Building Sumer applications

The easiest way to build a Sumer application is by adding your existing paper-based or spreadsheet-based forms and reports as you get around to them; there is no need to start everything at once.

Start with Price or Employee or Product lists; use Copy and Paste if you already have them in spreadsheets. You can add more lists and items later.

Set up events like Purchases and Sales with temporary settings while you continue your old systems. When you are satisfied with the results you can switch into Sumer.

Add Inventory and Accounting whenever you need it.

Reports can be added anytime. You can't mess up with reports because they never affect the underlying data, they only report on what is already there due to the entry forms.

Sumer applications can grow over time as you discover more templates to help you achieve what you need to do.

And...

apply Themes whenever you feel like it. Themes are fun, but they can express your business image or allow employees to express their individuality. Keep themes plain if you want, or go wild.

Here are some examples of applications.

A breakfast cafe tracks sales

Cafe Sales invoices post automatically into a Daily Sales report and into Daily SubJournal Sales. (Remember, the first page of this website showed how.)

The 'Post' button on SubJournal Sales will post all today's sales as a single entry into the Accounting system.

But if you already have a bookkeeping application, you might want to simple copy the daily totals into the existing system. Eventually you might want to switch over to Sumer's accounting, but it is not necessary if you are happy with another system.

A wholesales nursery handles a complex inventory

This wholesale nursery automates Purchase Orders, Receiving, Inventory, Sales, Accounting and more, but they have a complex inventory: a single Item (SKU) can have different sizes each with a different price, and they need to track storage locations for each item as their stock may be scattered over many acres.

A craft brewery tracks inventory and costing based on brew recipes.

This craft brewery places Purchase Orders, tracks Receiving, uses a Bill of Materials to automatically update Inventory in Brewing, posts Inventory value to Accounting at End-Of-Period, tracks Kegs by batch and with customers, operates a dining room and kitchen, and manages staff using forms and reports developed from Sumer templates.

A library needs to know who checked out each book and when

This library tracks books, check-outs, check-ins, due dates and everything else a small library needs.

An accounting section is often included with other business applications

Accounting can be pulled into any application directly from library templates.

Sales, purchases, end-of-period inventory values all post automatically into a complete accounting app.