Release Notes – The Fund

Wednesday, February 20th 2019

We have modified the ALTA Settlement Statements to now include the Total Column, where we previously didn't have amounts in the Total Column. Therefore, we had to move where we disclosed the Credit/Debits. If the Borrower/Seller is bringing money in, this would show as a Credit (meaning money has to come in). If the Borrower/Seller needs to get money, this would be a Debit (meaning you are cutting a check/wire out). This was necessary, so that the columns equaled each other, so that you could see at a glance, that your Debit/Credit for Seller matched and your Debit/Credit for Borrower matched. Think of it more as Credit/Debit to balance the sheet/ledger, as the form is a 2 column accounting ledger.

Friday, January 18th 2019

We have some exciting new features to tell you about! If you have questions about any of the new features, please feel free to reach out to Support and we will be more than happy to assist you!

We have added a setting in the Rolodex for This Company, Lender and Title Insurance Underwriter, for you to be able to default which section you want Title Fees to default to. Previously, we defaulted all Title Fees to show in Section C of the Closing Disclosure. Some Lenders want to see the fees in Section B, however. You then had to click on each line and move the section. Now you can just select a default and the fees will automatically appear in the selected section

Friday, January 11th 2019

We have added the new Baltimore City Yield Tax question to the Ernst lookup screen for properties with purchase prices over one million.

The question is:

Is this a transaction for residential property that will be occupied by the grantee for which a bona fide contract of sale has been entered into on or before January 11, 2021?

Wednesday, January 9th 2019

We have added the CPL fee for Old Republic in OH effective 1/10/2019.

Friday, January 4th 2019

We have added the CPL fee for Old Republic in WV. If you generate a CPL via the integration after 1/1/19, a $50 CPL fee will show on the settlement statement.
We have updated the WI WFG Rates with an effective date of 11/01/2018.

Friday, December 21st 2018

We have updated the WFG NJ CPL fee to be $75.
We have added the CPL fee for Fidelity, Commonwealth, and Chicago in RI, with a charge of $25.
We have removed the restriction on the ALTA Settlement Statements, which allowed you to only generate with a CD. Now, any Settlement Statement, you can also generate the ALTA forms.

Friday, December 14th 2018

We have some exciting new features to tell you about! If you have questions about any of the new features, please feel free to reach out to Support and we will be more than happy to assist you!

We have added to the Property Information Screen, the Parcel ID Number field. This was previously in the Tax/Fee/Pro-ration Screen, which it still is, however; we felt it would be better suited to be on the Property Information Screen. You will see an additional button on the Tax/Fee/Pro-ration screen, ‘Copy from property’, which will pull the Parcel ID over (so you don’t have to type it in again, and documents will still populate the number).
When you have events that are automatically set to assign a particular Business Type (for instance, Closer), and the Closer assigned to the file changes after being opened, the event will now automatically change the participant. Previously, you had to manually change this, but it will now automatically change.
In Florida, you can charge an additional amount on the Loan Policy, if it is a Simultaneous Issue. Previously, you had to contact support to have this automatically calculate for your files. We have made an update so that in the Title Insurance Underwriter Rolodex Screen, you can now enter the amount you want to charge above the standard $25.
On Page 1 of the CD, in the ‘Estimated Taxes, Insurance, and Assessments’ section, if you manually changed the amount in the field, we would not automatically update it, if changes are made to the CD. Ideally, you don’t want to modify this field, but if you have to, now it will turn green to let you know that it has been modified and you will need to continue to modify it, if needed.

We have updated the First American Rates, effective 12/15/2018.

Saturday, November 16th 2018

We were made aware of new changes to the FinCen Requirements. They lowered the threshold for ALL counties required to report to $300,000 on Cash Transactions:

The purchase amount threshold, which previously varied by city, is now set at $300,000 for each covered metropolitan area. FinCEN is also requiring that covered purchases using virtual currencies be reported. FinCEN also is dropping the confidentiality provision and removing GTO coverage for purchases by trusts. The extended GTOs run from Nov. 17 through May 15, 2019.

Covered areas include:

Texas: Bexar, Tarrant and Dallas counties
Florida: Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties
New York: Boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Staten Island and Manhattan
California: San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties
Hawaii: city and county of Honolulu
Nevada: Clark County
Washington: King County
Massachusetts: Suffolk and Middlesex counties
Illinois: Cook Count

Here is the ALTA Link: https://www.alta.org/news/news.cfm?20181115-FinCEN-Renews-Money-Laundering-GTOs

As done previously, if your file met the requirements, on the File Summary Screen, we showed a message letting you know the file met the requirements.

Monday, November 5th 2018

We have updated the ORNTC NY Endorsements effective 11/1/2018.

Friday, October 26th 2018

We have updated the FATIC VA rates to be effective 10/20/2018.
We have updated Page 4 of the CD to be TRID 2.0 Compliant:

Based on information found here: https://www.calyxsoftware.com/training/webinars/TRID2-WebinarSlides.pdf

Monday, October 22nd 2018

We have updated the FATIC DC rates to be effective 10/20/2018.

Friday, October 18th 2018

We have some exciting new features to tell you about! If you have questions about any of the new features, please feel free to reach out to Support and we will be more than happy to assist you!

For the Closing Portal, you can now turn on or off the Zillow Integration. If you do not want anyone on the Portal to see the Zillow Tab, please follow these steps: From your Whiteboard go to Rolodex Menu then Manage Rolodex. Then from the Business Type Drop Down, please select THIS COMPANY and then click on your company’s name. You will then see a field that says “Add Zillow Tab” and you can select No or Yes. It will default to Yes, so change it to No and click update.
Previously, if you hadn’t recorded with Simplifile in 3 days, the Simplifile Whiteboard would no longer be visible, until you recorded again. We have changed this to show the Simplifile Whiteboard, no matter when the last time you recorded was.
On the File Summary Screen, in the Email section, you could never tell what attachment was emailed out. Now, you will see which attachment(s) were sent out in the blue bar at the top, where it lists the recipients and in the body of the email!

