Firm takes on the world with help from CannyBill

Mar 26 2009 by Andrew Mernin, The Journal

Should any clients sign up to the Geordie language package, buttons which are usually labelled ‘return to the home page’ will read ‘gan hyem’ and rather than clicking ‘continue’, users will select the ‘howay’ option.

Mr Baranoff-Rossine said: “We’re proud to be based in the North East, and we called this product CannyBill because it does what it says on the tin, it’s a great piece of kit to sort out your billing process.

“The uptake so far has been incredible – and that’s even before its official launch.

“We put out a request for beta testers to businesses who were using our ecommerce system Tradingeye, and the response was terrific.”

“Our turnover has doubled year-on-year and we are looking into the possibility of setting up an office in Texas.”

Meanwhile dpivision recently won a place on the Crossover 4iP Lab initiative – an international scheme supported by broadcaster Channel 4 which gives digital entrepreneurs the chance to land financial backing for their innovative ideas.

The company has also been chosen to battle it out against 19 other businesses to be crowned European start-up of 2009 at the internet-focused Plugg conference in Brussels later this year.

The business fought off fierce competition from 126 businesses from across Europe to get through to the finals, where they will be giving a short presentation of CannyBill.com