Clients & Profits
News Release
New subscription service
tracks clients, jobs, costs, time, and billing for only
$29.95 a month
May 16, 2004 -- SAN DIEGO, CA --
Clients & Profits
announced today Clients & Profits ASAP, a new web-based
studio manager built especially for free-lance creatives
and graphic design studios.
The new internet-based system lets
creatives, account execs, bookkeepers, and studio managers
handle the complete job lifecycle—from proposal to billing—from
anywhere in the world using only a web browser.
Clients & Profits ASAP is a subscription service
for managing creative businesses and includes time cards,
proposals, estimates, job scheduling, client and vendor
management, billing, and more. “Clients & Profits
ASAP replaces any manual system you’re using now
to manage your shop,” says Mark Robillard, Clients & Profits
founder and developer.
“Unlike Quickbooks and other generic software," he
says, "Clients & Profits ASAP is designed at
its heart for creatives — and only creatives. It's
the only system they need to keep on top of the work."
No software to buy, nothing to install, and available
anywhere
Based on the rapidly maturing "ASP" software-as-service
business model used by Salesforce.com and others, Clients & Profits
adapted nearly 20 years of agency management software
experience into a small system, designed especially for
start-ups. “Clients & Profits emerged in 1986
with an innovative solution to the agency management
software dilemma,” Robillard says, “and we’re
continuing that legacy with Clients & Profits ASAP.”
Clients & Profits ASAP offers busy shops an affordable—and
mobile—job management software. In addition to
it’s low monthly subscription, C&P ASAP is
easy to get started. “The ASP model gave me a tremendously
economical platform to develop a micro-version of Clients & Profits
with an ideal feature set for smaller shops,” Robillard
says.
Unlike other web-based applications,
only Clients & Profits
ASAP handles a job’s entire life cycle (instead
of just time or production) and has the only upgrade
path in the industry to a complete agency management
system -- Clients & Profits Classic.
“We’ve had hundreds of calls over the years
from young designers just starting out,” Robillard
says. “They wanted to run like a big agency from
the start, but they just couldn’t afford a big-agency
software.” With C&P ASAP, now they can.
An unbeatable upgrade path
C&P ASAP subscribers can trade-up to Clients & Profits
Classic any time without losing any client, job, or accounting
data—and get a 100% credit for what they paid over
the years. Clients & Profits ASAP is available on
a month-to-month subscription basis for $29.95 for a
single user, and only $5 more per month for each additional
user. There are no upfront fees or committments—and
the data is yours forever.
Clients & Profits ASAP was unveiled at the HOW Design
Conference in San Diego today and is planned for a 3Q
release. In addition, the company will be previewing
its Mac OS X-native upgrade to its award-winning Clients & Profits
software and announcing Clients & Profits Pro for
MySQL Special Edition, which supports the leading open-source
database for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
Founded in 1986, Clients & Profits, Inc., is the
leading developer of job tracking and business accounting
software for advertising agencies, design firms, and
corporate marcom/graphics departments that use Macintosh
and Windows. Clients & Profits is the agency management
system of choice for thousands of shops worldwide.
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FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact Mary Peczeli, VP of Sales, at (760) 945-4334
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