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Single Purpose Web Apps Are Dead!
Posted May 26 2008 10:18pm by Daniel - product team.

That's right.  We don't believe single purpose web applications have much of a future.  It doesn't make sense. 

Why would a business owner use one application for billing, another application for CRM, another app for uploading documents and who knows how many other applications, just to run their business day-to-day?

Multiple web apps quickly lead to lost productivity and probably a migraine from having to remember all those password combinations!  Oh and lets not even mention the cost of training staff on each system and all the licensing fees.

One of our good customers, Peggy Murrah (www.peggymurrah.com/), summed this up recently:

WORKetc has allowed me to consolidate 4 of the separate services I was using and tech support is phenomenal.

That's what we are on about.  One system to manage your small business.  One interface to learn, one place for data entry, one place where you can run reports and keep on top of managing your business.

We believe that small business owners want to integrate a range of tools into the single, easy to use platform.  That's what we've built.  And although our tools are incredibly simple to use, they are also incredibly powerful when used together.

So, if you're sick of using numerous tools to run your business, or if you are still using Excel and Email to manage, it is time to sign up to WORKetc and start benefiting from efficiency of having just one system.

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New Sales History, Authorize.Net integration and Reporting
Posted May 14 2008 11:20am by Simon - Lead Developer

We’ve been incredibly lucky the last few months to have received a ton of great feedback from many of our customers.

Much has improved since WORKetc soft-launched a few months ago so I thought I’d post a little news.

Simple Sales History Management


You can now review every billable Entry (now remember, an Entry is *anything* - a support case, project, product sale, timesheet or even a meeting) under a new Sales -> Purchase History screen.



Simply follow the Entry edit links which take you right to the detail page. Keeping with our “you can attach anything to anything” design mantra, you can append comments, tasks or whatever you like.

Authorize.Net integration


If you have an Authorize.Net merchant account, you can now let you customers pay you by credit card through your SSL secured WORKetc customer extranet (in addition to PayPal/Google Checkout.)

To set up your payment gateway settings, check out Settings -> Merchant Integration.



Reporting


This is something we’ve purposefully left for last. We wanted to hear from our end users exactly which report data would be most meaningful. A new reporting credential is now in place and a couple of preview reports are already available. We will be continually adding more reports as the requests come through, so please keep them coming!




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