XpressoBooks was conceived as a Cashbook system and a preliminary version was created 4 months before the governments MTD announcement. Originally the end user was going to be able to run it on a laptop as well. IN the end we decided that entering information on a laptop would make people procrastinate – so the “always with me” smartphone was chosen as the only entry system for the Business Owner.
From the start XpressoBooks was designed so that the App was so easy to use, anybody who could text would be able to use and understand it with very little training.
XpressoBooks has been designed as a coherent system, not as an afterthought added to a unwieldy and complicated accounting system that caters for every large business but makes it difficult for the small business.
A Cash based business does not need to know about debits and credit, sales ledgers and purchase ledgers or even accruals, reserves and nominal codes. All they want to know is money in and money out.
Small Business Owners don’t want a program that expects them to have access to the uncharged family Laptop at 10:30 at night so they can “do their accounts” in time for the VAT submission deadline.
What is needed is a quick way of entering maybe 4 figures a day in a device they always carry with them – that’s Xpressobooks in a nutshell – Easy to use, Simple to Understand.
But XpressoBooks hasn’t forgotten you the accountant. Our co-founder Michael Scordis has over 50 years of “coalface” experience, using the original Visicalc an Apple ][ computer before Lotus, Multiplan or Excel . All that experience is now distilled into XpressoBooks..