Have Multiple Offices? Lower Mailing Costs with Enterprise Online Postage Software

You're a moderate-sized business owner, with locations scattered across a city, a state, perhaps the entire country. Your mailroom or office manager processes numerous packages, bills and invoices each day.  Until now, you think that the postage meters you've been using are the most efficient route for your mail processing.

Unfortunately, they're anything but. For an enterprise business like yours, postage meters could be a line item where revenue is being wasted each and every month.

Let's say you have five locations, each with its own meter lease contract. Each of those contracts could come due at any given time during the month - not necessarily when it might be convenient for your business - and each can cost upwards of $50 a month. That's already an outlay of $250 every month, just for leases. Then, you have to buy the special inks and possibly even pay for a software upgrade when the USPS increases postage rates.  That's a lot of money. 

You also have to keep postage records at each location - with a postage meter, that's a matter of trusting each location manager to record and file the costs of postage refills, overnight shipping costs and other mailing special services. Don't forget the added costs of your employees sneaking a stamp or two for their personal mail each month, at each location.

So what can you do? You need postage and you're not about to head to the Post Office.  Enterprise Postage Software is the perfect solution. With online postage, you can eliminate the postage meter headache and enjoy increased employee accountability and efficiency with your mailing and shipping solution.

Just take a look at what Enterprise Online Postage Software has to offer:

Enterprise Online Postage Software is a completely software-based solution - you have all the equipment you need right now. The leading providers (Stamps.com or Dazzle Express) already interface with most of the leading USB-ready scales on the market, and virtually any LaserJet or thermal printer is compatible with the software.

Stamps.com Enterprise solution provides you a dashboard where you can easily run reports detailing activity throughout your organization, assign permissions to employees by hierarchy and review transactions on a user-by-user basis.  These powerful reporting features allow you to track postage expenditures in the different departments or locations of your company.

With the cost codes offered by the leading enterprise online postage software providers, you can see just how each cent of postage was used. Worried that an employee is sending out personal mail on your dime? Or just interested in how much Marketing is spending on their latest Direct Mail campaign?  With cost codes, you have the info right at your fingertips.

When you lease a meter, you're not just paying for the lease. You've got to factor in the special inks, the maintenance, reset fees - even fees to change the meter after a rate increase. You get none of that with online postage software. You are charged a flat, monthly fee. Outside of the postage you buy, that is all.

With online postage, you get discounts on numerous mail classes and special services that you just can't get with a meter - You can save anywhere from 3 percent to 11 percent on USPS Priority and Express Mail services, you get a hefty discount on postage insurance, and delivery confirmation is always free! Try that with your current meter.

For enterprise business, Stamps.com recommend Enterprise Online Postage Software. It provides efficiency, accountability and most importantly, value. 

Patrick Payne has been employed with Stamps.com since 2005, focusing his attention on postage solutions and small business productivity. Stamps.com is online postage software that allows you to buy and print USPS-approved postage straight from your computer and printer. 

Learn more about how businesses with multiple locations are saving money with Enterprise Online Postage Solutions.