SAAS is a developer's lazy way out. Traditionally, you had to innovate with your product to entice people to give you more money. Now they have to give you more money to keep operating.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Moffett" <dmmoff...@gmail.com> To: af@af.afmug.com Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2020 3:59:35 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing We were just discussing at the office the idea of SAAS fatigue. Everybody wants their software to be a recurring revenue stream, but we're kind of sick of paying everybody like that. We need to make money too. On 8/13/2020 4:55 PM, Cameron Crum wrote: I don't think that animal exists unless you go with UCRM and who knows if that will last forever. Even QB has a subscription fee now. I realize you use it for your other accounting so I guess that argument could be made. If pay once is what you really want, hire a contract programmer to write it for you. One time expense. If something breaks, hire him to fix it, but once you get what you want out of it, it should be self sufficient. Not much to go wrong if you've spec'd it all out well. I happen to know someone with experience ;) On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 3:25 PM < ch...@wbmfg.com > wrote: <blockquote> Maybe, but I don’t wanting my billing system taking a dollar or two bite from every customer every month. I would rather just buy it and own it. And never have to pay for maint or upgrades... From: Cameron Crum Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2020 2:22 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing What is painless? I think it is less painful or more painless to start with something that will scale with the business. I know it isn't always fun, but better now than later when you are at a pain point that forces you to something else. I always found that people were flustered and ill prepared when it got to that point, and it resulted in mistakes being made and thus more pain. I'd say bite the bullet and go with something talyor made now. You'll be thankful down the road. On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 3:01 PM < ch...@wbmfg.com > wrote: <blockquote> Has anyone tried to use Quickbooks for customer billing and automatic ACH/credit card payments? Looking for something painless to start with. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com </blockquote> </blockquote> -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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