OT: Cloud based application - Looking for interested affiliates

[Richard Kreiss]

I CAN'T AGREE WIOTH YOUR MORE.

My client base has modified my applications to meet their requirements.  My 2 largest clients don't fit into any stock program.  One is a distributer and the other markets and supports concierge doctor's.  Neither one of these can fit into a canned package as their business model are different then what a "Stock" program does.

As for accounting, 1 of these 2 has accounting that is similar to an insurance company and other gets paid in 10 days of the invoice date.  I am not privy to what form accounting is being used. I do know that they changed accountants 3 years ago.

Each of my Textile Brokerage clients have a different way of handling their business.  The only "Stock" form was the sales contract as they all used the same pre-printed form.  I eventually had to modify the look of the contract as the mills complained that they all looked alike.  This was easy to do.  Some reporting was typicasl to any business but I still had to develop reports that were specific to the clients business.  Eventually these reports were added to the next version of the program.

I did a custom cash receipts program for 2 clients in different business but both had the same problem, checks received where they had to guess what items were being paid.  In fact I had toi add the option to apply a payment against a contract that has the commission paid in full. As they received another payment for that item.  Apparently the vendor's bookkeeping system was lacking in that it issued checks for items they had paid in full.


Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting



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> Subject: Re: OT: Cloud based application - Looking for interested affiliates
> 
> On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 09:56:34PM +0000, Richard Kreiss via Filepro-list thus
> spoke:
> > Most of my clients don't fit into any neat package.  That's why I have
> > clients, they need something different and don't fit neatly into a
> > "canned Package".  Think QuickBooks. Intuit has modules for almost
> > every business.  The problem is, many business do not fit into a
> > canned package.  They try to do this as they think they must or have
> > been told this is their only choice.  So, they "jump through hoops"
> > trying to fit their business into the canned Program.  Eventually they
> > request some modification to meet their needs, if they can afford it.
> 
> That's the thing about any business.  The hard part of working for anyone has
> never been learning the tech they need; it's always been learning their particular
> business, and how to cater to it.
> 
> Even "AR/AP" is -not- something that's entirely generic.  I have an accountant
> friend down in Texas, and she specialises in oil and gas.
> Doing -big- things for other clients is a major undertaking, because the business
> needs of even the accounting are specialised.  Inventory is going to be even
> worse, because there's no standard [of which I am aware?] for inventory like
> GAAP for accounting.
> 
> If generic did the job, people wouldn't have been on custom filePro, dBase,
> Magic, and Paradox applications in the first place.  Even if they started stock,
> they were tuned up and tailored for specifics in almost every case.
> 
> Stock engines, sure.  Stock applications, notsomuch.  Even word procecssors
> have different templates for different purposes.  Ditto video editors, DAWs, etc.
> 
> m->
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