Thursday 14th February, 2012

Today Tradeshift has announced the release of Tradeshift Apps that integrate two of the UK’s most popular accounting systems into their free platform. Once activated, a business can manage the process of getting paid by partners as if it were a natural extension of the system.

That means knowing when their invoices have been accepted, paid or even discussing important details in a comments thread linked directly to the document. They can also get an idea of their full invoicing situation using a simple news stream that quickly brings them up to date.

Instead of exporting to PDF or paper and wasting time chasing updates over email or phone calls, the experience is replaced with something more like a Facebook comments thread. This leaves you with more time to get on with the work that matters.

Once a small or midsized company has connected with trading partners on the Tradeshift platform, they can activate a growing range of Tradeshift Apps, which enable new functionality and tie in other systems. Anyone can create Apps for Tradeshift and already there’s everything from a Paypal app to recurring invoices, visualisation tools, quotes, POs and more.

But there’s another side to this story. The Tradeshift platform is growing and so are the things you can do with it. Tradeshift Apps mean you can build the business software lineup that you need, not just put up with a single universal default.