As the UK recovers from recession, some of the serious challenges facing new and existing businesses are hikes in VAT, fuel duty and inflation. And with the prospect of bank lending looking decidedly downbeat plus talk of a “double dip”, you certainly could be wondering if 2011 will be a...
Recently I got an email from a would-be supplier. He was annoyed that I’d chosen to use another company instead of his and went on to list all the reasons why it was the wrong decision.
I just saw someone on Twitter tell a couple of very happy KashFlow Accounting Software customers (who were...
So here’s the challenge we faced:
Our support system runs on Kayako eSupport using Rackspace Cloud and a mySQL database
Our main system (our application, or admin area – everything!) runs on our own MSSQL server.
As the business is growing, the volume of support tickets is growing too...
Entrepreneur Country’s ‘The Unfair Advantage’ Forum takes place on the 1st February at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London.
We’ve been sponsors of Entrepreneur Country for a year now. It’s a great organisation. To get a feel of what they’re about, read the Entrepreneur Country...
I’ve been saying for months that Sage have been working on a KashFlow-competing SaaS accounting product as a successor to their ill-fated SageLive.
I said it was called Sage One and would cost £10/month.
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We don’t do version numbers, but we do count our release cycles. So if we take our release cycles as versions (which they sort of are) then as of the early hours of this morning KashFlow would be on v199. Not 1.99, not 19.9. One hundred and ninety nine.
I don’t usually make a blog post after a...
One of the things holding back adoption of web-based accounting software amongst professionals is the speed of data entry.
There’s lots that can be done with smart coding, AJAX and other technologies, but when it comes to accounting nothing on the web is going to compare to the speed of data...
If your New Years Resolution includes starting (or getting serious about) your business, then firstly you need to read “Now That You’re an Entrepreneur..“, and then go and read a much more valuable post in a similar vein: “Startups Lessons Not Learned or Lame Startup Thinking”
Full of great...
So we’re a couple of weeks away from the latest change to the VAT rate. For businesses like mine that sell mainly to other VAT registered businesses it’s not too big a deal.
The companies I feel sorry for are those selling to consumers. They have to either put up their prices (and make...
So you’ve decided to start a business, you are now officially an entrepreneur.
There are a few things you need to do straight away…
Business Cards
First up: business cards. Raised print, full colour, printed both sides is usually the best. Don’t stress over what to put as your job title...
On 4th January 2011 there are some changes to VAT, the big change being the standard rate moving from 17.5% to 20%.
KashFlow customers are used to having the hassle taken out of their accounting jobs, the VAT change is no exception. Thankfully we’ve been here before with the change from 15% to...
blogged last week about the two events I’ll be attending for Global Entrepreneurship Week. I received a phone call today from the organisers telling me it “wouldn’t be appropriate” for me to attend the GEW Party this evening as “it’s a private Sage event”.
To say I was shocked would be an...
Back in April I said Intuit were planning to bring QuickBooks Online to the UK. And now it has arrived.
It’s currently ”in beta” which is the norm for new products. But oddly, they are charging beta users. Not normally how things are done. Companies don’t usually charge you to do their testing...
On 1st August 2005, Rachel Elnaugh’s Red Letter Days went into administration leaving plenty of unpaid suppliers and disappointed customers.
Rachel received a lot of personal attacks over the failure of her business and she had to spend a long time trying to get her side of the story heard. In...
On Monday, Global Entrepreneurship Week begins.
If you’ve had your head down working on your business all year, it’s a great opportunity to get out and meet other people starting, running and growing small businesses.
The official GEW site has a list of events, these are the two I’m definitely...
One of the great things about running a growing business that’s starting to make a bit of a splash is that you get invited to pretty exclusive events and get to meet some big overachievers.
I was at just such a small event last night. The room was full of successful business owners. I’m only...
When I talked about our iPhone app, the one feature I’d harp on about the most was the ability to take a snapshot of a receipt and get it into KashFlow in a few taps. So I could get out of a taxi or pay a bar bill and immediately have the scanned receipt in KashFlow.
The problem was that as the...
I’m continuing on my jargon busting mission.
Today’s target: “multi-tenancy”‘ and it’s allegedly inferior sibling, “single-tenancy”
What do they mean, and why should you care? I’ll try to answer the second part of that question first from the perspective of “you” being a SaaS startup, and then...
There’s lots of jargon thrown around the world of business, and even more thrown around in IT. So the software business is drowning in it.
I’m going to attempt to de-mystify some of the common phrases that are cropping up around the world of SaaS. I’m starting with an easy target: vendor...
There’s a debate raging on Twitter now over the use of the word “Mumpreneur” as a name for a mother that’s an entrepreneur
It started with a conversation between @EtcEtcOnline (Darren Leighfield) and @KellyCairns
Darren says it’s a ... Continue Reading ...
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