THIS JUST IN!! From 30th April 2012 the price of a first-class stamp will rise from 46p to 60p and a second-class stamp will go up from 36p to 50p!

So, how does your business plan to deal with a 30% rise in first-class stamps and a 39% rise in second-class? – Especially when this has an impact in all your invoices, statements and remittances.

Faxing, E-mailing and SMS Messaging are facilities that are generally available to us all but are, more often than not, underused.

Merlin Business Software customer’s enjoy a range of benefits as standard when it comes to Automated Messaging; you too would be able to send Quotations, Order Acknowledgments, Invoice and Statement runs by your own customer’s preferred choice of fax and e-mail.

The sending of copy Invoices and POD images electronically can also significantly bring down the average debtor’s that would otherwise extend into weeks and months by post in cases of payment disputes.

The ability to send SMS Messages also helps to provide a higher level of Customer Service as well as tackling the 14p increase in postage.

Merlin’s various messaging facilities have been designed to save you time and money, enabling you to seamlessly send documents without delay that would have otherwise had you repeatedly out of your chair to the printer, photocopier and fax machine!

We regularly hear that customers have paid for their investment in Merlin, solely taking the savings in postage and stationery P&L costs in to account.

For information on how you can avoid the impact of the inevitable increase in postage costs through IT investment, call the Merlin Business Software on 01246 457150.

Ref: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17522500