“Who owes us money?”
The total outstanding, how much of it is overdue, and who the worst offender is,
counted from your invoices this second. Then: “write the oldest one a
chase” and there is a message waiting, with their name and the real figure in
it, for you to send from your own phone.
“Quote the Ivy for 6 metres of Carrara worktop”
A drafted quotation, with the rate, the unit and the tax code read off your own
price list. It has no number on it and it has gone nowhere. Open it, change what you
like, and send it when you are happy.
“Which quotations are still open, and for whom?”
The list, by customer, with what each one is worth and how long it has been
sitting there. Revised quotations are counted once rather than three times, which is
the sort of thing a spreadsheet gets wrong quietly.
“Add Rosalind Pike at Northbank Studios”
On the board at Enquiry, and a contact at the same time, so nobody types her in
twice. Say who referred her and that goes on too.
“The Ivy have said yes, mark it won”
Moved, and it tells you it was at Quoted before, in case that was not what you
meant. Every change reports what the value used to be.
“Put the acrylic prices up five per cent”
It counts them first and asks before it starts, because forty records is a big
thing to do on a guess. Then it does all forty while you make the tea.
A photograph of a supplier's price list
Take the picture, send it, ask what the delivery charge was. It reads the page.
A customer's PDF specification works the same way, and it remembers the file for the
rest of the conversation so the follow-up question still works.
“Move my logo to the left on quotations”
It changes how your documents print, there and then. Settings it is not allowed to
touch become a ticket with the people who built Psalm, in your own words, with a
reference you can quote.