The maker
Sells handmade products at craft fairs and online. Inventory is small, but every item carries weight. Needs to know stock from a phone, between customers, with hands full.
Why I built MySmallBusiness.
My wife sells handmade crafts on weekends. My friend runs a Tupperware route. A few co-workers share one Etsy shop. They are not running enterprises — they are running shops, on phones, often with one hand while holding a customer.
Every one of them was drowning in spreadsheets. Formulas breaking. Tabs lost on the wrong device. Sale records in a notebook that may or may not survive the day. They needed something built for the booth — not for the boardroom.
So I built it.
I built this so the people I love could spend less time managing a business and more time running one.
The three people I built for.
The family shop
Two or more people share one book. Owner needs to invite the family in without giving them admin powers. Needs to see, end of day, what each market made.
The direct seller
Catalog is largely fixed. Needs to record every sale, tag every party, and see at month-end which channels are paying off.