Philadelphia-area real estate expert Frank Dowd has seen the changes in the business, especially over the past decade. He knows that home buyers today need better tools and information to make their decisions – especially when it comes to unexpected costs.

That’s why Dowd and his company, Associates Land Transfer Company, LLC (ALT), have introduced the new, free CashToClose™ calculator, available at http://www.cashtoclosecalculator.com. It’s free to use and no personal information is required. Creating an account is optional for those who want to save, edit and share their calculations.

The CashToClose calculator gives home buyers full knowledge of the costs they can expect, and they can use it while touring a home or visiting a site, safely from their own smartphone. CashtoClose is designed to help home buyers save money and eliminate costs with real-time calculator tools built in.

In collaboration with Edgewood Software, the CashToClose calculator is designed to empower consumers entering the home buying process. Before making an offer on a house, buyers can get a clear, comprehensive list of all their closing costs along with a breakdown of their all-in monthly payments. The technology is user-friendly and modeled after similar software products that, until now, were only available to title insurance professionals.

“We believe CashToClose gives Pennsylvania home buyers the most accurate closing cost estimate of any consumer tool currently on the market,” Dowd said. “Of course, it's just an estimate. The final numbers for any individual transaction will be determined by both the home buyer’s mortgage lender and their title insurance company.”

The average home buyer doesn’t know what to expect when buying a home, especially the different costs they incur throughout the process. The new CashToClose calculator gives home buyers a clear, comprehensive list of all closing costs, along with a breakdown of all-in monthly payments. CashToClose provides home buyers with the most accurate DIY estimate, with the knowledge of how much cash they’ll need to plan for settlement as well as the total monthly mortgage payment – considering seller and lender credits, escrows for both property and school taxes, along with pro-rations for items pre-paid by the seller, such as real estate taxes, association fees, and certain municipal utilities. All estimated costs are pro-rated based on their settlement date.

You can create as many estimates as you need, even for multiple properties, and save them all in your personal dashboard on the CashToClose site. Users can revise their estimates if details change, easily duplicate an estimate to compare different scenarios, and keep everyone in the loop by sharing estimates in your dashboard.

“The tools in CashToClose offer home buyers more than just your typical calculator,” said Dowd. “We've worked hard to make sure that the closing cost estimate is clear and easy to follow. The “Closing Cost Worksheet” is comparable to the ALTA Settlement Statement that you'll see at your final closing, using similar descriptions and terminology.”

Using the CashToClose calculator, home buyers can take a close look at the numbers, eliminate unnecessary fees and explore any and all credits that might be available to help reduce their closing costs. The calculator also points out fees they’re likely to encounter during the home buying process that can be avoided by shopping around or simply asking questions. It also encourages them to look for similar savings when shopping for services provided by real estate brokers, mortgage lenders and title companies.

In development by the team at ALT and Edgewood Software over the past four years, the CashToClose calculator made its debut online in 2019 as a consumer-friendly closing cost calculator. Further refinement and enhancements now make CashToClose an indispensable tool for the buyer or borrower, as well as a tool that will make life easier for lenders and other real estate professionals.

“Before we created the CashToClose calculator, there were other software products that were only available to title insurance professionals and looking back, we can understand why,” said Dowd. “Developing CashToClose was no small project. Now, behind the scenes, CashToClose does all the heavy lifting, accessing public tax records and leveraging online technologies for the most complete and accurate estimate available. It’s built with Google address verification for any residential property in Pennsylvania, and automatically designates the property’s county, municipality and school district yet allows the buyer to adjust it for those fringe cases. Borrowers can even enter specific loan details and enter an interest rate up to four decimal places. It’s a robust tool that we feel puts much more power- and information- directly into the hands of the home buyer.”

Additional information about the new CashToClose calculator is available online, at http://www.cashtoclosecalculator.com.

30 september 2021, Ahmedabad - AppJetty is a software add-ons store located in India. They specialize in extensions, plugins, themes, and apps for Magento, Shopify, WooCommerce, Dynamics, SugarCRM, SuiteCRM, and Odoo. In their last month’s roll-out, they launched a bundle of standalone apps for CommerceXpand, their all-in-one Shopify app.

