Seven things we built because the standard kept stopping in the same places.
Every one of these started as a gap in a real project. Not a product roadmap — a client, a deadline, and something NetSuite did not do. They run inside NetSuite, not beside it.
We do not build software to have a product. We build when the same gap costs a client money for the third time.
That rule keeps the list short and it keeps it honest. Each of these solutions has a named origin: a German entity that needed DATEV without a heavyweight localization package, a group whose consolidation scope changed twice in one year, a manufacturer whose bills of material were three levels deeper than SuiteSuccess assumes. If we cannot name the project, we do not build it.
What each one does, and what it takes off your desk.
A module and an architecture are not the same purchase.
SuiteApp
Installed, configured, switched on. DSCAN, BankMatch, Advance Billing and Collections work this way. You can have them running in weeks.
A SuiteApp adds a capability to a system that is otherwise laid out correctly. If your chart of accounts, your subsidiaries and your item master are in reasonable shape, this is the cheap, fast route — and the right one.
It is also the wrong route if the underlying structure is the problem. Automating a reconciliation that is hard because the bank accounts were set up per entity instead of per bank does not fix anything. It makes the mess faster.
Blueprint
A target model the system is built against. The Manufacturing Blueprint and the Consolidation Extension work this way.
This is not something you install. It is a set of decisions — how costing layers relate to inventory valuation, how a change in ownership percentage propagates through the group close — written down before configuration starts, and then held to.
It takes longer and it costs more. It is what you need when the standard does not stop at a feature but at a structure.
Three numbers that say more than a feature list.
Three steps, and a real chance to stop after the first.
We look at the actual case
Not a demo. Your invoice volume, your statement formats, your group structure. Most of the time this conversation takes under an hour, and sometimes it ends with us saying the standard already does what you need.
A pilot on your data
A defined scope in your sandbox, with your documents and your accounts. You see the exception rate before you commit, because the exception rate is the number that decides whether automation is worth anything.
Live, with someone who knows it
The people who built the solution are the people who support it. That is a small company’s advantage and we intend to keep it.
When you should not buy any of this.
Your volumes are small. Below roughly a hundred vendor invoices a month, document capture costs more than it saves. Someone typing them in is cheaper and you keep the control.
Your master data is the problem. If vendors exist three times under different spellings, matching will fail and the tool will get the blame. Clean that first; we will tell you so.
You are mid-implementation. Adding an extension to a system that is not yet stable makes both harder to diagnose. Go live, run a close, then talk to us.
The fastest way to lose trust in automation is to automate something that was broken underneath.
— what we tell clients before they signNot sure which of the seven is yours?
Tell us where the month-end actually hurts. Fifteen minutes is usually enough to know whether one of these fits, or whether the answer is somewhere else entirely.