Short guides for owners, no jargon
Formats, routines and checklists on orders, payments, enquiries, stock and staff tasks. Use them with a notebook or a sheet. Read before you decide on any software.
Excel or software? How to tell when a sheet has stopped being enough
Eight signs that a shared sheet now costs you more than it saves, how to repair the sheet before buying anything, and what software adds and does not add.
Custom software or a ready-made app? How a small business can decide
What to buy ready-made, what is worth setting up around your own process, what to test and get in writing before you pay, and a three-year cost comparison.
Nine questions to ask before you pay for business software
Nine questions to put to any software vendor before you pay, on the real cost, the support and your data, with a good answer and a warning sign for each.
Five jobs a small business should automate first
The five repeating jobs that are easiest to hand to a system, a table to choose your first one from your own numbers, and what not to start with.