[ Sector · 03 ]
Manufacturing & Trade Take the clipboard off the shop floor. Get the data into one place.
Manufacturers, fabricators, distributors and trade suppliers. Operations that grew on spreadsheets and Sage now need to scale without breaking what works.
[ 01 / What we hear ]
The patterns we keep seeing in manufacturing & trade.
Spreadsheets running the business
Quoting, BOMs, job tracking, stock — all in Excel files only one person fully understands.
Legacy databases nobody wants to touch
Access, FoxPro, ancient SQL Server, custom VB tools — fragile but mission-critical.
Trade customers expect self-service
Account-based pricing, order history, repeat-order pads — table stakes now, not a nice-to-have.
[ 02 / What we build ]
Concrete things we ship in this sector.
Not a brochure of capabilities — the actual projects, tools and integrations we get briefed on most weeks.
- Job-tracking, quoting and BOM web apps that replace the spreadsheet
- Trade customer portals with account pricing and order history
- Legacy database migrations (Access, FoxPro, old SQL Server) to modern stacks
- Sage, Xero, SAP B1 and shop-floor integrations
- Internal dashboards and reporting that replace Crystal Reports
[ 03 / Typical outcomes ]
What good looks like after we've worked together.
6×
faster quote turnaround
0
Access databases left in production
~80%
of repeat orders self-served by trade customers
[ Recent example briefs ]
- Quoting platform for a sheet-metal fabricator
- Trade portal for a building-supplies distributor
- Migration of a 20-year-old Access database to SQL Server + web UI
Services we lead with in manufacturing & trade.
Discuss your manufacturing & trade projectFull-Stack Engineering
Customer portals, internal tools and API-driven platforms — designed end-to-end.
Read moreDatabase Design
Schema, indexing and migrations done properly — data models that scale with your business.
Read moreWeb Development
Fast, accessible marketing sites and bespoke web apps built on modern frameworks.
Read more[ Let's build something ]
Working in manufacturing & trade? Let's compare notes.
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