Tuesday, September 18th 2018

We have some exciting new features to tell you about! If you have questions about any of the new features, please feel free to reach out to Support and we will be more than happy to assist you!

You can now add the Contract Date as a column to your Whiteboard.
On the Closing Portal, it now displays the Purchase Price, instead of the Appraised Value.
On the Event Whiteboard, we have included the Proj Close Date, in the Close Date Column (similar to the Main Whiteboard).
We have added a couple new features to the Copy To New File feature.

You will see a new option called “A NEW Revision File”, this creates an “A” file (similar to when you currently chose Copy to NEW file). The option called “A NEW File”, creates a file using the next available file number.
You can now choose if the Borrower is the Seller on the new file, or vice versa. Make sure if you say to copy the Borrower Information, but make them the Seller, you uncheck to copy the Seller Information, or the current Seller Information will be copied.

We have modified the Closing Portal, so that for Listing Brokers, they only see the Full Contact Information for their client, the Sellers. Same for Selling Brokers, will only see Full Contact Information for their clients, the Borrowers.

Tuesday, September 11th 2018

We have added a new report to ReportWriter (Whiteboard/Documents/ReportWriter) with a title called common_missing_checks_report. What this report will do is show you a range of checks that have not been used.

Tuesday, September 5th 2018

We have some exciting new features to tell you about! If you have questions about any of the new features, please feel free to reach out to Support and we will be more than happy to assist you!

We have made the Tax/Fee/Proration main screen to show more information, so at a glance, you can see which record you want to modify. We have added the following columns: Parcel ID/Acct NBR, Payment Schedule, Paid Thru, Next Due and Next Payment Amt.
We have also updated the Insurance main screen as well, adding the following columns: Paid Thru and Annual Premium.
We have an exciting new integration to tell you about! We are now integrated with Safe Escrow. With the click of a button, you can send your file to Safe Escrow and they will periodically check to see if there is any new data. See E-Closing Connect for more information.
We have updated the Tax/Fee/Proration Screen so that if you have more than one Property Tax Record, and they each have different Map/Block/Lot numbers, each record will store their own unique numbers.

Monday, August 27th 2018

We have updated the NATIC NC rates effective 10/1/2018.

Friday, August 24th 2018

We have loaded FNTIC GA rates, effective 11/1/2017

Monday, August 20th 2018

When generating a CPL (via the integration) in GA with Fidelity, Commonwealth, or Chicago, starting tomorrow, the CPL fee will generate on the HUD/CD.

Friday, August 17th 2018

We have some exciting new features to tell you about! If you have questions about any of the new features, please feel free to reach out to Support and we will be more than happy to assist you!

When you make a Company Inactive or Deleted, it will show the status next to their name in Setup HUD Defaults. This way, if you have multiple entries for a company, and delete one of them, you can see which default they were tied to. We have also made the links greyed out so you can’t click them, as this can cause issues on your HUD/CD.
We have changed it so that when you void an internal transfer, it will give it the Printed Date instead of the date it was voided. This was causing issues with Bank Reconcilation and having different dates.
We have changed email addresses for the Closing Portal Notifications to show as no-reply@e-closingsecured.com, instead of the current email it shows, to help with confusion or concerns that it is spam.
When you generate a Jacket through an integration, we now will also grey out the Jacket Type drop down, so you can’t change it. This will ensure that if the wrong jacket was originally generated, you have to void it to create the new one for the correct type.
If you have a City Tax Record entered in the Tax/Fee/Proration Screen, we will put City Taxes in Section G of the CD and the 1000 section on the HUD/GFE HUD, similar to the Property Tax
When generating a barcoded document and assigning it to a Portal User, the Portal User will now get a message letting them know they have a new document.

Monday, August 13th 2018

We have added the CPL Fee for FNTIC VT of $25 effective 8/13/2018, which will go to your CD/HUD if a CPL is generated with in the file.

Saturday, August 4th 2018

We have some exciting new features to tell you about! If you have questions about any of the new features, please feel free to reach out to Support and we will be more than happy to assist you!

We have added a new field called “Contract Date”, which can be entered on the Create File Screen or the Financial Information Screen. This date can be tagged to go to documents, and you can also create events and checklists to be based off the Contract Date.
If your company uses Slack, we have added a way to have a message sent to a channel when your company creates a new file or adds a note to a file. We will have a guide (it is a pretty simple 4 step process) on our Help Desk to help guide you in setting this up.
We have added “TIN” to the Borrower and Seller screens for Individuals as well as the entities they are associated with.
We have added an alert for files that meet the FinCen criteria to know if you need to generate the FinCen document. If your file meets the criteria, a banner will appear on your File Summary Screen. To meet the criteria the file must be:
- Property Use (New) is anything but Commercial
- The Loan Purpose is ‘Cash Purchase’ or the Lender Name is ‘Cash’
- Purchase price is $300,000 or greater and property county is Suffolk MA or Middlesex MA
- Purchase price is $500,000 or greater and property county is Bexar TX
- Purchase price is $1,000,000 or greater and property county is Miami-Dade FL, Broward FL or Palm Beach FL
- Purchase price is $1,500,000 or greater and property county is Queens NY, Bronx NY or the city is Staten Island NY
- Purchase price is $2,000,000 or greater and property county is San Diego CA, Los Angeles CA, San Francisco CA, San Mateo CA, Santa Clara CA.
- Purchase price is $3,000,000 or greater and property city is Manhattan NY, New York City NY
- Purchase price is $3,000,000 or greater and property county is Honolulu Hawaii
We have the CATIC Title integration to be used in NJ, NY and PA. Simply enter your credentials in E-Closing Connect to be able to generate Jackets and CPLs from the Title Policy Screen.
We have increased the “Formation Entity” field on the Borrower/Seller Information Screens to hold 100 characters, where it only held 30 before.
We have added a new address field for Lenders and Mortgage Brokers, called “Final Docs Address”, for those Lenders and Mortgage Brokers who have another address to send Final Docs to.
We have added an alert if you are trying to print checks that have already been used in the system. The alert will tell you the check numbers that have already been used. If you don’t have a check template loaded, we will also alert you to that as well.
We have also enhanced the login screen. Instead of getting a popup when you enter the incorrect password or any other message that would pop up, it is now built in to the login page, for a cleaner look.
You can now set different Rate Types for Loan and Owner Packages! If you want the Loan to default to Standard and Owners to default to Enhanced, you can now do that in the Rolodex!

