{"id":7028,"date":"2010-11-16T11:22:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T11:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clearbooks.co.uk\/?p=7028"},"modified":"2018-11-13T10:42:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T10:42:11","slug":"online-accounting-keeps-adding-up-clear-books-hits-1000-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clearbooks.co.uk\/blog\/online-accounting-keeps-adding-up-clear-books-hits-1000-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Accounting Keeps Adding Up: Clear Books Hits 1,000 Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Online Accounting Keeps Adding Up: Clear Books Hits 1,000 Customers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>London (16\/11\/10)<\/strong> \u2013 Clear Books, the online accounting system for small businesses, is pleased to announce that it has exceeded the important milestone of 1,000 paying customers.<\/p>\n<p>Clear Books officially launched in July 2009 and&nbsp;took a&nbsp;year to reach its first 500 paying customers.&nbsp;The second 500 subscribed in &nbsp;just under 4.5 months.<\/p>\n<p>Clear Books is an example of how a UK&nbsp;company can&nbsp;start up on a shoe string budget in difficult financial times and prosper, powered by British determination and the marketing power of word of mouth.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Fouracre was 26 when he founded Clear Books and spent&nbsp;the first 16 months coding the core web&nbsp;application from his lounge. Now his company employs 7 people, has offices in West Kensington and is expanding rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the achievement Tim said, &#8220;This milestone is important to us. Not only&nbsp;does it&nbsp;underpin us financially, but it validates our accounting system. We believe that we are developing the best accounting software in the UK&nbsp;and now 1,000 small businesses agree with us.&nbsp;It&#8217;s been an interesting journey and one in which we have often felt like the underdog, but we are a young, independent and dynamic company that believes in punching above its weight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With November&nbsp;on track for another record month&nbsp;in new subscriptions, Clear Books&nbsp;is&nbsp;gunning straight for current UK market leaders Sage and its&nbsp;6 million customers.<\/p>\n<p>1,000 down and 5,999,000 or so to go.<\/p>\n<p><strong>-end-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more information contact:<\/p>\n<p>Lizzie Fouracre<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:press@clearbooks.co.uk\">press@clearbooks.co.uk<\/a><br \/>\n08448 160 603<\/p>\n<p>Notes To Editors:<\/p>\n<p>1. Clear Books is an online accounting system for small businesses. Its slogan is &#8220;Online Accounting To Free Your Time&#8221;. 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