Announces New Bulk Vehicle Import Feature Expanded Ownersite.com Vehicle Asset Management Platform Import Feature Streamlines Setup and Operation; Reduces Errors

ROSWELL, GA - March 21, 2012 - Ownersite.com, the cloud-based vehicle asset management platform optimized for small to medium-sized fleet owners, today announced support for bulk import of vehicle data. The new feature— included at no additional charge—will enable users to import vehicle lists with multiple fields including year, make, model, VIN, mileage, nickname, purchase date and license/tag information.

"Ownersite.com has long included the ability to import fuel and maintenance records stored in universal data formats such as .csv and .txt," said Ownersite.com Founder and Owner Steve Eppinger. "However, our software previously required users to manually enter vehicle data before they could import other information. Now, users can import vehicle data with a few clicks of the mouse. Users can also add vehicles to the preventive maintenance schedule during import."

This feature streamlines data input and reduces the potential for errors, especially for companies with numerous vehicles. It is also beneficial for companies adding new or used vehicles to their fleets. Furthermore, the new vehicle import feature works exactly like the current fuel and maintenance record import process, so existing users will be able to reap its benefits with no additional training.

"Bulk import is a top feature requested by users of software, and the goal of Ownersite.com is to make vehicle asset tracking as easy and productive as possible," says Eppinger. "We are constantly seeking ways to make the product easier to use. With the new feature, even companies that do not use spreadsheets can speed the setup process by having employees aggregate all the paper-based, vehicle-related records into a spreadsheet or delimited format and then importing it into Ownersite.com with a few easy steps."

About Ownersite Technologies
Ownersite Technologies, whose customers have maintained 200 million miles of records using the solution to date, provides comprehensive web-based and mobile solutions to enhance the safety, reliability and value of its customers’ personal and commercial assets and vehicles. Our low cost asset management tools put the advantages usually reserved for large fleet owners into the hands of small business owners for a fraction of the cost. Ownersite.com is distributed directly to businesses and consumers online as well as through our channel of financial service and insurance providers, automotive service shops, and enthusiast networks. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Roswell, GA, Ownersite Technologies is a privately held technology company formed by the original creators of http://www.F150online.com. For more information, visit http://www.ownersite.com.

If Kramer used Ownersite, Elaine's fish might still be alive...

The goal of Ownersite's mobile-device friendly interface at http://mobile.ownersite.com has always been to provide driving-centric resources to the vehicle owner, that are useful while on the road or away from their primary PC, rather than attempt to replicate the entire application.

Keeping with that goal, we have added a fun and useful feature that I really could have used a couple of weeks back when I parked my rental car in the garage at the Houston Galleria. Ownersite Mobile now let's you record where you parked and how much time you have left on the parking meter. While we know this is not exactly ground-breaking functionality, we do hope it will come in useful.

Features include:

1) current date & time automatically selected
2) save parking information by lot, level and/or spot
3) save parking information by cross-streets
4) save parking information by address
5) count-down on main screen for remaining time on parking meter





Please note that we have only tested the functionality on a Windows Mobile device with Pocket IE and Opera 9.5 beta because nobody around here owns an iPhone yet.

Happy Parking!

Ownersite adds better maintenance & reminder integration, mpg per fuel record

We are in the process of wrapping up our customer survey and we wanted to thank everyone for their support, feedback, kind words and suggestions. Several hundred people replied, so I think the information we have collected is going to serve our users very well. Of the suggestions, two items were requested more frequently than any other:

1) add a column to the fuel display page that shows fuel consumption by record
2) better integrate the maintenance record and reminder functionality

I am happy to say that we have listened to your feedback and have made these very useful enhancements to Ownersite as a result.

There is now a column on the fuel display page that shows your fuel consumption by record. (we have maintained this information in the past on the fuel graph and text-based fuel usage report, but not on the main page) The column will include a value only if two consecutive fuel records are both fillups. (if they are not fillups there is no way to know accurately how much fuel was used for the calculation)



In what was probably the number one request, we have enhanced how maintenance records and reminders integrate with each other. Ownersite has been able to detect if a reminder already exists for a maintenance, tire or oil change record that has been added for a couple of years now, but it was handled by popup messages, which we suspect were simply not being seen as a result of popup blockers being on by default in most browsers now. We have done away with the popup and the functionality is now handled by standard screens. Combined with the recently introduced reminder reset feature, we suspect this will accomodate the needs of 95% of our users.

Here is the existing reminder...


Now let's add a maintenance record...


Ownersite detects if there is a reminder scheduled for this service..


The reminder has been updated to reflect maintenance record...


There are a couple of caveats to the integration right now, in that it only works for odometer-based reminders. It will also do its best to detect user-defined reminders, but in some cases differences between the maintenance labels and reminder labels will not be detected.

We hope these features enhance your experience with Ownersite. We are always looking for ways to improve the product and we are listening to your suggestions. (and we have more things in the works) As always, thank you for your support!