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Thank you. Great piece. As I expected, slow progress on by software providers.
Wolters Kluwer - Can't tell you till tomorrow. Good marketing and PR opportunity missed!
Sorry, but if you are going to base your reporting of Accountex on the empty announcements and marketing hyperbole spat out by suppliers who have come far too late to the cloud party and are trying to hide the fact with vapourware and meaningless promises, then you are doing the aweb community a disservice.
If you had taken a walk around the stands you'd have seen that taxfiler were there. No hype, no marketing fanfare, no empty promises, just a great value package for tax and accounts. To be fair I only spotted the stand myself toward the end of yesterday as it was not one of the bigger ones, and I had not realised they would be there, but surely any purported quest to seek a cloud practice solution should have found it.
No hype? Are you sure??
I saw plenty of dubious-looking posts about Taxflier on Aweb in the run up to Accountex. One or two looked as if they were either written by PR executives or by accountants who maybe should become PR executives as they seem very well suited for it.
So I don't believe Taxflier can play the "no hype" card. And why do you spend so much time plugging them?
I was surprised Taxfiler didn't get a mention in the write up. Esp as the Quickbooks team were referencing them in their add-on suite.
PS I have no connection with Taxfiler - other than as a (as yet) potential customer.
And it's not the first time that Aweb have ignored Taxfiler. The last big article on cloud software a couple of months ago also didn't mention them at all either (though it did mention lots of software suppliers that do not have any cloud software). It doesn't seem to be harming Taxfiler though; their stand was very busy from what I saw.
Sorry John, I certainly did not mean to suggest any malign conspiracy, I just think you have to recognise that there are many smaller practices that don't have the need for all the bells and whistles of full blown PM/CRM/DMS systems. I am sure that like me, many sole practioners run happily with just accounts production, tax and payroll. I have yet to find a cloud payroll solution I am happy with, so I (like many others) use Moneysoft, but Taxfiler gives me everything else I need.
You may see "filing taxes" as unimportant, but for a lot of small practices the preparation and filing of accounts and tax returns is what we need software to do and Taxfiler is a good value cloud solution for doing exactly that. I just don't need the extra stuff that other providers are constantly trying to sell me.
I hope you do pen an article on cloud solutions for us smaller practices as I think many would find it useful.
Hi John
I agree with Glenzy. To me the Accountex show seemed flat not enough variety. I enjoyed the Microsoft stand ,Sage and the Exact and ICB stand my Paye . I met so many accountex attendees on Thursday that ended up going to the business show and the marketing show. Many of their stands would have done well in Accountex.
I ended up having a great chat with the Institute of Export re my clients and Aldermore Bank re business savings and Commercial Mortgage again for some of my clients and a company called Givvit which allows you to send gifts to your customers. The problem is these were of interest to me running a accounts practice but they were in the business show and the marketing show.
Accountex needs much more variety. I went expecting to be inspired and I was but by different shows that were held beside Accountex. If they had not been there I would have been really disappointed after travelling from Glasgow.
On a note that did bug me a guy from IPCA came up to me and just tried to scan my ticket with out me even going to their stand I was just walking by. I have to say I was not happy. I had to turn my ticket around so he could not scan.
Taxfiler told me that their next innovation is going to be a practice management bolt on. Surely that's worth trumpeting.
@Mabzden is still at it wrongly criticising Taxfler which is fantastic. I think he said that he looked at it 2 years ago and didn't like it it or similar , still repeating the same old tosh; try chatting to a couple of users and see if you can find someone else who is unhappy - what is your gripe?
John super reporting - a short punchy article followed with interviews of all the big players in this field. What else could we ask for? Maybe a slot on the BBC!
Question for anyone there on Capium.
I was very impressed by what I saw of the Capium suite at Accountex.
I know that's not nice thing to ask, but it seems at face value that Capium does everything, apart from make the coffee.
Do any users have major quibbles with it, (I'm not interested in comments from non users) ?
If Taxfiler are looking to produce a full suite that could shake the tree a bit as with their pricing its something you have to look at.
The big boys need to look at the likes of Capium and Taxfiler as potentially serious competition.
Capium have added CIS to its bookkeeping software in last few weeks, along with a lot of other nice features accross its suite including full e signing of accounts, tax returns and letters, something that bigger firms have struggled with. I am currently buying some fees which I want to independtly of my own practice and might give Capium a go and see whats its like, as need something cheap and easy to get up and running while I assess the clients. Interesting times.