A UK accounting software company is claiming a first – a web-based service for e-commerce vendors that automatically enters sales details into the books.
Manually entering sales figures into book-keeping software is a tedious and time-consuming task, especially for high volume vendors. Now, UK number crunchers, Kashflow say they have cracked the problem by launching a unique web service to automate the process.
Duane Jackson, KashFlow Managing Director explains, “We solved the problem of keeping accounting records being a boring, intimidating, and complex task – but as usual, solving one problem uncovered another. A lot of our customers told us that our software really made the bookkeeping a lot easier and allowed them to focus on other areas of their business. This then generated increased sales for them.”
He continued, “The problem with extra sales though is the extra admin it creates. The new web service allows a lot of this admin to be automated.”
Jason Lipton runs Porta-charge, a company that sells mobile phone accessories online, and he has recently had his web site upgraded to make use of the Kashflow web service.
He says, “I dreaded sitting down at the end of every week to enter details of all of our sales into the computer. Now I open my accounting software and it’s already done for me – always up to date and no room for human error. It’s like magic!”
As Jackson points out, “Linking up to an e-commerce website is just one use for the web service. There are so many possibilities now that people can link in virtually anything with their accounting software.”
KashFlow are working with other software vendors and hope that there will soon be a range of off-the-shelf products that are already integrated with the web service.
The web service is now publicly available. More information can be found by visiting http://www.kashflow.co.uk/API
