If you have never used a franking machine in your business before, you might be surprised by how much money you could be saving.
If you want a more professional looking communication piece and be able to say goodbye to queuing at your post office, franking could be for you. With a franking machine, you will not need to check the cost of sending a parcel, and you will not need to spend time adding stamps to every package. You will not even need to worry about paying the wrong amount for letters with the automatic updates to postal rates.
WHAT IS A FRANKING MACHINE?
Franking is the practice of using a specific piece of office equipment to bypass the use of traditional postage stamps for mailing letters and parcels.
Instead of a printed stamp to attach, a franking machine prints the correct amount of postage directly on the envelope to be sent like how a printer prints to paper. The machine then keeps a running total of how much postage credits your company has purchased and used.
TIME AND COST SAVINGS
The latest models have integrated scales for weighing the postage items, and then the internal rate software calculates the correct amount of postage to use based on the class of postage selected.
Keeping a tally of how much you are spending on mail advertisements, invoicing or correspondence can be a difficult task using pre-printed stamps. Franking machines allow you to separate these expenses into cost accounts for easy tracking.
WHICH OPTION IS BEST FOR MY SMALL BUSINESS?
A suitable model for a low mail volume, small business would include;
The ability to process 15-30 letters a minute
Able to weigh a letter or packet up to 2.5-5kg
Allow tracking of 10-30 cost accounts
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS?
Your business has saved time by not going to the post office to purchase postage, has automated the process to be more efficient and has saved money by affixing accurate postage, receiving discounts and reducing the time taken to process the post.
More efficiency has been made by accounting for departmental postage expense and by using the tracking power of Mailmark.
Your first machine should fit on a desk and not require an entire mail room. There are options for every budget and cash flow requirement.