Guides
Guides for buying business software
Plain answers to the questions people ask before they commit to a system. Written for owners and managers who run the work rather than the IT, with no jargon and nothing to sign up for.
Choosing and running a system
Read these in any order. Each one stands on its own.
Bespoke software or off the shelf: how to decide
Which kind of work suits a package, which suits a system built around your firm, and how the two sit together.
How long bespoke software takes, and what decides it
Where the weeks go, what stretches them, and how going live in pieces gets the useful part to you early.
Moving your business off spreadsheets without stopping work
One job at a time, running alongside, cleaning the data, and who to involve.
What to expect from hosting and support for a business system
Backups, monitoring, patching, who you ring, how changes work, and getting your data out.
For your sector
Guides on rules and deadlines that affect one trade in particular. More will follow as they come up.
Digital Waste Tracking: what skip hire and waste carriers should be doing now
For waste carriers and skip hire firms. Getting notes, EWC codes, carriers and weights into one record per load before the October 2027 deadline.
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