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Guides for business owners on the questions that come up before any software is built, written the way we would answer them across the table.

  1. Running your business · 6 min read When should a business stop running on Excel? When the same figure is typed into more than one sheet, when month-end takes days of reconciling, or when only one person understands the file, the spreadsheet has become the business's bottleneck. Move the one process that hurts most into a proper system first, rather than everything at once.
  2. Running your business · 7 min read Custom ERP or ready-made software: how to decide Choose ready-made software when your process is standard and you are happy to work the way the product works. Choose a custom system when the way you work is part of your edge, when you run several entities or unusual flows, or when your team already lives on workarounds to make a product fit.
  3. Working with us · 6 min read How a custom software project runs, stage by stage A custom software project runs in seven stages: understand, analyse, architect, design, develop, implement and evolve. The first two (mapping how your business really works and writing down what the system must do) decide whether the other five are worth anything.
  4. Connecting your systems · 5 min read What does it mean to connect your software? Connecting your software means making your tools pass information to each other automatically, so something entered once (an order, a payment, an attendance punch) updates every other system that needs it. It removes re-typing, the errors that come with it, and the wait for reports.
  5. Running your business · 4 min read Five questions to ask before buying any business software Before buying business software, ask whether it does exactly what you need, whether growth is a setting or a project, whether the vendor is reachable, whether reports still need building by hand, and whether the data stays yours. One "no" is usually where the hours go; two or more mean the software will cost more time than it saves.
  6. Running your business · 8 min read Moving from Tally to a custom ERP: a step-by-step guide Most businesses do not need to throw Tally away. The usual move is to keep Tally for accounts and GST, and run sales, stock, production and approvals in a custom ERP that sends every invoice to Tally on its own. Masters and opening balances are taken from Tally and checked line by line, the first part goes live in 6 to 10 weeks, and the switch happens at the start of a month, never in the middle.

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