The Narrow View on Accounting Software
Standard Accounts Procedure in Small Business:
1. Purchase accounting software
2. Don’t understand software
3. Undertake expensive tutoring or pay a bookkeeper to use the software
4. Pay an accountant to go through it all again for corrections…
What is wrong with this picture?!
One of the major concerns small business owners face is the costs associated with the processing and reporting for BAS, GST and Income Tax.
Doesn’t this mean we should be looking for alternatives? The current method is in desperate need of a make over.
Being a professional accountant with forty years experience in this industry I have seen first-hand the frustrations business owners experience. Eclat.bos Accounting Software is my contribution to solving the problems of keeping small business accounts and generating reports.
Like all business owners, I am faced with the issue of how to get my product in front of my target audience. My initial strategy was encouraging fellow accounting firms to introduce their clients to eclat. I spoke with over 100 accounting firms and the following few excerpts are representative of all:
Opinion of eclat: “Simplistic, very easy to use”
Will you introduce your clients to eclat? “No”
Opinion of eclat: “We found eclat quite user friendly… it has potential for a lot of the clients out there who are currently using MYOB but are making quite a hash of it…”
Will you introduce your clients to eclat? “No”
Opinion of eclat: “I believe the software has definite advantages in its simplicity of data entry over its competitors, and I am sure clients will be pleased with these functions.”
Will you introduce your clients to eclat? “No”
Hmmm, I wonder why?
Especially when all of the business owners who have taken the offer of a free trial have gone on to purchase the eclat cashbook!
The following is representative of the feelings of eclat customers:
Opinion of eclat: “If a dunce like me can use it, anybody can use it.”
Business: Caravan Park
Opinion of eclat: “I’m kicking myself for not starting with eclat sooner; it is just so easy.”
Business: Builder
Opinion of eclat: “I was wasting a lot of time and a lot of money and I wasn’t getting anywhere. All that changed when I changed to eclat. It truly has made my accounting process stree free, cost efficient and time efficient, and I will never go back.”
Business: Consultant
This displays a serious anomaly between accountants and small businesses when it comes to eclat.
Accountants see the advantages of eclat but do not wish to tell their clients about it. Because it is not in the accountant’s best interests! Eclat could result in the accountant losing potential income when they need to re-do your work.
Due to the non support of the accounting firms I have set up an online accounting service to provide support for businesses using eclat. Eclat software has been designed to easily transfer data and reports via the internet.
Eclat is the right accounting software for our times and is the most advanced of its kind in the world, not just Australia.
It is my vision to bring to micro and small businesses throughout the world, efficiencies in transaction processing and reporting through the usage of eclat smart technology.
Peter Murray BBus
Professional Accountant, Small Business Advisor and designer of eclat.bos Accounting Software.