Release time for yourself with Bespoke Software
How much time do you spend on spreadsheets every week?
Or even worse, how much time are your staff spending on them. Bespoke software will save you and your staff hours of time every week.
How would bespoke software change my business?
By automating your processes such as order entry, purchasing, invoicing, despatch, inventory management, and many more.
Will Working Data bespoke software work in my business?
Yes! Because it is completely customised to you and your business. Automating your processes will give you and your staff the time to concentrate on value adding activities.
VAT Calculator v1 reaches 1000 downloads
We are pleased to announce that our popular Spreadsheet Tool VAT Calculator has reached and passed 1, 000 downloads. We have a wide range of other spreadsheet tools for you to download and use in MS Excel. Browse our spreadsheet library.
Increase Your Sales With Bespoke Software
Bespoke Software Can Increase Your Sales
One of the most imporant things you need to make sales to existing and prospective customers is information. In order to get this information, you need the best system possible for your business
Bespoke Business Software can give you that competitive edge. In essence, it gives you all the information you need and in the format you want it in. It could be tables, charts or graphs. With software which is designed specifically for you and your business, it is fast and simple to get the business intelligence you need.
With your custom reporting you get full, real-time and detailed information. All this without having to use a spreadsheet. You can increase your own productivity and those of your staff and your colleagues. Comprehensive and targetted reports will help you to guide your sales efforts in the most profitable way.
You can resell to existing customers with greater ease. All your data will be in front of you at the click of a button. The software can help you find the up-selling and cross-selling avenues most likely to succeed by performing calculations on previous sales history.
Prospecting to new customers and clients is made much more simple. By profiling your prospects within the system, it can help you find the deals and routes most likely to succeed.
The next steps forward for your business as a whole can be made with all the relevant information at your fingertips. Drilling-down into the reports will give you that extra information which will really impress your customers. You can give those extra value incentives to your clients by having all their information easily accessible.
With bespoke software, your systems work around you and your business, not the other way round. This will save you a great deal of time and increase your staff’s productivity. You will not have to pay someone to learn how to make the numbers add up in a spreadsheet. As we all know, spreadsheets are extremely vulnerable to human error. With your database-based bespoke software you never need to worry about a copy and paste error every again. Or someone writing over the top of a formula and losing valuable hours of work.
When you implement bespoke software into your business, there is an almost immediate payback in the amount of time your recapture. There are no more work-arounds. You and your staff can get on with their core value and profit building tasks.
Greater productivity and greater sales lead to increased profit.
How big do you want your business to be?
What changes 
do you need to make for your business to grow?
It is a difficult question. Finding the time to take a step back and review your business is not easy to find.
If your volume of work were to increase by 10 or 20 %, how would your current setup cope? Would you need to recruit? If you need to recruit is a 10 or 20% increase in business enough to cover that new expense?
What if, instead, you were to improve your business setup by introducing bespoke business software? This allows you to completely tailor your software based tasks around your processes. In reality, this means that you don’t need to use paper and spreadsheets to tie things together.
This increased productivity allows your business to respond quickly and effectively to changes in workload. Because your processes are embedded into the software, you can take more of a step back from the day to day. You will have time to reflect on your business and where it is going.
What is the point of that without the necessary information? Well, with bespoke software, you have full comprehensive, real-time reporting on all aspects of your business. All of these are available at the click of a button. No waiting for someone to put numbers together on a spreadsheet. A spreadsheet that will be out of date, and quite possibly inaccurate. Also, a spreadsheet that will have been prepared by someone who could have been doing something more useful.
With bespoke software, you have all your relevant business data in one place and in a standard format. This allows you to query and pull out reports simply and quickly. You have the overview and the detail. You can look into the detail to pinpoint specific problems, and the overview to give you the information for strategic decisions.
At some point, as your business grows, you will need to make the leap to bespoke busines software. The sooner you make that profound and profitable change, the sooner you will be able to reap the rewards. Lower running costs, staff released to perform value adding activities and full comprehensive reporting for management and directors.
I would encourage you to find out more about bespoke software engineers known to your business network and to start to build a relationship with them. They will be glad to visit you and give you an objective appraisal of just what this change in your business’s software would achieve. Check out their website testimonials to find out what previous clients had to say.
Bespoke Software Could Save You Money
Save Money With Bespoke Software
The purpose of software is to automate manual tasks. With Bespoke Software, your systems are designed precisely around your business. Therefore, the tasks are automated fully. You do not need to have work-arounds on pieces of paper.
Reporting is comprehensive and real-time, so you can leave behind fiddling with spreadsheets trying to make the data useful. With the click of a button you will have all the information you need to run your business.
