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Need feedback on our service.

Thu, 8 July 2010, 11:44 pm
Screditor9 posts in thread
Hi! I represent a web service called Scred (www.scred.com) - I am working there as a summer intern and part of my job is to collect feedback on our service from theater groups. Excuse me for my asking but I would really appreciate it if you took a look at the website (www.scred.com) and let me know if the service would be useful for you? Scred helps groups manage their finances: you can create a group profile there for your theater or individual production and do money transactions through the service. You can also sell tickets, collect membership fees and actually set up your own webshop through the service. An account on Scred and all of its features are free but you're charged 1,5% from direct transactions done through the service (on top of PayPal fees). Thank you in advance for your help :)

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Fri, 9 July 2010, 07:13 pm
Thank you for your feedback! This is really useful for us :) To answer the points you've raised: - In terms of our financial policy: Money is handled by PayPal, so Scred never even has the group's money, it is directly and immediately delivered to the people in question. So even if for some reason the website is down you don't need to worry about security of your money transfers. - As for exporting data to Excel or MYOB, there is no export at the moment, although it would not be difficult to add. Our goal is to make it mostly unnecessary to export, but we do understand there's a need for that. - How is our site more useful than local Australian ones? Without actual knowledge of what is out there for Australian theatre groups, I don't know. But more generally it is the ability with our service to attach both payments and accounting together seamlessly so even someone not so familiar with accounting can do things, while the more experienced will find things easier and quicker. I also don't know if others offer the combination of collecting registration fees, membership fees, an integrated webshop (with inventory), expense claims, payments and manual transaction entry. - Paying back debts of your group: With Scred this is integrated into the accounting backend. So an organiser can first enter in an expense claim, including a photo or PDF copy of the receipt, and other details. When the group wishes to pay that out they simply click a couple of buttons. The debt and the payment are recorded automatically, and there is no need to send separate emails and copy details into Excel, or track paper receipts via snailmail. Overall the service has been in development and is still in beta. We have now reached the point where we are contacting groups and getting in early users and developing forwards according to their needs - that is why we're collecting here and that's why your responce is so valuable!

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