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Insights, engineering notes and product thinking from the Devcity team.
Whose numbers are they? Getting data out of a business system
Every system is easy to join. The question worth asking on the first day is how you would leave, and what you would be a...
Selling online without commissioning a website project
Plenty of shops here are quoted for a whole ecommerce build when what they need is their existing catalogue on a page. W...
The documents a supplier business should demand from its software
If you supply guest houses and resorts, your software is a paperwork machine before it is anything else. Four documents,...
Where a POS project quietly gets expensive
The licence is rarely the expensive part. The money goes on hardware you did not need, setup nobody quoted, and the year...
Buying software that survives your second island
The cheapest system is usually the one that fits exactly one shop. Four questions that decide whether you can open a sec...
Why imported software gets Maldivian credit sales wrong
Software written for markets where everybody pays at the counter treats credit as an exception. Here it is half the trad...
The inventory questions that separate a real POS from a till app
Anything can add up a basket. Six questions about stock that a cash register app cannot answer, and that decide whether...
Fitting software to a restaurant, not the restaurant to software
Most hospitality software is designed around a table service model that half the food businesses in Malé do not run. Wha...
The GST questions to ask a POS supplier before you buy
The tax liability is yours and the software decides whether you can meet it. Seven questions that separate a till which...
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Who is behind your POS system, and why it matters
Two tills can look identical in a demo and be completely different purchases. The difference is who maintains the thing,...
The checklist for rating a software proposal line by line
A proposal is a promise written by the person who will be paid for keeping it. Read it the way an auditor would. This ch...
Rate your software partner on support, not on the launch
Launch day is one day. The five years after it are the product. Here is how to tell, before you sign, whether a company...