E-conomic UK Blog

How to book a customer payment

Dorthe — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:59:57 GMT

After having invoiced your customers you will – hopefully within the payment terms – receive their payments. These payments will have to be registered in your agreement, so you can match the invoices with the customer payments thus balancing the customer account. To register a customer receipt go to the Accounting tab > choose the [...]

Scanning and your smartphone

Dorthe — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:45:48 GMT

Your numerous receipts from places where you buy your petrol or other day to day items can prove quite a challenge to keep track of. That’s because these types of receipts tend to disappear and when you need to book your expences, you might have to spend hours trying to find them. However, if you’re [...]

e-conomic at Accountex

Jacqui Sullivan — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 08:45:21 GMT

e-conomic’s own Richard Messik talking about the benefits of cloud computing. Day 2 at Accountex and another busy day ahead! Our stand has been quite busy throughout today. We have given many demonstrations of the e-conomic accounting system as well as talked to existing clients, partners and colleagues. We have arrived at the exhibition! [...]

e-conomic at Accountex 6th & 7th June

Jacqui Sullivan — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:15:18 GMT

There’s going to be a lot to see and people to talk to this Thursday and Friday at the Accountex and one person that should not be missed is Richard Messik. Richard, who heads up the e-conomic Board of Advisors will be speaking at the Accountex exhibition held at the ExCel centre London this Friday [...]

How to book your various expenses

Dorthe — Fri, 31 May 2013 11:29:42 GMT

When you pay for fuel, the company breakfast or other stuff, you need to register the expenses in your agreement. This is easily done by making a journal entry. When you make a journal entry you book your expense – start by deciding into which account the expense should be debited. This account no. you [...]

We’re upgrading and maintaining the techniques behind e-conomic June 8 2013

Kim Sneum Madsen — Wed, 29 May 2013 08:38:43 GMT

During the past 9 months, we’ve been quite satisfied with our uptime and operations team in e-conomic. Our goal is continuous availability, which is why we’re upgrading our database and servers. When is it happening? As announced on our TechTalk blog a few weeks ago, we’re conducting structural changes to our database Saturday, June 8. [...]

Can I start over with a new agreement?

Dorthe — Fri, 24 May 2013 11:45:37 GMT

Have you just found out that your entries have been booked the wrong way or did you start out with a wrong chart of accounts in your agreement and now need to use another one? The easiest and most timesaving solution could be to start over with a completely new agreement. Depending on how many [...]

Need to add accounts to your Chart of Accounts ?

Jacqui Sullivan — Tue, 21 May 2013 10:42:46 GMT

Need to create a new account within your Chart of Accounts ? with one of our default company setups we like to think we have included most of the account codes you are going to use but there is always the chance that you may need a few more or amend existing ones to suit [...]

How to become an administrator?

Dorthe — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:23:56 GMT

Are you working as an accountant or bookkeeper – why not benefit from our system and get free access to your clients accounts – why not become an e-conomic administrator? With our online administrator module, you can work with all your clients from within your module. You can easily set up agreements for your clients [...]

e-conomic at Accountex in June

Jacqui Sullivan — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:25:32 GMT

Don’t forget this important date for your diary, we will be exhibiting at Accountex in the ExCel centre, London on the 6 – 7th June. Thousands of accountants – in practice, in business and in the private sector – will be flocking to this event. The reaction from last year’s event was overwhelmingly positive and [...]

Get your data into the agreement in a heartbeat

Dorthe — Fri, 10 May 2013 11:30:51 GMT

When you work in your agreement – you may have just started up – or you may have been working with it for a while – the easiest way of getting information into the agreement is by importing a file. This may send shivers down your spine – but don’t worry – it’s quite easy [...]

Find your invoice and pay it by creditcard

Dorthe — Fri, 03 May 2013 11:58:11 GMT

This week we have barred agreements that haven’t been paid. We emailed the invoice about a month ago and we have since then also emailed two reminders to call your attention to the fact that the invoice wasn’t paid. We may not be angels, but we do think we’re very patient. Alas even our patience [...]

Do you need to account for CIS?

Dorthe — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:20:03 GMT

If you have subcontractors doing construction work for you – you may need to account for CIS and withhold 20% of the payment for the HMRC. This can easily be done in your agreement, but you need to donate a little of your precious time up front. Firstly you’ll need to create a new balance [...]

Get started using a default company setup

Dorthe — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:29:00 GMT

When you take out an agremeement and before you can enter any accounting data, you have to set up the agreement with all the required, relevant, information – but what if you don’t have to start from scratch? If you use a default company setup you can have all the necessary information created in a [...]

