We start with an observable task.
A feature enters the product only when it removes a step, an error or duplicate entry.
INDEPENDENT STUDIO · SWITZERLAND
Desktop software, designed in Switzerland.
Helvecraft designs, publishes and maintains desktop applications for professionals and small businesses in Switzerland. Vidima is the studio's first product.
The product
Vidima.
Invoices with the Swiss QR-bill and double-entry accounting, in a desktop application. The data stays on the computer where the work happens: no required account and no copy held by us.
Product criteria
How we decide what belongs in the product.
We observe the work, remove steps and verify Swiss standards before release.
Data must remain understandable.
We favour local data, common formats and choices the customer can change.
The people who build the product answer.
Requests reach the studio that develops and maintains the software.
The method
How a release happens.
There is no release calendar. There is a list of things that are not good enough yet.
It starts with a request
This month a user asked to be able to change the typeface of the company name on documents. It shipped in the next version.
It gets fixed now
Six releases in the last week. A defect we find does not wait for next month.
Every release is public
What changed and why, written out in the release history. Including when the fix is embarrassing.
The builder answers
Requests reach the studio that writes the software. There is no first line of support.
Verificabile
Quello che il software fa davvero.
Nessuna promessa che non si possa controllare: standard implementati, sistemi supportati e ritmo di pubblicazione.
- QR-fattura
- Standard SIX v2.3 (SPC 0200), con QR-IBAN e riferimento QRR o SCOR.
- IVA
- Aliquote AFC 8,1 % / 2,6 % / 3,8 %, metodo effettivo o saldo.
- Contabilità
- Partita doppia secondo gli art. 957 segg. CO, e piano MCA2 per gli enti pubblici.
- Banca
- Importazione degli estratti camt.053 per abbinare gli incassi.
- Sistemi
- Windows 10 e 11, macOS 10.15 e successivi. Applicazione desktop, non un sito.
- Lingue
- Italiano, tedesco, francese, inglese e spagnolo, documenti compresi.
I dati restano sul computer di chi lavora: nessun account obbligatorio e nessuna copia nostra. Ogni versione è elencata nel registro pubblico delle modifiche.
Registro delle versioni
Helvecraft
Helvecraft designs, publishes and maintains its products. Each product has one job and a dedicated website; the studio is accountable for the work.