Account Settings
Users with Manager permissions can update their Account settings directly in the Forerunner dashboard. To view your Account-level settings, navigate to the Settings section of your Forerunner dashboard (hint: you can find it in your main sidebar navigation). Once you have your Settings open, you can update account information in the Account tab.
Account Settings
In the Account tab, you can update freeboard requirements, SI/SD tracking information, and your community's improvement value adjustment ratio. Changes to these account settings will be applied to your entire team.
Account Name
At this time, users are unable to make edits to their account's name. If you would like to update your account name, please reach out to us at support@withforerunner.com.
Feet of Freeboard required for properties in SFHA
If there are changes to your community's Freeboard requirements, you can update these directly in your Account settings. The value entered in the field will determine the Design Flood Elevation (DFE) in the Special Flood Hazard Area. As a result, updating the feet of freeboard required will change the DFE for properties in the SFHA. Please note that updating your feet of Freeboard will not reprocess Issues on your existing Elevation Certificates. Please reach out to support@withforerunner.com if you want Elevation Certificate errors and warnings reprocessed with the updated Freeboard requirement value.
SI/SD Project Tracking Period
Communities have options to adapt SI/SD requirements to best fit their flood preparation needs. To update your SI/SD Project Tracking period in your settings, select from four options in the dropdown:
- Per Project
- Cumulative
- Building Lifetime
- Calendar Year
Cumulative SI/SD Tracking Period Length
Communities may vary in requirements for the time period of tracking costs for structure’s cumulative SI/SD. This may range from 1 year to 5 years, 10 years, or the lifetime of a structure. The Cumulative SI/SD Tracking Period should be a value equivalent to the length of time in years.
SI/SD Project Threshold
Communities can also alter the threshold for substantial improvement. While the NFIP-imposed threshold for triggering SI/SD is 50%, some communities use limits of 45, 40, or even 30%. If you’re considering lowering this threshold, it might help to look at historical improvement costs in your community as a percentage of market value. The SI/SD threshold value input must be an integer between 0 and 100.
Improvement Value Adjustment Ratio
This value should be determined by a department in your government. When updating this field, enter a value less than 1 for division of a value greater than one for multiplication. For example, if you enter "0.8", your market value will be (improvement value/0.8). If you enter 1.2, your market value will be (improvement value x1.2).
If you make any updates to the fields in the Account setting page, be sure to click [Update account info] to save the new value. Please reach out to support@withforerunner.com if you have any questions.