Licensing and
Permitting Solutions

We guide you in modernizing your regulatory agency with automated digital licensing and permitting solutions tailored to your unique needs.

Modernize Your Regulatory Agency

Modernize and digitally transform your regulatory agency with GL Suite’s licensing and permitting software. Developed by former government regulatory agency officials, GL Suite software automates every step of your licensing process — online applications, renewals, notifications, inspections, suspensions and anything else your agency requires of a licensing system.

Functionalities

Self-Service Websites

Handle basic tasks, such as paying fees or submitting applications and renewals entirely online.

  • Free up staff time to spend on higher-value work and make customers happy.
  • Support two-way communication between end users and agency departments.

Digital Communication

Going paperless is environmentally and economically savvy for your agency.

  • Slash paper use, delivery times and printing and mailing costs.
  • Communicate nearly instantly with electronic applications and renewals.
  • Keep communications secure to meet data retention requirements.

Workflow Automation

Automate your processes, storing all relevant information and communication within GL Suite’s secure SaaS platform.

  • Eliminate or reduce repetitive manual tasks for staff through automation.
  • Easily send and track staff work, whether they work in office or remote.

Reminders and Notifications

Applicants and agency staff benefit from GL Suite’s highly configurable, automated alerts and notifications.

  • Notify applicants of approvals or upcoming renewal dates by email and text.
  • Alert agency staff of tasks, such as an applicant review or a complaint notice.
  • Automate your business processes and eliminate paper mailings.

Robust Reporting

Use GL Suite’s powerful reporting tools to help you visualize information and interact with reports via an integrated dashboard.

  • Customize reporting to best meet agency needs.
  • Query data in the system and display information in real time with ad-hoc reporting.

Licensee Verifications

License verification websites give the public access to real-time information about license, location and license duration.

  • Ensure public information appears online, while private information remains with staff.
  • Update information in real time.

Online User Manuals

Our online user manuals, GL Suite’s Process Guides, lead your agency through your business process steps.

  • Keep track of your progress in the process, even marking where you left off.
  • Ensure completion of each step in a business process, leading to greater accuracy and efficiency.

Continuing Education

Support the management, review, certification and maintenance of continuing education requirements.

  • Automatically categorize and calculate hours based on specific agency policies.
  • Ensure an applicant meets agency CE requirements before completing their application or renewal.

Board Meeting Management

Store and manage board meeting information, allowing your staff to generate review materials and agendas in advance.
View upcoming meetings and all records scheduled for review.

  • Automatically update records when meetings end.
  • Automate the production of board meeting packets, compiling all electronic files.

Third Party Integrations

Interfaces to and from third-party applications support data exchange between your agency and third parties.

  • Seamlessly exchange data with online payments, criminal record checks, information updates, exam scheduling, scoring, administration and more.
  • Interface with GL Suite from other applications with a documented API.

Background Checks

Keep the public safe with GL Solutions’ experience in interfacing with local and federal background check vendors like the FBI.

  • Ensure licensees are free from criminal records that exclude them from approval.
  • Meet data security standards with the CJIS-compliant GL Suite platform.

Complaint Intake

Reduce data entry required during intake while leveraging websites to lessen public complaint paperwork.

  • Speed up the process with data entry tools and decrease intake-related work. 
  • Optimize intake procedures with public websites that allow users to report complaints.

Enforcement Investigations

Schedule, assign and track investigations according to your schedule while retaining all information.

  • Launch investigations dictated by priorities and assign cases to investigators. 
  • Track investigations to completion from investigator notes to court appearances.
  • Save all information with the appropriate records in the system.

Performance Monitoring

Measure, assess, track and respond to organization and team objectives with GL Suite’s performance monitoring.

  • View current performance based on established Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
  • Analyze supporting data and take corrective action.
  • Create visual representations of performance, highlighting trends with GL Suite’s PowerBI reports.

Invoicing and Payment Processing

Interface with third-party payment processors, like PayPal, to ensure seamless online payment processing.

  • Retain payment history and receipts with confirmation numbers added to applicant records.
  • Integrate invoicing and reconciliation with advanced financial reporting functionality.

Make the Path Clear with Process Guides

Government agencies and departments grapple every day with complex tasks and workflows. These often contain unintuitive steps, duplicate work and other bureaucratic hurdles, making it difficult for employees to catch every detail without missing a step.

GL Solutions offers built-in regulatory software guides that walk your staff through complicated digital processes, ensuring both experienced and new staff understand exactly what a given process requires.

  • Software-based step-by-step instructions
  • Includes both manual and automated actions
  • Highlights current step to orient staff and track progress

Our business process guides keep your team oriented, on track and accountable.

24/7 Websites to Improve Customer Service

Today’s regulatory agencies need public-facing websites available to constituents 24/7 — without the hassle and upkeep of custom design, hand coding and JavaScript.

GL Solutions enables agencies to provide websites and pages using the configuration of their GL Suite application instead. No need for complex custom code or working with outside software vendors that don’t understand the needs of agencies.

With GL Suite powering your website, your government agency gains a consistent look and feel across all websites and portals. Pages and sites can be tailored to accommodate business rule requirements within agencies and departments. And because your agency’s website is now part of your GL Suite implementation, installation time and cost are much lower.

Modernize Licensing with Digital Licenses and QR Codes

Manual paper-based workflows, ever-growing postage costs and labor-intensive printing needs are everywhere in licensing and permitting. Applicants fill out paper forms, which your licensing and permitting agency then must process and eventually turn into a printed license that must be mailed back to the applicant.

GL Solutions provides other options to decrease paper and improve efficiency; digital licenses can be created automatically upon approval and licensees can then download those licenses themselves—including to a Digital Wallet where applicable. Each download generates a unique QR code linked back to a database displaying the applicant’s portrait and license information for verification (no PII), addressing fraud risks.

Solve Common Issues Automatically with Chat

Many of the requests and queries regulatory agencies receive are frequently asked and simple to answer. Implementing a chatbot on your agency website solves some problems with no human intervention needed. Taking this workload off your staff frees them up to focus on higher level customer issues, devoting more time to areas of need.

Not every licensing or permitting issue requires an in-person visit or phone call. Many questions and concerns can be more easily worked out over chat. With the ability to receive chat requests from applicants and others, regulatory agencies can respond efficiently, resolving concerns faster and with less friction.
Implementing chat solutions delivers results:

  • Reduced in-person, mail, and/or phone call load
  • Faster time to resolution for many issues
  • Potential for automation
  • Increased capacity for agency staff

Key Components of a Professional Licensing System

Licensing officials are often stretched thin, especially during the demanding renewal season, all while navigating the ever-evolving landscape of technology. At some point, however, the limitations of outdated systems compel agencies to adapt and embrace more advanced solutions. In this free white paper, we outline the foundational elements and functionalities of a modern, comprehensive licensing system. These are thoughtfully organized into three key categories: automation, efficiency and continuous improvement.

By leveraging these components, your regulatory agency streamlines processes, reduces administrative burdens and provides a better experience for both staff and license holders. Whether you’re looking to enhance operational efficiency or stay ahead of technological trends, we offer insights on what you need to make informed decisions and drive progress in your licensing system.

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