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On this page you will find answers to common questions handled by our support staff, along with some tips and tricks that we have found useful and presented here as questions.

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Note: In these answers we will follow a few shorthand conventions for describing user-interface procedures. Key combinations will be presented like this: Ctrl+Alt+Delete, which means that you should press and hold down the Control key, the Alt key, and the Delete key at the same time. Menu selections will be presented like this: File->Open, which means that you should open the File menu, and then make the Open selection

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1. How do I start ?
2. How do I edit my agency information?
3. How do I edit my surety's information?
4. How do I edit my bond cost or BUF rate?
5. How do I enter a new bond type?
6. How do I add bonds to my inventory?
7. How do I add a new bond transaction?
8. How do I add a defendant to a new transaction?
9. How do I add a new indemnitor to a new transaction?
10. How do I add a bond to a new transaction?
11. How do I add a new court?
12. How do I add the transaction accounting information?
13. How do I add additional bond cost to the accounting information?
14. How do I add collateral to a bond transaction.
15. How do I edit a bond status?
16. How do I add a payment?
17. How do I add a debit?
18. How do I print a receipt?
19. How do I print an Executed Bond Report for the surety?
20. How do I print a Discharged/ Exonerated Bond Report for the surety?
21. How do I print a Transferred Bond Report for the surety?
22. How do I print a letter?
23. How do I print an Agency Report?
24. Where can I find ... ?
25. Why doesn't ... ?
26. Who is ... ?
27. What is ... ?
28. When is ... ?

Sub Group : Getting Started

1. How do I start ?
2. How do I add my agency information?
3. How do I add my surety's information?

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Sub Group : Accounting

1. How do I add a payment?
2. How do I add a debit?
3. How do I print a receipt?
4. How do I add the transaction accounting information?
5. How do I add additional bond cost to the accounting information?
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Sub Group : Agency/Surety Information

1. How do I edit my agency information?
2. How do I edit my surety's information?

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Sub Group : Bonds

1. How do I enter a new bond type?
2. How do I add bonds to my inventory?
3. How do I add a bond to a new transaction?
4. How do I edit a bond status?
5. How do I forfeit a bond?
6. How do I exonerate a bond?
7. How do I void a bond?
8. How do I transfer a bond?
9. How do I issue a bond?

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Sub Group : Defendants & Indemnitors

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Sub Group : Letters & Reports

1. How do I print an Executed Bond Report for the surety?
2. How do I print a Discharged/ Exonerated Bond Report for the surety?
3. How do I print a Transferred Bond Report for the surety?
4. How do I print a letter?
5. How do I print an Agency Report?
6. How do I print a receipt?

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Sub Group : Maintenance & Miscellaneous

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Sub Group : Sub Agents

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Sub Group : Transaction Information

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How do I start ?

Open the program by double clicking on the program icon on your desktop

Or

by using the start button:   Start -> All Programs -> CHS Ent Bail Program -> CHS Ent Bail Program (*Note: some programs may end with "MA", "MS" "MO" "Sub" or other version designation)

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Enter Agency Information

Main Menu -> Administration ->  Agency Information

(From the Main Menu click Administration. Click Agency Information.)

Enter your agency information. (For versions "MO" enter information for additional offices.)

-> Close Form

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Enter Surety Information

Main Menu -> Administration ->  Surety Information

Enter the surety information. (For versions "MS" enter information for additional sureties.)

-> Close Form

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Enter Bond Types

Main Menu -> Administration ->  Access Tables -> Bond Type Tables

Enter the bond type (tier) information:

Press Tab once to move to the Bond Prefix field and enter bond prefix. (Bond number on the left side of the hyphen such as  "A7" "A15" "R5" DD" "60" etc.)

Press Tab twice to move to the Bond Max Penal Amount field and enter Max Penal Amount

Press Tab once and enter Surety ID Number for surety that issued that bond type (Surety ID Number = the order you entered the surety information. First surety entered is 1, second surety is 2 etc.)

Multiple surety feature is available in the "MS" version only.

Press Tab to add next bond type

Close table by clicking on the X located in the top right corner of the window

Close Database Tables Form -> Return To Main Menu

 

 

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Add Bonds To Inventory

Main Menu -> Bonds ->  Add Bonds To Inventory

Select the Bond Type (click on down arrow on the right side of the Bond Type field and then select the bond type from the drop down menu)

Press Tab and Enter the date the surety issued the bonds (Enter all dates with the 2 digit format.  example: 01/01/03 or 010103 as hyphens are inserted automatically)

Press Tab and Enter the void date the surety assigned the bonds (Enter all dates with the 2 digit format.  example: 01/01/03 or 010103 as hyphens are inserted automatically)

Enter the bond number suffix* of the first (Starting) bond in bond group** ( * The bond suffix is the number on the right side of the hyphen such as  2061190. **A Bond Group is defined as a group of bonds of same type with consecutive bond suffixes.)

Enter the bond number suffix of the last (Ending) bond number in bond group (If only one bond in group that number must be entered as the ending bond number.)

Click Process button

Verify the number of bonds being entered is equal to the number issued (Warning: Be careful to make sure the bond quantity being processed is the correct number. If a suffix was entered incorrectly you may be entering 1,000,000 bonds instead of 10. If incorrect, click no when prompted and then enter correct bond number suffix. While it is possible to delete the mistaken bonds later, save yourself the hassle and do it right the first time.)

If correct click Yes button (If incorrect, click no when prompted and then enter correct bond number suffix.)

Add next bond group or click Close Form button

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