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An accountant built the system that now runs his e-commerce side business end to end

Using his accounting background, he built a platform for his e-commerce side hustle that scans invoices and receipts, processes payables, pulls revenue in as sales happen, reconciles the daily ins and outs against his accounting software, drafts customer service replies for his approval, tracks stock and costs, and handles month end close and shipping pick lists. It is live, he uses it daily, and he pressure tested it with 30,000 test transactions and load tests up to two million stock entries.

How it works

  1. Build invoice and receipt scanning
  2. Connect revenue sources as sales happen
  3. Daily reconciliation against the books
  4. Add stock, costing and pricing tools
  5. Add month end close and pick lists
  6. Load test with 30,000 transactions
  7. Run it daily

Why it’s worth knowing

He gave the agent his own server login and made it use the system like a person, not just review the code, before trusting it with the books.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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