It's the Little Things

We know it's not a huge thing, but I think you'll appreciate this new Auto-Fill tool for City, County and State.

It's switchable, so you decide. Enter the Zip Code and the city, county, and state auto-fills. Even better--you can overwrite any of this data if you find errors in the database (which is, however, provided by the United States Post Office).

And one more: you can determine whether the system should retain the Zip Code to automatically narrow your search criteria for community resources and assets. Okay, so maybe it's more than a little thing. It's a serious time saver.

Douglas Zimmerman
President & CEO
VisionLink

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