Running your business with a collection of spreadsheets, disconnected apps, and manual processes can be overwhelming. Imagine if you could pull them together into a single coordinated platform accessible by every contributor to your organization.

But no need to look around for an IT expert...the best expert is you. You routinely set up forms and reports. You only need an easier way to harness your knowledge.

Sumer allows anyone to build a complete business management system using only skills familiar from basic spreadsheets.

No software vendors, no salespeople, no modules, no cost to add new users.

Sumer is a better alternative to a modular system

Whatever you are using now—from refrigerator magnets to computer apps—you have a system, and it clearly works because you have a going concern.

If you can express your business in your current forms and reports, you probably don't need to buy into a subscription-based suite with their expensive add-on modules and user fees, because the modules DO EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE ALREADY DOING.

Use what you already know; Sumer provides form and report templates to help you develop your knowledge into one connected platform.

Why buy modules if templates are free?

Here is a basic form showing a simple cafe price list. Pressing 'F2' brings up its Setup Parameters template.

Column names are across the top, parameters down the left side. You probably recognize most of them.

Add new columns—anything you want—with the 'AddColumn' button. They are all fairly obvious: 'DataType', 'Width', 'Alignment', 'AllowEdit' 'Hide', 'Optional'. Finer details can be specified with 'Filters' or formulas with 'Expression'.

Whatever data you place in this price list can later be recalled and used automatically in sales entry forms and reports.

Other more complex forms for purchasing, production, sales, scheduling, and more have additional parameters as shown later in the website, but all work about the same.

Hundreds of templates like this are already available in the Library so you can pull them into your business and customize them however you like.

How can it possibly be so simple?

Sumer is delivering a product that Big Tech could have released, but didn't, 20 years ago. Subscriptions and modules proved far more profitable.

By the early 2000s Microsoft realized they had made a terrible mistake with Excel, Word, and Windows: the programs were mature, users were satisfied, and no one needed frequent updates. A major source of income was fading. Microsoft's solution was to create Office 365 and push subscriptions for a steady cash flow.

But they had another issue: natural improvement in software would recreate the Excel problem with each new product. Complex subscription and module services were the best way to secure Microsoft's future.

So when we began wondering why many small and midsized business programs appeared overly complicated, it didn't seem to be about lack of high tech and AI. It seemed we needed a rethink about designing for efficiency, not complexity and flash.

Sumer was like adopting the muddy dog from the shelter that no one wanted; it was not a kennel club purebred, just a darned-good dog that protects its family.