POS & inventory systems
Sales and stock that reconcile themselves across branches, with stock counts that take minutes rather than a weekend.
Small Business
Get off spreadsheets without buying software you'll never fully use
Most small businesses do not need an enterprise platform. They need the four or five things they do every day to stop being manual, and someone to call when the network goes down. We start with whichever one is costing you the most time, and we are upfront when an off-the-shelf tool would serve you better than anything we could build.
The reality
What we usually find in small business
None of this is exotic. It is just what happens when systems grow one urgent decision at a time.
What's slowing you down
- Inventory, invoicing and attendance all live in separate Excel files
- No real-time view of what is selling or what is owed
- IT is whoever answers the phone when something breaks
- Paying monthly for software nobody fully uses
- No backups, and nobody has ever tested a restore
What we do about it
- POS and inventory that reconcile automatically
- Invoicing with payment tracking and automated reminders
- One dashboard for sales, stock and cash position
- Support retainer so problems get fixed before they cost a day
What we build
Built for small business
Specific systems, not a generic capability list.
Invoicing & payment tracking
Issue invoices, track what is owed, and send reminders automatically — so chasing payment is not a job someone has to remember.
Business dashboards
Sales, stock, margin and cash position in one live view, defined around the numbers you actually make decisions on.
IT support retainers
Agreed response times, proactive maintenance and a documented inventory of your devices, licences and access.
Networks & Wi-Fi that work
Properly designed and configured, with coverage where your staff and customers actually stand — not wherever the router was plugged in.
Backup & recovery
Backups that are tested on a schedule, plus a written recovery plan short enough that someone will actually follow it.
How it goes
From first call to live system
- 01
Discover
We look at how you work today and find where time and money are actually leaking. You get a written recommendation you are free to take anywhere.
- 02
Scope & fixed quote
Everything included, written down, priced once. No hourly surprises and no silent additions — if scope changes, you approve a new number first.
- 03
Build
Short cycles with something working to look at each week. You see progress as it happens instead of waiting months for a reveal.
- 04
Launch
Migration, testing, training and a written handover. Your team knows how to use it and you own the source code.
- 05
Support
A warranty period on every build, then a retainer if you want one. No lock-in — we keep the work because it's good, not because you're stuck.
Services
What this usually involves
Proof
Small Business work
Small Business2024
POS and inventory for a five-branch retailer
Point of sale, stock and invoicing reconciled automatically across five branches, with one live dashboard for the owner.
Stock counts that used to take a weekend now take minutes
- React
- Node.js
- MySQL
Questions
What small business clients ask
Often, yes — and we will say so. If an off-the-shelf tool fits your workflow at a fraction of the cost, that is the recommendation you will get, even though it earns us less. Custom makes sense when your process is genuinely a differentiator, or when the tools that exist would force you to work in a way that costs you more than the software saves.
Usually. Connecting what you already pay for is cheaper than replacing it, so integration is where we look first. We only recommend replacement when the existing tool is actively blocking you.
An agreed number of hours a month covering support, maintenance and small improvements, with a defined response time. Unused capacity goes into improvement work rather than evaporating. Anything larger gets scoped and quoted separately, so a retainer never becomes an open-ended bill.
We migrate your existing data and run the new system alongside the old one until you trust it. Nobody is asked to switch on a Monday and hope. Training and a written handover are part of every project.
Let's talk
Tell us what's broken. We'll tell you what it takes.
A first conversation costs nothing and you leave with a straight answer — including when the answer is that you don't need us.