{"id":44,"date":"2019-04-08T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8081\/?p=44"},"modified":"2026-08-31T13:38:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T13:38:00","slug":"an-accounting-system-and-call-portal-for-loans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/implicitdesign.co.za\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"An accounting system and call portal for loans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A large retail company needed a nimble software developer to establish their short-term loan system. While they had an off-the-shelf solution in place, they needed more flexibility and a faster turnaround time for new features,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over 12 months we implemented a multilingual call-centre website, a financial accounting module to calculate interest and communicate with banks, a credit-worthiness module using publicly available scores, and a collections and tracking module to follow up on payment failures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The core of the system was written in Django using a PostgreSQL database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This project was a lesson in dealing with corporates, notably in that while the advantages of being a fast reacting agile company where clear, this doesn\u2019t obviate the need for clear communication and separation of roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large retail company needed a nimble software developer to establish their short-term loan system. While they had an off-the-shelf solution in place, they needed more flexibility and a faster turnaround time for new features<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/implicitdesign.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/implicitdesign.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/implicitdesign.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/implicitdesign.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/implicitdesign.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/implicitdesign.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/implicitdesign.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/implicitdesign.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/implicitdesign.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/implicitdesign.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/implicitdesign.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}