Blueprint Software

Specifically developed  by the software company of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, the world’s largest supplier of company secretarial software, Blueprint Company Secretary delivers a total solution with effortless CRO electronic filing, statutory registers, automatic production of minutes, forms and resolutions.

Blueprint online is an unlimited 24/7 access to the latest blueprint software. Any authorised user within your company is then able to utilise the software from any location in exactly the same way as if it was hosted at your office. The only requirement from you is a link to the Internet. It really couldn't be any easier now and we can even set you up remotely within minutes with the option of entering your data for you. This is our business, we are not just a software company, we offer unrivalled support throughout Ireland, and how to get the very best from this state-of-the-art software that will handle all your statutory requirements and more.

Loaded with numerous other innovative features, Blueprint  will greatly simplify and ease your compliance and company secretarial work. We were the first software company in Ireland to provide electronic filing for  our users who are now efiling their annual returns direct into the CRO.  This will become a vital when the Dublin CRO office closes in 2010 and is fully centralised to Carlow.

Blueprint also allows you electronically incorporate all your new companies with the CRO disk from within the software. Blueprint  is a must for all companies. It’s a tremendous workhorse.

A few great reasons why you must have Blueprint

1. It’s the Law, every company must write up and maintain its seven statutory registers, it takes Blueprint about seven minutes for the average company to write up these books, and then that Company is fully compliant with regard to registers until some
other change might occur. That is seven minutes very well spent, you are now well on the way to having your company secretarial function fully automated. This is the only way forward for 2009.

2. Section 74 of the Company Law Enforcement Act 2001. It’s a scheduled indictable offence not to maintain the statutory registers, immediately reportable by an auditor to the ODCE. It’s an indictable offence for an auditor not to properly report and to do so on time. Are you satisfied that all your section 53 registers are properly written up and that the relevant supporting documentation has been completed in accordance with the Law. Any member of the public can ask to see these registers and ODCE will want to see them if they carry out a Company Law Audit.

3. Company Secretarial work does not have to be a struggle. Blueprint was specifically designed by company secretaries to simplify these tasks. When purchasing our software, you have the comfort and knowing that we have the backing of a professional Institute, founded over 100 years ago, whose stated aim is to reinvest profits from its commercial operations
to enhancing the provision of its services to both members and those who look to it for software advice and guidance.

4. Section 107 of the Company Law Enforcement Act 2001, already commenced and enacted  into law.will be an absolute nightmare for presenters of manual forms to the CRO if they are not properly completed and presented strictly on time. Companies are presently paying around millions per annum in late filing fees. One late filing fee could pay for Blueprint.  Blueprint is a must have in 2009 to keep all your companies fully compliant.

5. Blueprint is simply the best product in the market, there is no other product with such extensive and easy-to-use features, it has been fine tune to absolute perfection and is used today by such companies as Allied Irish Banks plc,  Bank of Ireland,  Ulster Bank, CRH  plc,  Greencore, BDO Simpson Xavier, Mason Hayes & Curran, Matheson Ormsby Prentice, Airbus Industries, Aer Lingus, Rolls-Royce and other  local companies such as Airtricity, ADM Londis plc, Arthur Cox,  Coca-Cola, BCM Hanby Wallace, Connacht Gold, Coyle Hamilton Willis,  Dairygold,  Deloitte & Touche,  Ernst & Young,  Farrell Grant Sparks, Fexco,  Heineken, McCaughey Developments,  Horwarth Bastow Charlton,  John Sisk & Son,  Keelings,  Mazars, Jury’s Doyle Group,  KPMG,  LK Shields, NTR plc, Paddy Power plc,  PJ Walls plc and hundreds of other professional accountants and solicitors throughout Ireland and abroad.

6 You automatically join the Blueprint community and enjoy access to monthly user group meetings and unrivalled company secretarial assistance. With a new draft Companies Bill  2008 already published, our group meetings provide a great forum to network with other professionals in your area and discuss common issues.

7. The Blueprint  electronic filing facility to the CRO is so simple to use, with automated receipts printed from your own PC and an extra 28 days to submit accounts, Blueprint will afford you extraordinary flexibility and great peace of mind in knowing that your
statutory returns have been received and accepted at the CRO. Electronic filing using Blueprint will significantly reduce time spent on company secretarial compliance.

8. Blueprint  automatically generates a vast range of precedent minutes and forms in your word processor and stores them securely within the system. Again, it’s the Law, every company is required to hold an annual general meeting each year and record details of those minutes. Blueprint provides the perfect solution.

Training and Support

This is our business, we are not just a software company. We travel the length and breathe of the country twice a year with our Company Law Updates. With over 30 years experience in company secretarial practice and company law we can offer you unrivalled support in company secretarial practice and how to get the very best from this state-of-the-art software that will handle all of your statutory requirements and more.

Blueprint training is available at three different levels, introductory for the novice will allow junior members of staff to set up all the various statutory registers and start efiling almost immediately. Blueprint is Wizard driven to greatly simplify tasks and prompt the user as to the next step and procedure. Intermediate and advanced training takes the user to higher levels of company secretarial practice and functionality within the software.