Thomas-Henry questions DOT on implementation cost and automated payment for Intro 918
Thomas-Henry asks about implementation costs and whether automatic quarterly payments could work. Craven says it would add staffing responsibilities or slow down approvals, and while automated billing exists, converting to quarterly automated invoicing would be a slow process.
How much does DOT anticipate it will cost to implement Introduction 918?
So I don't know if we've done a specific estimate, but we do believe it would add to our staffing responsibilities because it would be the same people who currently issue the invoices and also do things like register contracts.
Who are currently very busy full-time getting restaurants set up with their licenses.
So either we would have to add additional staff or it would have the effect of slowing down the approval process for other restaurants.
Have you considered an automatic payment process?
So once the person signs up,
They can automatically quarterly pay that fee?
We have automated billing for the annual fees currently.
We would have to change it in our portal to get it to be a quarterly automated invoice process.
And that is something that is kind of a slow process to implement, unfortunately.
So definitely considered it.
It sounds great.