Assign: The assignment process is crucial in providing the unbiased and efficient mechanism to distribute orders fairly across the vendors. The various categories for optimal assignment include: coverage area, licensing, skill levels, location, price, workload, past performance, and quality ratings. Smart Assist: Allows manual selection through an interface which provides the appraiser’s capacity, rank, score, and fees to allow the best appraiser for a specific order to be chosen. Automated assignment: Based on customized key criteria, the system can automatically distribute orders on an un-biased rotational basis.

Broadcast assignment: The system has the ability to submit an order request to an unlimited amount of vendors who qualify for a specific assignment, resulting in expedited turnaround times.

Dynamic special instruction support: This feature allows specific filters to be generated based on client, method of payment, or product to deliver additional attachments that provide special instruction to the appraiser about the specific assignment.

Bid assignment: This process, typically utilized in the commercial area, allows multiple appraisers to receive a request for bid based on turnaround and fee for any specific assignment. The resulting responses can be evaluated and selected thereby creating an engagement letter to complete the process.