As custom software is specific to your business, your staff will not need as much training as they would with off the shelf software which is generic and a one size fits all approach.
Your staff will be freed from non value adding activities. This will allow them to concentrate on their key skills to generate greater productivity and profitability for your organisation. Many businesses are inadvertently paying their staff to learn Excel spreadsheets because their business software and systems are not optimised.
Bespoke software will help you optimise your business’s processes. This leads to greater productivity for the organisation as a whole. With this greater productivity you will be better placed to meet growing demand as your business expands. This reduces your requirement to engage new staff.
With custom software and optimised processes, your business will be capable of satisfying bigger workloads. When business is busy and growing you will have the capability to meet this demand. When times are quiet you will not have staff to find work for or, unfortunately, to make redundant.
With this increased automation and improved processes whilst keeping your headcount down will save you money. You will only need to pay once for your bespoke software. It has the possibility to transform how your business operates.
It also allows you the owner or director to be able to take a step back from day to day activities. This can often be a welcome relief. It also gives you the time and space to know that your business is running effectively and efficiently without your constant monitoring. And you now have the breathing space to examine your business’s fundamentals and plan for the future. Your real-time comprehensive reporting will give you all the information you need without having to distract one of your employees, or yourself, with having to cobble together numbers from a variety of spreadsheets.
You may have in the back of your mind that bespoke software is expensive and complicated. With modern development tools, bespoke software is no longer only applicable to large corporations, they are very affordable for all sizes of business. The process of implementing bespoke software can be made easy by engaging a software engineer with good credentials.
I hope this short summary of the benefits of bespoke software will help you to see that it could save you money and help your business to succeed.
Is Your Business Growing? You Can Fulfil The Extra Demand Without More Staff
Is your business growing? It probably seems that you will need to take on more staff to fulfil this welcome extra demand. But is that so?
You may be asking yourself, how will your office systems cope with a greater workload. Will you have more spreadsheets and paper systems, covering the gaps like a sticking plaster?
OR
You could solve all your problems at once with bespoke software. Bespoke software will reduce your need for additional staff by increasing the productivity of existing staff, and yourself. Your processes and procedures will be locked in to your software meaning goodbye to spreadsheets and other work-arounds.
Customised reporting will give you real-time comprehensice information to help you guide your business. And your staff will be guided through their workflow by your custom software.
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VAT Calculator v2.0 Now Available For Free Download
Make all your VAT Calculations in one go, and then save them in a spreadsheet to review later. Version 2.0 of Working Data’s popular VAT Calculator is now available for Free Download.
If you have not upgraded to bespoke software yet, you are probably having to do lots of manual outside-the-process spreadsheets. Well, we have taken pity on you and have simplified and improved our popular VAT Calculator Free Download.
But remember, if you really want to save time in the future and stop wasting time with spreadsheets, get your business on bespoke software from Working Data. As well as not having to do repetitive manual tasks on paper or spreadsheets, it will also give you real-time, comprehensive reporting. What’s to lose? Get it now.
How To Plan A Successful Business Software Implementation
Involve The Relevant People
One of the easiest mistakes to make when implementing new software in your business is to not involve your staff. If you have engaged the right kind of software engineer, your staff do not need to know about IT. They just need to know about how your business works. After all, they see how things work from very close up, day after day. They will know about the little things that they have to do to get the job done that might not be known by others. Continue reading
Are you needlessly paying your staff to learn Excel?
Do your staff spend time on Excel? Is that what they are best qualified to do? Wouldn’t you rather that they were performing the value-generating tasks that they specialise in?
Businesses normally use spreadsheets to fill gaps in their software and processes. You can avoid this completely by implementing bespoke software in your business. Bespoke sofware will allow your staff to concentrate on the value-adding tasks that they specialise in. Wouldn’t you rather have your admin assistant chasing up unpaid invoices rather than searching through spreadsheets trying to find out who has paid and who has not?
Why We Never Use Overseas Software Development Agencies
For many years, I have received a regular stream of phone calls and emails from companies overseas, asking if I want to sub out programming work to them. I always answer no.
Working Data clients always meet and liaise with their own specific software engineer. The engineer will be working with them very closely to re-design their software according to their exact requirements. Therefore, it is important that their is trust and open communication between the client and the engineer.
I don’t believe this can be achieved if we were subbing out the work to overseas agencies. When a client is talking through their bespoke software project with their software engineer, they know that this person knows every element of the system. They have built this system themselves and know it inside and out.
Working Data will never sub out any work to overseas software development agencies. You can rest assured that you will be working with the same software engineer from start to finish of your project.
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