Simitless helps small businesses manage their orders.

Simitless helps small businesses manage their orders.
Simitless helps small businesses manage their orders.

App 40/60: Purchase Tracker

Simitless helps small businesses manage their orders.

Things could not be going better: your small business is growing and prospering, orders keep coming in and, by extension, so does the money. But every coin has two sides. The downside of your company growth coin is that procurement management is becoming a problem. Some recent purchases lack the product reference. Others seem to have never been delivered and, as chance would have it, you lost the tracking number. You seem to be at your wits' end, trying to track, manage and organize the insurmountable amount of things that need to be tracked, managed, and organized. But don’t be disheartened. Even for the overwhelmed and overworked, there is a way out. And it sounds like your way out is turning towards Simitless. Because luckily, Simitless has an ace up its sleeve just for you. 

You see, Simitless has this simple and easy-to-use purchasing management application model that sounds like something that would be right up your alley. Consult the application model, then click the "  Use this model" button to create your own copy of the app. Simitless is a system that adapts to your needs. Plus, it is risk-free. How so, you wonder? Well, Simitless does not require any disproportionate investment upfront to set your application up and running: try out the app first and then pay only for the necessary resources. At any time, you can either improve and grow your application, or, on the contrary, reduce its size and cut down on its capabilities. We developed Simitless with one core idea in mind: to make an application that would adapt itself to the way you work, not the other way around. To save your progress, think of creating an account by following the instructions on the green buttons!

To start configuring your application, use the main application menu (). In this menu, you can access the list of your suppliers ( Supplier) and that of your products ( Products). In each of these respective tables, add a record per individual supplier and then a record per individual product.

Once these basic data have been added, go to the " Main Screen" of your application. This screen contains all the information you need to track your orders. For example, consider this table that allows you to record an order that you place with one of your suppliers. In this particular context, creating a record (with ), corresponds to logging in a purchase into your information system. This record necessarily contains a date and a link to the supplier's record, as well as a product description, already defined in the previous step when you were configuring your application. The application automatically generates a unique order number with a bar code to simplify the order tracking. In addition to the standard tracking information, we have included a field intended to record the package tracking number, given to you by your supplier. Once you click the link in that field, you have access to parcel tracking information for the majority of the world's delivery companies. Finally, a checkbox that can be edited directly in the table allows you to indicate whether you have received the package or not.

And here you go! A simple and easy-to-use application to manage your orders is right here, ready to be used, and all that within just a couple of minutes. Not only is it practical and, as you will soon learn, rather indispensable for all things tracking and managing, but very flexible and responsive. For example, by changing the settings of the search filters, you can easily sort through your database to ascertain which packages have not yet arrived or have arrived but late.



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