Friday, July 27th 2018

We have updated FATIC GA rates - effective 9/1/2018. The only change is that the premiums now round up to the nearest dollar.
We have also updated the NATIC GA rates - effective 8/27/2018.

Thursday, July 26th 2018

We have also updated the following rates:

Old Republic NH Rates updated – effective 8/1/2018

Old Republic NH Endorsements updated – effective 8/1/2018

Old Republic VT Endorsements updated – effective 8/1/2018

Tuesday, July 24th 2018

We have updated the NATIC MA rates with an effective date of 8/1/2018.

Tuesday, July 17th 2018

We have some exciting new features to tell you about! If you have questions about any of the new features, please feel free to reach out to Support and we will be more than happy to assist you!

When emailing attachments from File Summary, users would have to click Add attachment, select the one they wanted, then if they wanted to add additional ones, click Add attachment again. This has been updated so that the list of available attachments will remain visible, so you can easily add more than one attachment.
For users in Florida, we have updated the CATIC interface to allow you to generate CPLs and Jackets on the Title Policy Screen with the integration!

Tuesday, July 3rd 2018

We have some exciting new features to tell you about! If you have questions about any of the new features, please feel free to reach out to Support and we will be more than happy to assist you!

We have added a new form per the updated FinCen rule to include Middlesex and Suffolk Counties in Massachusetts to fill out this form. The form is called ALTA FinCen Targeting Order.
You can now click and drag disbursements that have been split from other disbursements. This previously broke when we added the feature to show where a disbursement was split from.
You can now make a Plot Plan Engineer an E-Closing Portal User. You will create them the same way you create Loan Originators and other Business types in the Rolodex.
For Stewart Title NY files and First American Title NH files, endorsements will now round up.
We have opened up the field in Bank Setup for you to be able to change the last check number. As you know, sometimes if a wrong check number gets entered, it can throw things off for you. You now have the ability (if you have access to Bank Setup) to update this and carry on with your work!
We have updated the button on the Create Manual Checks/Wires Screen to say “Create Manual Checks/Wires” instead of just “Create Manual Checks."
We have added a new button to the Borrower Information Screen. Regardless of the Loan Purpose, you will see a check box to Use Property Address. This will fill in the property address on the Borrower Information Screen.
On the Consolidated Checks Screen, we have now added the Check Total, similar to the Print Checks Screen within a file. Now you will know what the total amount of a check will be before printing.
Documents/Closing Portal: When saving a document for an E-Closing User (or THIS COMPANY), it always named the document whatever the package name was. This is still true if more than one document is generated/saved in the package (example Borrower Info Form and Buyer Intro Letter, will be saved as Intro Letters). However, if you only generate one document, it will save it as the document name (for example, Borrower Info Form will save as such).
User Settings: If a user had no or limited access to items in the Maintain File Screens, on File Summary, they were still able to click on the link (for example to the Borrower) and make changes. If they don’t have access to items in the Maintain File Screens, those items will not show up on File Summary. If they have Read Only Access, they can’t click on the links, and the screens will be in Read Only when they access them.

Monday, July 2nd 2018

We have updated the following cities in Massachuesetts MLC fees: North Andover, Webster, Mansfield, Chelmsford, and Paxton.

Friday, June 29th 2018

We have added a new document for use called ALTA FinCen Targeting Order, which is a new document required with certain transactions. Full Suite Users can add this document to any package you need to.

Tuesday, June 26th 2018

We have added for FATIC GA the $50 CPL Fee that will take affect for any CPL’s generated on or after 7/1/2018.

We have added WFG and CATICO NJ rates effective 04/01/2018.
We have added WFG WI rates effective 1/4/2016.

Thursday, June 21st 2018

We have added the CPL fee for WFG in RI, which will automatically generate a $25 fee to the HUD/CD if a CPL is generated within the system.

We have some exciting new features to tell you about! If you have questions about any of the new features, please feel free to reach out to Support and we will be more than happy to assist you!

We have added the ability to make Loan Processor Assistants and Real Estate Agent Assistants, E-Closing Portal Users. You can make them Closing Portal Users the same way you make other Business Contacts Portal Users.

Tuesday, June 5th 2018

We have some exciting new features to tell you about! If you have questions about any of the new features, please feel free to reach out to Support and we will be more than happy to assist you!

The State of NH DRA forms have been updated, at the request of the State of New Hampshire. You can still E-File the forms within the State Specific Screen, but if you generate the paper copy, they have been updated to the most recent forms from the State of New Hampshire.
On the Closing Portal, in the Tax Information Section, we have added it to include the payment schedule for each record.
reQuire has a new product we have integrated with, “Curative Title Order”. Using this integration, users can submit a request to reQuire that will have reQuire begin working to remove an item from Title that should have been previously discharged.
We have begun releasing our Alliant National Title CPL integration to some beta testers. Once we have finished beta testing, it will be released to all!