Moving the daybook entry screen

Jacqui Sullivan — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:49:08 GMT

You can now move the daybook entry screen around ! simply click on the area highlighted and the entry screen can now be dragged across your screen should you need to see relevant information behind :-

Emailing your invoices made easier

Jacqui Sullivan — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:17:12 GMT

To save you time when booking and emailing your sales invoice out to your customer the system will now automatically bring up the invoice number and date and place this in the Subject box of the email. You can of course override this box with your own message should you wish to:-

Smarter Scanning options

Jacqui Sullivan — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:02:26 GMT

The ability to link your scanned documents to an entry has just go easier by moving the “Create from scanned” option and linking it to the “New entry” option dropdown:-

How to I set up VAT in my agreement?

Dorthe — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:48:01 GMT

Once you have found out which VAT scheme you should use, you can set up the agreement to easily manage this. If you have initially chosen a default company setup, the VAT codes have already been created for you together with sales and purchase accounts with the VAT codes applied. Naturally you can freely choose [...]

e-conomic exhibiting at Accountex !

Jacqui Sullivan — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 11:45:40 GMT

We are proud to be exhibiting our products and services at the UK’s leading event for Accountants and Financial Directors – Accountex 2013 on 6th & 7th June, ExCeL, London. Accountex is the UK’s only national exhibition for accountants and finance directors working in practice, business and the public sector. Come along and meet us [...]

Pay your invoice from us swiftly

Dorthe — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:45:11 GMT

A couple of days ago you received the invoice for the quarter April to June. This recent invoice is due April 9th. and can be paid as a money transferral from your bank account or you can pay us by credit/debit card. Paying by credit/debit card has a few advantages for you – one of [...]

Something about barred periods

Dorthe — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:58:58 GMT

It’s not nice to be “behind bars”, not even when the bar turn out to be a barred period – but don’t worry, these “bars” are not due to “illegal activity” as such. You may have come across not being able to book entries, because a period has been barred. If that’s the case you’ll [...]

Easy logo upload and more in design and layout

Dorthe — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:55:10 GMT

Sending invoices, statements, quotations or order confirmations from within your agreement, you’re using templates already provided for your in agreement. Contrary to what you might think you can make changes to the templates, like for instance adding your logo. Adding your logo to your documents is very easy. Firstly you upload your logo to your [...]

Do you need to separate your costs and earnings into different departments?

Dorthe — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:35:25 GMT

You should try out the add-on module Dimension/Departments. With the add-on module Dimension/Departments you can create various departments to which you can then allocate your costs or earnings. You just add the department to your entry in the daybook or on the customer invoice. You can create as many departments as you need and they [...]

How smart is scannning – well check it out

Dorthe — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 12:45:17 GMT

In your agreement you have an option to also use the scanning module. With the scanning module you can save time and many annoying moments, locating your receipts or documents when it’s time for booking your expenses. Where did they go – did you trash them or did your dog get a hold of them? [...]

Easy way to upload your company logo

Jacqui Sullivan — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:18:15 GMT

We have introduced a very quick and easy way to upload your logo. When you are raising your sales invoice you can click on the Settings tab and select “Upload logo” find your logo saved in your system and insert it straight into your invoice. If you need to switch logos when you are raising [...]

Do you need to approve your daybook?

Dorthe — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:45:38 GMT

When you’re working in your daybook, entering your postings and being ready to book them, you may come across this message “Not all entries have been approved” ? This message will appear, if your daybook has been setup not allowing you to book entries that are not approved by your administrator. Maybe your administrator wishes [...]

Are you thinking about changing your accounting system?

Dorthe — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:44:09 GMT

Then stop thinking and act upon it instead! Changing your accounting system to e-conomic, you can easily get all your data transferred into the system. You can have your opening balances booked in a jiffy and you can have your suppliers and customers created in the system with just a few mouse clicks. If you [...]

Log in problems and other issues

Dorthe — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:53:40 GMT

Once in a blue moon you might experience problems when trying to log into your agreement or not having your invoice shown. This is a very annoying experience and it could be helped if you just keep your browser updated with the latest version, and also keep your computer “spick and span” by deleting the [...]

Work faster using quick links

Dorthe — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:24:05 GMT

Working in your agreement you normally navigate using the tabs or the different menu options in the left hand side of the screen. You can make your navigation much easier, and locating the menu options you use the most easy to find, by adding one or more quick links. You can choose your quick links [...]

Pay e-conomic with your credit/debit card

Jacqui Sullivan — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 06:00:12 GMT

Paying invoices has never been easier ! If you have received a reminder in the last few days you can pay our invoice with your credit or debit card using our credit/debit card link. All you need is your agreement number, user ID and password. Find out how to pay our invoice with your credit/debit [...]