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I have got this alert numerous times even though I click "Got It".   Same happens with other alerts.  Is there anything I can do so once I have acknowledged the alert I don't keep on getting it?   ... View more

Queensland firms who have embraced electronic settlements may well be frustrated by the dual paper/electronic systems and the lack of a mandate for settlements to be electronic as is the case in other jurisdictions.  I have recently written to various Queensland politicians and officials asking for a temporary mandate during the public health crisis.  Given that there are service providers available for firms which are not registered for PEXA that seemed achievable.   Even more so given that the Registrar closed for physical lodgements creating a problem for anyone who has to do a "lodgement in conjunction".  Attached is the correspondence and reply from the Registrar of Titles.   I heard the Registrar of Titles speak on person on this issue at a conveyancing conference last year and formed the opinion that the reason for a lack of mandate is the absence of the competitive market which would be achieved by a second ELNO.  I understood from the Registrar's comments that she was influenced in this position by the advocacy of the Property Law Committee of the QLS.  The written response which I have just received now from the Registrar of Titles again alludes to the issue of multiple ELNO's and confirms my understanding.   If that is the position of the Registrar of Titles it does not hold water.  If her interests are consumers, then efficiency gains of electronic settlements could be passed on to consumers with lower registry fees for lodgements by electronic settlements.  Nor can I see that her actions are consistent with concerns for practitioners whom on my observations fall almost exclusively into two categories - those who are settling electronically and want a mandate and those who are not interested in electronic settlements regardless of who the ELNO is or how many ELNO's there are.  The only plausible explanation that I can think of is that she is protecting the interests of a future ELNO.  I would be very interested to know if that is within her remit.   If you are a Qld PEXA member and keen for a mandate (everyone who I speak to at PEXA events seems to fall in this category) ....   Every single one of us needs to raise with the QLS that if they are not representing us unless they are advocating for a mandate.   And if that fails the next QLS Council elections are 2021 and it would be good to see some candidates who make it a policy platform to advocate for a mandate.   Finally, if you are passionate about this issue - share it with this forum. ... View more

For the developers who might be watching this blog, it would be great if the integration between PEXA and OSR Connect could push out the phone number and email address information entered on Form 1.     ... View more

It seems that the incoming mortgagee name is populated to the priority notice from the incoming mortgagee participant is not always the mortgagee name which will appear on the mortgage, and that solicitors for the incoming proprietor need to be alert and at times manually edit the incoming mortgagee on the priority notice.   Can I flag this as something that would be good to improve on the platform.  It should be down to the incoming mortgagee participant to provide the correct name for the priority notice and that data be pulled through to the priority notice when the solicitor for the incoming proprietor prepares the priority notice. ... View more

Can anyone please assist me as to whether a transfer by an attorney (the proprietor on title does not have capacity) can be done in Queensland.  I was unable to find anything in the Help documents. ... View more

I have searched Community high and low and can't find documentation which explains the categories for Destination Funds.  The details for some categories are visible to the other party, and for others not.  BPay is available on some categories, but not for others.  Can anyone assist with comprehensive reference documentation on the destination categories? ... View more

Liz Dann, Registrar of Titles and Registrar of Water Allocations made comments at a recent QLS Conveyancing Conference regarding a roadmap for electronic settlements.  If I understood her comments correctly, a roadmap is not on the agenda because it is not supported by QLS for reasons around multiple ELNO's and interoperability.  I have taken the time to email policy@qls.com.au attention the Property and Development Law Committee to express that if that is the QLS position then it does not represent this member who would like to see a roadmap so that the efficiency gains of electronic settlements can be realised.     ... View more

I would like to see a feature to be able to test a digital certificate.  There is a tool which checks if the software is installed correctly.  In almost every situation where I have had to manage digital certificate issues, this test is passed okay and the issue is something else.   I had a new user where we spent hours trying to crack "There is no digital certificate" when trying to sign to discover there was a middle name missing in the profile.  Of course, this all happens when we have a settlement looming.   It would be helpful if there was a test in the platform that requires digital signing that could be used ... well ...for exactly that purpose.  To test digital certificates and make sure they are all good and problems resolved, PIN works fine, etc before the user is engaged to digitally sign a live transaction - more often than not under some pressure regarding time constraints. ... View more

At present, a subscriber manager can't tell from a user profile whether or not the user has a digital certificate, or the expiry date of the digital certificate.  At present, this information has to be manually requested from PEXA support.  I think it would be a helpful feature for subscriber managers to be able to see in the user profile whether or not a user has a digital certificate and the expiry date of the certificate. ... View more

You can act for both buyer and seller in PEXA by adding additional roles.  However, you can't assign one workgroup to one role and a different workgroup to the other role.  There is a single point for configuration of email notifications which is global across both roles.  Also, there is a single Conversations section and conversations are not separated for the two roles.  The result is that any other Chinese wall is defeated by notifications and conversations being globally visible to both sides.  I would like to see the platform so that conversations are not global for a workspace but are separated for each role within the workspace, and likewise for email notifications. ... View more

When we use PEXA to lodge a priority notice only (no financial settlement) we need to obtain a copy of the lodged priority notice and a copy of the lodgement details.   At the moment, we click on the gears beside the priority notice, and View, and then in our browser right click to print (to Adobe PDF).  It would help if you could eliminate a few of those steps and when we click on the gears there could be a “View as PDF” function.   To get the lodgement details, we click on the arrow to the left of the document type and that reveals lodgement details.  The only way we can get a copy of that is to take a screen dump.  It would help if when we click on the gears beside the priority notice if the “View as PDF” function proposed above also included as a second page the lodgement details. ... View more