The developers working very hard across many fronts to improve and extend the system and they working with the resources you expect of two garage entrepreneurs.
I am excited though that the system is going to make my project success and increase the productivity of the staff already working in the targeted program by 50-60% or more..
When IT guy tells you system is not ready for production, that is because their bias prevents their ability to understand the needs of their user and the ability to make dramatic improvements without having to spend 100k time and resources.
I have also spent several years exposing myself to the likes of Sugar CRM, Suite CRM and many of the other CRMs..
It was very important to have system that I felt was going to be well supported attuned to making the user enjoy the experience ..
I saw one that I felt was in the realm of UI and focus on the process but they had documentation and were not very responsive while positioned at higher price point.
As I envisioned it and as is my experience as I roll this out, my biggest goal of automating workflow is going to be easier to accomplish, if not as robust as you can do in full featured CRM like Suite.
I am also not trying to blend apples and oranges to get peaches, everything here is peach tailored to WordPress.
On the other hand, I see incremental improvements already and while I have run into few quirks, I have been able to figure them out relatively quickly with Mike's help.
The risk is not huge and if you are running your business on WP, in all likely hood, you are business and in that regard the smartest thing is to keep it simple.
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