We have also added some new features to the Document Uploader Software (for barcodes). Please go to File-> Check For Updates, and update the software. Once it restarts and you go to log in again, you will see a button that says " Remember Me", which will store your credentials for when you restart the program. You will also get two new options in the File Menu: Exit and Exit and Sign Out. If you have selected the Remember Me option and choose File->Exit, it will reuse your credentials and log you back in when you restart the program. If you choose File-> Sign out and Exit, it will remove your saved credentials and you will need to log in the next time you start the app.

Thursday, May 17th 2018

We have some exciting new features to tell you about! If you have questions about any of the new features, please feel free to reach out to Support and we will be more than happy to assist you!

We have added the Escrow Accounting Training Videos on the Escrow Accounting Screen. Simply click on the little blue ? in the upper right hand corner to view which video you would like. In addition to the options currently available, there is now one called “Escrow Accounting Training”. It is 10:24 in length, but very informative!
We have added labels to the Tax Information Section on the Closing Portal. Now, we will disclose which Tax Record the record refers to.
We have added a “Forgot Password” link on the log in page, which will send you or your Closing Portal Users an email with a new temporary password.

Tuesday, May 15th 2018

We have updated the WFG rates in GA with an effective date of 5/14/2018.

Friday, May 4th 2018

We have some exciting new features to tell you about! If you have questions about any of the new features, please feel free to reach out to Support and we will be more than happy to assist you!

We have made the Manage Users screen easier to use! You can now toggle between E-Closing Users (those in your office) and Closing Portal Users. You will also be able to search their name, or any part of their name and it will filter through the names, so you can easily find a user! In the past, the Company Users and Client Users were all just one long list, which made it hard to find names. Now, there will be two tabs “E-Closing” and “Closing Portal”, each with 5 columns; Name, Login, Company, Role, and Actions. In the Name, Login and Company Fields, you can start typing any part of the name, and the list will get filtered out. Role for Company user is always displayed as USER and Role for Closing Portal users is whatever Business type the User is, ie., Borrower, Seller, Listing Agent, etc. By clicking on the Actions icon, you will be taken to the User Management Screen, where you can edit information and security settings.
We have added a new video to the Closing Disclosure Maintenance Screen, which will help guide you in filling out the CD.

We have added a Commercial rate type for GA for First American.

Friday, April 13th 2018

We have loaded rates and endorsements for CATIC in FL.

Wednesday, April 11th 2018

We have changed the labeling of the types of Notes in the User Notes area. Note is a note in the file visible to any employee of your company, and Alert will pop the note up when you access the File Summary Screen.
We have loaded the rates and endorsements for NATIC in GA.

Monday, April 9th 2018

We have some exciting new features to tell you about! If you have questions about any of the new features, please feel free to reach out to Support and we will be more than happy to assist you!

Our alerts will be more prominent. In the past, you may have noticed if our office was closed due to a holiday, that it blended in with the Whiteboard. We now will have a red banner alerting you that the office is closed.
Although we have given you the option to choose to generate a document in Word, we defaulted it to generate as a PDF (View on Screen). We will still default to this, however, if you wish to change this default and always generate in Word, you now will have that choice. To make this change, from your Whiteboard go to Back Office - Misc Menu to - Manage Users and select the user name you wish to change (only available to users who have access to Manage Users). You should see an additional field that says Default Output Option. Choose Word and scroll to the bottom and click Update User. This will now default the document output option to Word, but you will have the option to generate as PDF, if you wish.
You will see a new field in the Recording Screen called Date Dated. In states or instances where the date of the recorded document is different from the closing date you can enter a date in this field. Otherwise, feel free to leave it blank. It will only appear on documents where it is tagged to pull it, so if it isn’t something you would use, you will see no change.
Due to the new Closing Portal (please see other documentation and videos for information on this enhanced feature!), we have removed the option for Public Notes. This was because of the messaging we have for the Closing Portal.
If you are in a state where you use “Deed of Trust Trustee”, you can now enter a default Trustee in the Lender Rolodex, so you aren’t always typing the same name. We will default that name for that Lender, but if needed on a particular file, you can change the name.
With the release of the new Closing Portal, you can also add a new column to your Whiteboard for messaging. This will show you if you have a message waiting to be read for that file.
We have added more information to the “Show Proration” Informational Message. In the past it is said “Credit for $” or “Debit for $”. It will now say “Credit From Buyer for $” or “Debit to Buyer for $”, so it is a little more clear who is giving or receiving the credit.
We have added more information to the File Summary Page showing who the Attorney is for that file. This can be selected either when creating the file or under Maintain File/ Misc Change.
We have added Field Labels for the Seller’s Forwarding Address on the Seller Information Screen to make it easier to fill out the Forwarding Address.
We have added an icon on the Escrow Accounting Screen, to post Manual Checks/Wires. In the past, if you wanted to post multiple items in one wire or hand-written check, you had to go to the Escrow Acc. menu, now you can access that screen directly from the Escrow Accounting Screen!
We have updated the Informational Message that shows when you change the Purchase Price. It will now include to run Lookup Ernst (if run previously), as well as verifying the Realtor Commissions and the Title Policy.
We have added to the Escrow Accounting Screen, the Rolodex Icon. Now, if you are updating a disbursement or splitting a disbursement, you can click on the Rolodex Icon, and from the Rolodex select a name and address. For the Lender it defaults to Post Processing for now, but we are looking to add an option to choose any one of the many addresses you’ve stored for your lenders. – Stay Tuned!

Thursday April 5th 2018

We have added the CPL fees for WFG in NH to be $25, Old Republic in PA for $125 and NJ for $75. This fee will automatically generate when a CPL is generated via the integration.
We have loaded the rates for NATIC in TN.

