| OnPARR (Online Paying Agent Reporting and Rating) is a sophisticated software tool built specifically to address the ever-changing environment in transportation. Paying agents now account for over 30% of all monies transacted in the transportation industry and represent a growing force in other industries. OnPARR was developed to allow carriers to take advantage of the opportunities inherent dealing electronically with these paying agents. This is one of the biggest opportunities carriers have had in the past few decades to really improve back office efficiencies. What used to be a completely manual process of picking up the phone and calling paying agents on invoices only after they have become past due has become an automated process. Within this automated process, carriers can access paying agent information through their own encrypted paying agent access tools to now manage by exception. Managing by exception not only allows for less labor costs, but it also brings awareness to issues (rejects, short pays, information requests, etc.) prior to the invoice moving to a past due status.  Onparr is designed with a simple yet sophisticated front-end that allows the carriers to place files on our servers. These files contain basic pro information such as: pro number, shipdate, amount and the paying agent with which the pro is associated. Our software takes the pros and goes out to the respective websites and retrieves data. It then takes the data and turns it into useful information for the carrier and is output to an electronic mailbox for the carrier to retrieve. This file can be auto-loaded into the carrier's collection system. | Onparr saves the data and allows clients to benchmark the performance they are having with paying agents. Our analysis tools allow carriers to compare the results on their customers using the paying agents, and how they are performing in comparison to other carriers using OnParr. These reports give carriers the ability to go back to their customers and provide them factual data as to how they are or are not paying within terms. | The first thing Onparr does is checks to see if the paying agent has received the invoice from the carrier. If not, it updates the status on the pro to "NR" - not received. Next, it checks to see if the pro is scheduled for payment. If so, it checks the amounts to make sure they match. If they do match then it updates the status to "PTP" - promise to pay, and records the check number and date payment is to be issued.
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