This month, they have added six new apps: Currency Switcher, Best Seller Protection, Order Export, Announcement Bar, Facebook Messenger Chat, and Recently Viewed Products in its latest version. While Currency Switcher helps enhance the customer shopping experience, the latter two help speed up the store operations and protect the content from content thieves. Announcement Bar, as the name says, keeps customers updated with the latest happenings. Facebook Messenger Chat provides customers a live chat experience and Recently Viewed Products displays the products customers have actually viewed. 

Currency Converter auto-converts the original price into the customer's home currency. For a better experience, it allows customers to choose the currency from the drop-down option manually. Best Seller Protection adds an extra layer of protection to the store. It disables the best-selling sort option and prevents content such as product descriptions, images from being stolen by your competitors. Shopify Order Export makes exporting all the store data in CSV and Excel formats easy and convenient. At the same time, Announcement Bar notifies customers about the latest updates, promotions, and shipping-related information while Recently View Products give customers the overview of their recent search list and viewed products. Facebook Messenger Chat allows customers to communicate with the support team directly from the native messenger app.  

"Many businesses are expanding globally and have to deal with multiple currencies and several competitors," said Maulik Shah, the CEO. "To help them improve the comfort level of customers, we have added a Currency Switcher app that will convert the default currency into customers' by auto-detecting the location. Recently Viewed Products will help businesses optimize their sales funnel.    With an Announcement Bar, retailers can keep customers in the loop and manage customer relationships. Our new add-ons - Best Seller Protection, Order Export, and Facebook Messenger Chat further help in-store protection and personalization with live-chat, quick export, and disabled sorting option."

"We often see retailers struggling with multiple third-party integrations while expanding globally. Hence, we have upgraded our CommerceXpand - an all-in-one Shopify app for retailers. The six newly added apps are Currency Converter, Best Seller Protection, Order Export, Announcement Bar, Facebook Messenger Chat, and Recently Viewed Products. 

Our Currency Switcher and Recently Viewed Products app helps retailers optimize their sales and conversions. With Best Seller Protection, they can prevent competitors from snooping around. Order Export makes the data export safe, quick, and convenient. Announcement Bar helps build customer loyalty whereas Facebook Messenger Chat, we believe, will help businesses stay available for their customers all the time. Like these, there are several other apps in the pipeline such as Import Product Reviews, Volume Discounts, and more that we are planning to roll out in our next updates," said Namita Sheth, the Product Owner. 

She further added, "We are sure that these apps will optimize Shopify stores for better customer experience and increased sales." 

About AppJetty

AppJetty is an ISO-certified company and an official ISV partner of SugarCRM and SuiteCRM. Apart from Sugar/Suite CRM and Magento extensions, they also provide customization support for apps or extensions as per the clients' requirements. AppJetty has also been building Shopify extensions for a long time now. Several apps like Delivery Date Manager, Zipcode Validator, GeoIP Redirect, and more are on the Shopify marketplace.

To know more about CommerceXpand you can visit CommerceXpand | 25+ Apps In One - Shopify App Store. 

Montreal, Canada (release-news ) September 30, 2021 - Future Electronics, a global leading distributor of electronic components, recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of the opening of the company's office in Holland.

Future Electronics was founded in Montreal in 1968 by company President Robert Miller. It expanded into the United States in 1972, opening its first American office in Boston.

The Netherlands office was established in the city of Breda in 1996. The branch is still in the same location today, but is now virtually paperless, and features more room to meet with customers, conduct hands-on workshops and host small seminars.

"Our line card today is the best in the market, and we fully understand the different technologies," said Country Manager Wilfred Poot. "Together with our suppliers, we are always looking for new business."

The number of staff has more than doubled over the years, and the current team is made up of a mix of young professionals and established experts with over 20 years of experience at Future.

"Our team is able to offer tailored and supplier-agnostic business advice based on the actual market situation and life cycle of the customer's product," Poot said. "Our aim is always to make the customer's product better."

Robert Miller, President of Future Electronics, congratulated the Dutch team on their 25-year milestone, and thanked everyone for their contributions to the success of the branch.

For more information about Future Electronics and its 170 office locations in 44 countries around the world, visit www.FutureElectronics.com.

