This one has been a long time in the making, so we are very excited about it. Needless to say, a majority of our customers transact in multiple currencies. When you’re a small company with a few customers, it’s fairly simple to manage foreign currency exchange (FX) in spreadsheets. As…

If you have international customers, then chances are you want to send those customers invoices in their local language. What you want to avoid is creating duplicate records in your system for the purpose of localizing the record name on invoices, in notifications, and through other forms of communication. Imagine…

Imagine, you’re about to go on a 3 month vacation and want to pause your Hulu subscription. Should be simple, right? The act of suspending and later resuming a subscription is a common use case for all subscription companies, but one that causes much headache. Suspend and resume is most…

To find your next career step — Over the years, my friends and I have accumulated a collection of exercises to help us make decisions at those critical ‘fork in the road’ moments of life. If this can help you in any way, great. Start big picture — 5 minutes What do you value? What’s fundamentally important to you? …

Daddy’s words of wisdom — When I was very young, my parents told me that I was going to inherit their savings someday after they pass away. They asked “What are you going to do with the money?” “Donate it!” I said. “All of it!” To this day, I still remember them glancing at each…

Run your life like an entrepreneur — While traditional technology companies operate under a waterfall methodology, start-ups today use an agile method. In the past, a group of engineers would work for months, if not years, to build a product before eventually bringing it to market. This software development lifecycle was akin to trying to become the…