Isn't the external bookkeeper/accountant one of the best target markets?
Do their end customers care much about the data input characteristics,
so long as they get quality results inexpensively?
Were I an accountant, I'd offer free access to a default version to
local companies, and add fees based on amount of activity or
customization required. The accountant could offer tiered service
contracts, or charge per incident or hour..
All that is needed is to:
Create a library of import routines for specific file types and
versions, and a general import by file or copy/paste along with a wiki
for users to understand how to use the system..
Besides m$, is there another barrier to this strategy?
cheers,
Benjamin
Benjamin Brink
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and businesses that want to thrive in them
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Paul Tammes wrote:
Rich,
Being a beancounter myself I am ashamed to admit most bookkeepers are
rather conservative. And that is putting it mildly.
I think I am one of the very few bookkeepers in Holland running
SQL-Ledger. At least I would not know of any others, I do know some
people who are using it here.
Most of them because I advised them to use it. SQL-Ledger (or
123-Ledger) has anything any small or medium enterprise might ever need
in my opinion.
Most bookkeepers would rather stop accounting alltogether than switch to
linux.
Indeed, it does not make any difference where the accounting package
itself is running.
It may be anywhere the IT guys like, on a IBM server or a Linux server
for that matter,.
A long as it has a Windows frontend, all is well.
Look at the troubles XBRL has taking off, although it makes perfect good
sense.
Just too weird for the middle aged bookkeepers to even consider. No way,
not in the M$ manual? Forget it!!
Kids at school are trained to use windows.
When I installed Linux on my daughters PC, she wanted to know what went
wrong with WIndows that made t look so strange, and where outlook was?
Where was the virus scanner anyway?
I suppose in 20 years we all laugh at this and wonder how the hell M$
got to keep selling OS software while the free stuff was free and just
as good or better.
BTW, any luck using SQL-Ledger on Android yet? M$ seems to be loosing
out on the mobile market first.
One down, rest to follow ;-)
Greetings from Holland,
Paul
2010/5/28 Rich Shepard <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
On Fri, 28 May 2010, Jean Pierre Guillou wrote:
This is still true as regards M*Soft - If it's M*Soft based and
does not
work, must be some-one else's fault - If the IT Guys install
Linux + ??
and it does not work, must be their fault.
For many businesses, Linux is still experimental and as no one
company sells
it (but many) it cannot be right.
Jean-Pierre,
That's not the issue. SL/L123 can be hosted externally and accessed by
users with Windoze on their desktops via a Web browser. No one cares
what
the underlying OS or tools are.
The issue is whether there are industries and businesses whose normal
operations are not (not well, not fully) supported by the available
shrink-wrapped accounting packages that run on Windows. I'm not
referring to
Great Plains, Peachtree, or the other $$$, multi-module,
enterprise-level
applications but the ones available to the small and medium size
business
who hires an external bookkeeper and accountant.
Rich
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