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About Start Software

Start Software is an award-winning developer and leading publisher of asbestos software, systems for the legal services industry and more.

Want to know more about asbestos software Alpha Tracker? Alpha Tracker is the most used asbestos software in the UK, Australia & New Zealand with more than 60m items of asbestos data stored.

Our legal services software Alpha Legal helps will writers, accountants, solicitors, IFAs and estate agents to communicate securely with clients. Read about developments here on the blog.

Or need help with Alpha Anywhere or Alpha Transform projects or software development? You'll find useful info here.

Our coracling has officially improved! We're still not great though...

Remember our (brief!) appearance in the Coracle World Championships 2023? https://blog.start-software.com/2023/09/zac-jack-tom-dan-kim-could-be-world.html.  We entered again this year.

Lucas, Kim, Jamie & Dan sporting fine headgear!

The new team of Captain Lucas, Kim, Jamie and Dan performed better than last year and reached the Quarter Finals.  Not at all bad!  

The event raises funds for Macmillian Cancer Support so please do donate if you can: https://macmillan-org.enthuse.com/pf/start-software

Bring on 2025!!




Miss our live Release 41 webinar? No problem, watch the recording here

Jack & Dan ran through the new features in Alpha Tracker Release 41 on our live webinar:

Jack & Dan presented the Alpha Tracker Release 41 webinar

Don't worry if you missed it, the recording is here on YouTube ready for you to enjoy!



FLS and Alpha Tracker working together - what could it mean for your productivity, efficiency and growth?

FLS - Fast Lean Smart - is the latest integration we have developed for Alpha Tracker.

FLS working together with Alpha Tracker

FLS – Fast Lean Smart - is Europe’s technology leader for workforce management, scheduling, dynamic appointment and route optimisation.

We have been working with our partners at FLS to develop an integration between Alpha Tracker and the Fast Lean Smart schedule and route optimisation technology.  The opportunity to improve the productivity of your site teams is incredible.
 
Their real-time technology is remarkably flexible, is implemented quicker and achieves more accurate schedules than alternatives.  It utilises actual traffic-based driving speeds and self-learning artificial intelligence for job durations. 


The FLS aim is to ensure that their solutions are undisputedly the fastest, leanest, and smartest on the market.
  • Fully cost-optimised appointment scheduling
  • Actual time of day route planning
  • Real-time re-optimisation to reflect in-shift changes

No summer holiday for the Support Desk! 908 tickets solved in August 2024

We've taken on several new clients over the summer and that's had quite an impact on our Support Desk.

New clients lead to more calls as new users need help and support.  That's what we're here for - we're here to help - but it puts quite a workload on our team.  They have all worked hard to deliver our award-winning level of service and solving 908 tickets in a month is a new record.

No summer break for our Support Team

91% of all tickets were responded to within our SLA timescales, and 94% of high-priority problems were solved within 2 hours - quite an achievement!

Free 20-minute webinar - Wednesday 28 August 12 noon - Alpha Tracker Release 41

Join Dan, Kim & Jack on Wednesday 28 August 2024 at noon for our free 20-minute webinar to introduce the new features in Alpha Tracker Release 41.

Join us on Wednesday

It's as easy as clicking this link!  https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88632075774

Do you want to see changes in our Air Monitoring module? We want your feedback

Are you a user of our standard Air Monitoring module within Alpha Tracker and have ideas to improve and extend it?

We're gathering feedback from all of our consultancy clients to gather a list of changes we should be making within Alpha Tracker Release 41.1.


Please drop an email with your ideas to businessmanager@start-software.com or call us on 0333 301 1010.

Check out the Release Notes for Alpha Tracker Release 41

Kim has finished the Release Notes - all 32 pages! - and these are now available for Alpha Tracker Release 41.

Click here to read them: https://alpha-tracker.co.uk/latest-release

Click to see our Release Notes

Here are the other ways you can explore the 500+ updates in this release:

Watch the highlights video: https://youtu.be/ksfoPfQzdEg

Read the blog: https://blog.start-software.com/2024/08/alpha-tracker-release-41-is-now.html

Join the webinar on Wednesday 28th August at noon: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88632075774.

The Alpha Tracker Mobile update will be hitting the app stores next week and will automatically update the devices used by your site staff.  

Contact support (support@start-software.com) if you would like the update applied to your system and they will agree on a mutually convenient time.

