Fast, and we can prove it
Response times are measured from Manila against the live system, not guessed. Croma MNL answers in a median of 45 ms.
What we do
Four ways this usually starts.
Not every problem needs new software. Often the fastest fix is connecting what you already own, or taking one manual job off someone's desk. Here is the range, cheapest first.
How it fits together
Pick the one that sounds like your problem
Each of these takes something you already have and gives you something back. Tap through them to see which parts of your setup it touches.
What you have now
- Point of sale
- Accounting
- Stock list
- Online orders
Integration
What you get
- One set of numbers
- Nothing typed twice
- A trail of every change
Make your systems talk to each other
- What we build
- Links between the software you already pay for — point of sale, accounting, stock, online orders, e-wallets and calendars — so a figure entered once appears everywhere it should.
- The problem it solves
- Sales sit in one system and stock in another, and someone re-types figures between them. Mistakes creep in, and the accountant gets a spreadsheet at month end.
- Who it is for
- Businesses running more than two systems, where someone copies figures between them.
From our workCroma MNL's POS, admin panel, members' app and website share one database, so a sale at the counter counts down stock by ingredient and adds the member's points.See Croma MNL
What you have now
- The Monday report
- Invoices
- Documents to read
- Reminders to send
Automation
What you get
- Runs on a schedule
- Ready before you ask
- Hours back every week
Stop doing it by hand
- What we build
- Jobs that run without anyone pressing a button: scheduled reports and reminders, payroll from attendance, billing, and steps that read documents and pull out the figures — with a person approving anything that matters.
- The problem it solves
- The Monday report rebuilt from scratch, invoices typed in twice, reminders someone has to remember to send: hours every week on work that follows the same rules.
- Who it is for
- Teams with a task that is repetitive, follows rules and eats hours every week.
From our workAt EA Builders, the crew marked present on site fills the pay run by itself, and a whole period's payslips print six to a page.See EA Builders
What you have now
- Years of spreadsheets
- Paper records
- A tool you outgrew
Migration
What you get
- One real database
- Checked row by row
- Reversible until you are sure
Get off the spreadsheet safely
- What we build
- A move from spreadsheets, paper or a tool you have outgrown onto a proper database — every row checked against the old records, with the old version kept running until you agree the numbers match.
- The problem it solves
- The spreadsheet has become too big, too slow or too risky to trust, but moving years of records is the job everyone puts off, because getting it wrong is expensive.
- Who it is for
- Businesses that started on spreadsheets or paper and have outgrown them.
From our workCroma MNL moved off Google Sheets onto Postgres: 8,204 rows across 50 tables checked before the switch, and screens that took about two seconds now answer in 45 ms.See Croma MNL
What you have now
- How you actually work
- The bit no product fits
- Your own rules
Custom software
What you get
- A system built round you
- Yours to change
- Running the business
Build the thing that does not exist yet
- What we build
- A complete system built around how your business works — web apps, client portals, point of sale and payroll, and apps that install on the phone or tablet you already use.
- The problem it solves
- Off-the-shelf software almost fits, but forces you to change the way you work — and the way you work is the reason you win.
- Who it is for
- Businesses whose way of working no product supports, from a coffee shop to an insurance agency or a builder.
From our workSentro runs the practice of Philippine financial advisers, from the morning’s follow-ups to the race to MDRT, built around how agencies here actually work.See Sentro
How it goes
Working together, step by step
We talk about the week, not the software
What takes too long, what gets done twice, what nobody wants to be responsible for. No jargon needed — describe it the way you would to a new employee.
You get an honest answer
Sometimes the answer is that a cheaper tool already does this, or that the problem is not worth building for yet. We would rather say so than take the work.
We build the smallest useful thing first
One real part of the job, working, in your hands early — so you can tell us it is wrong before it is expensive to change.
It goes live without stopping the business
Old and new run side by side until the numbers agree. Nobody closes for a day to switch systems.
Engineering standards
The standard the work is held to
One customer can never see another
Where several businesses share one system, the wall between them is designed in from the first table and tested before anything is released.
Backed up, and the backup works
Nightly off-site copies, and a restore that is actually rehearsed — because a backup nobody has tried is only a hope.
Built for how business works here
BIR-style invoices, VAT to the centavo, SSS, PhilHealth and Pag-IBIG, GCash and Maya, middle names and 09XX numbers.
Not sure which of these you need?
That is normal, and it is our job to work out. Describe the part of the week that goes wrong and we will tell you which one it is — or that it is none of them.
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