Why we produced EconoAccounting Lite
November 24th, 2006Many small businesses do not use or need all the features in EconoAccounting.
EconoAccounting Lite is a way to allow us to discount the product to users, who otherwise do not need and do not want to spend too much on an accounting package.
I still emphasize that the cost of a package is irrelevant if it is not being used!
We hope that EconoAccounting Lite will be used. It’s low price - R570 incl should encourage businesses to take that first step towards getting their books up to date.
It’s worthwhile explaining how we arrived at the price of R570, in comparision with EconoAccounting at R2900. The full EconoAccounting is supported via a free training course costing R570 for the Lite version. Also Econoaccounting supports multiple companies on the same PC whereas Lite is only one company. We also offer unlimited phone-in support to EconoAccounting users, whereas the Lite users get only 5 free phone-in support calls. Of course both sets of users are able to get support via email and our web site. Most of our costs relate to support, so if we can reduce the cost of support, we can reduce the cost of the product!
To help all our users, we will be expanding our web site - more FAQs, and we are preparing a Flash movie presentation explaining exactly how to use the product.