Hello Olly Pekelharing

I can understand where you're coming from, but your conclusion around why we did this is completely wrong.  If we look at BaccS there were a few things that are worth noting:

1. There were not a lot of users
2. The features in the software were amazing, but already far more than your average translator would make use of
3. The features in the software were already moving more towards the needs of a small company outsourcing work

So with this in mind we have focused on the following with the main application:

1. Enhancing the main application as a server solution integrating with our own server solutions,
2. Improving the workflows and features in the software specifically for companies and not individual translators
3. providing customer and vendor portals

In order to support our translators more, and to try and encourage more translators to use this software in an easier way we have overhauled the free plugin and added a lot of features to make it more useful for a translator.  We are still adding features to try and make sure we achieve this aim as you can see if you look at the updates here.

We have added features to the plugin to support the import of analysis files from other tools too, so not just Studio, and we are completely open to reviewing any request to enhance the plugin further if there are good reasons to do so.

Regards

Paul.

Hello Olly Pekelharing

I can understand where you're coming from, but your conclusion around why we did this is completely wrong.  If we look at BaccS there were a few things that are worth noting:

1. There were not a lot of users
2. The features in the software were amazing, but already far more than your average translator would make use of
3. The features in the software were already moving more towards the needs of a small company outsourcing work

So with this in mind we have focused on the following with the main application:

1. Enhancing the main application as a server solution integrating with our own server solutions,
2. Improving the workflows and features in the software specifically for companies and not individual translators
3. providing customer and vendor portals

In order to support our translators more, and to try and encourage more translators to use this software in an easier way we have overhauled the free plugin and added a lot of features to make it more useful for a translator.  We are still adding features to try and make sure we achieve this aim as you can see if you look at the updates here.

We have added features to the plugin to support the import of analysis files from other tools too, so not just Studio, and we are completely open to reviewing any request to enhance the plugin further if there are good reasons to do so.

Regards

Paul.

Hi Paul,

I'm sure it's all been well thought out, but at the end of the day, an invoicing tool that requires me to open Studio first to access it is just not an option. This is not 'supporting translators more', but less. As I said, very disappointing, and a huge waste of the time it took me to learn and customise BaccS.

Regards,

Olly

Fair enough Olly... we can never please everyone and I can see how this would be disappointing if Studio is also not your primary choice of tool.  But hopefully the decision we have made will continue to benefit more users than had access to this sort of thing before.  Being able to quote/invoice from Studio has been a long standing omission for many of our users.

Regards

Paul