Supdate

2019年3月18日

我们已经知道企业家杜安杰克逊,他最出名的是建国和退出云会计软件KlashFlow,正在他的第三个最近出售Supdate Crowdcube后风险。今天Staffology,杰克逊告诉我他开始开发就在一年前,公开推出。被称为Staffology工资单,英国公司的第一个产品是云工资单软件之上的“全面”和开放的API。我们的想法是,任何基于web的应用程序也可以通过API以编程方式实现。“几家公司我建议需要一个基于web的工资单应用程序有一个API,它就不存在,”杰克逊说。“鑫元鸿一直在谈论一个API的英国工资多年但它看起来不像发生了(现在,虽然它还在beta)。我有机会摆脱Supdate这意味着我将有一些时间在我的手上,所以我想试一试自己”。杰克逊说,发展Staffology薪资在2018年3月开始,经过一段时间的私人和公共测试已经通过了重要的里程碑获得承认的RTI和CIS申请HMRC,英国税务机关。下一阶段是鼓励其他软件厂商和平台提供工资功能通过启动的API。自动化业务流程的增加,”杰克逊指出,但对于工资这对很多公司尚未发生。 “A real bottleneck is payroll because there simply aren’t the APIs out there to do it well,” he says. “It’s no longer just large employers trying to take advantage of technology and the efficiencies it can bring. Whether you’re a construction company managing payments to thousands of subcontractors or an accountancy firm managing payroll for hundreds of small businesses, integration and automation can save you a small fortune”. To that end, the Staffology founder says the product has been used by a range of customers while in beta. Typical customers include accountants, payroll bureaus and employers of various sizes. “The white-label option is proving attractive to challenger banks looking at how our product can help them compete in the SME market and to HR SaaS vendors who hope it’ll make their own offerings more attractive,” says Jackson. Another current customer is a large construction company that is integrating Staffology Payroll into their in-house systems to save them “days of work every month”. Meanwhile, Staffology has been funded by Jackson’s own cash to date and he sees no reason to raise venture capital. “I made enough from my other exits to not have to worry about taking a salary from the business,” he says. “And as a full-stack developer I’m able to do the majority of the development work myself. So the costs have been minimal and what costs there have been I can comfortably cover. I’ve already had interest from a couple of VCs, but I struggle to see why I need to go down that route”. With that said, Jackson is under no illusion that a payroll SaaS will only make significant profits with scale. Payroll processing is priced as a commodity and therefore Staffology will be a business that requires high volumes. “Making money is the bit I still have to prove,” he adds. “The maximum you can get away with charging per payslip is £1, therefore the only way to make good money is to do very high volume. High volume payroll is exactly what APIs are best placed to handle and our product and pricing is designed to work for that market”.