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COMS User Guide - Distributors
GE Capital Distribution Finance
Updated as at June 25, 2014
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Table of contents
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Welcome to COMS
Site overview and navigation
Work queue
Notifications
Approvals
Billing and payment
Inventory
Analytics
Administration
Help
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1. Welcome to COMS
COMS is our Customer Online Management System. Some of the new
features include:
Easier
• Modern look
• Intuitive navigation
• Extensive search
functionality
• Self administration
Smarter
• Additional email
notifications
• Real time reporting
Faster
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Actionable work queue
Customised page views
Online payments
Centralised reporting
COMS replaces the current online management tool, eP@l, which
will be decommissioned.
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2. Site overview and navigation
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1. My notifications
2. Recent portfolio
trends
3. My work queue
4. Messages
5. Notifications
6. Staged payments
7. Help central
8. Settings – Set profile
9. Did You Know? –
Quick specific help
tips
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2. Site overview and navigation
The search functionality allows search of invoices/trusts or approvals, across the site and all
customer numbers, by a simple click of the search bar at the right of the navigation bar.
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3. Work queue
Your My Work Queue is your personal ‘to do list’, accessible from your home page.
Customising your My Work Queue is easy! Utilise the icons on the lower left to personalise
the view of your home page.
Please note these tips are applicable to all work queues throughout the site.
Refresh
Add/remove data columns
Search bar
Export
Save settings
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4. Notifications
You can now be alerted of key account developments via Notifications in COMS or via email.
Current notifications are when an approval status changes, when comments are added to an
approval or when a dealer account closes.
Set your notification options by clicking settings in the top blue navigation bar.
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5. Approvals
Approvals can be accessed via your My Work Queue (individual) or Work Queue
(organisation) under the Approvals navigation menu.
You can add comments to any approval by clicking on the approval number – the popup menu
is presented below.
New approvals are easily added via the New Approval menu and those added approvals are
immediately visible in the Approval List at the top of the page
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6. Billing and payment
Your billing statements can be found online under Billing. Documents will include billing
statements and debit notes.
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6. Billing and payment
Payments can be made online via your home page and the Payments tab in your ‘My Work
Queue’ or under Billing and Payment, Make Payment.
From the Make Payment menu option, you have the ability to set up staged payments in
advance. Available staged Payments are highlighted by the shopping cart in the blue
navigation bar.
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7. Inventory
All of your relevant inventory information is on one concise page, the Mfg/Dist Summary. As
highlighted below a dealer list, aging and collateral code summary can accessed via the tabs.
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8. Analytics
All your business intelligence tools, i.e. analytics and reports, can be found in one centralised
location under the Analytics menu. Open to Buy (available credit) reports can be found under
Reports. Performance summaries can also be accessed here.
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9. Administration
The designated Administrator for your company has the ability to view all users, activate and
deactivate users, add new users and adjust user access. To access a users detailed
information, simply click on the User ID in the grid highlighted below.
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9. Administration – COMS access types
COMS provides the following user access types that can be set for each user account. Multiple
roles can be selected per user to suit your business requirements.
Primary role
Supplementary role
View inventory, approvals and related
reports*
View statements
Add/modify approvals, view open to buy
report*
Stage payments, cannot confirm
Approve transfers, locate inventory*
Stage and confirm payments
The supplementary roles above can be set in conjunction with a primary role
* User migrated from eP@L to COMS will be set up with these roles.
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9. Administration – Setting up additional users
Additional users may be set up by your COMS Administrator by following the steps below:
• Administrator to log in to COMS
• Go to Administration menu
• Select Add New Account
• Complete New User Details as per the form
• Set new user’s security privileges/role in company by selecting appropriate checkbox(s).
• Click Submit in the bottom right corner
• Access the help function - add new user screen for troubleshooting queries
• GE Capital will send an email confirmation to the new user once access has been granted.
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9. Administration – Administrator first log in
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Logon
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Confirm email
Confirmation code
Log on to COMS utilising the User ID
and Password sent to you by GE
Capital.
Upon your first logon, confirm your
email address via a two step process:
An email will be automatically sent to
the email provided, containing your
unique confirmation code
AU: www.gecapital.com.au/coms
NZ: www.gecapital.co.nz/coms
1. Input and confirm your correct
company email address
2. Enter this confirmation code to
complete the process
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9. Administration – Additional new user first log in
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Logon
Change password
You will be prompted to immediately
change your password. Please note
that passwords are case sensitive.
Log on to COMS utilising the User ID
and password from your activation
email.
AU: www.gecapital.com.au/coms
NZ: www.gecapital.co.nz/coms
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Log on – new password
Log on with the new password you
have just created.
Take note of minimum password
requirements:
• 8-20 characters in length
• Cannot contain User ID
• Cannot begin with a number or
special character
• Contains at least one number
• Contains at least one lower case
character.
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9. Administration – Additional new user first log in
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Terms of use
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Security
Review terms of use and click I Accept
Set up challenge Q&As.
Confirmation code
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An email will be instantaneously
sent to the email provided
containing
your
unique
confirmation code
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Enter this confirmation code to
complete the process
Your new user’s log in process is
now complete!
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10. Help - Menu
COMS provides an intuitive help menu customised to your current screen. This can be
accessed by clicking the
icon on your COMS toolbar. It will provide an explanation of
processes on your current screen, as well as FAQs and a glossary.
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10. Help - Index
A complete index of all help topics can be accessed within the help menu by clicking Index and
then clicking on the desired topic.
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10. Help – Training videos
COMS provides you with a five minute ‘quick overview’ and a twenty minute ‘in depth’ training
video.
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10. Help
Still have questions?
Please contact your GE Capital Relationship Manager or Distribution
Finance Operations:
dfoperations@ge.com
AU: 1800 133 580
NZ: 0800 332 525
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