About Future Electronics

Future Electronics is a global leader in electronics distribution, recognized for providing customers with global supply chain solutions, custom-tailored engineering services and a comprehensive suite of passives and semiconductor products. Founded by Robert Miller in 1968, Future Electronics has over 5,500 employees and operates in 170 offices in 44 countries around the world. Future Electronics is globally integrated, with a unified IT infrastructure that delivers real-time inventory availability and access to customers. With the highest level of service, the most advanced engineering capabilities, and the largest available-to-sell inventory in the world, Future's mission is always to Delight the Customer®. For more information, visit www.FutureElectronics.com.

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Credgenics, India’s first-of-its-kind SaaS-based end-to-end debt resolution and legal automation platform, is excited to announce the launch of CG Collect - a mobile application to help the lenders/managers track the collections agents, monitor their activities, and evaluate their performance. Alongside this, it helps the agents navigate to the borrowers’ location with ease, schedule visits with a couple of clicks, showcase legal notices to the borrowers, and access e-receipts for proof of payments, among other benefits. This Feet-On-Street (FOS) loan recovery application can significantly improve the productivity of collection agents. The app is now available on Google Play Store, and will soon be live on Apple App Store as well.

The mobile app closely integrates with the Credgenics web platform and allows features like navigation to the applicant provided address, direct calling of borrowers, geo-tracking of the agent’s live location, logging collection details (like recovered amount, collection mode and status for successful and failed recoveries), collection and visit proof, single & multiple loan deposit to the lender’s bank/company branch, and collection receipt’s integration with the communication channels like Email,  SMS, WhatsApp, etc.

Commenting on the launch, Anand Agrawal, Co-Founder & CTO, Credgenics, said, “We are really excited to introduce loan recovery FOS application for the collection agents and the managers. Through this CG Platform, managers can benefit from hassle-free loan allocation, easy tracking of agents and cases allocated to them and the corresponding collection cycles. Besides this, collection agents could easily manage and plan the loans in their portfolio. They can check for important parameters against those loans like DPD values, legal notice copies, agents' distance from the borrowers, and their allocation month. This helps them easily create, track and execute their pending tasks”

He further added, “This application has been carefully designed to renew our promise to digitally transform the collection activities and make it more cost and time efficient. The areas where the traditional means of collections through agents is prevalent, CG COLLECT will help the agents and the managers use a simple technology to do their work more efficiently. Remaining true to our aim, we would try to bring more offerings in the course of our journey to promote the cause of good assets and digital transformation.”

Credgenics manages over INR 1,500 crores of debt on its financial platform and helps their clients by significantly improving the resolution rates by up to 20% and up to 20-days reduction in the resolution time. The team comprises of 150+ members, with a strong 70+ member tech and product team. Credgenics also has 2200+ legal counsels empanelled pan-India for arbitration and legal steps in late stage delinquencies. To facilitate the debt recoveries and thereby remedy the steep rise in the NPA, the company works with 7 leading private banks like ICICI Bank, IDFC First, Axis Bank and Kotak Bank, besides 40+ marquee NBFCs like IIFL Finance, Loantap, DMI Finance, Clix Capital, Udaan, Moneytap, Moneyview, among others.

Recently, Credgenics received US$25 Million in Series-A round and multiplied its valuation by 5.5 times to $100 million. The round was led by reputed investors Westbridge Capital, Tanglin Venture Partners, and Accel Partners, along with the participation of other marquee investors.

About Credgenics: Founded in 2018 by IIT Delhi Alumni, Rishabh Goel and Anand Agrawal, and advocate Mayank Khera, Credgenics is a SaaS-based collections and legal automation platform aiming to solve India’s $200 billion+ bad debt problem. Credgenics works with major private sector banks, such as ICICI Bank, IDFC First, Axis Bank, and Yes Bank, besides 40+ NBFCs like Loantap, DMI Finance, Clix Capital, Udaan, Moneytap, Moneyview, etc. Credgenics currently works with 2200+ empanelled lawyers and collection partners.  The organization aims to ultimately foster financial inclusion in India through expeditious resolution of unprecedented volumes of stressed assets in larger finance/fintech space