Scredit Crunch

We’ve been talking to a good number of groups about how they would like to use Scred in a wide range activities. We have long held the belief that Scred would be great for managing the money for bands, code crews, indie film producers, indie developers, trip organisers and various other loosely formed groups. Indeed that is really the core idea at Scred: that there is nothing good available for communities and groups which are less formal than a business, but still actively deal with money issues. The groups which aren’t interesting to stiff and less flexible banks or accounting companies. We’ve been involved with several of those groups ourselves, and more and more are signing up every day.

Last week we got one more confirmation that this our assumption is true. I decided to repost part of it on or blog because the feedback hit the nail on the head for us:

I wanted to submit a request for a beta code for a Scred Minicorp. I recently switched all finance tracking for my band, Flaming Tusk, over to Scred. It’s worked great; not only can we track who paid for a van or the latest run of shirts—which we had previously been doing with Billmonk—but we can also track who got paid for last night’s gig or who sold a shirt, which Billmonk couldn’t do in the slightest.

So now we’ve got these shirts and these CDs, but selling them outside of gigs is still a huge pain. We have tried to insert a Google Checkout widget into our website, but it’s more trouble than it’s worth. Given that we’re already using Scred to manage all our finances, I think it would be a great bit of integration if we could participate in your beta program.

This is exactly the kind of use we have had in mind and so naturally they got their beta code!

You can check out their music from their website. Our local metalhead at the Scred office gave his thumbs up.