One workspace or a stack of separate tools
What changes when the inbox, the CRM, the warehouse and the quality records share one set of records.
Many small product businesses run on a shared mailbox, a CRM, a spreadsheet of stock, a shipping site and a folder of quality forms, joined by copy and paste. Each tool is good at its job. The work falls in the gaps between them.
Where the gaps are
| The question | With separate tools | In Zamilo |
|---|---|---|
| Has this customer ordered before? | Search the store, the books and the CRM | On the conversation, beside the message |
| Is it in stock? | Ask the warehouse, or check a sheet | Available, committed and on hand, from one ledger |
| Where is the parcel? | Look up the carrier site | Tracking on the order and the customer's history |
| Which customers bought lot 2291? | Days of exports | One report, from QuickBooks, Shopify and packing slips |
| Who changed this record? | It depends on the tool | An audit log kept as a hash chain |
What you keep
Zamilo connects to the tools that are hard to replace: QuickBooks Online for the books, Shopify and WooCommerce for the store, Microsoft 365 and IMAP for mail, RingCentral, Twilio, Quo and Aircall for phones, and Freightcom, ShipStation and EasyPost for labels.
What you can leave
The shared-inbox tool, the separate CRM, the stock spreadsheet, the shipping website and the binder of forms, one at a time: each Zamilo app works on its own, so you can start with one and add the others when you are ready.
The trade-off
A specialist tool can go deeper in its one area than an all-in-one workspace. If a single area is your whole business (a large contact centre, say), a specialist may suit you better. If your team does a little of everything, one workspace saves the joins.
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