Alpha Tracker Release 41 is now publicly available

Welcome to Release 41 of Alpha Tracker with 500+ new features, performance improvements and bug fixes for our wonderful family of asbestos, water hygiene and fire risk users.

Here's a YouTube video to introduce the top 10 features:

In summary, here are the most important changes you'll notice:

  1. Refreshed design
    Cleaner, fresher, easier to use

  2. Our platform has been re-engineered for better performance
    Our biggest technical change yet, developed with our US software partners

  3. Improvements to Single Sign-On (SSO)
    More control and more flexibility if you use a Microsoft network at work

  4. Auto-emailing for asbestos reports
    A new feature that we have all been waiting for!

  5. Auto-chasing quotations
    This will save your salespeople a great deal of time and effort

  6. Counts on Jotter and Forms
    You'll know before you click whether there is anything to read/complete

  7. Asbestos Appointments screen
    The asbestos version of our Water Appointments screen - very useful!

  8. Exports with files
    Easier ways to export data alongside photos, reports, plans

  9. Wallboard improvements
    Functional and cosmetic improvements

  10. Lab Sample Exchange
    Watch out for more announcements including one or two surprises...

plus there is a new Alpha Tracker Mobile hitting the app stores next week.

You can read and download the Release Notes on our website and please do join our upcoming webinar on Wednesday 28 August at noon!  

Here's the webinar link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88632075774

Join our webinar to learn more


Nearly 900 tickets raised by our Support Desk in July 2024

Our Support Desk received 873 requests for assistance in July 2024, a really busy month.  This reflects the number of new clients using our various software platforms including Alpha Tracker, Alpha Legal/Legacy Portal and ecoScribe.

We offer 24x7 personal support to our clients

Here is a detailed breakdown over the last six months:

Month

In time (%)

In time (H) (%)

In time (total)

In time (H) (total)

Total solved

2024-07

91.52

95.93

799

212

873

2024-06

89.62

95.42

656

229

732

2024-05

90.43

94.54

633

173

700

2024-04

92.17

96.35

765

185

830

2024-03

89.72

93.14

672

190

749

2024-02

91.87

95.38

655

165

713

 

 

 

4180

1154

4597


The good news is that nearly 96% of high-priority calls were responded to in the timeframe set by our clients, and 91.5% of all calls were also within our service standard.  That's a really good achievement from Jamie, Zac, Lucas, Tina and the rest of the team.


Webinar recording published! Watch and see how to extract, export and create your own data reports from Alpha Tracker

Our latest Alpha Tracker Tips & Tricks webinar has been published on YouTube: https://youtu.be/tO8gDROjEm4

Click to watch the webinar

During the webinar, Robin, Zac & Dan show to:
  1. Run pre-built reports
  2. Extract and export data to Excel
  3. Create new data analysis reports, extracts and exports using the Alpha Query Writer.
If you've got any ideas for the next webinars, or want to watch previous ones, click here: https://alpha-tracker.co.uk/webinars.

Become an Alpha Tracker genius! Join our free 20-minute webinar on reports & exports - Thursday 25 July at noon

It's time for our next free webinar!  Register here: alpha-tracker.co.uk/webinars

Join our free Alpha Tracker Tips & Tricks webinars

Join Zac & Robin on Thursday 25 July at 12:00 to see how to extract and analyse data within Alpha Tracker.  They will be covering:
  • how to make Alpha Tracker reports really work for you

  • exporting data to Excel

  • the Query Writer and how you can create your own reports and extracts.
Do you want to catch up with any of our previous webinars?  They're all here: alpha-tracker.co.uk/webinars!



Alpha Tracker Release 41 will be available this month

Our beta-testing customers are giving us good feedback about Alpha Tracker Release 41, so we're confident that we'll be able to release it publicly in July.

July 31 is the big day for Alpha Tracker Release 41!

Here are some of the biggest changes you'll see:
  • you can now set Alpha Tracker to email asbestos reports automatically when they are approved saving you a huge amount of admin time

  • the Wallboard has been improved, both cosmetically and with new features

  • there are new management screens for asbestos jobs (similar to the water appointments screen) and for Master Projects

  • our new Lab Sample Exchange might be ready (it's going to be close!) - this will enable Alpha Tracker labs to exchange sample data electronically helping our clients' labs to grow their businesses and work more efficiently

  • some AI features will be live including the ability to summarise asbestos registers at a site or in a project

  • you can now chase batches of open quotes by email without having to write the emails yourself! Again, this is another huge time saver.
Excitingly, there is a large technical update behind Release 41 too, with an entirely new software framework in place that promises big improvements in performance going forward into the rest of 2024 and 2025.

