Zooce-life blog

I have to agree it has been a long time since the last time I posted an entry on this blog,  but we are busy to make improvements to the Zooce production management platform. In the next release it will be possible to attach multiple pictures to a location and send links of your documents  by email plus a numerous of other great features.

Other great news is that Zooce will be available for everyone, no more private beta. Everybody can now signup for free!

I will try to post more information regular on the progress of new exciting features.

Onno
http://www.zooce.co.uk,
Dream it. Plan it. Produce it.

Zooce is mentioned as the future of film budgeting services in an article called “LET’S START A FOSS STUDIO!” from Rob Robinson on the website b-independent.com. In the article he demonstrates the creation of a “virtual” film studio and follows a typical production, from the initial story idea through to the final presentation using only free software.

Those without web hosting can look forward to services like ZOOCE.CO.UK and possibly CINEMATRIX INDUSTRIAL 5.0(WIN XP) both still in beta, which portend a future of online film budgeting services.

This is really exciting, because together we are creating the first steps in the future of online film budgeting service.

Cheers,
Onno
http://www.zooce.co.uk,
Dream it. Plan it. Produce it.

YES, It has arrived! You’re now able to manage your budget directly in Zooce. This is major upgrade to our solution. You can find more information about the new functionality in the following posts.

• The Zooce way to enter an expense for your production
• The Zooce way to create a production budget

In the following weeks will give more information and tips about the budget and expense functionality.

We hope you like it! Please let us know if you questions or comments.

Thanks for your continued support.

Onno
http://www.zooce.co.uk,
Dream it. Plan it. Produce it.

Great news we have been accepted in the software directory of http://www.filmmaking.net. You can find us at the following link:
http://www.filmmaking.net/toolshed/software_details.asp?id=240&cid=3

We haven’t been reviewed yet. So you can be the first person to review our great product!

Cheers,
team Zooce
Onno
http://www.zooce.co.uk,
Dream it. Plan it. Produce it.

This is the third post in about our upcoming release. We have completed the development of the budget module. The next step will be internal testing of the new module. If we are happy with the results of the testign we will bring the changes to the website. The budget module contains two main areas: the budget management and expense management.

Budget
You will be able create/delete and update your budget for a production. The budget is displayed in on a tab in your production. In this tab you’re able to enter departments and the expected costs. For examples you can add the department “Video editing” and add 400 pounds as a budget. The same page will also display the actual cost. The actual costs are calculated from entering amounts in the expenses. 

Expenses
Their will be two ways to enter an expense. You can either enter the expenses under the “Expenses” tab in a production or you can send a text message by mobile. (The cost of sending a text message will be same as sending a normal text message to a mobile phone). All expenses need to be approved before showing up as actual costs in the budget overview. Only the main user will have the abbility to approve or reject expenses.

Cheers,
team Zooce
Onno
http://www.zooce.co.uk,
the web-based movie production management tool

Hi,

We are currently working hard to complete one of most requested functionality for Zooce. It is the budget functionality, with the budget module you can setup a budget for your production and manage the money of your production.

Below is a screen shot of what the current layout will look like, it could be possible we will make changes as more we get more input from our users.

Please watch this page for more information about this great new piece of functionality. This is great and exciting new functionality to our complete 100% web based movie production management solution.

Cheers,
team Zooce
Onno
http://www.zooce.co.uk,
the first 100% web-based movie production management tool

Hi,

We moved our blog from blogger to a new platform called wordpress. It is now hosted on our domain http://www.zooce.co.uk.

Please update your bookmarks. The new address is http://blog.zooce.co.uk.

Cheers,
team Zooce
Onno
http://www.zooce.co.uk,
the first 100% web-based movie production management tool

Hi,

Small post about content we have added to our user manual.

• Characters have been added
• Productions have been updated

More work will be done in the next coming weeks. The manual is currently only available in English.

Cheers,
team Zooce
Onno
http://www.zooce.co.uk

Hi,

We got a lot of questions about Zooce. So we decided to create a page in our wiki with Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). You can access the faq directly by going to the following url: http://www.zooce.co.uk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faq

If you want to help us creating more content on our wiki. Please contact me at beta@zooce.co.uk.

Talk to you later.

Cheers,
team zooce
Onno
http://www.zooce.co.uk

Hi,

If visit Zooce and I want use Zooce. What do I do? You can send an email to mailto://beta@zooce.co.uk to request for an invitation. We still have invitations codes left to share with you. So be quickly.

Cheers,
Team Zooce
Onno
http://www.zooce.co.uk

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