Digital Product Design Studio
VAT IT’s Abacus helps businesses with multiple local or international branches remain VAT compliant, while managing everything VAT-related. Also used by financial consultants managing many clients, it gives users a holistic overview and a honed-in view of each jurisdiction and individual entity.
When VAT IT approached us with a simple question, "Can you help us make VAT sexy?", our answer was absolutely "hell yes!"
VAT IT set out to rebuild its existing Web Application, Abacus, with a clear goal: to simplify and streamline VAT compliance management for all users. Our focus was to ensure that users could effortlessly grasp their VAT status, navigate workflows, take necessary actions, manage company settings intuitively, and upload company data seamlessly with accuracy.
Navigating Abacus was frustrating for users, requiring a substantial amount of training.
To reduce the burden on their customers, we restructured the app, making features easy to find and navigation between businesses and branches seamless. Most commonly used sections were prioritised in an ‘always available’ sidebar, allowing for quick actions and obvious functions.
With some pivotal feedback from Abacus’s customers, we created a dashboard offering quick, bite-sized business overviews and highlighting areas of attention with the option to view more and fix them immediately.
This empowers quicker decisions and actions and makes it far simpler to remain compliant.
Abacus’s platform requires data inputs from various sources. This was not only error-prone and inconsistent, but spotting errors was manual and tedious.
We created a modal allowing users to map their data to specific columns. With data now going into the correct places, we also added restrictions to transform incorrectly formatted data to fit the system, and a way to add custom columns and rules.
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Now Boarding brought our vision to life, balancing our ideas with expert enhancements. Their stellar UI/UX work elevates any product.
