Journal
Journal: business
On this topic, 12 articles from the journal, from practical guides to behind the scenes of the product.
Custom restaurant software: ingredient costs, purchasing and schedules, without the till
A compliant till is a legal obligation and will remain so: a tool you have built must not take payments. Everything else, ingredient costs, purchasing, hygiene plans and scheduling, is currently rented as modules from vendors, two of four of whom refuse to display a price.
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Custom software for physiotherapists and osteopaths: session series, unpaid bills and fee sharing
Practitioners do not complain about electronic claims; they complain about prices rising without warning and second logins charged at undisclosed rates. What custom software handles, and what it leaves to approved software.
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Custom software for independent lawyers: cases, deadlines and fees without add-ons
One lawyer in three works alone and pays for software per user, then per module. What legal software vendors cover, what costs extra, and the layer left open by RPVA and CARPA, with prices from four vendors collected on September 2, 2026.
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Migrate your Excel data into your application: a guide without breakage
The application is ready; the historical file is waiting. Migration happens in four stages: clean in Excel, turn formulas into rules, import with a discrepancy report, and run both in parallel.
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Your requirements document in one hour: the awkward-questions method
A timer, four blocks: ten minutes for the problem, twenty for journeys, twenty for awkward questions and ten for the list of things to exclude. The complete step-by-step method.
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Accountant, physiotherapist, architect: custom software for independent professionals
Regulated professions share a problem: detailed business rules flattened by generic software. Specifications approved by the professional, now within reach of a practice, preserve those rules as they are.
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Association software: manage members, tax receipts and general meetings without a budget
The volunteer treasurer juggles four files and an email folder. You can now direct the building of a custom tool managing members, receipts and meetings for the price of a subscription, around €20 per month.
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Therapists and care professionals: confidentiality as the number-one requirement
On November 6, 2025, Doctolib was fined €4.6 million for abuse of a dominant position. In June 2026, health data was being used to train AI models. For a therapist, the question is no longer which software, but where their notes live.
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Custom management software for tradespeople: generic SaaS or your own tool?
Obat and similar software cover construction quotes and invoices well. The question arises when your way of working outgrows their boxes. Here is the tipping point, and what each side costs.
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Accountants and their internal tools: what custom software unlocks
From September 1, 2026, electronic invoicing becomes mandatory through an approved platform (impots.gouv.fr). Seven in ten practices are microbusinesses: the ideal moment to replace Excel workarounds with internal tools of their own.
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Replace Excel with an application: choose the right solution and migrate
Should you improve your spreadsheet, adopt business software or build a tool? A decision method and an order-tracking example to prepare your rules, data and migration.
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Application requirements: a guide, example and free template
Describe your needs without technical vocabulary: users, journeys, rules, data and acceptance criteria. A booking example and a free text template to adapt to your project.
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