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Business software guides

Practical business software guides from the team that builds PolicyIQ, BillDo, Engage360, ServicePilot, ProjectBook and Visito, and custom software for businesses worldwide. The articles cover GST billing, channel loyalty, field service and AMC, real estate sales, hotels and homestays, and software development, each in plain language with the product or service that handles the work.

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Brown cardboard boxes stacked on a white metal rack, stock held by a wholesale business, in a guide to billing software for wholesale
Billing and GST

Billing Software for Wholesale: What a Wholesaler Needs

Which features billing software for wholesale needs, from price levels and credit limits to warehouses, GST invoices and Tally export.

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Graphs of performance analytics on a laptop screen, the kind of dashboard a SaaS product gives its customers, in a guide to SaaS product development
Software Development

SaaS Product Development: From Idea to Paying Customers

What SaaS product development involves, which stages come first and how to plan multi-tenant design, subscription billing and onboarding.

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A large warehouse with rows of shelves, the stock a distributor management system tracks
Billing and GST

Distributor Management System: What It Is and What It Covers

What a distributor management system covers, from orders and schemes to warehouses and claims, and how BillDo handles each part.

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A smartphone held in hand showing its home screen, the device a mobile app is built for, in a guide to mobile app development cost
Software Development

Mobile App Development Cost: What Drives the Price

The factors that decide mobile app development cost, from platforms and backend to integrations, and how to cut cost without cutting quality.

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A person holding a smartphone that shows a dashboard, an example of a cross-platform business app, in a guide to Flutter app development
Software Development

Flutter App Development: When One Codebase Is Enough

Where Flutter app development fits business apps, how it compares with native development and what to plan before the build starts.

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A woman holding an Android smartphone, the device a salesman uses to take orders in the field, in a guide to salesman order app
Billing and GST

Salesman Order App: Take Orders, Bills and Payments in the Field

What a salesman order app should do, from beat plans and orders to bills, payments and visit records, and how BillDo's field app works.

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A modern hotel lobby with a marble reception desk and plants, the front of a property run with a channel manager, in a guide to hotel channel manager
Hotels and Homestays

Hotel Channel Manager: Keep Every Booking Site in Sync

What a hotel channel manager does, how availability and rates stay in sync across booking sites and how it prevents overbooking.

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A person holding a black Android smartphone, the device on which WhatsApp messages arrive, in a guide to WhatsApp Business API
Software Development

WhatsApp Business API: How Integration Works

How the WhatsApp Business API connects to business software, what templates and opt-in mean and what to plan before integrating.

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A white and red wooden house miniature on a table, the unit a real estate CRM helps sell, in a guide to real estate CRM software
Real Estate

Real Estate CRM Software: Features Developers Actually Use

Which features real estate CRM software needs, from leads and site visits to unit inventory, bookings and payment ledgers.

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A hand holding a smartphone that shows a messaging app, where a WhatsApp chatbot talks to customers
Software Development

WhatsApp Chatbot for Business: What It Can Handle

What a WhatsApp chatbot for business can handle, how handover to staff works and how to plan the first version.

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