Plan B is a follow up to ID955 - Crowd funded purchase of eAutomate. PE firms view the Office Technology industry as a saturated market, ECI has almost 100% of this market and there is little incentive to invest. The focus from the PE owners of eAuto is on raising prices and reducing support. The areas where this is not happening are the add on products. There are now lots of choices for DCAs which is forcing ECI to make Printanista better and to offer better rates. eTMS has done a great job of competing with Remote Tech/ Mobile Tech. Our Online Payments allows other Payment Processors to compete with Net1, who are now reducing their rates. The industry needs choices, whether DCAs or CRMs or PSAs, new cool products are coming to market all the time and dealers need to be able to easily change.
Juice is looking to give you choices for an ERP. We think that Dynamics ERP may be the best choice today, but DXOne has been out there for a while and Noetics is a newcomer. In our opinion the reason DXOne is not getting traction and the reason Forza was not a success comes down to 2 areas, (1) you need to recreate the entire connected Ecosystem and (2) you need a very flexible Contract Billing module.
Juice has been building out the Ecosystem for years and we have been working on the concept of a Power App for contract billing, an app that does at least everything that eAuto current does.
Plan B would be dealers funding us building the contract billing App and adding other ERP choices to the Ecosystem. This is a concept, we are publishing it to gauge interest, no commitment yet. Juice would need to add a complete new team and propose asking everyone to double your current spend with Juice. Your contract would remain month to month with the option to drop Plan B. Signing up for this process just says you are interested. Our guestimate is 1 to 2 years of double payments.
We plan support for Dynamics ERP (F&O + BC), Noetics & DXOne (if they agree) and QuickBooks. The combination of QB + Contract Billing Power App may be a sufficient solution for many dealers. The Ecosystem would still give you all the automation, integration, and reporting available today. Whether Online Payments, ID815 workflow, Power BI dashboards etc, as well as connectivity to leasing partners, Manus, distribution etc.
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