[AccessD] (H)OT: Tradeshift

Hi Jim

Yes, this has a huge potential for sure.

The idea is that electronic invoicing through Tradeshift is free for both
sender and receiver no matter how many or few invoices you issue. This way
they hope to attract clients to their portal which also offer - for a small
fee - transfer of quotations, orders, and any other document, as well as -
and that is the really interesting part - payment of invoices and, later,
advanced payment - a sort of factoring where the seller may receive the
payment before the buyer pays. This is where PayPal comes in because that,
of course, requires financing.

I can add that for some years invoicing via paper to any authority in
Denmark has not been allowed; you have to send it through some electronic
service - Tradeshift is one. If you snail-mail a paper invoice, it will
simply be rejected. This has been decided to save a vast amount of
unproductive time at the many authorities but also to encourage the private
businesses to implement electronic invoicing, thus saving money. This
happens slowly with some success. Most major corporations now reject paper
invoicing and the trend is moving downwards at some speed. Still, most small
businesses here accept invoices e-mailed as a PDF file.

/gustav


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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Jim Lawrence
Sendt: 24. januar 2013 19:39
Til: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Emne: Re: [AccessD] (H)OT: Tradeshift

Wow this is big...and I had never heard of them before (shows you what I
know).

Reading through, it seems this company now has the capability to host every
company that has a store and do it for real cheap. The whole operation is
Cloud based as if, not for its new size, that would be impressive. 

The list of inexpensive or free software is impressive:
https://go.tradeshift.com/apps/list

Thanks for posting this Gustav but that move will undoubtedly be on every
news in the world.

Jim

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 3:03 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] (H)OT: Tradeshift

Hi all

Tradeshift is expanding at an interesting rate:

http://tradeshift.com/blog/tradeshift-intuit-partnership/

I wonder what's next:

<quote>
But what’s really interesting is that this isn’t the biggest news we’ll have
all year. It’s not even the biggest news we’ll be announcing in the next
couple of months.
</quote>

/gustav


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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Gustav Brock
Sendt: 1. marts 2010 11:57
Til: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Emne: [AccessD] (H)OT: Tradeshift

Hi all

This could represent a major step forward:

<quote>
Tradeshift is the world's first open global business platform. It connects
all suppliers and business partners electronically, delivering better,
smarter and above all, safer business transactions.
</quote>

  http://www.tradeshift.com/

The article in Wired that has boosted this:

  http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/ff_futureofmoney 

It is at page 4.

/gustav