Read about all of the Alpha Tracker releases here: https://alpha-tracker.co.uk/manuals%2Frelease-notes

Webinar published on YouTube showing how we created our ecological report writing tool ecoScribe using the Alpha Software infrastructure

Our latest webinar with Alpha Software has been published on YouTube.  Lucas, Ferry & Robin discuss how the Alpha Software infrastructure (Alpha TransForms, Alpha Anywhere & Alpha Cloud) are all used to build their new ecoScribe service for ecological consultancies.

Watch the webinar on YouTube

If you'd like to watch any of the Alpha Software/Start Software webinars, click here.  And do get in touch if you'd like help with your Alpha-built applications - it's what we do!

Go Blue for Meso... Go Big or Go Home!!! Tom has done his bit for Action Mesothelioma Day 2024

Our developer Tom has done his bit for Action Mesothelioma Day 2024!!! 

Two cans of blue hair spray later and Tom's lovely blond locks are now bright blue to show his support for Mesothelioma UK's annual day of action.

Blue-haired Tom supporting Action Mesothelioma Day

Action Mesothelioma Day aims to raise awareness of mesothelioma and the dangers of asbestos, raise vital funds to support the research into tackling mesothelioma, and to remember and support those who have been affected by mesothelioma.

We support Mesothelioma UK as our company charity (their logo even appears on the home page of our asbestos software Alpha Tracker) and we encourage you to support them too.  "Light up blue" today in any way you can to keep people talking about this terrible disease.  Thank you!

#goblueformeso #AMD24 #asbestoawareness

Support Desk performance in June 2024

Our Support Desk recorded 732 tickets in June 2024.  This was slightly up compared to May (700), but lower than April (830).

89% of all calls were resolved within the timeframe requested.  Looking at High Priority tickets specifically, 95% of calls were resolved on schedule.

Remember, our Support Desk is available 24x7 to support you - so get in touch whenever you need our help.  That's what we're here for!

Brilliant article by Charles Pickles in the Daily Mail: Asbestos-riddled schools, hospitals and social housing is the next big scandal

Our old friend and founder of the Airtight on Asbestos campaign, Charles Pickles, has just published an article in the Daily Mail to explain the asbestos situation facing the next government.

Read Charles' article on the Mail Online website

Charles calls on the next government to address the biggest national scandal of our times: to implement the recommendations of the Work & Pensions Select Committee and finally remove all asbestos from all public buildings.

Here at Alpha Tracker we support Airtight on Asbestos and the tireless work that Charles does to promote the objectives of the campaign.  Our OpenAsbestos initiative aims to make asbestos data more readily available to everyone who needs it.  

Please do what you can to keep asbestos at the forefront of government thinking and to help shape future policy.

Try our AI-powered Alpha Tracker Expert! Ask it anything to help you to work faster and smarter

We've built an AI-powered experimental Alpha Tracker Expert here.


Ask the Alpha Tracker Expert anything!

Try asking it questions like:
  • how do I create a new project?
  • can I convert a quotation into a job?
  • how can I export a list of open projects to Excel?
You'll need a (free) ChatGPT account to access it but that only takes a moment or two to set up.  Have fun and give us your feedback, thanks!

Find the Alpha Tracker Expert here: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-ktm2UEBHB-alpha-tracker-expert

Quotation "auto-chase" feature coming soon. Big time-saver for your sales teams

We're putting the finishing touches onto our new quotation "auto-chase" feature in Alpha Tracker.  This will be a huge time-saver for sales teams wanting to follow up on open quotes without manually writing individual emails to each prospect.

Preview of our quotation auto-chase feature

You filter the list of open quotes to select the ones you want to follow up.  Once you have the list ready, you can select all or a selection and press the new "Chase" button.  This will give you a customisable email template before you click to send.  Each quotation will then be followed up with the emails copied into your Tracker Filer address.

Our beta-tester consultancies will be the first to see the feature and give us feedback. If you'd like a sneak preview, too, get in touch.

Another 700 Alpha Legal, Legacy Portal & Alpha Portal subscribers are now live

We've just reached another milestone with another 700 subscribers now live on the Alpha LegalLegacy Portal and Alpha Portal platforms.


