Access announce Foundations - entry-level e-commerce for SMEs

Access Accounting Ltd has launched Foundations, the most cost-effective e-commerce solution on the market. This is part of its campaign to 'Get British Business Online in 2000.

Foundations provides the ideal entry-level package for SMEs needing to trade on the Internet. In addition to the financials it has modules for order processing, stock control and project costing.

Access Sales Director Tony Barrow said, Foundations makes e-commerce affordable for every small business. It does not matter whether you are a plumber or a management consultant -- trading on the Internet is now within your budget. With recent surveys suggesting that users are being let down by poor accounting software, Foundations is the most fully-featured package available and provides all the answers."

For just 2,000 Foundations links with the AccessweB 2 e-commerce solution. This enables a small business to create its own web shop displaying current stock descriptions and prices fully linked to the in-house accounting system. Most comparable systems on the market start at around 15,000 and require costly communications.

Foundations with its 15 modules fully integrates with Microsoft Office and is Windows 2000 ready. It smashes the price objection for small businesses trading online.
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BACKGROUND NOTES:

Access Accounting Ltd was formed in 1991 to bring the benefits of Windows to accounting software. Its software is in use today by over 9,000 companies worldwide. Software is sold in the UK through a national network of Specialist Centres and internationally through 'Access partners.

The company has grown by 40 percent per year. It is an ISO 9001 (TickIT) registered firm. With over 130 staff based in the Colchester head office, everything is designed, developed and produced in the UK.

Access Accounts offers a complete range of Windows 2000 and PowerPC, web enabled financial management and accounting software that scales to suit your size of business and your budget. Principally everything you can do in one level of software can be done in each higher level without re-training staff or re-entering data. Access is a pioneer in financial data management with modules encompassing buying, selling, ordering, costing and inventory control all fully web enabled and with powerful management reporting.

The company also offers virtual showroom e-commerce solutions and marketing web sites with AccessweB. An innovator in e-commerce solutions, Access Accounting Ltd requires its dealers to place all their orders over the Internet using Access Order Wizard (AOW). This was designed by Access to give its own business the advantage of e-commerce.

AccessweB -- A database solution offering the fastest possible route for a company to create its own marketing or e-commerce web site. AccessweB has 10 modules and page options providing everything up to a full e-commerce solution.
Dimensions is the flagship Client/Server software for large companies with up to 200 concurrent users. It has 20 modules plus multi-currency, euro compliancy, dual-base currency and multi-lingual options.
Dimensions SBE is Client/Server software for medium sized companies with up to 20 concurrent users. It has 20 modules to handle every business process.
Horizons is ODBC compliant software for medium sized companies with up to 15 concurrent users It has 20 modules plus multi-currency, euro compliancy and dual base options.
Foundations is ODBC compliant software for small companies or departments of companies with just one concurrent user. It has 15 modules plus multi-currency options.
Access Payroll+ is a complete PAYE and personnel records system, scalable from 5-5,000 staff per datafile. This fully integrates to the entire Access Accounts range.

Access Accounts was voted Best Mid-Range Business Software" for 1997/8 by BASDA, the governing body of accounts software developers. It is accredited under the Accredited Product Scheme run by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). Its Payroll package won the PC Pro Excellence Award and it is IMIS accredited.

All Access software is guaranteed millennium compliant. Access released its EMU compliant software in 1998. It offers dual based currency, triangulation and the ability to report in home currency, the Euro and in multiple foreign currencies. It achieved BASDA EMU accreditation for Multi-Currency and Triangulation in 1999 -- one of an elite group in the world to receive this accreditation.

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