Have you ever seen this tiny little image next to a project in your LienPilot, the dashboard for Zlien users? It might be the most important feature on your LienPilot, and here’s why: Lien Pilot due dates help you stay compliant When you enter a new project into your LienPilot, our system asks [...]
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You’re Not Crazy – Our Login Screen Has Changed
If you’ve logged into your Zlien account recently you probably noticed something different. In a subtle change to our system we have updated our login screen. The new screen is cleaner than its predecessor, and we think it makes logging in slightly more enjoyable than before. Plus, we’ve added a simple message the encapsulates Zlien’s [...]
Zlien v. NCS Credit – A Comparison
Preliminary Notice and mechanics lien compliance is a challenge for building material suppliers and subcontractors across the country. More than a legal compliance challenge this is a credit challenge. We’ve talked about credit challenges in the past on this blog. In fact, I would call it a general theme of this blog. We’ve discussed Credit [...]
We Can Manage Lien Compliance For Hundreds Of Projects
If you’re in the construction business then you’re in the credit business, and until recently, that meant having all types of tricks up your sleeve to reduce your company’s credit risk on every furnishing. These tricks include getting personal guarantees, running credit checks, negotiating joint check agreements, purchasing credit insurance, purchasing check guaranty services, and [...]
How To Use The LienPilot’s Locations Feature To Manage Liens and Notices for Multiple Branches, Brands and More
Our clients have many different powerful uses of the LienPilot’s “Locations” feature. This post provides you with a tutorial on how your company may use this powerful feature. Manage Notices and Liens For Different Branches or Offices One of the most popular ways clients use the LienPilot “Locations” feature is to associate projects with different [...]
Add A Project And Calculate Mechanics Lien Compliance Requirements In Seconds
How awesome would it be if you could calculate all of your mechanics lien and bond claim compliance by inputting a few simple pieces of data about your construction project? Meet Zlien’s LienPilot. Add A Project And Calculate Your Mechanics Lien Requirements Using the LienPilot to calculate your project’s mechanics lien compliance requirements is so [...]
How-To Create A Support Ticket
Have a question that needs to be answered by the Zlien team? Easy. This could be a question about nearly anything: an existing order, an inquiry about Zlien services, how to place an order, and so on. When logged into the LienPilot, you should see a support tab on the left-hand side of the page. [...]
Mechanics Lien Zen: Introducing The New LienPilot
Accounts receivable and credit management is a challenge to anyone in the construction industry, which boasts the highest debt ratios in the nation. While the mechanics lien remedy exists in every state as a possible solution to these ARM problems, compliance with these regulations is a tall order. Zlien provides software and services to help [...]
We’re Beta Testing The LienPilot 4 – Notice and Lien Management Never Better
Zlien never stops innovating. It’s a mission we’ve followed since first opening our doors, and further evidence of this comes through the Beta testing of the 4th generation of our LienPilot application, which manages lien filings and deadlines. “The new LienPilot is blowing our customers’ minds,” says Scott Wolfe, CEO of the company. “We’ve spent [...]
How-To Find Order Documents
One of the biggest benefits of using Zlien to process your preliminary notices and mechanics liens is that you won’t need to keep track of so much paperwork. Everything is handled by our system, and all of your lien documents are stored on our secure server. You can download them anytime. Here is a how-to [...]
Is Managing Preliminary Notices Worth Your Company’s Time?
Time is money. You’ve heard the phrase 10,000 times, and you probably think it’s true. Yet there are some companies out there still willing to fumble around with preliminary notices despite the time it takes, the in-house cost it carries and the risk of error. This became evident to me (again) last week when we [...]
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Scott Wolfe Jr., JD
CEO of Zlien, and a licensed attorney in six states, he's experienced in construction & corporate credit management laws....Read More
Nate Budde, JD
Zlien's Chief Legal Mind and licensed attorney. Nate is a Stanford & Tulane Grad, a Jeopardy! alumni and more....Read More
Seth Smiley, JD
Construction attorney in California & Louisiana, Seth is an experienced construction litigator and Zlien's COO....Read More
Funding Gates
The world's first CRM for receivables management.Read More
Gretchen Lynn
Operations Genius at Zlien - She writes all the fun stuff here.Read More
Jason Bull
Zlien's Research Giant - He shares tips and info on how to confirm project, surety or construction party data.Read More
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