no sign-up wall

Start with a conversation.

There is no button here that hands you an empty portal, and that is on purpose: an empty portal is the best way ever invented to make good software look like nothing. A trial here comes with your own jobs in it, which takes half an hour of talking first.

four steps. two of them are ours.

Pick a time →thirty minutes, free, real diary
  1. 1

    Pick a time that suits you

    Half an hour, free, and the diary you are choosing from is the real one — so the time you pick is a time that is genuinely free. If you would rather write first, the form is further down.

    you · about a minute

  2. 2

    We open the real thing on screen

    Not a scripted demo. We open a working portal, you say “show me what happens when a client pays half an invoice”, and we do it. Bring the thing your current setup is worst at — that is the useful half hour.

    both of us · half an hour

  3. 3

    Then we set up a trial with your own work in it

    Your own subdomain, your own database, your numbering, your stages, a few of your real jobs. Not an empty portal and not somebody else’s sample data — those both teach you nothing about whether this fits.

    us · same day

  4. 4

    Press everything

    It is a real portal, so everything in it really works. There is a reset button that puts the sample practice back exactly as it arrived, so nobody has to be careful.

    you · as long as you like

Pick a time if you are ready, or write below and we will come back to you with a couple.

Have a look at your own

We will set up a portal on its own address, with three years of a sample practice already in it. Nothing to install, and nothing shared with anybody else's.

We will only use this to write back about a trial. No list, and nothing passed on.

before you write

The things people ask

How long is the trial?
Long enough to run a month of real work through it, and we would rather you did that than poked at it for an afternoon. If it needs longer, say so — it is a date on a record, not a wall.
What does it cost afterwards?
It is priced on your turnover rather than per seat, because per-seat pricing punishes the two-person practice that wants everybody in the system — which is exactly the practice this is most useful to. We will give you the figure for your practice on the call.
Do we have to move everything at once?
No. Most practices start with the jobs that are live and leave the finished ones where they are. Closed years can be recorded as lodged figures without re-keying a thing.
What if we already use Xero?
A practice paying directors’ fees and contractors generally does not need both. With employees on PAYG you still will: a pay run leaves here as a Single Touch Export — one press, in the Phase 2 shape the ATO asks for — but an export is not a lodgement, and something still has to transmit it and work out the tax.
Who else can see our data?
Nobody, including us, unless you switch support access on — and it ends by itself. That has its own page, because it is the question that matters most.
Is it only for architects?
It was built in an architecture and building-physics practice, so that is the shape it fits best. Anybody who runs projects with stages, logs time against them and bills from those hours will recognise most of it. If you are not sure, ask — a straight “probably not” is cheaper for both of us.

The long version of the fifth one is on Your data, and the long version of everything else is the track listing.

it’s your practice. this is just where it’s written down.