New Features in Professional Investigator 5

IMPORTANT: Version 5 is a chargeable upgrade from previous versions of Professional Investigator. Upgrading a REGISTERED version of 3.x or 4.x will revert your license to a 30-day trial.  You will need purchase the appropriate upgrade licenses from our website during that period to continue using the software.

PLEASE DO NOT INSTALL VERSION 5 IF YOU
DO NOT WISH TO BUY THE UPGRADE LICENSE!

[Version 5 is a 32-bit version of Professional Investigator, and will run perfectly on Windows 95, 98, Me, NT & 2000, but will not run on Windows 3.x]

• The Work Done browse has been improved for easier sorting and filtering. There are now just three tabs for sorting, and a three-way button to show 'invoiced', 'not invoiced', or 'all' records.
• Work Done can now be viewed from the Contact browse as well as the Case browse, and shows work done for this client, on any case.
• Invoices now have their own separate browse, viewable from the Case or Contact browses.
• Calendar - You can now quickly scroll through years with Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDn.
• File Open Dialogs - Improved Microsoft File Open dialogs are now used throughout PI5.
• More Personal Information in Contacts...
• Source or Referral
• Suffix
• Nickname
• Date and Place of Birth
• Father's name, mother's name, mother's maiden name, names of siblings
• Driver licence details
• National Insurance Number
• Bar/PI Licence number
• Appearance (physical characteristics)
• More Additional Information on Contacts...
• Background/pre-employment checks and asset tracking are now 'a breeze' as many more categories of information have been added to the already powerful Additional Information file.
• Spouses or partners they have had
• Associations, Societies or Clubs they are/were members of
• Schools and colleges they have attended and what grades they got while  they were there
• Employers they have worked for and in what capacity in their lives
• Weapons they might have
• Personal possessions they might have, whether they were purchased or on  loan and what their value might be
• 'Real estate' - buildings or land - that they might own, its address and what its value is
• Stocks, bonds, shares and other 'intangibles'
• Haunts or regular 'frequents'
• Claims they have entered previously
• Crimes they have committed or been accused of
• Rewards offered for apprehending this person, who offered it and for how much
• Word documents can now be connected to a particular Contact
• These are, of course, in addition to the existing information that you can keep: additional phone, fax, mobile, pager numbers, web pages, email addresses, people, aliases (AKAs), appearance (physical characteristics) vehicles, notes and pictures (such as mug shots).
• Law Enforcement Numbering for Cases - In addition to the existing two methods of unique numbering for cases, you can now use the 'standard' US Law Enforcement numbering. You can configure it to contain a 2 or 4 digit year and include the month number and the day number as well as four digits at the end.
• Cases Now Have Dedicated Claims Handling - a new Claims tab has a further ten fields including...
• Claim Type
• Injury or Loss
• Date of Injury or Loss
• Claim Date
• Amount Claimed, Amount Paid so far and Balance Outstanding
• Medical Appointment and Hearing Dates
• These fields can help in both insurance and worker's compensation  investigations.
• The Repository Has Been Expanded - While you can still use it to record your files, maps, CDs and so, the Repository now has the capability to be used for recording Discovery and Evidence on a case, including photographic evidence. This does not need to be an administrative nightmare again now that Professional Investigator is helping you.
• You can also keep a full record of each piece of correspondence in and out on a case.
• More Staff Information - More phone numbers, the staff member's bar, legal or PI license number, postal address, email address, DX numbers and hourly rate.