Saving Time with PCSS QuickStart

To help customers start using our products quickly and easily, PCSS has developed a form of implementation support known as QuickStart. With QuickStart service, PCSS provides data entry of 80% of table codes and 15 of the most frequently used forms generated by the court, allowing individual offices to be more productive during the training session. With Quick Start, those new to PCSS applications spend time learning the system rather than performing routine data entry tasks.

Some of the items that PCSS enters into the Case Management System during QuickStart are as follows:

• General court information, including the court's name, address, telephone number
• Juvenile age for jurisdiction
• Basic security considerations - User IDs for users of software, court agencies, user groups
• Case types and subtypes
• Bond types
• Courtroom codes and descriptions
• Dockets, docket types, court holidays, court calendar, and other aspects of resource-scheduling
•  Charge codes and charge severity codes
• Dispositions and sentencing from case flows
• Codes and descriptions pertaining to events, tasks, documents, filings, common parties, pleas
• Case lifecycle flow - For example, a criminal case flow may include an arrest, first court appearance, trial, grand jury, arraignment, discovery, pre-trial conference, and pre-sentence investigation
• Documents/filings - Typically PCSS will create 12 actual Word documents for immediate use
• Party Types, such as defendants, bond companies, attorneys, witnesses, and officers
• Arresting agencies, judges, and prosecutors
• Descriptive codes describing persons and court parties, such as race and origin, languages
• Fines, fees, court costs, grouping of costs, and calculation - Understanding that different localities impose different types of costs and may even calculate fees differently, PCSS representatives will analyze your court's financial processes and set up the Case Management System accordingly