Deliverable 5 of 5

Customer Portal Reprint — A La Carte Carve-Out

Lets customers self-serve copies of their rental agreements, reducing call-center volume. Handles the 40/60 Mega Tool / paper split.
Why this exists: Nicole reports customers regularly call asking for copies of their rental agreements because they don't receive them automatically, don't remember what they signed, and especially lose track when they have multiple children or multi-year rentals.
Marsha on 3/30: "We're able to print on demand. Is that something that we could extend to the customer? … If that's not too costly, since we're in this area working on things, let's maybe add that in scope but as kind of a carve out." (Transcript 39:30–41:10)

Portal mock — what the customer sees

My Rental Agreements — Smith Family Logged in as alice.smith@example.com
Bobby Smith — Saxophone
2026–2027 school year · Lincoln Middle · Signed 3/31/2026 · V2 (latest)
Current
Bobby Smith — Saxophone
2026–2027 school year · Lincoln Middle · Signed 3/15/2026 · V1 (superseded)
Revised 3/31
Emma Smith — Violin
2025–2026 school year · Lincoln Middle · Signed 8/2/2025
Current
Bobby Smith — Trumpet
2023–2024 school year · Lincoln Elementary · Paper agreement on file
Paper — see below
ⓘ Agreements signed on paper at a school event or in-store are not digitally available. Click "Request a copy" and our team will email you a scan within 2 business days.

File naming convention shown: {Student}_{Instrument}_{SchoolYear}_V{n}.pdf — see Q2 below if this needs adjustment.

End-to-end flow — customer self-service reprint Customer logs into portal Mega Tool customer-facing account System fetches all agreements Filters: by customer account + linked students Sources: Mega Tool DB (digital) + AIM flag (paper on file) Portal displays agreement list Grouped by child, sorted by school year Each row: child, instrument, year, state, action Q5 — Account visibility for co-parents / shared family accounts 5 Digital agreement (in Mega Tool) 1. Customer clicks "Download PDF" 2. System retrieves signed PDF from MT storage 3. Audit log entry: customer reprinted on {date} 4. PDF delivered via browser download Includes all versions (V1, V2) — see Q3 Q3 — Show all revisions (V1, V2) in the portal, or only the latest active version? 3 Q4 — Audit log for reprints — track who reprinted when? 4 Paper agreement (not in Mega Tool) 1. Customer sees "Paper" badge 2. Clicks "Request a copy" 3. Request filed in CSR queue in Mega Tool 4. CSR scans & emails within 2 business days Or: hide paper agreements entirely — see Q1 Q1 — Paper agreements (60%): hide, placeholder, or allow staff-assisted request? 1 Customer has their copy Call volume reduced File naming convention (proposed) Default pattern (matches mock above): {Student}_{Instrument}_{SchoolYear}_V{n}.pdf Examples: BobbySmith_Saxophone_2026-2027_V2.pdf EmmaSmith_Violin_2025-2026_V1.pdf See Q2 — convention not yet confirmed with Marsha / Nicole Q2 — File naming convention for customer-facing downloads 2 Staff-assisted reprint workflow When a customer clicks "Request a copy" on a paper agreement: 1. New Mega Tool task in CSR queue — flagged "Paper reprint request" 2. Task includes customer name, student, school year, filing location hint 3. CSR scans the paper agreement & uploads to the customer's portal record 4. Uploaded scan becomes downloadable from the portal going forward Side-benefit: over time, this backfills the 60% paper into digital Q6 — Staff-assisted reprint SLA and workflow 6

Open questions on portal reprint

Since Marsha framed this as an "a la carte carve-out," answers to these questions will directly affect whether we can hit a reasonable budget.

1 Paper agreements (60%): hide, placeholder, or allow staff-assisted request?
Context

Marsha flagged: "We are able to print them in the customer service backend. We're able to print on demand." The question is whether the customer portal should surface paper agreements at all, and if so, what action is available.

Why it matters

Hide-entirely: simplest, but customers with only paper agreements will still call. Placeholder-only: acknowledges the agreement exists but leaves the customer needing to call anyway. Request-a-copy button (as mocked above): most effort to build (needs a CSR queue, scanning workflow) but most fully solves the underlying complaint and over time converts paper → digital. Recommend the request-a-copy path if scope allows; hide or placeholder otherwise.

Transcript 39:08–39:42
2 File naming convention for customer-facing downloads
Context

When a customer saves their PDF to their computer, the filename is the first thing they see. We need a convention that helps a parent find the right file when they have multiple kids and multiple years.

Why it matters

Our current proposal: {Student}_{Instrument}_{SchoolYear}_V{n}.pdf. Alternatives: include Q&F brand (for professionalism when forwarded to schools/insurance), include rental start date instead of school year (more precise for multi-year), or compress to shorter names. Should be Marsha's call — ideally informed by what customers actually ask for when they call Nicole.

Transcript 40:21–40:48
3 Show all revisions (V1, V2) in the portal, or only the latest active version?
Context

Per Deliverable 4, revisions preserve V1 alongside V2. In the customer portal, we can surface every version (like the mock above) or only the current one.

Why it matters

Show-all: complete transparency, but potentially confusing for customers who don't need to see superseded versions. Show-current-only: cleaner UX, but customer may have questions about "but I signed a different one first." Recommendation: show current by default with an "expand" / "show previous versions" affordance for customers who want history.

Transcript 35:30–36:10 (combined with portal context 39:08–40:48)
4 Audit log for reprints — track who reprinted when?
Context

Downloads/reprints can be logged (customer ID, timestamp, which agreement, which version). Alternatively, we treat reprints as silent — no log entry.

Why it matters

Log-reprints: useful for call-center triage ("I see you downloaded the agreement yesterday, is that the one you're calling about?") and for light fraud detection. No-log: simpler, fewer compliance questions. Low implementation cost either way — the question is primarily about operational utility.

Not discussed on 3/30; flagged as a standard design question
5 Account visibility for co-parents / shared family accounts
Context

If two parents share custody, they may each have their own account. Does each account show only agreements they personally signed, or all agreements for their child?

Why it matters

Per-signer: simplest model, but a non-signing co-parent can't retrieve the copy. Per-student: more useful to parents but requires a student-to-account relationship model (Q&F's AIM dependents tab does capture this today). Privacy-sensitive edge case: separated/divorced parents — we may need the ability for a signing parent to explicitly share or lock visibility. Worth getting Marsha's read on Q&F's actual customer base.

Derived from Transcript 40:21–40:48 (multi-child/multi-year mention)
6 Staff-assisted reprint SLA and workflow
Context

If we build the "Request a copy" button for paper agreements (Q1 resolution), we need to define: where does the request land (new task queue? existing queue?), how CSRs are notified, expected turnaround time, and what the customer sees in the meantime.

Why it matters

Under-promising on SLA (e.g., "2 business days") is safe but may prompt impatient follow-up calls. Over-promising ("within 24 hours") improves CX but strains CSRs in peak season. Building a dedicated queue is a few days of work; piggybacking on existing CSR tasks is faster but risks requests getting lost. This is a scope-vs-fidelity choice.

Derived from Transcript 39:08–39:42 + 40:41–41:17
Source references
Meeting: Q&F Mega Tool Priorities (3/30/26) — tldv recording
Q&F Notes.pdf #2 (Nicole's request for customer-accessible reprint).