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ACCOUNTING
Accounting 101* Professional/Enterprise Basic

Learn the intricacies of the accounting functions and its effect on the general ledger.  This course also covers the accounting month-end procedure and what steps you can take to ensure accurate reporting of your financial position.

Accounting and Financial Reporting Professional/Enterprise Intermediate

Discover the true capabilities of the important and complex accounting and financial reports.  Find out about new reports that are already available in your version of Oscar

Accounting Unleashed Professional/Enterprise Advanced

Learn how to properly manage accounting functions without jeopardizing global financial reporting.  This session will cover many of the situations that arise that simply don’t fit into the ‘normal’ reservation process. 

OPERATIONS
Operations 101 Professional/Enterprise Basic

Don’t miss this opportunity to brush up on your skills and learn new tricks.  Gain a clearer understanding of what the Oscar application can do for you. This session will cover navigation of the schedule board utilizing all of the Oscar tools, all aspects of units, leads, reservations and resident ledgers. 

Management Reporting Professional/Enterprise Intermediate

Want to maximize unit profitability and minimize unit vacancy?  Learn the nuts-and-bolts of the management reporting options in Oscar and understand how they tie into the data.

Task Management and Merge Documents Professional/Enterprise Intermediate

During this session users will learn how to manage housekeeping, handle special client requests, control utilities, and more!  The session will include scenarios & helpful tips for task management.

 

Learn how to create reservation and unit-specific documents.  Print and email your Lease Agreements, Reservation Confirmations and Welcome Letters (along with invoices!) directly to the guest or billing party (or both) with a simple click of the mouse.

MODULES
Custom Export Reporting* Professional/Enterprise Basic

Maximize your reporting capabilities with Oscar’s™ custom export module.  Learn how to create virtually any type of invoice or reservation export that you desire in just a few minutes.  Maximize your efficiency by learning how to customize your database so that it contains information specific to your organization’s needs using the Advanced Customs Field module.  This course introduces some simple sample templates that produce presentation-quality reporting for your clients.

Credit Card Processing* Professional/Enterprise Basic

Talk with industry experts on credit card best practices and strategies for handling sensitive credit card data.  Explore all of Oscar’s integrated credit card operations that automate your monthly processing duties.

<OscarPortal.NET/>* Professional/Enterprise Basic

This course explains the various functions within the <OscarPortal.NET/> module.  Topics include uploading unit photos and linking them into Oscar™, editing welcome page content and global portal settings.  This course describes how <OscarPortal.NET/> can help you streamline your prospective resident workflow and improve your interaction with current residents using the portal.

Extending Oscar™* Professional/Enterprise

Learn how to minimize overhead and maximize profits with the power of Oscar's add-on modules:

§  Automated Phone Billing (Local, Long Distance, and DSL)

§  <OscarPortal.NET/>

§  Credit Card Processing

§  Unlimited Reservation Custom Fields

§  Custom Export Module

§  Developer’s Toolkit (Oscar™ database schema)

DATABASE
Database Administration and Disaster Recovery* Professional/Enterprise Advanced

Everything you should know about your Oscar database, from standard administrative routines to disaster recovery strategies. Rest assured that your company's information is well taken care of. 

SQL Scripting using the Developer’s Toolkit* Professional/Enterprise Intermediate

Want to learn more about SQL queries and the Oscar™ database structure but don’t know where to begin?  Then attend this basic course for an introduction to the Oscar™ database tables using the developer’s toolkit and the basics of SQL Select statements.  This knowledge is also helpful for troubleshooting database-related issues, as well as for database maintenance.

OTHER
The Power of Oscar™ & Microsoft® Excel* Professional/Enterprise Intermediate

The fact that Oscar lets you export all report data directly into Microsoft® Excel greatly increases your ability to get the information you need to run your business. With a little knowledge of Excel, the sky’s the limit. In this hands-on session, you’ll learn the basics of formatting, filtering, and sorting your Oscar data, merging data from different reports, and using formulas to get even more information. Power Excel users are welcome to come and share their tips and tricks!

Open Lab* Professional/Enterprise

Reinforce newly acquired skills with hands-on experience in an on-site lab offering access to Oscar and one-one-one discussions with Software Answers’ expert technical support representatives and developers!

Oscar’s™ Future Revealed* Professional/Enterprise

Join us as we discuss the direction of Oscar for the next upgrade and beyond!  It’s your turn to speak up on any new features that you would like to see.

Microsoft® Windows Productivity* Professional/Enterprise

This session will cover shortcuts to improve your efficiency with the Oscar™ program and Microsoft® Windows.

SATS Online* Professional/Enterprise

This session covers a new solution for your technical support needs.  SATS Online is Oscar’s event tracking system that allows you to keep track of current events, submit new events, add event notes, and close events.  This session will cover how to properly manage your account using this software tool.