{"id":548785,"date":"2006-05-15T07:20:59","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T07:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548785-solutions-available-on-the-web.html"},"modified":"2006-05-15T07:20:59","modified_gmt":"2006-05-15T07:20:59","slug":"solutions-available-on-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548785-solutions-available-on-the-web.html","title":{"rendered":"Solutions available on the web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cThey need to be as efficient as their corporate counterparts but with less resources, because they need to focus their finances on getting the business going.\u201d <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">He says accounting packages cost anything from R1000 to R10000 for a single-user system, plus implementation and annual licence fees, and most will only run on high-specification PCs that sell for R6000 to R10000 each. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The alternative is to use a web based solution, whereby a service provider invests in the hardware and software infrastructure and the user accesses the application online on a monthly rental basis. In this case, the service provider is responsible for providing a secure, reliable network connection and for carrying out regular, automatic data backups and updating the software, says Granville. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">He says users can connect to a web-based accounting service, such as Web Accounting\u2019s AccKnowledge, with a low-cost minimum configuration PC, and access the application over an ADSL line from a website using the web browser provided by the operating system. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">By entering a password the user will be able to access a company\u2019s accounting data over the internet from anywhere, capture the latest customer, supplier and stock information, and e-mail invoices and statements, says Granville. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cIt provides an online, ondemand accounting system that can be accessed from the office, from home or from an internet caf\u00e9, at a monthly cost that does not break the bank.\u201d <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Once a small business that is using the service grows it can purchase the software to run in-house if it prefers to do this, and users can access the application from a web browser across an internal local area network (LAN). The underlying Web Accounting solution is locally developed and caters for English, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Zulu, French and Portuguese, Granville says. <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMALL businesses need an accounting system, but for many the cost of implementing a software solution and hardware to support it is prohibitive, says Malcolm Granville, MD of Web Accounting Solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}