KashFlow

Kashflow cuts Barclaycard deal: where was Sage?

July 29, 2010 Innovation

TechCrunch Europe is reporting a deal between KashFlow and Barclaycard that sees Barclays developing a pilot e-billing scheme for its customers. According to TCE: As for KashFlow itself, the email makes mention that the company usually charges £15.99 + VAT a month for its service but that Barclaycard is “waiving” the charge for pilot merchants. [...]

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Progressive Practices: Marshall & Co

July 28, 2010 Innovation

AccountingWeb has an intriguing contest going on to discover the most progressive firm in the UK. It’s intriguing at multiple levels. The firms get to pitch yet with one exception have provided no links to their site The pitches vary widely but are mostly generic as Mark Lee would put it They are all tiny [...]

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Change the world or go home

July 24, 2010 Innovation

Mark Lee recently launched a scathing attack on generic emails sent out by professionals. Why am I not surprised? I’ve been saying much the same about template driven websites. Firms feel they must have something but rarely go to the trouble of making their efforts unique or interesting. Here’s one crappy example. Here’s one that’s [...]

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And so it came to pass…

July 23, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

According to AccountingWeb referring to the Software Satisfaction Awards for 2010 says: The awards have also done away with the distinction between on-premise and web-based “Cloud” applications. As with last year, the SME Accounting category has become a fight between the leading lights of the accounting software as a service industry – FreeAgent Central, KashFlow [...]

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A KashFlow update

July 5, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Last Monday I visited KashFlow‘s offices in central London to film an interview with CEO Duane Jasckson. Duane was both generous with his time and prepared to be frank about what the company is doing, where it is heading and the kinds of thing it has in store. Off camera, he showed me the practitioners’ [...]

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SaaS solutions need to mature. Rapidly

June 25, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

A coincidence arose today that got me thinking about the relative maturity of the various SaaS players. A couple of weeks back I wrote that in one selection case, the professional preferred Twinfield over one of the newer players even though the person acknowledged the Twinfield UI could be better. Function needs to lead form. [...]

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Brightpearl raises $1.5 million, beefs up team

June 24, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

BrightPearl, formerly known as Pearl has raised $1.5 million in seed funding from Eden Ventures and Notion Capital. This is the largest single seed round for a UK based SaaS accounting solution. Chris Tanner, one of the founders called me up last evening to discuss the round and provide context for what is happening. I [...]

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Kashflow and Absolute Accounting hook up

June 8, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Kashflow and Absolute Accounting have partnered in a move that sees Absolute integrate Kashflow data into its accounts preparation package. This is a first step towards iXBRL filing and provides a semi-automated way for Kashflow data to be pulled into a third party system. “It’s really a couple of clicks to produce accounts,” said Duane [...]

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Kashflow, Xero, Zappos, Zoho : nuances and ethics

June 8, 2010 Tax and Ethics

Earlier today I read an extract from Tony Hsieh, co-founder Zappos upcoming book on why they built something before taking venture funding, what happened when they did take money and what forced them into the arms of Amazon. It’s instructive for the different perspectives you see on why entrepreneurs do what they do and what [...]

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Kashflow's brave post

April 19, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

I give Duane Jackson oodles of credit for his latest post: Reviewing from the wrong perspective. It’s a brave vendor that publishes negative stuff being said about its service: It was interesting to seen an old chestnut come up in the form of this email from an accountant. Not impressed at all! Having been in [...]

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