By Marilee Floener, Revolving Loan Servicing Software Director, GMS, Inc.

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Have you recently received a new computer and are now entering Loan Activity in your Grants Management Systems Revolving Loan Software and notice the Paid Thru Date and Next Payment Due Dates are appearing as invalid dates?  This can be easily remedied.  This indicates that your “Short date” is not set correctly within Windows.  Go to your Windows Control Panel and in the Search box enter “Short date”.  This will show you various date options.  

By Marilee Floener, Revolving Loan Servicing Software Director, GMS, Inc.

​When entering Loan Activity into your Grants Management Systems Revolving Loan Software, pay particular attention to the accuracy of the Next Payment Due field.  The date that is entered here determines the delinquency status of your loan.  It is used to determine if a late fee should be collected from the payment entered.  It is also utilized for delinquency purposes on the Aging Report, Payment Status Report, and Late Payment Notices.  

By Marilee Floener, Revolving Loan Servicing Software Director, GMS, Inc.

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​Are your reports taking a bit longer to appear on the screen than they previously have?  Does your software seem to be a little slower when you switch from one task to another?  Did someone exit the software in a non-standard manner?  When you are ready to make a backup of your database, is it substantially larger than normal?  All of these are reasons to perform a Compact and Repair of your Access database.

Grants Management Systems Revolving Loan Servicing Software has a utility available to assist you in doing this Compact and Repair.  If you do not have this icon on your desktop, please call or email service@gmsactg.com for instructions as to how to receive the GMS Utility.  You can also perform backups with this utility.  

By Marilee Floener, Revolving Loan Servicing Software Director, GMS, Inc.

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​One of the most important things you can do with regards to your data is to make regular backups.  You never know when something may happen to it.  Many things can go wrong such as it can become corrupted, mistakenly deleted, or the computer may get a virus, crash, or even be stolen or subject to some other catastrophe.  One never knows when this will occur and it can create a definite sinking feeling when it does!