3.10 - YTD pay and Tax Export
Filling out 1099 forms for shoppers who exceed a certain level of income in any given year is a huge burden.
SASSIE displays YTD pay for each shopper and has a special "tax export" that allows you to export shopper info for all shoppers who need a 1099 form filed. This file can be imported into your accounting programs for quick processing.