Martin runs the back-office for StudioTime Photography and London Photography Courses on his Brightpearl account. He runs his website on Wordpress, and used our Wordpress plugin to connect to his CRM. “I’m not a coder so it was great to have this as a plugin” – it’s easy to install – read how here.
“A year ago I used to use Sage. When I started a new business, in the creative industry, we bought Macs. As this business grew we needed an accounting system, and we didnt want to buy a PC just for Sage, so we ended up with MYOB for the Mac. We struggled with that , left it for a few months, everything piled up – it was awful. I was ringing up sage, “do you do Sage online”, of course the answer was no. “You need to buy a PC” was all they could offer, and that was the end of that.
Whilst I was searching for MYOB alternative, I found Brightpearl. The fact that it was online was great – there are two of us that work from two locations. I love the idea of cloud computing – I’ve had laptops nicked and computers broken, and the fear of losing data on our own computers makes the cloud such a great concept. Having someone else maintain the data security is excellent. That’s brilliant for me. It gets rid of a major headache. I’ve also given access to my accountant who can access the system from his office.
“We get contacts coming to our website, filling out their details on a Brightpearl Smartform and appearing automatically in our CRM system. We raise invoices, handle customers, jobs, invoices and accounting all in the same system.”
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