Wednesday, March 28th 2018

We have added a feature where if you split an amount from another disbursement, that split will show you where you split it from. This is for informational purposes only and will not print on a check.

Wednesday, March 7th 2018

We have loaded the CT rates for Title Resources , effective 7/15/2017.

Tuesday, February 20th 2018

We have updated the NATIC and WFG MI rates that were effective 12/01/2017 and 8/01/2017, respectively, due to a rounding issue.
We also updated the new endorsements for both underwriters, effective 2/1/2018 due to some fee changes.

Thursday, February 15th 2018

Great news! We have just released the new integration with UPS! To use this integration, from your Whiteboard go to Back Office -> E-Closing Connect and scroll down to the UPS icon. Click on the icon and enter your UPS Username, Password, and Account, and choose if you use Ground or not. Now, when you are in a file, when you create a shipping label, you can choose the Ship Via drop down and choose UPS. Fill out the rest of the screen, and you are good to go!

Wednesday, January 31st 2018

We have added the CPL Fee for WFG SC effective 2/1/2018. The charge is $25.

Friday, January 19th 2018

We have added the Fidelity, Chicago and Commonweath CPL Fee to be effective now and will charge $25 on the HUD/CD when CPL's are generated through the integration for ME and RI.

Monday, January 8th 2018

We have added the CATIC NH CPL Fee effective 2/1/2018. The charge will be $25 and will appear on the CD/HUD beginning 2/1/2018 when CPL’s are generated through the integration.

Thursday, January 4th 2018

Next to the Quick Filters there is now a link labeled “export”. If you click on this it will export your whiteboard data into an Excel file. The events column is not included because there is no way to display that properly in Excel and the notes column just has the url for the notes to the file. One nice thing about this feature is that it is not limited to the 300 files that appear on the Whiteboard, it will display all files that apply based on the filter you have selected, ie Active, Closed, Canceled, etc. This is a great feature when looking at files, for instance, that need Policy numbers.

Thursday, December 21st 2017

We have added the CPL fee for the Fidelity Companies in NH and Old Republic in LA to automatically appear on the HUD/CD if you generate a CPL in E-Closing. This is effective 1/1/2018.

eThursday, December 7th 2017

We have updated the FATIC SC rates effective 12/1/2017. The only change is that they are now rounding up all premium amounts.

Wednesday, November 29th 2017

We have updated the CTIC VT rates, effective 11/01/2017.
We have added CTIC NC rates effective 3/1/2017.

Monday, November 20th 2017

We have updated the NATIC MI rates effective 12/1/2017.

Tuesday, November 14th 2017

We have loaded a new set of rates for Old Republic RI effective 12/15/2017. This rate filing required us to also load a new set of endorsements.
We have updated Investors Title rates for GA effective 01/01/2018.

Wednesday, November 8th 2017

We have added the rates for Chicago in NY. Due to how Refi's are handled in NY, we also have added two new rate types: REFI-NEWLENDER and REFI-EXISTINGLENDER. If you need to calculate Title Insurance in NY and don't see these options, please reach out to us and we can add them for you!

Tuesday, October 31st 2017

We have updated the MD Old Republic rates with an effective date of 10/15/2017.

Wednesday, October 18th 2017

We have updated the new ME rates for Chicago, Commonwealth, Fidelity, Ticor and Lawyers, effective 10/25/2017. In addition to a rate change they are adopting the title endorsement “packaged” rates, like others in ME and NH.

Friday, September 29th 2017

We have added the $25 CPL fee for CATIC VT, effective 10/1/2017. If you generate a CPL on 10/1/2017 or after, the $25 CPL fee will automatically appear on the HUD/CD.

Tuesday, September 19th 2017

We have loaded the rates for GA FATIC effective 9/1/2017.

Monday, September 11th 2017

We have updated FATIC NH and VT premiums to now round up to the nearest dollar with an effective date of 10/04/2017 and 09/01/2017, respectively.

Thursday, August 31st 2017

We have added an additional security feature to E-Closing, Two Factor Authentication. Please see our Help Desk, under Getting Started for more information!

Wednesday, August 30th 2017

We have updated the Westcor WI rates effective 9/7/2017 to reflect an increase in the minimum premium charge and a change in the simultaneous issue.

Monday, August 28th 2017

We have added FATIC VT and FATIC NH as states where the CPL fee will automatically appear on the HUD/CD when generated through the integration. VT will start with CPL’s generated on or after 9/1/2017 and NH will start on 10/4/2017.
We have updated First American NH’s endorsements with an effective date of 10/4/2017 because the commercial survey affidavit charge is increasing from $50 to $100.

Friday, August 25th 2017

We were made aware that clients in VA and MD will need a specific document, required by their Underwriter. We have added this document to be available for any clients in VA or MD. You will need to add it to a package, but it is available to you. This document is called "Wire Fraud Alert Notice".

Monday, August 21st 2017

We have added the ability to pull the Commercial MLC fee to documents. If the Property Use is selected as Commercial, then it will pull the Commercial MLC fee to documents tagged to pull the MLC Fee. As with the Residential MLC fees, we maintain that data on our end, so if changes need to be made, please let our support team know.

Friday, August 18th 2017

We have loaded WFG rates for GA and Old Republic rates for LA.
We have changed the defaults when setting up new lenders. We now will default 4 decimal places and prepaid interest through the first payment day. This will effect new lender entries only, not ones that were previously entered.

Monday, August 14th 2017

If you have multiple settlement agencies, you can now set HUD Defaults for each Settlement Agency.

