Grolia
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Internal tools and business automation
Plenty of businesses run on a spreadsheet that has grown for years, a shared inbox and a lot of copying between tools. We replace that with an internal tool built around how your team already works, and automate the steps nobody should be doing by hand.
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What we build
Internal tools & automation
Spreadsheet replacements
The same information your team keeps in a spreadsheet, with forms, validation, history and more than one person able to edit safely.
Admin systems
Orders, customers, products, stock and shipping managed in one place.
Custom CRMs
Leads, clients and jobs tracked the way your business sells, not the way a generic CRM assumes.
Approvals
Requests, reviews and sign-offs with clear owners, statuses and a record of who changed what.
Automated workflows
Orders sent to a supplier, emails triggered by events, data synced between tools, all without someone copying it across.
Integrations
Connections to the software you already pay for, such as Stripe, Mailchimp, ShipStation or your accounting system.
Approach
How we build it
We start by watching how the work is done today: the spreadsheet, the inbox, the steps in between. The first version replaces the most painful part, and the rest follows once people are using it.
At Grolia, Steve built a staff admin for orders, products, customers, shipping and manufacturing, and automated block orders through to the supplier’s fulfilment system.
Questions
Common questions
Our business runs on spreadsheets. Is it worth replacing them?
Often not all at once. If a spreadsheet is shared by several people, keeps breaking or needs someone to copy data in and out of it, that part is usually worth turning into a proper tool first.
Should we build a tool or buy one?
If an existing product fits how you work, buy it. A custom tool makes sense when your process is specific to your business, when data is spread across several tools, or when per-seat pricing gets expensive as you grow.
Can it connect to the software we already use?
Usually. If a system has an API, a database we can read from or a regular export, an internal tool can use it. Tell us what you use in the enquiry.
Working together
How an enquiry works
No sales calls to book. Tell us about the project and we’ll take it from there.
Send an enquiry
Tell us what you need built, what you use now and roughly when. A few sentences is enough to start.
Steve reads it
Every enquiry is read by Steve, the founder. If it looks like a good fit, he replies by email with questions.
Talk it through
If the project suits us both, we talk through what to build first and how to get there.
Ready to retire the spreadsheet?
A few sentences is enough. Steve reads every enquiry and replies by email.