Nobody sets out to run a business on seven systems. It happens one sensible decision at a time: a CRM because leads were being lost, an accounting package because the CA asked for one, a spreadsheet for stock because the accounting package was awkward about it.
Each decision was right. The cost is in the seams — the same customer typed four times, a stock figure nobody trusts, and a month-end spent making numbers agree that were never going to.
The test
Ask how long it takes to answer this: how much of what we quoted last quarter turned into paid invoices? In one system it is a report. Across seven it is a project.
See it with your own data
Start free, import a spreadsheet of your customers, and raise a real GST invoice in the first ten minutes. No card, no sales call.