Two training sessions next week

There will be a new training session Thursday 11th Feb on electronic invoicing and stock importing.

There are a growing number of companies now with electronic invoicing and catalogue importing which can save you a considerable amount of time plus a growing number of different types of imports available.

The emphasis on this session will be on the actual mechanics of the stock importing, the pricing structures available and category management.

We are also running our last session on advanced billing because of the lack of interest in the DOS version this week, we will only be running the windows version on Thursday 11th Feb.

Our software has many excellent facilities in the advanced billing to help newsagents who wish to do advanced billings.

It is a major change in the current News Corp contract for advanced billing for newspapers. It is expected that in a few months this will be the standard billing system used by newsagents. It means that you can be paid in advance by the customer, so there are no bad debts because papers are only delivered only if already paid. All our systems can handle advanced billing. Both have the inbuilt word processing and mail merge required by News Corp to notify your clients of the change.

We are holding user meetings next Thursday to explain the mechanics of how to do this advanced billing. An expert from our support team will be attending so you can ask all your difficult questions.

Click here for details and to sign up for these courses

A tip on Australian privacy laws

Recently, I had the unwelcome task of writing to many unsuccessful applicants for the position that we advertised. We advertised one position and got more than 175 applicants.

Normally, on my letter to an unsuccessful applicant, I end with this.

We had many applications and unfortunately, you have not been successful on this occasion. We are filing your papers for future reference just in case……

This is not a lie as if the successful applicant does not work out sometimes we do go back over the list. Why go through the expense and work of readvertising when you have several very good candidates already?

Well today, I have been advised you cannot do that. What I was told was in relation to unsuccessful candidates.

Don’t make statements about keeping their applications on file (can be against privacy laws)

Therefore, the emails I am sending out ends with this.

We had many applications and unfortunately, you have not been successful on this occasion. We would encourage you to apply for any suitable roles we may advertise in the future.

A tip when buying a new computer

Many looking for a computer check the power of the computer (CPU) first, everything else is an afterthought. This is a mistake.

What happens is the slow hard drive, especially if the computer has not enough memory (RAM) works slow. This is because it is continuously reading and writing to this slow hard disk. As a result, many businesses brand new computers run slow.






For business applications, investing more of your budget on the hard disk gives you a better speed-per-dollar than investing in a faster CPU or RAM.

There are a few tips; you can do to speed up your computer hard disk one I discussed here.

ePay problems

Over the last few days, there has been many clients reporting problems, which have something to do with ePay. There does not seem to be a pattern, it is just happening.

We have been doing the best we can, but if you do have problems, probably the best ones to call are ePay direct on 1300301408.