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Battle scarred and wiser: SnapBill’s fight for cloud-billing dominance
By Martin Carstens: Senior reporter on 18 April, 2013
When we last checked in on SnapBill, the cloud-based Swiss Army knife of recurring billing systems, it was yet to execute on its international ambitions. Today, SnapBill supports 34 currencies and claims the type of flexibility that allows it to handle just about any tax configuration. SnapBill endeavours to be a complete billing solution. Its users can bill their clients as well as add recurring products and services to their clients' accounts to automate the entire invoicing and payment collection process. A stealth South African success story, co-founder Jaco van Wyk tells us that the company is currently seeing revenue in...
30 brilliant African tech startups
By Martin Carstens: Senior reporter on 9 March, 2012
The methodology behind this list of startups had two simple directives. First, the startup had to have African roots and secondly it had to be brilliant. More specifically, we were looking for that type of brilliance that exudes intelligence, talent, quality or simply, something fresh. Of course brilliance, like most things in life, is subjective, so we went into this journey with an open mind. Tabula rasa if you will and we hoped to recognise brilliance when we saw it. We did, over and over again. Why did we focus on Africa? The continent’s one-billion people are coming online and 600-million...

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eCommerce startup SnapBill launches to a global audience
By Mich Atagana on 26 January, 2011
SnapBill, a South African startup specialising in online invoicing and billing systems, launched out of beta on Tuesday to a global audience. The company facilitates online billing systems for businesses requiring automated recurring or subscription billing and payment collection. Its international competitors include the well-known Freshbooks, Invoicera, BlinkSale, BallPark, Invoice Machine -- and to some extent services like Chargify, Recurly, Spreedly and CheddarGetter. The self-funded venture, developed by entrepreneurs Josh Yudaken and Jaco van Wyk using the profits from their web hosting company Lusion Technologies, claims to have acquired "over 1 000 active South African SME and enterprise users, some...

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