AccessweB helps stop rip-off Britain

AccessweB 2, the one stop web shop solution, is helping stop Rip-Off Britain by offering cars for sale on the Internet. In the last two months Access has delivered seven web sites to the motor trade.

This move has helped lower car prices and rebuts charges that UK customers are overcharged compared to others in Europe.

The AccessweB motor industry clients say that customers will be able to order a new car over the Internet and have it delivered to their door within a week of placing the order.

Customers will be able to arrange finance, find out how much their existing car would be worth in a part-exchange, and arrange a test drive over the web.

AccessweB General Manager Marcus Russell said, Because of AccessweB customers will further benefit from savings in normal marketing and distribution costs, which will be reflected in lower list prices. This is a start and we want to see prices come down across the board, so the pressure must be kept up."

The car industry has been under pressure to cut its prices following an investigation from the Competition Commission.

Many surveys have shown that identical cars are sold in Europe for prices far below those charged in the UK.

In the US, car buying over the Internet has become an important factor in forcing prices down, with customers able to compare prices and dealer mark-ups over the country.

Mr Russell added, Just as we have reduced the price of entry for e-commerce for SMEs as part of our British Business Online Campaign we are now helping reduce the price of cars and prevent Rip-Off Britain."

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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.
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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.

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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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