Also wrote an SMS/texting script (which used Envaya SMS on an android phone), allowing easy contact with the translators from within the Project Management database. There were many of such special functions that was offloaded to Filemaker scripts. Thus reducing several hours of (manual) labor per project to mere seconds. I wrote a parser in Filemaker that parsed the Trados Project data file, which contained all the data anyway. This was previously a manual process and calculation which took more than an hour to gather and process. Importing Trados project translation data the project management database, allowing the invoicing, translator payments and project data to be easily calculated. The database(s) handles everything from employees, customers, timesheets, project management, invoicing, subletting workstations (they also ran a small office hotel).Ī lot of functions were built into the databases to offload a lot of manual tasks to the scripts. Eventually, they agreed and sent me an email saying the issue was resolved.They then sent those blank emails a couple more times and today started threatening to send the account to debt collectors.This is absurd.Fantastic prototyping and database systemĪt my old job at a translation company, I built an entire 'company management system' from scratch over the course of 10 years.

I then engaged them, told them how odd their invoice emails were, provided payment info, went above and beyond to try and show them that I had paid. So I only found out they were asking for the money when they called over a year after they first started asking for the money. Obviously, I thought they were spam/viruses and so never opened them. No name, no account number, not even a signature panel. Their emails asking for payment are completely blank emails from a suspicious email address, with an attachment. Being international, they seem to have missed the payment two years ago. They quoted for a service two years ago that we paid for and since stopped using.

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