Introducing Plumsale

15 March 2012
Author: Jason

My business partner and myself started a software development company in 2006 called Avantic Software, mostly consulting and we got to build some pretty cool products over the last few years. We needed a project of our own, something that would get us out of this consulting game and a product we can call our own.

We had both been annoyed over the last 5 years on the lack of great and simple tools to help manage small businesses. We have both worked for large organisations that spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on Accounting, Billing and Customer Relationship products. There are also some very good software packages for medium sized businesses, if you are willing to spend up to and over a thousand dollars a year. There is nothing out their for the micro to small business, unless you are a big fan of excel.

This frustrated us, the first year we used excel, the next 2 years we purchased a desktop version of a leading accounting package, that drove me insane. For the last few years we have been using a good online service, which is very much accounting based and needed coaching from our accountant to use properly. There just had to be a simple and inexpensive way to track and manage simple business records, and to easily send invoices to our clients. This was our itch, and we decided to scratch it.

I’ll go into more detail of our journey in future blog posts, but today is all out Plumsale, and introducing our new product to the world. Please sign up for the free trial, and let us know your thoughts.