PEXA is pleased to present a major release of the PEXA System, Release 9.0, scheduled for business go live 5 November 2018.
UPDATE: To prepare for this release, PEXA will be offline on Saturday 3 November between 9am - midnight.
Key Highlights
Reduce automated reschedule time from 90 minutes to 30 minutes
Ready to Sign – Manual Allocation of Workspace for signing
Workspace Summary Revamp
Additional Enhancements
National
Reduce automated reschedule time from 90 minutes to 30 minutes
Ready to Sign – Manual Allocation of Workspace for signing (Updated 25 October 2018)
Workspace Summary Revamp (Updated 31 October 2018)
Configure frequency of email alerts for automatically rescheduled Workspaces
Removed Sequential Settlement and Sequential Lodgement features from PEXA
WalkMe – New Walk-Thrus available
Rebranding of PEXA core to PEXA Exchange (Added 2 November 2018)
WA
Positive title activity check changes in Western Australia (WA)
SA
Justify a mortgagor’s name using the National Mortgage (SA)
Survivorship (SA)
Interest Holders are now created as parties and displayed in PEXA (SA & QLD)
QLD
Interest Holders are now created as parties and displayed in PEXA (SA & QLD)
Reduce automated reschedule time from 90 minutes to 30 minutes
Currently a Workspace that is Not Ready at the scheduled settlement time is automatically rescheduled by 90 minutes. In this release, we will reduce the rescheduled time to 30 minutes (i.e. next available settlement time) which means less waiting and a faster settlement turnaround. Furthermore, we will allow a Workspace to automatically reschedule up until 5:00 PM AEDT^ (previously 4:00 PM AEDT), which will give you more time to settle Workspaces that had not been able to settle earlier in the day. Any Workspaces that remain Not Ready at 5:00 PM AEDT will have its settlement date and time removed and a new date and time will need to be proposed. Title Activity Checks and Stamp Duty Verification (where applicable) will continue to run within the hour prior to the scheduled settlement time.
Notes:
The Manual Rebooking cut-off time will remain at 4:00 PM AEDT (i.e. settlements cannot be rebooked for the same day after this time).
^The Queensland reschedule cut-off time will remain at 4:00 PM AEDT due to Land Registry’s lodgement availability restrictions.
(Referencing PEXA SETT-5580, SETT-2556)
Ready to Sign – Manual Allocation of Workspace for signing
We’ve introduced a new opt-in functionality that allows Subscriber Managers to turn on Manually allocate Workspaces. To access this setting, go to Administrator Tools > Manage Subscriber Details > Ready to Sign – Allocation Preferences. By default, Automatically allocate Workspaces is selected.
When Manually allocate Workspaces is selected, users can add or remove pre-approved Workspaces to or from the Ready to Sign dashboard. This means you have more control over which Workspaces appear in the Ready to Sign dashboard and sign approved Workspaces with minimal on-screen clicks.
Scenario:
With Manual allocation of Workspaces turned on in ABC Conveyancing, junior law clerks can manually add or remove pre-approved Workspaces to the Ready-to-Sign dashboard. Senior lawyers are then able to review the subset of Workspaces that are ready for signing and use the current efficient signing to sign Documents with minimal on-screen clicks.
Limitations to Manually Allocate Workspaces:
Only Workspaces with signing tasks can be manually allocated to the Ready to Sign dashboard.
If a Workspace that is manually allocated to the Ready to Sign dashboard includes a Nomination and Priority Notice, they will appear as an action item for all users. However, only participants who created the document have permission to sign.
Users without signing rights are still able to select Workspaces for signing and will be directed to the signing screen. However, they won't have permission to sign the document.
The Add to Ready slider is not supported in IE8.
The Added By column can be filtered only by username.
Additional improvements:
In addition, we’ve made other improvements to efficient signing:
Financial Line items will continue to display for Subscribers until all signing is complete.
Destination line items that include a Payment Reference Number (PRN) are included on the signing screen from the Ready to Sign dashboard.
Future addresses in a VIC Notice of Acquisition (NOA) are now displayed when signing from the Ready to Sign dashboard.
Workspaces manually allocated to Ready to Sign are reflected when deep-linked from PEXA Projects (if Subscriber has opted in to this function).
When the user deep-links from PEXA Projects, the number of line items displayed per page is set at 25.
(Referencing PEXA FS-3270)
Workspace Summary Revamp
Note: Initially this functionality will be piloted with 5% of our member base. After actioning any feedback we’ll progressively enable this screen for all members.
To help you quickly assess the health of your Workspace and pinpoint outstanding items, the new Workspace Summary screen consolidates all the statuses and indicators you need to determine why your Workspace isn’t Ready/Ready. This will save you navigating through the Workspace in search of outstanding items.
Additionally, each item that you need to action will be clickable and actionable, simplifying and streamlining your work. For example, if your document hasn’t been signed, you’ll be able to click on the Sign document link and be taken to the signing screen.
The new Workspace Summary will also be mobile responsive! So you’ll be able to easily check up on your settlements even when you’re not in the office.
(Referencing PEXA AXL-991)
Configure frequency of email alerts for automatically rescheduled Workspaces
As part of the changes made to reduce the automated reschedule time to the 30 minutes, we will provide the ability to configure the frequency in which emails will be sent to alert you of such an event.
