Licence Link is CFC’s fastest selling new product ever

CFC Solutions’ Licence Link, launched at the start of 2009, is proving to be the fastest selling product that the company has launched in its three decades of producing software for fleets.

The product has beaten its original sales forecast by more than double, and while CFC keeps exact sales figures secret for commercial reasons, it says that Licence Link will be in use by hundreds of fleets by the end of this year.

Licence Link is designed to help employers simplify the routine task of regularly checking car and van driver licence information through a web based system - something made essential by the recent introduction of risk management legislation.

Neville Briggs, managing director at CFC, said: “Licence Link is a product that seems to have hit a sweet spot in the market and is rapidly being adopted by all kinds of fleets in all kinds of sectors of the industry.

“The key strengths of the product – its effectiveness, its simplicity, its ease of adoption and delivery through free software – all mean that it proving to be the licence checking tool of choice for hundreds of fleets.”

Once basic driving licence information is entered onto Licence Link, fleet managers can choose how often automatic checks are made with the DVLA database – for example, annually for low mileage drivers or more often for high mileage, high risk employees.

Risk summary reports will automatically group drivers into different levels of risk group – for example, those with 1-3, 4-7, 8-12 and 12 plus points, and Licence Link can be set up so that those with higher numbers of points are checked more often.

Automatic alerts are sent to the fleet manager if the DVLA checks show changes to endorsements, the categories of vehicle that an employee is allowed to drive or if there are critical licence events such as disqualification or a photo card expiring.

Further features in Licence Link include the ability to upload and store document scans against each driver record, such as an image of each driver’s licence and driver declarations. These files are held online and encrypted for security purposes.

Access to Licence Link is via a credit payment scheme. To run checks, a company buys credits in advance and as each licence check is made, the system displays the credits remaining, providing a constant balance reminder for the fleet manager.

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