We're an award-winning secure client portal for will writers, IFAs, accountants and other professionals and we welcome new subscribers.  Find out more on our websites.

Zac & Kim are at the UKATA Asbestos Conference 2024. Come and say hello!

The UKATA Asbestos Conference 2024 is underway at the Leonardo Hotel East Midlands Airport.

Zac & Kim have arrived, they've erected our Alpha Tracker stand (in record time, they tell us!) and are ready to meet our friends, clients and colleagues from the UK asbestos industry.

Zac, Kim, Andrew Paten (UKNAR) and Wayne Bagnall MBE

Do go and find them if you're attending the UKATA event today.  They can even schedule an Alpha Tracker asbestos software demo for you, there and then!

Peter Posh software system nears completion. But first, a selfie!

The software development professionals at Start Software have been building a new system for the UK's leading formal hire company, Peter Posh.

Development Team Leader Dan and Director Robin were driving to meet a client in Leamington Spa and noticed a Peter Posh showroom on the way.  So they pulled in for a photo or two!

Dan outside Peter Posh Warwick

Robin & Dan

The Peter Posh software development uses technology from Start's US software partner, Alpha Software.  Start Software are Alpha Software UK professional partners and can help fellow developers with any Alpha Anywhere, Alpha TransForm or Alpha Cloud technical queries.  Do get in touch if we can help you.

Kim & Catherine have arrived in Madrid for asbestos conference Asbestonomy 2024

Asbestonomy 2024 is being held in Madrid, Spain, and Kim & Catherine are there to represent asbestos software Alpha Tracker and data sharing protocol OpenAsbestos.

Kim & Catherine

If you're attending Asbestonomy this year, do find Kim & Catherine and say hello.  They have lots of news & information about Alpha Tracker to share with the international asbestos community!

Water hygiene and asbestos air monitoring go live at Norse Infinity

Further to the Alpha Tracker training delivered for the Norse Infinity asbestos professionals, their water hygiene (Legionella) and air monitoring staff have now also gone live.

Here are some photos from today's session with Catherine from Start Software working with Alpha Tracker specialist Kim to deliver the training:

Today's Alpha Tracker training for Norse Infinity

Happy birthday to Danielle, too! What an unusual way to spend your special day!!!

Tom's Alpha Anywhere "Similarity Searching" webinar with Alpha Software is live on our website and YouTube

Want to know more about "similarity searching" in Alpha Anywhere?  Check out Tom's webinar - "from sounds like to is like" on our website or YouTube.

Watch Tom's webinar on our website or YouTube

Tom goes on a journey from sounds like with SOUNDEX to is like with AI tech and vectors.  Interesting stuff and useful to anyone wanting to build an intuitive searching UI in their software.


If we can help you with any Alpha Software-related queries, do get in touch.

What a lovely goodbye from a long-standing Alpha Tracker user

One of our Alpha Tracker asbestos consultancies is winding up their surveying business because their lead surveyors are retiring.

We wish our client well in their retirement

We received this lovely email to thank us for our service:
"We would like to take this opportunity to thank the whole team at Start Software for your assistance in setting this system up for us, for fine tuning it to suit our needs and for the excellent support given throughout the 7 years we have been with you – I see our first payment to you was back in May’17!
It’s been a pleasure dealing with you all throughout this time, thank you."

We are truly blessed to have such lovely clients!

Milestone! 10,000th Alpha Tracker job booked in at Start Software

We use Alpha Tracker to run our own business.  Does that seem odd, considering most Alpha Tracker users are asbestos consultancies or water hygiene specialists and we are a software business?

You might be wondering why a software company like ours uses Alpha Tracker, a tool typically designed for asbestos consultancies, water hygiene specialists, and environmental consultants. The answer is simple: we believe in practising what we preach. By using Alpha Tracker ourselves, we're constantly on the lookout for new features and performance improvements. If something in Alpha Tracker bothers us, it's likely to bother you too, and this motivates us to fix it quickly!

Whenever a client requests a new feature or asks us to modify their asbestos report templates, for instance, we log that task as a project in our own instance of Alpha Tracker.  This method not only helps us track our work but also ensures that we experience the software just like our clients do.

We're excited to share that we've recently hit a significant milestone: the 10,000th project booked in Alpha Tracker! This achievement underscores our commitment to continuous improvement and our dedication to providing the best possible experience for our users.

