Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing

2020-08-14 Thread Ken Hohhof
, 2020 1:43 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing Exactly. We want their recurring revenue. And we don’t want recurring payments. Seems perfectly logical to me. From: Cameron Crum Sent: Friday, August 14, 2020 12:32 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave

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2020-08-14 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 8/14/20 11:43 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: Exactly.  We want their recurring revenue.  And we don’t want recurring payments.  Seems perfectly logical to me. I don't need to pay recurring fees for software I develop myself which makes it a different question: it's not what do I have to

Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing

2020-08-14 Thread Jesse DuPont
To Ken's point - we reduced our annual billing software expense from $24,000/yr to about $4000/yr by moving away from a per-subscriber-fee billing software to a buy-it-once-and-pay-annual-maintenance billing software. The $4000/yr includes the XL EC2 Windows server

Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing

2020-08-14 Thread chuck
Exactly. We want their recurring revenue. And we don’t want recurring payments. Seems perfectly logical to me. From: Cameron Crum Sent: Friday, August 14, 2020 12:32 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing What is your business model based on again? Why

Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing

2020-08-14 Thread Cameron Crum
What is your business model based on again? Why would you deny someone else the same model? I think most people don't realize that you are always going to pay one way or another. Just because it is big chunks every once in a while vs small chucks over time doesn't make a difference. You may pay in

Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing

2020-08-14 Thread Ken Hohhof
on the other hand does very little for their software subscription revenue, IMHO. -Original Message- From: AF On Behalf Of Seth Mattinen Sent: Friday, August 14, 2020 11:53 AM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing On 8/14/20 5:46 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: > SAAS is a develope

Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing

2020-08-14 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 8/14/20 5:46 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: 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. I find it frustrating because *everyone* wants a piece of

Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing

2020-08-14 Thread Timothy Steele
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Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing

2020-08-14 Thread Mike Hammett
; To: af@af.afmug.com Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2020 4:04:56 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing So UCRM https://unms.com/crm . What is Ubiquiti's gameplan here? Is this actually free? If so, how does that help their bottom line? On 8/13/2020 4:55 PM, Cameron Crum wrote: I d

Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing

2020-08-14 Thread Mike Hammett
- Original Message - From: "Adam Moffett" 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,

Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing

2020-08-14 Thread Mike Hammett
Don't. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: ch...@wbmfg.com To: af@af.afmug.com Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2020 3:00:38 PM Subject: [AFMUG] QB for billing Has anyone tried to use

Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing

2020-08-13 Thread Chuck McCown
>> >>> If you are not already using QB to bill these customers, I wouldn’t start, >>> I’d find something else. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> From: AF On Behalf Of Bill Prince >>> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2020 6:28

Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing

2020-08-13 Thread Lewis Bergman
ng else. > > > > > > *From:* AF *On Behalf Of *Bill Prince > *Sent:* Thursday, August 13, 2020 6:28 PM > *To:* af@af.afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing > > > > We used the original QB for that way back when. Somewhere along the line > we upgrad

Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing

2020-08-13 Thread Chuck McCown
rs, I wouldn’t start, > I’d find something else. > > > From: AF On Behalf Of Bill Prince > Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2020 6:28 PM > To: af@af.afmug.com > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing > > We used the original QB for that way back when. Somewhere along the line we

Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing

2020-08-13 Thread Ken Hohhof
ks Desktop and Quickbooks Online, they don't work exactly the same. If you are not already using QB to bill these customers, I wouldn't start, I'd find something else. From: AF On Behalf Of Bill Prince Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2020 6:28 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing

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2020-08-13 Thread Bill Prince
We used the original QB for that way back when. Somewhere along the line we upgraded to QB "Enterprise", which looked like the same program, except that it could handle a database that was bigger than a breadbox. We did not have any issues with it except for a

Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing

2020-08-13 Thread Trey Scarborough
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

Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing

2020-08-13 Thread Cameron Crum
t 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

Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing

2020-08-13 Thread chuck
Yeah, but I am gonna have less than 100 customers for a bit. Like something quick, easy, and painless... From: Dennis Burgess via AF Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2020 3:46 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Cc: Dennis Burgess Subject: Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing Don’t do it! QB SUX

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2020-08-13 Thread Dennis Burgess via AF
y, August 13, 2020 3:01 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] QB for billing 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

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2020-08-13 Thread Jesse DuPont
, 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

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2020-08-13 Thread Adam Moffett
rom 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

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2020-08-13 Thread Adam Moffett
ers 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.

Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing

2020-08-13 Thread Cameron Crum
sers 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

Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing

2020-08-13 Thread chuck
...@wbmfg.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing We did this up until about 400 customers. All customers were billed using a "recurring sales receipt", with either card or ACH info, using Intuit's processing. It worked okay. It tried its hardest to match up all the payment receipts with a

Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing

2020-08-13 Thread Cameron Crum
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

Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing

2020-08-13 Thread Jesse DuPont
We did this up until about 400 customers. All customers were billed using a "recurring sales receipt", with either card or ACH info, using Intuit's processing. It worked okay. It tried its hardest to match up all the payment receipts with actual bank deposits. Sometimes,

Re: [AFMUG] QB for billing

2020-08-13 Thread Adam Moffett
Not in the past 15 years.but I'll say 15 years ago it really sucked at this. On 8/13/2020 4:00 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: 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

[AFMUG] QB for billing

2020-08-13 Thread chuck
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