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A Ruby on Rails App We Built Took Home an Award

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Mark Biegel
November 18, 2016

We have some very exciting news to kick off your weekend! We are very proud to announce that the app we built for businest(R)¬†was selected as the overall winner for ‘The Small Business App You SHOULD Be Using’ in the Accountex Meridian Awards!

Each year more than 150 new apps are added to the small business, cloud accounting ecosystem. The Meridian Awards, created by Accountex, are presented to a prestigious few apps in the accounting technology space who have displayed excellence beyond their peers in a given award category.

Selection of the winner was based on metrics including innovation, market impact, and the size of the problem solved for small business owners.

“Outside of market success, which we have seen with uptake from small business owners, accountants and bookkeepers in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK and India, it’s and honour to be recognized by the largest and most prestigious conference in our industry.”

  • Rhondalynn Korolak,businest (R) founder (Interview with AccountingWEB)

businest (R) is a business coaching platform that uses artificial intelligence to examine the financial statements of a business and deliver custom tailored business coaching and multi-media training. businest (R) can be set up in less than 8 minutes and is simple enough for a layperson (with no financial background) to use.

Says Korolak “it’s like a mini-MBA in business but all insights and advice are specific to your numbers, your challenges and your unique opportunities.”

Accountants, bookkeepers, coaches, financial advisors and franchisors use businest (R) to help anticipate problems before they occur and to provide tangible, proven strategies across sales, marketing, finance, operations and leadership, to help their small business clients grow safely and profitably.

Where competitive products only diagnose cash flow problems. businest (R) fixes them.

businest(R) integrates seamlessly with QuickBooks Online, Xero, MYOB Account Right LIve so that no manual data entry is required. Sage integration coming soon.

CONGRATULATIONS Rhondalynn and the team at businest (R)!