Zen, they might cost a few £ more but it’s worth it. IDNET are very well thought of as well. You get what you pay for I’m afraid – you’re never going to get consistent top quality support on a budget package.
Posted under IT & Technology
Posted by Alec at 9:31 am, February 8, 2008
That’s the ‘Turbo’ rollout Ma** – 2.8Mbps. They have slower 3G coverage over a much wider area – it’s the pink ‘Video’ coverage area shown at http://www.three.co.uk/personal/coverage_/broadbandCoverageChecker.do.
Posted under IT & Technology, Mobile Phones
Posted by Alec at 1:06 pm, January 9, 2008
The free version seems fine as far as it goes – if you’re only ever going to want something just to keep your bookings and invoicing in order then it seems well up to the job. It seems quite expensive when you start adding the extra features and extra users though.
Posted under Booking Software
Posted by Alec at 11:42 am, November 13, 2007
Can you tell us how you managed to make a Paypal payment of £0.00 in order to access the free download?
Posted under Accounting Systems, Booking Software
Posted by Alec at 12:00 pm, September 14, 2007
www.carbonite.com
- daily continuous backup of last file version – about £30ish pa for unlimited storage.
www.sosonlinebackup.com – scheduled or continuous backup of just about everything. I ran the trial and then bought the lowest level service and it gave me 50GB storage for <$5/month – should have been $90/month according to their rates.
I’ve got both services running now as well as a daily manual backup of vital files to our own webspace.
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Posted by Alec at 12:16 pm, March 14, 2007
I think you’re thinking about it the wrong way Dave. It’s an accounts package rather than a courier booking & management package.
I’d have thought that the normal way of using QB is just to price your jobs manually and enter them individually – so the issue of rates for each customer doesn’t come up. Having said that you could set up your standard mileage rate for each vehicle as an ‘Item’ in QB and have it automatically apply a discount on a per customer basis. You’d still have to enter the mileages for each individual invoice line though so there’s not much advantage in doing that and it would be a bit complicated.
If you want a package with the sort of functionality you’re after then you need to consider Journeeze or DBS – both of which can export data to QB or Sage, or Controller, which has a bit of a clunky feel to it but is pretty fully featured, can export data to Sage and only costs £30/month. You can download a trial of that from www.couriersystems.co.uk .
Posted under Accounting Systems, Booking Software
Posted by Alec at 7:50 am, January 22, 2007
Go to Start > Control Panel > Keyboard and there should be an option to set the Keyboard to English (UK) instead of English (US). I say ‘should be’ because the option seems to have removed itself from my PC so I’m going from memory.
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Posted by Alec at 4:16 pm, December 14, 2006
Weren’t you looking to replace your booking system Nigel? I see they’re doing the ‘new’ Windows version of Controller for £30 a month rental at the moment instead of an upfront purchase price.
It’s still got the nasty DOS screens when it comes to printing invoices and reports off though.
http://www.couriersystems.co.uk/
Posted under Accounting Systems, Booking Software
Posted by Alec at 10:07 am, October 19, 2006