Solutions
Start from the problem, not from our product list.
Most software sites make you translate your situation into their shelving before they can help. These pages go the other way: pick the business you run or the job you do, and the products arrive as the answer.
By industry
What breaks in this kind of business, and which parts of Rutba address it.
Retail & hospitality
One product catalogue behind the counter, the website and the ledger, so a sale is a stock movement and an accounting entry without anybody keying it twice.
Shops and multi-site retailers selling in person and online.
Wholesale & distribution
Trade pricing, allocation, picking and delivery on one set of records, so what was promised, what was shipped and what was invoiced are the same three numbers.
Distributors, importers and trade suppliers with warehouses, reps and account customers.
Light manufacturing
Bills of material, works orders and shop-floor output feeding the same stock and the same ledger, so a job has a cost rather than an estimate.
Makers, assemblers, food producers and job shops running batches or works orders.
Transport & delivery
Consignments born from the order, assigned to a vehicle that can actually carry them, driven by somebody whose hours and licence are already known, with the delivery moving the stock and the cash.
Couriers, own-fleet delivery operations, distributors delivering their own goods, and anybody running vans to fulfil what they sold.
Professional services
The pipeline, the delivery and the billing sharing a client record, so what was sold, what was done and what was invoiced can be compared without a spreadsheet.
Agencies, consultancies, practices and firms selling people’s time.
Field service & trades
Scheduling, parts, and what happened on site feeding the same customer record, so the invoice leaves the same day as the engineer.
Installers, maintenance firms, repairers and trades running engineers and vans.
Shift & hourly workforces
A shared clock on the wall, attendance derived from it, and a pay run that reads the result, so overtime is a record rather than an estimate, and the cost lands in the ledger by department.
Employers paying by the hour: hospitality, retail, warehousing, care, security, cleaning, production lines.
Why these read the same way
Every one of these problems is the same problem underneath.
Separate tools each keep their own copy of your customers, your stock and your staff, and the copies drift. Everything on the pages below is a specific case of that, and the fix is always the same one.
By role
The same platform, described in terms of the week you personally have.
For the finance lead
The ledger is fed by the trading rather than assembled from exports of it, so closing is checking what happened, not working out what happened.
Finance directors, financial controllers and the person who actually closes the month.
For the operations lead
Orders, stock, production and delivery on shared records, so the question is answered by looking rather than by ringing round.
Operations managers, general managers and whoever gets asked where the order is.
For the owner-manager
Start with what hurts most, and add the rest when it earns its place. One account, one invoice, and nothing that has to be migrated later.
Founders and owner-managers of businesses between roughly five and two hundred people.
For the IT lead
Single sign-on across everything, access that follows the org chart, and an audit trail, instead of seven admin consoles and a leavers process that misses two of them.
IT managers, heads of technology, and the person who owns the leavers checklist.
For the HR lead
HR that is not an island: the same person on the org chart, the timesheet, the expense claim, the asset register and the pay run, because it is one record rather than five.
HR managers, people leads, and whoever currently owns the spreadsheet that joins the HR system to payroll.
Production & planning lead
One MRP run reading today's stock and today's orders, planning against pinned bill versions, and handing the bench a dispatch list that reports back as it happens.
Production managers, planners and schedulers in small and mid-sized manufacturers.
Quality lead
Inspections against the work order they belong to, non-conformances that hold stock rather than describing it, and a traceable line from a customer complaint back to the batch and the supplier.
Quality managers and QA leads in regulated and unregulated production.
Fleet manager
Vehicles on the asset register, drivers with their licences and hours, walkaround checks from the cab, and a cost per kilometre read from what is recorded against the vehicle rather than a spreadsheet.
Fleet and transport managers running vans, trucks or plant, whether or not the business delivers anything.
For customer-facing teams
Chat, mail and the call log attached to the customer, the order or the ticket they concern, so the context survives the person who had it.
Sales, support and account teams whose answers currently live in a mailbox, a channel and a phone system that never met.
What these pages will not do
No percentages, and no customers we do not have.
Every solutions page on every SaaS site quotes a number: forty per cent faster, twelve hours a week saved. Those numbers need a customer behind them, and we do not have one yet. So these pages describe what the software does in your situation, the products they name carry their real availability labels, and where the evidence is a live demonstration system rather than a case study, they say so.
When there is a customer with a result worth publishing, it will appear here with their name on it.
Not sure which of these you are?
Tell us what you run today and what is going wrong with it. We will say which parts fit, which do not, and whether we are the wrong answer.