Partners –
Happy autumn to all of you. We rolled out the new ATLAS
system in June. Already, we’ve heard from many of you that you like the new
system and are getting more comfortable. We still are refining some features
and welcome your input on ways to improve our service to you.
Thank you all for the patience and support as we learned the
new business processes together.
Computer Based
Training (CBT) is available
Remember that ATLAS Partner Portal training is available
anytime. Login via My DOR and click CBT at the
bottom of the first screen to get primers on common operations, including
running reports. Use Google Chrome and turn off pop-up blockers for best
results.
Change of an address
Partners can update mailing addresses and request physical
address changes in ATLAS. Physical address change requests are processed by BLS staff. Direct customers who need a
physical address change to use the My
DOR service or call 1-800-451-7985 for help.
User comments from
old system are viewable in ATLAS
Partners can find sub-system comments and other
information from the legacy system for accounts with the new Warehouse sub-tab.
- Go to Account level
- Click the [Other] Tab
- Click the [Warehouse] sub-tab
- Choose from options including BLS Partner Comments.
- If there are no comments, it means that none were made in the old system.
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| Use the Account Level [Other] tab to find comments from the legacy system |
Partners can also use the Partner App Location Comments
report found under Reports in the
main Partner Portal screen. This report will list all application comments (if
any) from the legacy system.
Questions about ‘renewed’
status in ATLAS
ATLAS lets you see more endorsement status options, such as ‘renewed’
status. This is a system-generated status that goes away at expiration. Staff
shouldn’t manually change that status or use that status. As always, call or
email if you have questions.
Creating reports in
ATLAS
Reports have been repaired and enhanced since the June rollout
of ATLAS Partner Portal. Most of these are functioning well, but we are
continuing to review. We no longer send files to the https://sft.wa.gov service for most partners.
Staff can create on-demand files for:
- Address changes
- Agency endorsements (state agencies only)
- Application comments (warehouse)
- City of Interest files
- City endorsement information (replaces 1-page ARD file)
- Delinquent ,incomplete, and terminated endorsements
- Fund reversals
- Licensee and public disclosure files
- Pending approvals, and
- Many other reports.
Vapor endorsements
available; cigarette endorsement fee increase
This summer, endorsements for vapor products have been added
to the Business Licensing Service and reporting in the ATLAS system. New
endorsements include: Vapor Product Retailer, Vapor Product Distributor, and
Vapor Product Delivery Sales.
At the same time, the fee for a Cigarette retailer
endorsement and the Other Tobacco project endorsement has increased to $175.
That’s all for now.
~BLS Partnership
Services
