Embracing Technologies: Our Adoption of Xojo

Oct 08, 2024

Introduction In the fast-paced world of software development, businesses must remain agile and adaptable. This case study explores how we successfully transitioned the maintenance and enhancement of a custom software application written in Xojo in-house following the retirement of the original developer. The Challenge When the original developer of a critical custom software application retired, […]

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Stock Adjustments and Email Alerts in ConnectIt

Oct 09, 2014

Further to requests from customers, we will imminently be introducing Sage Stock Adjustments and email alerts into the ConnectIt-Sage50 software. The Stock Adjustment features will provide an additional option off of the QuoteWerks Tools menu called “Create Stock in Sage”. When clicked, this option will open a screen listing the Products that are on the […]

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ConnectIt Pro Key Feature #4 – Company Branding

May 29, 2012

This is a feature that perhaps high volume resellers will be interested in, and give you the opportunity to customise the look of the software with your own corporate branding – logos, support and website links, even the images on the buttons(!). By branding the software to your image, you can either match ConnectIt to […]

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ConnectIt Pro Key Feature #3 – Multiple Transfer Profiles

May 25, 2012

The traditional ConnectIt products have just one configuration; the configuration is highly flexible, but there is just one. If you need multiple types on transfer – perhaps you are running several disconnected systems or perhaps running more than one company which require information presented differently between systems, then you need to either keep changing the […]

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ConnectIt Pro Key Feature #1 – Front End with Multi-Document Transfer

May 14, 2012

One of the key features that user of the current products will note is that ConnectIt now has its own front end user interface. Traditionally, the only interface to the software has been the Configuration screen; the actual software that does the processing running seamlessly from a menu option in QuoteWerks with just a couple […]

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Evolution not revolution – the ConnectIt Software approach to solution development

May 11, 2012

As users and resellers alike will have seen: the original ConnectIt-Sage product (which integrates QuoteWerks with Sage 50) has evolved over the years resulting in a very rounded solution. Sage Instant, Sage 200, Sage MAS and Pegasus Opera integration solutions have followed over the years, each having a better and better basis to work from […]

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Feedback and action from ConnectIt Software development

Apr 24, 2012

We’ve taken on board your feedback over the years on the growing collection of integration solutions that make up the ConnectIt Software suite… Can ConnectIt transfer more than one document at one time? Have you got a solution which integrates with flat file, Access, SQL Server or a.n.other database I use? I have suppliers that […]

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How to be a better software development company

Dec 30, 2010

Prompted by some of the comments and discussion in the article about software development add-ons, and during an internal brainstorming session as to how we can improve our ConnectIt software development services, we started a couple of lists on how to be a better software author. We’ve tried to think of it as traits of a […]

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Why should I pay for developed add-ons when my software should do ‘X’ anyway!?

Oct 15, 2010

I started this blog article in response to the comment made in the QuoteWerks software support forum here: “I know there are add-ons to correct the date, but why should we need an add-on to get basic functionality?” For anyone who’s reading this that’s not familiar with my (and Hilltops IT / ConnectIT Software‘s) background […]

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