Appraisal Scope Updates — March 20, 2018

This week we released two updates which included the changes below. See the in-product snapshot.

New Features

• A new reporting field has been added called Hold Time From Order Submitted To Order Completed
• We have added a new feature for appraisers, which will allow them to opt not to store their credit card for future use.
• A new feature can be enabled via Settings>Options>Appraiser Assignment called "Warn about duplicate orders during manual order assignment". When Enabled, when a Staff user attempts to assign an order that has an address or loan number of an existing order, a pop up will appear to the staff user, asking them to click Override or Cancel. The action is noted in the Notification Log.

Bug Fixes

• Corrected an issue preventing the Notification Log from updating the log to note when an order was placed On Hold.
• Corrected an issue that caused an email notification to incorrectly state what user uploaded a document.
• Corrected an issue that caused email notifications to send with a blank subject and body.
• Corrected an issue preventing a Manager user at an appraisal company from being able to pay for an order on behalf of one of their appraisers or from uploading documents on behalf of an appraiser.
• Corrected an issue that prevented a staff user from being able to see the Staff droplist, even when configured to have view permissions.
• Corrected an issue when editing an order that caused the fee to show up as "$undefined".
• Corrected an issue where a staff user should not have had the ability to delete reports, yet still could delete them.
• Corrected an issue causing the toolbar in the Reports tab to not show any buttons for certain staff users.
• There was an issue where the appraiser could submit a bid, and then if the Ordered For user changed or the job type changed, the bid would be discarded. We changed the system to retain the bid amount.
• Corrected an issue causing several files to be left off an invoice for a customer.
• Corrected an issue causing the "Last Update" column in the Dashboard to not match what was shown when the Dashboard queue was filtered by Last Update.
• Corrected an issue causing a user to see no available widgets, when configuring the Metrics tab.
• Corrected an issue causing a staff user to not be able to assign orders, even though they were configured to have permissions to do so.

Integrations

• Added a new Turn Time reporting ability via the Admin API
• Added a new ability to get the Processor and Loan Officers via the Client API
• When Mercury orders are paid, the Payment Submitted email will now go to the assigned staff user (if configured to do so.)
• The "Action Required (RealEC)" checkbox will be unchecked by default going forward, unless configured otherwise.
  

To read the details of prior updates, visit http://www.mercuryvmp.com/appraisal-scope-updates