Options include:
Email me once about the first reschedule only. No further emails will be sent for the rest of the day (default)
Email me at every reschedule
Email me at 1-hour intervals
Your Subscriber Manager will have the ability to configure this setting based on your organisation’s preferences under your Subscriber Details.
(Referencing PEXA SETT-)
Removed Sequential Settlement and Sequential Lodgement features from PEXA
Fromthis release, PEXA will no longer support Sequential Settlement and Sequential Lodgement and these functionalities will be removed from the application.
(Referencing PEXA SETT-6037)
WalkMe – New Walk-Thrus available
To help you complete your transactions in PEXA, we’ve added a number of new Walk-Thru’s designed to help you achieve specific tasks:
Walk-Thru setting up my profile
Walk-Thru why isn’t my Workspace ready
Walk-Thru creating a Caveat
Walk-Thru withdrawing a Caveat
Walk-Thru a Nomination
Walk-Thru a Survivorship
Walk-Thru a Transmission
Walk-Thru a Part Tenancy Transfer
Be sure to try them out. We also have Walk-Thrus specifically designed for Subscriber Managers:
Walk-Thru adding new users to PEXA
Walk-Thru subscriber management (this includes trust account verification)
Walk-Thru adding users to a trust account
Walk-Thru Manage Workgroups
To access the Walk-Thrus, click the Help widget on the right-hand side of the screen and select the Walk-Thru you’d like to run.
If you have any feedback on any of the current Walk-Thrus or if there’s something you’d love to see in action, please comment below and we’ll see what we can do!
(Referencing PEXA WM-000)
Rebranding of PEXA Core to PEXA Exchange
From this release, PEXA core is rebranded as PEXA Exchange. As part of the rebranding, we’re introducing the PEXA Exchange logo. This is to help differentiate between PEXA offerings as we launch more products and services to assist with your settlements. If you’re already using multiple platforms in the PEXA suite – such as PEXA Projects when acting as Mortgagee on Title for a development project – you can access these via the app menu (top right corner of your account), making switching between platforms quick and easy.
Positive title activity check changes in Western Australia (WA)
We have updated the Title Activity Check (TAC) in Western Australia to ensure that a positive TAC is displayed only for new activities on the land title that has not been previously returned. This ensures that incoming parties are not having to repeatedly provide approval for activities that were previously approved.
On the day of settlement, if a positive TAC is returned, the incoming parties will only need to ‘confirm settlement execution’ if a new title activity has been returned from the Land Registry for the first time. All subsequent TAC responses received for the same activity will be displayed as no activity against the Land Title.
This change now aligns the behaviour of WA TACs to all other jurisdictions.
(Referencing PEXA SETT-)
Justify a mortgagor’s name using the National Mortgage (SA)
In mortgages where the Mortgagor's name differs from the name recorded on Title, you can now use a National Mortgage to justify the discrepancy (SA).
Use the justification functionality on the Party screen to provide the current name and the reason for the name change. Under Has this Party previously held land in any Other name(s), select Yes.
Note: The following Justification Reasons are not valid for use with an SA National Mortgage:
Approved Abbreviation
Organisation Re-structure
Legislative Change
If any of these justification types are selected, the SA National Mortgage Lodgement Verification will be unsuccessful.
(Referencing PEXA LS3-1123)
Survivorship (SA)
PEXA now supports a standalone Survivorship Application in South Australia (also known as ‘Application to Register Death by Survivor).
If a joint tenant on a property title passes away, then the surviving proprietor should make an application to the Land Registry to have the deceased’s name removed, so that only the surviving proprietor’s name is on the title.
In South Australia, a Survivorship:
Can be processed for Joint Tenant titles (currently limited for Tenant in Common Titles, where a deceased party holds as Tenant inter-se)
One deceased party can be referenced per Survivorship
If all Proprietors are deceased within a Joint Tenancy, the Personal Representative of the ‘last deceased’ must create a separate survivorship for each deceased Proprietor, followed by a Transmission Application for the ‘last deceased’
For information on how to do this, please refer to the help article Standalone Survivorship Application.
For Release 9.0 the following scenarios are supported:
Standalone Survivorship
Survivorship with Discharge
Survivorship with Caveat
Survivorship with Mortgage
Survivorship, Transmission, Mortgage
In December 2018 (Release 9.0.1), Survivorship with a Transfer document in the same Workspace will be supported. During the interim period, please complete a standalone survivorship Workspace in advance of a transfer Workspace.
(Referencing PEXA LS4-228)
Interest Holders are now created as parties and displayed in PEXA (SA & QLD)
In the jurisdictions of SA and QLD, PEXA now displays Other Interests on title under a new panel on the Land Titles screen. Previously, this information was not available in PEXA. Should the Interest be related to another Interest (e.g. a Sub-Lease of a Lease) then the association will be noted as follows:
In addition, Interest Holders are now created as Unrepresented Parties and appear on the Participants screen. Only Subscribers in the role of To deal with an Interest or Incoming Mortgagee can edit Interest Holder parties. All other roles can see the Interest Holders but won’t have permission to edit their details.
As of R9.0, only Victoria supports transactions with Interest Holders.
For more information, refer to the Community posts:
Victorian Mortgage over an Interest
Victorian Transfer of an Interest
(Referencing PEXA LS3-874, LS3-873)
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