Columbus is an excellent first-choice, report writer for the home inspector doing residential inspections. Additionally, Columbus can be easily customized to fit any type inspection or reporting style. Save time and money publishing comprehensize inspection reports. Enjoy the speed and convenience of a checklist system, and still produce the professional and effective narrative reports your clients expect.
The main features of Columbus include:
- Easy, intuitive user interface using familiar wizard-style
- Create an unlimited number of reports with licensed version - no annual fee
- Reports are personalized to your company
- Publish reports to HTML and RTF documents (and then print to PDF)
- View pending, completed or all reports from a single screen
- Track and report on client and site information at time of inspection
- Each section includes general overview, description, limitations and observations
- All text, including default general comments, can be edited to match your reporting style
- Add new narratives on-the-fly, or to master templates for future reference
- Attach photo and/or sketch with comments or caption to each observation
- Include, attach or reference third party documents to provide your clients added value
- Add report summary if desired
- Integrated spell check automatically ensures every word is spelled correctly
- Integrated electrical service load calculator
- Headers and footers are customizable
- Different footer for first page
- Burn reports to CD using integrated CD burner, Windows XP/Vista burner or any third party CD burner
- Integrated address book to track real-estate agents, trades people and clients
- Backup and restore all templates and records, including reports with one click
- Editing Master Templates is as easy as editing individual reports
- Compatible with all Windows versions from Windows 98/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista