Standard software is already there. It just does not know your company.

Can Jobtura already do it?

Very different processes come together on the same platform: inventory management, rental, projects, resource and staff deployment, manufacturing, warehouse, logistics, service and maintenance, web shop, billing and reporting.

The first question is therefore not what should be built but whether it already exists. In Jobtura the job is the central working document, and much of what sounds like a peculiarity is a job type that is already there.

Perhaps your company has a process that grew over years. Perhaps your largest customer expects data exchange in a particular format. Perhaps a machine runs on a system of its own. Perhaps there is an industry standard that ordinary systems do not know.

We then look at the problem first and not at the solution you arrive with. That is not mistrust, it usually saves money.

Can it be configured?

A lot of it is a question of settings rather than development. Free attributes extend customer, article and job with whatever your company wants to record on top, with no programming needed.

Permissions reach down to field level and run through release groups. On top of that come rules for number ranges, mandatory fields and automations, so an approval process can be mapped without being built.

Pricing logic is a setting too. The starting point is the article price, on which terms per customer and customer group, tiers, discounts and day factors take effect. An unusual pricing rule is therefore rarely a development job.

And how your documents look is your decision, through print templates per document type. An individual document is therefore usually a template and not a project.

Is a connection enough, and does it fit at all?

That leaves data exchange, and much of it goes through import and export. Article data comes in as CSV or from Excel, with column mapping, preview and an error file, and goes out through export templates down to line item level. For matching articles with wholesalers there is Datanorm synchronisation.

Where our own feature inventory does not answer the question, we say so plainly: it covers the interface, not the services behind it. Whether a particular connection runs is something we answer by looking into the system, not by guessing.

And then one question remains that we put to ourselves: does the requirement fit into the Jobtura world? Anyone organising people, material, equipment, vehicles, warehouses, projects, manufacturing, logistics or service is in the right place with us. We do not want to build a kit in which every special idea lives on as a foreign body.

Sometimes only one answer is left in the end: we have to build this. That is when it gets interesting, because good custom development does not just solve one special wish. It adds a capability to the platform that a whole industry can benefit from. That is something we genuinely enjoy.