Ursa Software for Community Development Professionals by Black Bear Systems

With Ursa, building and planning functions are a snap. Ursa comes with predefined permit types for you to use or tailor to your needs. You can also create any new permit types you wish.

	Handles all types of Permits - Building, Planning, Engineering, Land-Use, etc.
	Complete Job Tracking from Pre-Application Meetings through Certificate of Occupancy Issuance
	Permit Command Center lets you review all jobs by many criteria (Point-in-Process, date, status, location, etc.) with just a click
	Get from the Command Center to the details of any particular job with one click
	Compare current year-to-date, monthly, and quarterly workloads against last year’s figures with Built-in Comparison Reports
	Automated Census Bureau Report creation
	Built-in “No Activity” Reporting
	Set up “smart” Point-in-Process checklists – Ursa will alert you when steps are left uncompleted before the job can move on to the next step
	Track all steps of the Approval process, even those that occur in other agencies or departments
	Group many Permits under a single Master Permit record
	Assign multiple Parcels to a single Permit
	Assign multiple addresses per Parcel, to a single Permit
	Block a Contractor, Owner, Tenant, or Parcel from any Permit activity if an open Code Violation exists
	Block Permit activity if Applicant and/or Contractor has unpaid fees for any other Permit, Business License, or Code Violation
	Auto-calculate Application and Permit expiration dates by Permit Type
	License and Bond confirmation of Contractors by type of Permit and Contractor
	Attach digital photos or other graphics

Permit Detail Screen

You have control over the detailed information you want to look at on Ursa tabs. You can add or remove pages of information you need; on the right-hand-side of the screen you see the pages used in this example, “Overview”, “Parcels”, “Contractors”, etc. You can also add your own buttons on each of these pages – to perform functions, bring up related information, or run a report, for example.