Field notes
Notes from our Shopify and software projects. They cover conversion rate optimisation, checkout, Shopify app audits, WhatsApp commerce, cloud architecture and QA automation.
Dealer Management Software for Indian Manufacturers
Dealer orders, schemes, credit and loyalty points in one place. What a dealer portal needs, when off-the-shelf DMS fits, and when to build.Read the noteMore field notes
Connecting Custom Software to TallyPrime
How a web app or portal talks to TallyPrime: XML over HTTP, JSON import in Release 7.0, and the design choices that stop duplicate vouchers.
AI Purchase Order Entry for Indian Manufacturers
Turn emailed PO PDFs into sales orders with AI: how extraction works, where SKU matching fails, and why a human check stays in the loop.
Field Sales Apps for Manufacturers in India
Visit logs, dealer orders and incentives from the field. What a sales app must do, the DPDP rules on employee tracking, and build vs buy.
Enquiry to Quote to Job: A System for Small Manufacturers
Enquiries on WhatsApp, quotes in Excel, jobs on a whiteboard. How small manufacturers can track every enquiry through to a delivered job without losing any.
No-Code App or Custom Build? A Guide for Manufacturers
Glide, AppSheet and Zoho Creator can replace factory spreadsheets in weeks. Where no-code works for Indian manufacturers, where it stops, and when to build.
ERP for Indian Manufacturers: Zoho, Tally or Custom?
Tally runs the books and Excel runs the rest. How to choose between Zoho ERP, another ready-made ERP and a custom system, and the questions that decide it.
MCP in Production: What to Check Before an AI Agent Touches Real Systems
MCP makes it easy to give an AI model tools. What the MCP specification says about consent, tokens and sessions, and the controls we add before an agent reaches customer data.
From Excel to an Operating Layer: What a Manufacturer Should Build First
Most Indian manufacturers run dealers, stock, sales targets and incentives on spreadsheets and WhatsApp groups. Which sheet to replace first, what to keep in your accounting software, and how to move without stopping the business.
Cloud Architecture for Scaling SaaS Organizations
Architecture decisions made between Series A and Series B compound for the next five years. The four operating questions to anchor every architecture review.
Production Patterns for AI Integration
Most AI integrations fail in production not because the model is wrong, but because the surrounding system has no contract for evaluation, fallback, or cost governance.