Appraisal Scope Updates — July 17, 2018

Below are the details for this Appraisal Scope update. The bulk of this update centers on more integrations. See the in-product snapshot here.

Appraisal Scope Initiatives

• A new field has been added to the Appraiser Assignment screen called "Overall Appraiser Rating".  This score is an average of the appraiser's Service, Quality, and Turn Time ratings.  To add this field to your search results grid when searching for appraisers to assign to, click the Configure icon on the far right of the grid at the top.  This is the same data that is already available via reporting.  We've simply made it available on the Assign screen.
• (Tentative) When configuring the Revisions Reminder in Settings>Reminders, a new Options tool is available, allowing you to Exclude Holidays and/or Include Only Business Hours.  If selected, the system will send the Revision Reminder email notifications accordingly.  

New Items

• When orders are marked as Rush, and therefore produce a Rush Fee line item on the invoice, you can now configure the text to display on that line item, on a CDOR and Investor-specific basis.  For example, you could go to the Client profile for ABC Lending, and enable the "Display Rush Order option on order form" setting.  This will then display a text box called "Rush Fee Verbiage".  The text you enter there (up to 70 characters) will then display on invoices, when ABC Lending is the CDOR on the order, and the Rush Fee is added to the order.  And in the case of Correspondent lenders, you can configure this Rush Fee text on an Investor's profile.  So when an order has the same Client and CDOR, but also has an Investor present on the order, the system will look to the Investor's profile to pull the Rush Fee text, should a Rush Fee be applied to that order.    
• The RealConditions Report order form now has an "Additional Comments" text box.  
• We have added additional tags to the Compliance Certification configuration screen.  You can now include CDOR Address 1, CDOR Address 2, CDOR City, CDOR State, and CDOR Zip.

Customer Requests

• Integration partners using our Client API can now send and receive documents from Appraisal Scope using their "Additional Document" type.
  
• When the setting to "Show the Loan Amount field on the order form" is Disabled in Appraisal Scope, when the Loan Amount comes over from RealEC, Scope will hide the amount.
  
• The RealEC settings in Company Settings now have a new option to "Automatically notify client for order acceptance event (410)", which can be Enabled or Disabled (default).
  
• The "Action Required (RealEC)" checkbox can now be configured to be checked by default, or not, via the Client's Company Settings tab, in the RealEC integration section.
  
• When orders in Appraisal Scope are removed from On Hold and manually changed to Assigned or Accepted, if that order is assigned to an AMC using the ValuePad API, the order will no longer send additional "order delete" and "order create" events.
  
• Realtor contact information will save properly on the order form.  
  
• An issue was corrected where an order would show as being assigned to a vendor AMC but was not actually assigned due to a missing ID field, or would present a message stating "Assignment to AMC failed".
  
• Corrected an issue causing the system to hang with configuring Default Invoice Description text.

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