Saturday, July 2, 2011

Sign up faster than 26 seconds! Signing up made even simpler!

We believed we were the fastest to securely sign up a new account, with a recent clock in of just 26 seconds!
But that did not stop us from trying to further simplify the process. And we have...
Previously, a new user signed up with billfaster, then checked their email and clicked the activation link.
They then simply entered their password, selected their country, and activated their account.
And they were good to go!

Well now we have made it even easier!
Now a new user signs up and enters their password, and selects the country, and immediately begins to use billfaster. They have up to 7 days to activate their account, by clicking the link.

By the way, why activate? Well this enhances the security by confirming the email address used for billfaster login, as well as ensuring unique primary login addresses for each billfaster account.

Multi User now available

We released the ability to invite users and set  different roles this week.
This is particularly useful to accountants who have multiple clients running billfaster.

From the Settings page, a billfaster Aministrator can set up a new user and role in seconds, and securely invite them to become a user of their billfaster account.
The user, e.g. an accountant then activates their login to that account, and can access those areas of billfaster allowed by that role.

The Administrator can easily change roles or cancel the users account at any time.
The user sets their own password, which can never be accessed by the Administrator, ensuring maximum security for all billfaster users.

In this way, an accountant uses a single login and password to instantly access all client accounts!
See previous blog post for a summary of the different roles.