Thursday, August 10th 2017

We have updated the list of endorsements for Old Republic Title Insurance in Maine. Any files with a commitment effective date of 8/11/2017 or later will get this new list.
We have also updated the Stewart Title Group rates for Virginia effective 8/1/2017.

Tuesday, August 8th 2017

For First American Title Insurance files in NH have been updated to show the 8.1 Endorsement to not be $50 but $0, as it is included in the Residential ALTA Endorsement. Any files with an effective date before 8/8/2017 will still show the $50. If you change the commitment effective date to be 8/8/2017 or later, it will uncheck all endorsements and you will need to make sure you check them off again.

Thursday, July 27th 2017

We have added ALTA Settlement Statements with the DRAFT watermark on them. You can add them to your ALTA package, if you would like!

Monday, June 26th 2017

We have updated the CATIC NH rates effective 07/01/2017.

Friday, June 16th 2017

Title insurance premiums and endorsements have been updated for Chicago Title, Commonwealth and Fidelity National in New Hampshire, effective 6/21/2017.

Wednesday, June 14th 2017

We have released a new version of the Document Uploader Software for MAC users. Please go to Whiteboard/Back Office/Documents Menu/Download File Uploader Software and install the newest version. This should be updated for current users if you try to load large files.

Monday, June 6th 2017

We have increased the Stewart Title New York rates from $1 million to $10 million.

Friday, June 2nd 2017

We have added the WFG AL rates effective 05/22/2015.

Thursday, June 1st 2017

We have updated the Fidelity RI rates effective today.

Friday, May 26th 2017

The WI NATIC rates were updated with an effective date of 6/1/2017.
We have updated the Florida Data Call report, to include a couple extra columns to provide more information .

Monday, May 15th 2017

Effective today CATIC will no longer require serialized commitment jackets. That means that the generate commitment jacket link on the title policy screen will no longer appear for CATIC agents using the CATIC integration and the commitment jacket serial number will now default to the agent’s file id. We have updated all of the commitment templates to include the commitment jacket that is generated within E-Closing.

Friday, May 12th 2017

We have updated the Title Rates for WFG MN and NC.
We are now integrated with First American’s Back Office Production Services (BOPS). If you have setup the First American AgentNet integration in E-Closing Connect you can now order title searches through BOPS on the property information screen.”

Tuesday, May 2nd 2017

WFG MA rates have been updated effective tomorrow (5/3/2017).
The rates for NATIC in MA have been added.
We have also added the ability to add ALTA license numbers for each Settlement Agency (instead of just being able to enter it in THIS COMPANY) in the Rolodex.
First American made an update with their integration and if you no longer are seeing the Back Title Search button on the property screen, please re-validate your credentials. From your Whiteboard go to Back Office -> E-Closing Connect. Click on First American's icon, click Validate, then scroll to the bottom and hit Update Connections. You should now see the button again in the Property Information screen.

Friday, April 28th 2017

We have changed how the State License fields for Lenders, Real Estate Brokers, Company/Settlement Agency are now shown in the Rolodex. Instead of having all 50 fields, there is now a drop down to choose which state, and you can add more, if needed.
We have also added the ability to add multiple State License IDs for Real Estate Agents in the Contact Section of the Rolodex.
There is a field in the Contact Section that says Old License (reference only). You cannot edit that field, but it is there for a reference so that you can then choose the State Field that number should be tied to for that contact.

Monday, April 17th 2017

CATICTrac was deployed to all users effective this morning. This means if you had CATIC credentials for CPLs/Jackets, you will now be able to submit payoffs to CATICTrac on the payoff screen for discharge tracking. Please see E-Closing Connect for more information.

Friday, April 7th 2017

We have updated the ORT MD rates effective 5/1/2017.

Thursday, April 6th 2017

A CPL fee will automatically generate on the HUD/CD if you generate a CPL with Fidelity in CT through E-Closing. The $25 fee will automatically show as a charge to the borrower.

Wednesday, April 5th 2017

We have loaded Substitution Loan Rates for Florida, a straight 40-70% discount based on the age of the outstanding policy. Make sure you have a Reissue Rate amount entered and then in the drop down below it, choose how old the prior policy was:

Age of Original Loan                      Premium Rates

3 years or under      30% of original rates

From 3 to 4 years                        40% of original rates

From 4 to 5 years                        50% of original rates

From 5 to 10 years                     60% of original rates

Over 10 years                             100% of original rates

Minimum premium                         $100.00

Wednesday, March 22nd 2017

Fidelity, Commonwealth and Chicago have new rates effective 4/6/2017. This rate change includes the addition of the Standard-NALR and Enhanced-NALR rate types, for CT.

Wednesday, March 15th 2017

We updated the Rolodex to allow you to show only Active entries, Deleted entries, or both. We default it to show Active only.

Friday, March 10th 2017

We have loaded rates for Chicago Title MD. Effective prior to 4/3/2017 and the ones after.

Friday, February 24th 2017

We have recently updated the following rates:

FATIC MD – Effective 3/1/17

ORNTC GA – Effective 2/1/2017

Investors GA – Effective 3/1/2017

FATIC MI – Effective 3/1/2017

CTIC VA – Effective 4/20/2016 – (this was a new rate load).

Wednesday, February 8th 2017

We have added the new Seller 1099 Substitution Form. You can add it to any package by going in to Document Management and clicking Edit next to the package you wish to add it to. Next, scroll through the list to find the document name 1099-S Substitute Form, click on it so it turns blue, then click the arrow that appears between the two panels. Once done, you can click Update package.

Monday, February 6th 2017

We have updated the FATIC MI rates effective 3/1/2017.

Monday, January 30th 2017

We have loaded new rates for ORT GA effective 2/1/2017.

Friday, January 13th 2017

We have updated the Fidelity, Commonwealth and Chicago rates for CT effective 1/25/2017.

