Don’t know your SaaS from your elbow?
June 26, 2009
I thought a story in Accounting WEB by John Wilcox was interesting – according to a survey by VersionOne ’67% of senior financial professionals who responded to the survey revealed they didn’t know what Software as a Service was. ‘ There is a lot of confusion about what it actually means so e-conomic has produced [...]
Attaching documents to your sales invoices
June 24, 2009
One of the new features included in Market Package 7 is the ablility to link other documents to your sales invoices when emailing out to your customer. This is very useful if you need to send your Terms & Conditions out with every invoice. We have produced a short video below which shows you how [...]
Thank you for the flowers to our newborn help – e-copedia
June 23, 2009

The newborn is still fine. Many flowers have been delivered with praise to both the idea and content such as videos. Some have expressed that it was not the prettiest baby in the world eg. missing screenshots /tables, etc.. which were in the old help. We (as the mothers) have to recognize that there is [...]
New ways to help our customers
June 18, 2009
As an addition to our new online help system e-copedia we have introduced videos which guide you through some of the functionality of e-conomic. You will see some examples below, the first video shows you how to give your accountant/bookkeeper access to your agreement and the second one shows you how to create your accounting [...]
What’s in Market Package 7?
June 15, 2009
The latest set of new features will be released tomorrow, June 16th, as Market Package 7. This is possibly the best we’ve delivered so far and it contains some really fantastic improvements requested by users of e-conomic. Quick Day Book – users of the QDB will receive a warning when they close the window asking whether [...]
What’s in API Toolbox #1?
June 15, 2009
Continuing our API improvements, a number of new features will be released tommorow, June 16th. These are being released as a package of improvements called API Toolbox #1 and we aim to make new toolboxes on a regular basis. Here’s what’s in Toolbox #1: Journal entries – essentially COA ledger cards – can now be [...]
API Online Forum
June 15, 2009

Striving to be the best in business, we have just launched a new API Forum to meet the demands of the growing number of people who want to integrate their system with e-conomic. The API Forum is a place where developers who use e-conomic’s API can meet and exchange stories, tips ‘n’ tricks and help [...]
Accounting principles – not for business people?
June 11, 2009

Today I read a document published by another accounting provider (no name, no pack drill) that tries to teach the basics of double entry bookkeeping to business people. It’s stated aim is to “help them get a clearer picture of their business as well as reduce common bookkeeping errors that can prove very costly if [...]
e-copedia – online help made easy, quick and fun
June 9, 2009

e-copedia is a contraction of the words e-conomic and encyclopedia . e-copedia is modelled after a wiki such as Wikipedia. A wiki is a social tool allowing users and visitors to get or share information and knowledge in a less formal manner than in traditional knowledge sharing forum. e-copedia will replace the pdf user guides [...]
An accountant’s view of online accounting
June 8, 2009

Many accountants and companies are looking at online accounting and wondering whether to try it. Companies often turn to their accountant for advice on this, which is why we spend a geat deal of our time talking to accountants and doing our best to accommodate their needs. Anthony de Jong & Co is an accounting [...]