Thank you for you advice and remarks, Fergus. In this case, cost of the tools is significant for our starting financial position, so I was searching within the free alternatives realm, and after some days of research I ended up with ledger as the strongest contender, because its minimalistic mindset and quickness of procedure is exactly what I had in mind.
On some fronts, we have come to accept that paying for the service is the wisest choice. We are still conceptualizing and designing our infrastructure, so we see every task on a case by case basis, but try to plan for automation as much as safely possible. It's very tough to figure out what is feasible or not without spending weeks of research, hence why I felt inclined to reach out to this mailing list (my first time using one). We are close to o1bigtenor's mindset, where we are just trying to avoid the common pitfalls of most companies that don't take the time and effort to plan ahead and make themselves more agile (not in the corporate meme sense). I personally believe that, in a possible scaling scenario, I would rather have one or two bright persons within our team working on improving automating procedures than having 10 employees doing exclusively bureaucratic tasks. But we suspect that has to start being built from the get-go. If we get lazy because we are very small now (and thus it's easy to do one or two calculation sheets per week) we will probably find ourselves deep in the mud along the line, spending more time doing administrative work than thinking creatively about the actual problems. On Wed, 17 Feb 2021, 16:24 o1bigtenor, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 9:50 AM Fergus Cameron <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I ran a consultancy business using PTA for many years and suggest your > > strategy is the wisest. Do not think to eliminate your book-keeping; > > you MUST be engaged with it day-to-day. But certainly take the > > monotony out of it with the types of automation you mention. Add the > > the outstanding reporting that ledger-likes afford and you will be > > have off to a good start, I believe. > > > snip > > I would disagree - - - - if you do your recordkeeping ever day and are > checking > your emails every hour (or when you get your beep on that stupid phone) and > when you get a text you are reading it pdq - - - - well your business > is running YOU. > You need to run your business! > To me - - - - once a week for as long as it takes - - - - I want to > get that record- > keeping done. > Trying to discipline myself to emails 2x per day. > Texts - - - I live where reception is like finding honest politicians so > that's > really not an issue. > > > > One item of context. DO NOT pick a business tool because it is free. > > Ever. This will not be a win unless the cost is so exorbitant that it > > gives you enormous competitive advantage ON TOP of your "real" > > business (i.e. without impinging on it). > > > Ditto that - - - but - - - - I would always look for value - - - - > long term value > in fact. Its something that doesn't seem on the radar for many individuals > and far fewer commercial entities - - - - at least here in north america. > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ledger" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/CAPpdf58reU1_Kj1zufSkN6gFWob-XZsM1TFqgH2b7DQyx%2Bjueg%40mail.gmail.com > . > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/CABO43G0UFEbGnDB%3DJ%3DQiPtWM2HbcqqZarYVSgBRp9hWJ_bjZGA%40mail.gmail.com.