We've recorded 10,000 jobs here at Start Software

Keep the feedback coming and we'll keep improving Alpha Tracker! Get in touch here.

PS the 10,000th job was from our friends at Hampshire Country Council... a box of chocolates is on its way to them!


Comments from our Alpha Tracker training sessions. Get in touch if you would like more training for your office or site staff

We've been (very!) busy over the last month with new Alpha Tracker installations - see here and here and here!  Whenever we implement a new Alpha Tracker asbestos software system for an asbestos consultancy, we deliver training, either face-to-face or via Microsoft Teams/Zoom.

We can deliver training via Microsoft Teams/Zoom as well as face-to-face

Here are some of the recent comments we've received from clients:
"Training session was excellent. Kim was very clear and knowledgeable and we learnt how to use the forms easily"

 "Was a great training session, got lots out of it"

"I thought the training was excellent and entertaining enough to keep everyone's interest. I would definitely recommend your software and training to other companies"

"No issues need highlighting. Kim was very professional in answering questions, working through the stages on setup & usage and helped troubleshoot issues we had initially."

"Training was amazing, Judy was clear and answered all of our questions with ease and clarity."

Reviewing other post-training comments, some clients have asked for follow-up training, others would like us to improve Alpha Draw to add more features, and others have asked for more information on QR codes.  We take all feedback seriously and try to act upon it.

If you'd like to book some refresher training or extra training for your staff, get in touch.

 

New feature in the Wallboard to "block book time". It's fabulous and in the next release of Alpha Tracker

Have you been looking for a better way to block book time in Alpha Tracker?  Perhaps for holidays, public holidays, or even project work?

We've built a new feature into Alpha Tracker's Wallboard to enable you to do just that!

Click the YouTube video below to watch how to do it

Here's Robin showing you how you can drag & drop to create appointments within the Wallboard.  Easy!


Want to know more about Alpha Tracker's calendar and Wallboard features?  Check out our Alpha Tracker Tips & Tricks Webinars.

Almond Environmental's asbestos lab is now live with asbestos software Alpha Tracker!

Welcome Lindsay and the whole of the Almond Environmental asbestos team!

Kim has just completed the virtual Alpha Tracker training session and Almond's asbestos lab is ready to go.

Kim talking to Lindsay, configuring Alpha Tracker for their asbestos lab

We're introducing some exciting (possibly revolutionary) new features for asbestos labs in the next release of Alpha Tracker.  Want to know more?  Get Get in touch!

Norse Infinity are joining the Alpha Tracker family. Their asbestos professionals are trained and ready to go

We're delighted to be welcoming the asbestos and water hygiene professionals from Norse Infinity to the Alpha Tracker consultancy family.  Kim met and trained some of their asbestos professionals last week to show them how to use Alpha Tracker in the office and when on-site.

The Norse-Infinity training room

Asbestos and water hygiene are just two of the services that Norse Infinity provides.  Their full range of environmental and testing services includes:
  • asbestos testing and management
  • water hygiene
  • mechanical and electrical services
  • fire system management
  • renewable energy, and
  • facilities management.
Find out more about Norse Infinity here: https://norseinfinity.co.uk/

Can we help your environmental consultancy to switch to award-winning Alpha TrackerGet in touch!

701 calls taken in May by our Support Team. Steady month

Our fabulous support team took 701 calls from clients in May 2024.

We've been analysing the reasons why people have needed to speak to us.  The most common are:

  • "data queries" - questions about information within a system and how to process it (18%)
  • "change requests" - callers asking for new software features or changes to existing ones (6%)
  • "technical/server support" - clients calling us because they don't have their own IT support (5%). 
Most calls turn into "tickets", our means to track issues.  Overall, we solved 94% of high-priority tickets within 2 hours - a good result.

We blog every month to show the performance of our support desk because we want to be completely transparent and open with our clients and prospective customers.  Hope this information is useful!

Lovely surprise! Adventurer Andrew Bedwell drops into our Telford office for a cup of tea

Remember the incredible Andrew Bedwell and his World Record "Big C Challenge" attempt at crossing the Atlantic in the shortest boat ever?  Start Software/Alpha Tracker were key sponsors and we also built an app for Andrew to use on the crossing.

