Last Minute IT Investments for the 2016 Tax Year

If you're like most software or digital agency owners, your week is spent flipping between Asana, Clockify, Xero, spreadsheets, and Slack, trying to piece together where your team’s time went, what’s been delivered, what still needs quoting, and which invoices are overdue. You’re doing everything right… but the tools aren’t built for how agencies like yours really operate. That’s exactly why Kanopi was built. It’s a single platform that connects quoting, task management, time tracking, and invoicing in one clean system, so you can finally see what’s going on in your business without duct-taping data from six different places. In this article, you’ll learn what Kanopi is, how it’s different to what you’re using now, and how it can help you run a smoother, more profitable agency without overloading your team with yet another system.

At Dcode Group, we’ve worked with businesses across construction, trades, wellness, and professional services. And there’s one operational truth they all share: Scheduling people and resources is at the heart of how the business runs. But despite its importance, scheduling is often handled with whiteboards, spreadsheets, and memory. That might work for a small team - but as complexity grows, that system collapses. This post explores how we’ve helped clients evolve from chaos to clarity - with scheduling systems that reflect how they actually work, across industries.

For a long time, I was hesitant to talk openly about Dcode's expansion outside of Australia. There's a perception that international offices - particularly in some regions - are about cutting costs or outsourcing work in ways that compromise quality. But that’s never been our philosophy. At Dcode Group, our focus has always been simple: find exceptional people, and build great teams around them - wherever they are. That's exactly how our Vietnam office began.

When Intuit acquired TradeGecko and later restricted access to businesses outside the U.S., many Australian and global companies were left stranded — including several of our own clients at Dcode Group. As a custom software company, we didn’t see this as just a problem. We saw it as an opportunity. Instead of trying to shoehorn our clients into a different tool, we asked: What if we built a better one? A modern inventory platform built specifically for Australian businesses and beyond — one that had the flexibility, depth, and integrations our clients actually needed. We worked closely with clients across industries to design and deliver an Inventory Management System that not only filled the TradeGecko gap but elevated the entire experience.