Pitney Bowes Announces Mail Accounting Portfolio
Range of software tools provides reporting overview of mail spend and postage behaviours across multiple accounts and multiple sites

HARLOW, ENGLAND, July 28, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Pitney Bowes has introduced a range of mail accounting tools giving businesses at every level essential budget and performance management reporting against mailing activity.

Visibility of expenditure around mail usage is essential at a time when businesses are looking to trim spend from every business process. Only with this holistic data in hand can businesses highlight areas of wastage, identify potential discounts and monitor compliance within current mailing processes.

The Pitney Bowes Mail Accounting Portfolio is comprised of four key solutions.

Standard Accounting
• Found on the latest Pitney Bowes digital franking technology, the Standard Accounting tool provides users with a basic set of reports on postage behaviours including total spend and total number of mailpieces processed.

Budget Manager Light
• Budget Manager Light is included as standard on higher volume Pitney Bowes digital meters and is aimed at businesses wishing to provide their finance team with a single report of mailing activity across multiple postage accounts - up to a total of 300.
• Budget Manager Light allows the mailing operation to report on expenditure by department and to add a surcharge onto each mailpiece to cover the mailing operation's processing costs.

Meternet XE
• Meternet XE makes it easy for businesses to connect multiple franking machines together - even across multiple sites - and to consolidate data. This gives large businesses or high volume postage users the ability to track the total business expenditure for their mail.
• The system offers a comprehensive set of up to thirty standard reports plus the ability to customise reports as needed. Meternet XE also gives users the ability to generate graphs to help visualise expenditure patterns.

INVIEW - Total Meter Reporting
• INVIEW provides a web-based platform for customers to access information relating to their postage expenditure.
• Available as a module of Pitney Bowes My Account management software, INVIEW is perfect for customers wishing to consolidate their data service, administration and financial data analysis to cover their relationship with Pitney Bowes through a single portal (My Account)
• INVIEW gives the customer remote access to data and provides an overview of mail expenditures across multiple sites in consolidated form

Phil Hutchison, Tactical Marketing Director, Pitney Bowes, comments: "Mail is an expenditure common to businesses of every size. Often, the true cost of the mail operation is hidden, leading to unnecessary expense and mis-allocation of departmental spend.

"The Pitney Bowes Mail Accounting Portfolio provides visibility and clarity of mail expenditure across multiple accounts and multiple sites, revealing the true cost and efficiency of mail processes. Finance and accounting departments are presented with the clear facts to enable accurate and timely cross-charging.

"Only with these essential facts to hand are businesses able to streamline mail processes and drive towards greater efficiency at reduced costs."

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