Context

Few would dispute that a vibrant, growing SME sector is vital to a healthy economy. SMEs provide a significant percentage of private sector employment and are an important contributor to the country’s gross domestic product.

This document will set out how Softline Pastel proposes to work with Small Business Hub  in order to assist it in achieving its objectives, through the provision of appropriate business tools, training and ongoing support.

About Softline Pastel

Softline Pastel is South Africa’s leading business software provider. Founded in 1989, Pastel has been a trusted name in accounting and business software for over 20 years and is recommended by 9 out of 10 South African accountants that serve the SME market. Softline Pastel is South African-born company, used by more than 200,000 businesses and is currently sold in over 52 countries, including 18 in Africa. Softline Pastel is a member of the Sage Group, a worldwide leader in accounting and business software for the SME market.

For the past 20 years Softline Pastel has witnessed first-hand the vital role that that the appropriate accounting and business tools have played in the growth and sustainability of our clients in the SME sector.

With this in mind, Softline Pastel has identified the essentials tools, training and support that such businesses need and have packaged these into a single, easy-to-use solution. Our solution contains:

A.      Business Software

o   Pastel  My Business Online (Accounting Software)

o   Pastel MicroPay (Payroll Software)

o   Pastel Legal Software (Legal Software)

B.      Training

o   Introduction to Bookkeeping training course

o   My Business Online training course

A.      BUSINESS SOFTWARE

In order for businesses to be successful and sustainable the rights tools are required.

a.       Pastel My Business Online

A computerised accounting system provides the foundation of any successful, sustainable business.

Pastel My Business Online is a revolutionary, simple, user friendly application designed specifically for small, start up and entrepreneur owned and run and businesses.  It allows for record keeping, critical assessment of the business based on useful information, smart decision making, easy and meaningful interaction with mentors, facilitation of access to finance and increased professionalism generally.

Because My Business Online is a web-based application it allows for anywhere, anytime, any device access and provides safe and secure data storage. Additionally, third party access rights facilitate convenient remote access for accountants and other relevant third parties.

Pastel My Business Online makes the following task quick and easy:

•        Creating Customers, Quotes and Invoices.

•        Managing Customer Invoices, Receipts, Credit Notes and Bad Debts.

•        Printing and e-mailing Customer Statements.

•        Creating and managing Supplier Invoices, Returns, Payments and printing Remittances.

•        Reporting on amounts outstanding per Customer, as well as amounts you owe per Supplier.

•        Determining who your most valuable customers are.

•        Reporting on your top selling Items, and most frequently purchased Items.

•        Tracking income and expenditure.

•        Reconciling your Bank Accounts, credit cards and managing your cashflow.

•        Reporting on your profitability.

•        Reporting on VAT.

•        Recording all Assets in your business.

Ongoing technical support by email is included and ensures that any technical advice and problems with My Business Online is dealt with in the correct manner by our award winning team.

b.      Pastel MicoPay

Employees are the heart of every business. At Pastel Payroll, we believe in working smarter, not harder. Meeting your tax and employment legislative obligations takes considerable time and know-how. So, you’ll appreciate Pastel MicrOpay’s easy, efficient processing ability making your life simple in relation to payslips, processing, reporting and compliance. At the touch of a button, Pastel MicrOpay does it all for you. Pastel MicrOpay ships with all the basic transactions to get your business up and running in minutes and caters for up to 5 employees.

Our dedicated focus and specialist expertise is the reason why more businesses choose us as their preferred tax, HR and payroll partner.

c.       Pastel LegalWrite

Legal issues and compliancy affect businesses of all sizes on a daily basis. However, legal costs are often exorbitant with the result being that SMEs in particularly do not attend to legal matters that affect them.  Developed in conjunction with leading SA attorneys, Pastel Legal Write contains more than 100 editable standard legal documents, precedents and helpful information covering the following key areas:

• Commercial

• General

• Labour

• Matrimonial

• Monetary

• Property

• Testamentary

• BEE

• Tax

• Legal Glossary

B.      TRAINING

Ultimately people run businesses. In order to ensure the best chances of success and sustainability, it is crucial that those who run and work for businesses have, at minimum, a working knowledge of fundamental business concepts, as well as having the necessary skills and training required for them to perform at optimum levels.

a.       Introduction to Bookkeeping Concepts course

Running a business requires a basic level of understanding about bookkeeping and financial concepts. The Introduction to Bookkeeping course has identified the most important of these concepts for entrepreneurs and in a simple and non-technical manner, will provide to the attendees a workable knowledge of the different types of accounts, the double entry system, trial balance, income statement, balance sheet and types of companies.  This is a 1 day course.

b.    My Business Training Course

The My Business Online software will be the cog around which businesses are run. It is therefore vital to ensure that the businesses understand how to use the product and all its functionality and are thus able to get the most out of it. This is a half day course.

The table below contains our pricing for this project, contact Sales Sense direct and receive discount for Small Business Hub members.

Softline Pastel and Sales Sense Consulting are looking forward to working with Small Business Hub

Please feel free to contact us to discuss this proposal further.

Kind Regards

Louise Peruch This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Head: Sales Consulting

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