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What a site can do once it stops being a brochure
Most small business websites are a brochure, and that is usually the right answer. A few need to do something: take a booking, print a label, let staff in, talk to the system you already use. Below is that kind of work, built and running, so you can see what it means before you pay for it.
All of it is in daily use by people who depend on it. Which is the fair thing to want to know before you hand your website to one person: that you are not the first.
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Price My Prang
In use todayA public site where strangers get quotes for accident damage
Getting your car repaired meant ringing round panel beaters one at a time, describing the damage badly over the phone, and having no idea whether the price you were given was fair.
- Anybody can arrive, photograph the damage on their phone and send it, with no account and no app
- The job goes out to panel beaters, who quote against the same pictures rather than a description
- Quotes come back in one place to be compared, instead of arriving as five phone calls
- Everyone is kept up to date by email as it moves, without anybody chasing
On your quote: This is the far end of what a website can be. Most businesses need nothing like it, but if you have ever thought your site could take the job rather than just describe it, this is what that looks like.
COLAB
In use todayA staff hub that talks to the accounting system
Invoices were raised in one place and retyped into the accounts in another, which is where the mistakes came from. Questions about a job lived in WhatsApp, where nobody could find them a month later.
- Billing raised in the hub goes through to Xero, so the same figure is never typed twice
- Staff message each other inside the system, against the thing they are talking about, so the conversation stays with the job
- Sign in with a one-time code sent to your email, so there is no password to forget
- Different people see different things: finance sees the money, staff see their own work
- A shared calendar for the things people book, so two people cannot take the same slot
- A QR sticker anyone can scan to report a fault, with no login and no app to install
- Emails that send themselves when something needs attention, instead of somebody remembering
On your quote: Connecting a site to accounting software is the clearest example of what an integration is, and it is priced as one.
Cubana Properties
In use todayOne place for every property, tenant and project
The information lived in spreadsheets, inboxes and somebody's memory. Answering a simple question about a tenant meant asking three people.
- Every property, tenant, project and director in one register that stays current
- Proof of payment generated and emailed straight from the record it belongs to
- Searchable, so a question takes seconds rather than a morning
On your quote: A private area behind a login, holding your own records rather than public pages, is quoted as an integration.
iRam
In use todayWarehouse returns tracked from the door to the credit note
Stock coming back was counted on paper. Nobody could say what had arrived, what it was worth, or which box a given item was in.
- Goods booked in against the receipt they arrived on, with the value carried through
- Barcoded labels printed for every box, so a carton can be found later
- Reports that come out as a spreadsheet the warehouse actually uses
On your quote: Printing, barcodes and spreadsheet exports are all integrations. Most sites need none of it, and it is priced separately for exactly that reason.
iRam
In use todaySales rounds planned by the map instead of by habit
Reps worked out their own routes, which meant driving past three customers to reach a fourth, and no way to see whether a store had been visited at all.
- Every rep's calls plotted and ordered by where they actually are
- Routes regenerated when the customer list changes, rather than rewritten by hand
- A record of who was visited and when, so a missed store is visible
On your quote: Anything that talks to a mapping service is an integration on the rate card.
Most sites need none of this
If all you need is five good pages that load fast and get found, that is R9,500 and nothing above applies to you. The extras are priced separately precisely so you are not quietly paying for machinery you will never switch on. The first integration is R4,500, and the estimator will tell you before you speak to me.
Or just email me: hello@builtbyarealperson.com