Health Therapist Berit Grevstad about e-conomic

I have run my own business for almost 30 years and started out by handling my bookeeping by myself. Eventually, however, my bookkeeping became so intricate and demanding that I passed it on to a professional accounting agency.

I was happy with the accounting agency for several years, but then their service rates began to rise significantly. After a couple of years of frustration and huge bills, I realised that I had to do something here and now to reduce my accounting expenses.

I then began to search the Internet for an accounting system I could use by myself without too much difficulty. I could still recall something about debit and credit from my time at a college of economics (back in the Stone Age!), so I figured it might be possible....

How I ended up with e-conomic

I think I tried out most of the online accounting systems in the market before I found e-conomic, which I had not heard about at the time.

At that time, I had reviewed several complicated and confusing systems, a couple of agencies had tried to sell me services that I had no use for, one supporter had called me arrogant because I did not know the numbers in the default chart of accounts and some providers had clearly made more promises than they could keep...

But finally, I came across the websites of e-conomic, which immediately appealed to me. Firstly, e-conomic looked like an easily comprehensible system - even for someone like me who is neither a number cruncher nor an accounting expert.

Secondly, I was met by very nice people over e-mail and eventually over the phone. They were very polite and efficient with answering questions - and they took their time!

Thirdly and most importantly: from the very beginning, I had the pleasure of receiving both friendly and patient support. And all this for such a small amount every month - unbelievable. Almost too good to be true!

Starting up with e-conomic

I persuaded the accountant I previously worked with to help me get started with the system. This was quite expensive, since she had to learn a whole new system as well. But since she is well acquainted with accounting and technical knowledge, I got a really good introduction to it all.

I then took over the bookkeeping all by myself, and since then, it has been pretty easy (admittedly, I have made a couple of bookkeeping errors here and there, but I have fixed them myself and only needed to call for support a couple of times).

Looking ahead

So here I am with my first accounting year closed, my VAT reported to Altinn and everything nicely printed out. I am very proud and suddenly it really does seem like accounting has been made fun - believe it or not!

I am looking forward to opening 2010 as an accounting year in a couple weeks! I have become quite familiar with the features of e-conomic that I need, and I think invoicing, creating day book entries and - more than anything - retrieving reports just by a few mouse-clicks are really easy and practical! Fun! Neat! What a great overview! And very motivating!

I now recommend e-conomic to everyone who runs their own business - lots of money to save and excellent, free (!) support.

Having spent a couple of days (or rather weekends in my case!) last year getting to learn the system, I can log on now and then and do my bookeeping without any real efforts. Try it out yourself!