A quick look at PaperCut Quota™

This page presents a quick overview of PaperCut Quota's features. You can also explore further into these sub-sections:

• TopUp Cards™ / PrePaid Cards in detail
• Web Tools in detail
• Web Reporting in detail
• Printer management in details
• Internet monitoring in detail

And of course also download the software to explore and trial for yourself.

Administer user accounts...

• Manage user credit and access
• Monitor expenditure
• Track pages printed
• Track internet usage

 

Charge for printing and internet..

• Set printing cost on a per printer basis
• Monitor printer use and load
• Define internet cost using a time based or per megabyte charging model

 

Control Groups...

• Monitor printing at the domain group level
• Schedule automatic credit allocation
• Define rules for automatic account creation (self management)

 

Advanced Printer Management...

• Charge by page size or page area
• Provide discounts for grayscale and duplex documents
• Choose different charging methods for each printer
• Filter (restrict) documents by size, cost, color mode or name
• Automatically detect and delete duplicate print jobs

 

View Print & Internet Use History...

• Recent print jobs
• Printing statistics
• Other screens for internet use and detailed logs and reports

 

Details...

• Detailed printing audit on all printers
• Detailed internet usage logging
• Export data to Microsoft Access or Excel for graphing and reporting

 

Web Tools & Administration ...

• Administer user accounts remotely with a standard web browser
• Users can track their usage and account status
• Transfer funds
• Use TopUp Cards™ / PrePaid Cards to continently allocate credit

 

Reporting...

• Use the pre-build reports for monthly tracking
• Use network groups to construct department/year-level specific reports
• View graphs of printing and internet trends
• Build your own custom reports using Microsoft Access
• Advanced web reporting, including single click export to Excel
• Export the raw data into Microsoft Excel for detailed trend analysis

 

The PaperCut "User Inquiry Tool"

• Display the user's account status on login
• Warns user when balance is low
• Install on network clients
• Choice of Zero install deployment or scripts for automatic "push" installs
• Optional (PaperCut is 100% server-side. No client software is required)

 

What you can't see!

• No yearly fees
• Free email support direct from the developers
• A friendly and approachable development team.
• Free version upgrades for minor "point" releases
• A modest upgrade fees for major version releases
• Download evaluation