Andrew in our Telford office

Andrew is working towards another crossing attempt in 2025 and just dropped in to see us and let us know how his plans are progressing.  With a new all-aluminium boat design (which is 6cm longer internally - positively spacious!) and even better preparation, we're sure attempt #2 will be successful.

Watch this space! 

Dan & Jack's latest Alpha Tracker Tips & Tricks Webinar is now available to watch on YouTube

Did you miss our live webinar last week?  Dan & Jack showed the various "diary sync" options in Alpha Tracker including Google Calendar, Exchange (that's Outlook and Office365) and even the incredible FLS from our partners Fast Lean Smart!

Don't worry if you did miss it! You can watch the recording on our website or on YouTube.

Watch all previous Alpha Tracker webinars on our website

Or click this video to watch on YouTube, instead!





Welcome TCL Asbestos! Another asbestos consultancy joins the Alpha Tracker family

TCL Asbestos in Leeds is the latest asbestos consultancy to choose asbestos software Alpha Tracker.

TCL are proud of their professional, efficient, cost-effective asbestos management services and solutions.  Their senior team has decades of experience in the asbestos industry.

John and Sam from TCL Asbestos

The TCL asbestos professionals are now live with Alpha Tracker.  Can we help your asbestos consultancy to become more efficient and effective?  Get in touch!


Jack's webinar with Alpha Software is now on YouTube. Watch how we build Cordova apps with Alpha Anywhere, AppFlow and Docker

We've just delivered another Alpha webinar with our US software partners, Alpha Software.  

This time, Jack showed how to build Cordova apps using several techniques in Alpha Anywhere including AppFlow and Docker.

The Alpha webinars page on our website at https://start-software.com/alpha-software

Watch the recording of the webinar on YouTube or on our website, or click below:



Three(!) new Alpha Tracker asbestos consultancies are going live in the next 7 days... Kim will be exhausted!

We're training 3 (three!) asbestos consultancies during the next 7 days to enable them to switch to our asbestos software Alpha Tracker.

Three new asbestos consultancies will be online next week

All of these consultancies have been using asbestos software from other providers but have decided to switch to Alpha Tracker because of our 24x7 support, flexibility and customer service.

Our trainer Kim is on the road for the next week to get everyone online.

We're taking Alpha Tracker orders for late summer installations so do get in touch if you'd like a demo and a no-obligation quotation in June or July.


Our next *free* webinar is on Thursday 30 May at noon. Join us to see how to link your Alpha Tracker calendar to Google, Outlook and Microsoft Teams

Remember when your diary was just a little black book in your pocket?  Now most people have multiple calendars for home, for work, for clubs... and it is complicated to look across all of these at the same time.

Alpha Tracker's diary can link to Google, Outlook and Microsoft Teams so you can see all your work appointments with your other commitments.

Having multiple diaries is complicated!

Join Dan & Jack on our free webinar on Thursday 30 May at noon (UK) to see how you can link Alpha Tracker diaries to your other calendars.  Take this opportunity to streamline your life!

Dan's "Debugging 101" webinar with Alpha Software is now available on YouTube

Dan joined Dave from Alpha Software last week to host a webinar on debugging techniques within our preferred software development platform, Alpha Anywhere.

Dan delivering the webinar from our Telford (UK) office

You can watch the webinar on YouTube here:


You can find all of the webinars we have hosted with Alpha Software on our website, here: https://start-software.com/alpha-software. This page also outlines the range of services we offer to fellow Alpha developers, including:

  • mentoring - helping Alpha Anywhere developers with technical issues or questions
  • training - helping people new to the Alpha platform to become productive quickly
  • project troubleshooting - we like difficult problems to solve!
  • software support - supporting software where the original developers can't (or won't!) help.
Get in touch if we can help you with your Alpha Anywhere problem - we'll have the solution!

Our 0333 301 1010 number is working again. Phew!

Apologies for the problem yesterday afternoon.  Our main UK telephone number, 0333 301 1010, is now working again.

The datacentre problem was resolved overnight

Our 0330 301 1010 phone number is down. Please contact us by email or 01952 288316 for the time being

Our phone provider has an issue in their datacentre, and it is affecting our 0333 301 1010 number.  

We're not the only ones having a problem, EA Sports are also unable to receive calls, apparently, as are many national and international businesses.

We're sorry that our phones are not working

For now, please email info@start-software.com if you need to contact us here in the UK or call 01952 288316.  We expect the problem to be resolved shortly.

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