Tuesday, January 3rd 2017

We have changed how information and errors are displayed. Basically, anything that came up on the screen in red, will now generate a modal pop-up. Green is Informational, Yellow is Warning and Red is Error. This was done so that things are done on the client side instead of on the server.
We have updated the 1009-S to be the new version released by the IRS. If the Seller has a Foreign Address, on the Seller Information screen, in the State drop down, choose "OTHER/FOREIGN" and the box will be checked off on the 1099.

Tuesday, December 20th 2016

CATIC NH rates have been updated effective 1/1/2017.

Tuesday, December 6th 2016

We have updated the CATIC ME rates with an effective date of 1/1/2017.

Friday, December 2nd 2016

Fidelity Title’s MA rates have been updated effective 1/1/2017

Thursday, December 1st 2016

The RI Chicago rates have been updated with an effective date of 10/12/2016.

Friday, November 4th 2016

We have added two new reports to everyone's ReportWriter section, one called common_check_register_transfers_report - which is a report that will show items with a payment method of Transfer to Another File and the other is called:

common_fedex_report: which will show an estimated cost for FedEx labels printed from E-Closing. These are estimated costs, as the charge may change based on the actual weight of the item.

Wednesday, November 2nd 2016

We have updated the Fannie Mae RI Mortgage form to the most current version.

Tuesday, November 1st 2016

Revised the Fannie Mae MA Mortgage form 3022 to include paragraphs C-1 and C-2.

Friday, October 28th 2016

We have updated the MA Mortgage form 3022 to be the latest version from Fannie Mae, revised 10/2016.

Friday, October 21st 2016

We have updated the rates for Stewart Title in Wisconsin with an effective date of 9/1/2016.

Tuesday, September 27th 2016

We have updated Note forms 3504 and 3514 per recent update by Fannie Mae.

Thursday, September 22nd 2016

We have updated the Maine Commonwealth and Fidelity Rates with an effective date of 10/10/2016.

Friday, September 16th 2016

We updated the 1099 form to include two new paragraphs, 7 and 8, per the request of several underwriters to be in compliance with the new IRS rule.

Monday, August 1st 2016

We have done some research and made help articles on Settings for our users who have Macs and use Safari. Optimal Settings for Safari

Wednesday, July 27th 2016

Marketing 101 teaches us the importance of a brand. At E-Closing we've made it easier than ever for you to promote your high technology to clients and business partners while highlighting your brand. Our partner portal is used by thousands of title agents to securely communicate and share documents with their clients. If you are not currently using the partner portal we recorded a short tutorial video several months ago that will help to get you started. Click here to view the tutorial. For those of you who are already using the partner portal, or if you just want a cool co-branded login screen for your website, you can now upload a logo for our redesigned login area. To use this feature you will simply go to the Back Office - Rolodex Menu - Manage Rolodex and select the business type of "This Company". Within your company record you will find an area labeled "Co-Branded Portal Settings". In this area you can "click to upload" or "drag and drop" the logo of your choice. Once you have uploaded a logo you will be presented with a URL that can be added to your website, or bookmarked, to access your co-branded log in screen. The URL will look something like this: https://www.e-closingsecured.com/scripts/spiis.dll/its-itec/itec_login?client=754U3EO8Y. It's as easy as that to have the best looking client portal on the block.
Beginning today you will be able to electronically file New Hampshire Department of Revenue forms CD-57 and PA-34 directly from E-Closing. We are excited to announce that we have partnered with the State of New Hampshire Department of Revenue and are the only title production system integrated with their electronic filing system for PA-34's and CD-57's. These forms can be electronically filed through E-Closing in Maintain File - State Specific Property Data. This new feature will save postage and a tremendous amount of time.

Thursday, July 21st 2016

We have installed a new update that will prompt users on the Property Screen if you change the Residence Type, that you need to then verify the Title Policy Information Screen, as changing this information can cause a change with the Endorsements (mainly with Fidelity). If you continue, the system will delete the endorsements, so you will need to make sure the Endorsements are correct in Title Policy.

Wednesday, July 20th 2016

Old Republic CT has added the Standard-NALR and Enhanced-NALR rate premiums effective 8/1/2016. We have loaded the rates, added the packages to the companies who we know write to Old Republic in CT, and made the necessary copies of the policy templates.

Friday, July 15th 2016

If you have entered notes in the Lender Rolodex, they will now be accessible from the File Summary Screen in a file, if that Lender has been selected. There will be a little note icon next to the Lender name, if notes are entered.

Thursday, July 7th 2016

We removed buyer/seller email addresses from the NH CD-57 and PA34’s for confidentiality reasons.
We rounded projected payments on the CD for variable rate loans per the statute.

Monday, June 27th 2016

We have modified the Rolodex screen so that you are required to select a business type for Companies and contacts when adding them to the Rolodex. Previously the bus type defaulted to Abstractor, but will now require you to choose one.

Wednesday, June 15th 2016

We have updated the Westcor FL commitment templates to include a jacket that they provided.

Wednesday, June 1st 2016

There is a new version of the Document Uploader Software available. This new version fixes the bug with complex passwords, the new console window has more information for the user, there is a new folder that is created called "Failed" in which any documents that don't get loaded after 100 tries will automatically be put in this folder. This is still only for 64 bit Window users, as 32 bit would only allow you to upload files up to 1MB.
We just released new versions of the CATIC MA and CT, commitments and policies per CATIC’s request

Friday, May 27th 2016

Here is a link to the ALTA article about disclosing the Title Insurance Premium: http://blog.alta.org/2015/10/how-to-disclosure-simultaneous-issue-rate-for-know-before-you-owe.html

Thursday, May 19 2016

If you add a note to a file and mark it to Alert, when you go in to the file, a notice will pop up saying you have an alerted note.

