About C9

C9, founded in mid 1980s, has been serving the motorcycle and small engine industry for 35+ years. Australian owned and operated c9 is staffed with people who are enthusiats of both Motorcycle and IT industries

The world has changed alot since c9 was founded. We pride ourselves on a culture of ongoing improvement and innovation; inventing, creating and evolving as the world of retailing evolves.

C9 Timeline - Founding and ownership

• 1985C4 - Founded by David Knight
• 1993Purchased by Original Lead Developer M.Vella
• 1995Sold to Clipstone Yamaha. Product renamed to c8
• 2002Sold to Bolton Motorcycles
• 2011Bolton + Barnham partnership. Product renamed to c9
• 2022Purchased by Barnham

C9 Timeline - Major technology milestones

• 1986c4 spares : written in AB86
• 1989apak for DOS : written in Clarion
• 1996Workshop module created
• 1997Units module created
• 1999Spares - rewritten in Clarion for Windows (except POS)
• 2001Everything written in windows
• 2004All modules unified into a single product
• 2008Migrate from Clarion Database to SQL (Postgres)
• 2009C9 migrated from Clarion to Java
• 2011Cloud backup service launched
• 2012First integrated website
• 2014C9 dev tools migrated from clarion to eclipse
• 2015v4 general ledger
• 2017Payroll Module added
• 2018Migrate to postgres 10 for database
• 2019Integrated websites completely rewritten (3rd major version)
• 2021First version of next major product rewrite (5.1)
• 2023(In progress) Major spare parts rewrite (5.3)

C9 Timeline - Other notable events

• 2010Moved to subscription only pricing model
• 2013New Hire - James
• 2014C4 founder, D. Knight Retires
• 2015New Hire - Ben
• 2018New Hire - Laura
• 2022Pricing model rationalisation