South African Number

Hello South Africa!

We are delighted to announce that we can now be contacted at a Johannesburg local number (011) 0838308. 

So, when dialing from South Africa, just enter 0110838308 and if you are dialing from a neighboring country dial +27 110838308.

We look forward to hearing from our fellow South Africans, even if it’s just to hear how great the weather is..

Tot siens

Chantel

Simplicity - a mantra! - an upcoming update to billfaster, all editions.

Reading a Steve Jobs 1998 interview, where he told Business Week that:
 "That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because one you get there, you can move mountains."

This is especially true with the challenge facing us in billfaster when balancing simplicity and functionality.
We like to think that billfaster is simple to use, and the feedback from a recent survey was that our users do find it simpler to use than many other accounting systems.


With this in mind, our challenge is to increase functionality to give even greater benefits to our users, while making it even simpler to use than before.


Simplicity does not need to come at the expense of functionality.


Nor should functionality need to lose simplicity.


My mother recently asked me to show her how to use an old nokia mobile phone, which I thought would be no problem, but I found that it was actually harder to find a contact and make a phone call, than any of the current smartphones.
And I'm supposed to be tech savvy!

So what's coming?

Stay tuned for more on this :)

Have a great day.
Rod

A new look website for 2012

We have finally updated our website mid December last.

I remember being asked by fellow billfasters:  
How long would it take to update the website?

A week, I said, two at most.
With confidence.

In July 2011...


There are more opinions on how to update the website than stars in the sky.

Then there is the agreement bit.

The truth is, we were looking to reflect our simplicity mantra in our website.

We hope we achieved it.

Thanks a million to those of you who gave us feedback and encouragement and a special thanks to our customer Claire Burge who stayed up very late one night to complete the testimonial video for us...

Rod