Wednesday, May 18 2016

The CATIC ME endorsement list was updated effective 6/1/2016 at the request of CATIC.

Thursday, May 12th 2016

We have updated the FireFox and Internet Explorer Browser Settings that are helpful when using E-Closing. Please see our Tips and Tricks section on the Support Desk.
We added the Date and Time to the bottom of the CD. We added this so that you would have an easier time keeping track of revisions and knowing which printed CD is the latest version.

Friday, May 6th 2016

We added a new document available to everyone called Authorization to Release Borrower Info Form. This is a form that was being requested with the new TRID guidelines so we have made one available to everyone.

Thursday, May 5th 2016

We have installed a check on the Title Policy Screen, so that if you put TBD in a Policy Number Field, but there is no coverage amount, it will alert you. This way, your Premiums and Splits will be accurate.

Wednesday, May 4th 2016

We have fixed the issue with the Title Insurance Discount on the CD. When you enter the discount on the Title Policy page, it now shows the discount on the CD for both the Loan and Owners Premium.
The Escrow Account Disclosure Statement now prevents duplicate Homeowner's Insurance and Mortgage Insurance charges from showing.
In the Lender Rolodex Screen, there is now a field that can hold 15,000 Characters for Lender notes, such as documents they want generated for each closing, portal information etc.
The Credit Information Screen will alert you if trying to create a credit to and from the same entity.

You can now save e-mails from Outlook or Gmail in to your E-Closing file.

Outlook:

Open desired email to save
Choose File, Save As, "Save As Type HTML", give email desired name (no special characters or commas), save to desktop (or desired location.
Log into E-Closing, open file needed, and on File Summary, go to "Drag Documents Here to Upload", browse computer and open saved email to upload.

Gmail:

Open desired email to save.
Right click in email, save as "Save as Type Webpage", give email desired name (no special characters or commas), save to desired location.
Log in to E-Closing, open file, and on the File Summary Page and click on Drag Documents Here to Upload and browse your computer and click on saved email to upload.

* You cannot load .exe or .zip files.

We have fixed the issue in Internet Explorer for the Paid by Others column, where it wasn't showing who you selected for who the funds were from. It always said "No Disb." even though "Lender" was selected.

Monday, May 2nd 2016

Stewart PA forms and rates have been updated. This also includes the new document packages Standard Non-Sale and Enhanced Non-Sale.

Thursday, April 28th 2016

In Check Register Maintenance, we made the Payee and Amount fields Read-Only, as this was causing issues with Bank Reconciliation and balancing.

Friday, April 22nd 2016

CATIC CT rates have been updated effective 5/1/2016 to include the Standard-NALR and Enhanced-NALR document packages.

Thursday, April, 21st 2016

We have released a new feature (mentioned in the newsletter sent out yesterday), where you can now filter files on your Whiteboard. You can choose from Active Files, Closed Files, Cancelled Files, Closed Files Needing Policy Numbers, and Files Due to Close in 10 Days. We still will only show the first 300 files in any given category.
If you enter 366 months for the Loan Term on Financial Information Screen, E-Closing will disclose it as 30 years, 6 months on the CD.
We have relabeled the text description “Schedule B Section 2 – Exceptions (Special)” to “Schedule B Section 2 – Exceptions (Subordinate)” to more accurately reflect the type of data that belongs here.

Wednesday, April 20th 2016

We have made a change to the close date column on the Whiteboard. If the date that appears is the projected close date because a close date has not been entered in the financial screen, (proj.) will appear next to the date.

Wednesday, April 13th 2016

We have made an update to the Notes feature. If you mark a note with an alert, when you click on the alert icon on the Whiteboard, the alerted note will be highlighted. Also, you can now tie a note to an event. When you create a note, there is a drop down that coincides with your events. If you would like the note to be tied to an event, select the even from the drop down. This way, if you have to update the event, due to date change, it will not delete the note associated with it.
The change password screen will prompt the user for their old password if they are changing their password and their temporary password if the password was reset or recently issued.

Wednesday, April 6th 2016

Old Republic Rates for West Virginia have been updated.

Monday, April 4th 2016

MLC fee for North Attleboro, MA has been updated to $50.

Wednesday, March 30th 2016

Westcor MA rates have been updated, will take effect with Commitment Effective Dates on or after April 1, 2016.
We added a short explanation about what the post-closing team checkbox does on the manage teams screen.
We added the option to give a Credit From the Borrower to the Credit Information Screen.
We added some tips and tricks to the Closing Disclosure screen before pages 2 and 3.
We updated the Projected Payments section on the CD, if it is a Variable loan, and you do not enter information in the second field for projected payments, it will only disclose the top number in the Estimated Payment.

Monday, March 28th 2016

Fidelity NY rates added to the system.

Wednesday, March 23rd 2016

New version of the Document Uploader Software is now available. If you have an older version installed, we recommend uninstalling your old version and install the new one. You must have Windows 64 Bit to use.
Draft CD is now available and has been added to your Closing Disclosure package.
CPL fee automatically will generate on the CD, if a CPL is generated in the file for most states and Underwriters.
We added a field to enter a description for the Lender Credit in Section J if needed.

Tuesday, March 22nd 2016

Old Republic OH rates and endorsements added to the system.

Friday, March 18th 2016

Quickbooks Export feature now populates a prompt to Save the File or Open it.

Tuesday, March 8th 2016

License Number field in the Rolodex increased to 20 characters from 9.
Deed of Trust Trustee text box field added to Lender Information screen. This information can be tagged to documents upon request.
The Mortgage Broker's and Lender's Loan Originator's email addresses will now carry over to Documents as an option to select to email.
We have added a field on Page 2 in Section J for the Lender Credit, where you can add a description.

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