Comment on Ideal Business Stack?
catloaf@lemm.ee 19 hours agoThere are plenty of document management solutions. What is the actual problem you’re trying to solve? Not just “it’s a mess” because I can solve that with a trash can. What are the needs of the users?
OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
Well the entire business has been ran analog for 2 decades. The problems I am trying to solve are the entire business workflow. Intake to outflow. They use Sage50 for accounting, vericlock to integrate into sage for time tracking software. Beyond that gmail for email. Nothing is connected, integrated.
Everything else business wise is up for grabs. The NAS and paperless was to start scanning in papers and mail and organizing it into something that isn’t piles of paperwork and a mess. Photoprism/immich was for hosting all the businesses pictures of projects, portfolio photos.
We need inventory management for tools to supplies. VOIP phone service which was planning to us FreePBX. They pay for a service Ooma but it’s terrible and 30 a month.
The goal is to establish a work flow for a manufacturing business. From scratch.
Xanza@lemm.ee 18 hours ago
I think you’re seriously underestimating the size of this job. This is the work of 4-5 people over several weeks to even upwards of a month. PBX alone is a real PITA to get setup and to manage. Then you actually have to train your people on how to use the infrastructure you just setup for them.
Like you said, they’ve been operating one way for two decades and now you’re completely uprooting that on top of having to setup and manage everything.
You’re underestimating this.
OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
Thank you for the feedback. This seems to be the general consensus. What tech stacks would be good given the circumstances I’m now finding myself in. Personally I dislike Google and all that. But this is business. People need to survive and eat.
rimu@piefed.social 16 hours ago
You're going to have to prioritise.
Find changes that:
Save a decent amount of money
Are low risk
Don't take too long to do
Can be easily backed-out of
PracticalChameleon@feddit.org 13 hours ago
Unless the company is going bankrupt, 30 USD per month is nothing to a business. That is also easily what a business would be willing to pay for a managed open source solution.