To all our faithful users, we are truly sorry for any inconvenience caused on Tuesday 31st August 2010. Believe me, there is no one more frustrated than the team at Clear Books and Fubra right now. Our reputation and our business is dependent on providing a fantastic service and we fell short of the mark on Tuesday.
Marble Construction very kindly gave up some of their time to do the following customer video testimonial. Marble Construction operate in the building trade and are subject to the Construction Industry Scheme. In this short video they discuss how Clear Books has helped their company grow.
We are looking to do further testimonials covering a range of organisation types and industries. If you are a user of Clear Books and interested in participating then please contact support@clearbooks.co.uk outlining:
1. Organisation Name
2. Organisation Type (Limited Company, Charity, Sole Trader)
3. Industry
4. Number of Employees
5. Location
Clear Books is recruiting for a Sales and Marketing Manager at the moment. We have started to receive a few CVs but it is amazing to see how many candidates do not proof read their CV properly.
Here are some mistakes that I have noticed in the first few CVs:
Leaving out degree classification (the first thing I scan for).
Basic grammatical mistakes such as the difference between “where” and “were” and the use of “have” and “has”.
Leaving out date of birth (which puts achievements in context).
When using bullet point lists inconsistent use of full stops e.g.
bullet 1
bullet 2.
bullet 3
Randomly capitalising words in the middle of sentences that should not be capitalised.
Strange ordering of academic subjects (either order alphabetically or by grade, but not randomly).
A CV is a one page opportunity for a candidate to sell themselves. There are no excuses for missing information, grammatical mistakes or inconsistent presentation no matter how minor the details.
There has been a lot going on behind the scenes at Clear Books this month. With new developers on board we will hopefully see new features rolling out very soon such as better invoice customisation and automatic Paypal imports. Here is a quick update for July.
VAT Return
Our VAT return report has changed. We now break down how each box of the VAT return is calculated by itemising the constituent transactions. The system also has a new input box called ‘VAT Treatment’. This only affects users invoicing internationally and has been introduced to better handle VAT.
Mass Update
When explaining your imported bank statement use the Mass Update button to update all similar transactions in one go. This will speed up the time it takes to explain your imported bank statement.
Dividend Vouchers
We have introduced automatic dividend vouchers for limited companies.
CIS Online Filing
Following on from our online VAT filing, our first few CIS returns have been successfully submitted online from Clear Books to HMRC.
User Backups
We have disabled our emailed user backups for a number of reasons. Of course we still continue to store backups of your data internally, but in terms of an emailed personal backup we will be implementing a new process in the future.
iPhone App
Progress continues with the iPhone app and we hope to have something to show next month.
Company News
This month we have taken on three new developers so a big welcome to Alpha, Ed and Matt.
…or some other superlative and we will add you to our new Clear Books users list so that we can keep track of all our users on twitter and interact with you better.
You suggest the ideas and we implement them
Three highly voted ideas were implemented this month. The bank reconciliation tool and the ability to send remittance advice to suppliers have both been implemented as a direct response to you voting these ideas up in Get Satisfaction. We have also redone our aged debtors and creditors reports, which had been requested by our accounting partners. So if you have an idea that you would like to see implemented in Clear Books please vote it up on Get Satisfaction.
We have some good news on the development front too which should see more ideas come to fruition. As of 5th July our dedicated development team will be four people strong.
We can win an award with your help!
Thanks again to all of you who have completed the Software Satisfaction Survey to give us a shot at an industry award. If you haven’t yet you still have until the 14th July to make your vote count. You can take the survey here.
Construction Industry Scheme
Our CIS reporting feature is now live with the ability to send your CIS return online to HMRC from within Clear Books. If you need help with the CIS feature take a look at our Online CIS Filing Help Article. As far as we know we are the first and only online accounting system to support online filing of CIS returns to HMRC.
Some of the other things we have been working on…
Unit prices can now be hidden on invoices
Date & time shown on printed PDF reports
Pro forma invoices are available
VAT101 EC sales report added
Company news
You may have seen in a recent blog post that we have broken through the 500 milestone. In fact in June alone we are on target for a record month of 100 new subscribers. This is fantastic! We are really pleased to be gaining traction so thank you for your support!
