Softrite

Softrite was set up by Managing Director, Mike Garden, in 1984 with one NCR DM5 computer and a printer in a small office in Newlands, Harare. We started off with a very efficient Debtors package and our first client was Brake & Clutch. Over the next few years we developed all sorts of standard accounting systems and had clients all over Zimbabwe from small enterprises to large quoted companies and many farmers. A few years later, in 1989, we did our first rewrite using the old faithful Cobol Programming language for use on early Personal Computers - first with CP/M and then with the MS-Dos Operating system that Microsoft brought out in the 1980s. Colbro Transport, based then in Masvingo, were the first user of Payrite in that format. This system was called Payrite and over time we took a subset of these programs and marketed them to the Farming Community as Jacana. Payrite is a simple, yet very effective, Payroll Software package that is used by hundreds of independent companies throughout Zimbabwe. It has been designed in such a way that new users can start using the bare necessities with just one hour's operator training. In this day and age people do not want to have to go on a long training course before they use their new Software package.