Every business has at least one tool pair that doesn't talk. Shopify and QuickBooks. ServiceM8 and MYOB. Your CRM and your email tool. The ones designed for the same job exist, but yours is a slightly unusual combination, so they don't.
A staff member fills the gap by hand. Reads a value out of system A, types it into system B. Thirty seconds per item. Fifty times a day. Every day. An hour of warehouse time, or an admin afternoon, lost to keystrokes that a machine should be doing.
Worse: typos slip in. The bookkeeper trusts the data slightly less every week. Customers complain about wrong tracking, wrong addresses, wrong totals. The whole pipeline is one tired packer away from a billing error.
We build one automation tuned to that specific bridge. It pulls from system A on a schedule, finds the matching record in system B, writes the value in, and moves on. Safe to re-run, never writes to the wrong record, and surfaces what it changed in a single dashboard.
Some hand-offs run every hour. Some run when a file lands. Some are triggered by a webhook. The cadence fits the job — we don't poll every minute when daily is fine, and we don't wait an hour when seconds matter.
Lives on a server you control, or on a PC in your office. Either way, no per-record fees, no SaaS subscription that grows with your business.
For Raw Blend, our hand-off automation backfilled 361 of 383 missing tracking numbers in eighteen minutes on its first run, then took the task off the warehouse permanently. Tracking numbers now appear on QuickBooks invoices without a human in the loop.
Customers receive correctly tracked invoices. The bookkeeper trusts the data because it always comes straight from source. New staff don't need training on the hand-off because there isn't one to train them on.
An hour a day of recovered time, at typical wage rates, is about $15,000 a year. The build is priced against that saving.
| Metric | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Who owns the hand-off | Whoever is on shift | An automation that runs unattended |
| Time per record | Seconds to minutes of typing | Zero |
| Wrong-record rate | Typos, mismatches | Zero — never written to wrong record |
| Visibility when something fails | Found out from a customer complaint | Surfaced on the dashboard immediately |
| Recurring cost | Staff hours forever | One-off (local) or sized to saving (hosted) |
Pulls completed labels from ShipStation, finds the matching invoice in QuickBooks Online, writes the tracking number in. Runs hourly. Multi-store safe via shipment-number prefixing. Backfilled 361 of 383 invoices on first run.
When your existing sync tool can't handle partial payments, refunds or multi-currency edge cases, a direct custom sync covers the gaps without rewriting your whole accounting stack.
Pull approved hours out of your rostering tool, transform them into your payroll system's exact CSV, deliver them on a schedule. The Tuesday-morning admin job disappears.
Every build is quoted at one-fifth of what it saves your team in man-hours per year. The other four-fifths stay with your business, every year, after the build.
Most builds in this tier land between $2,500 and $25,000, depending on the size of the saving — a small single-task processor sits at the lower end, a multi-system platform at the upper.
Desktop app or local automation that runs on a PC you already own. One-off payment.
We host, run and maintain the build. Monthly subscription, sized so cost lands as the saving lands.
Discovery is free. We spend 30 minutes mapping the saving on a call and quote a specific number inside 48 hours.
Want the technical detail — APIs, code, the gotchas we hit, the actual log output? It's all in the Raw Blend case study.
Every page on this list is drawn from the same Raw Blend build — different problems, same operating model.
One credential surface, one dashboard, one set of automations covering every entity. Adding the next brand or location is a 30-minute job.
Custom processors tuned to a specific weekly input/output task. Margin Manager, Discount Manager, supplier feeds — same pattern, different industries.
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When your accounting system needs to talk to something it doesn't natively support — and the off-the-shelf sync tools fall over on your edge cases.
One URL to bookmark, one-click triggers, one-click log access, zero recurring SaaS. The kind of dashboard staff actually use.
Tell us the two systems and what's currently being typed between them. We'll spend 30 minutes mapping it on a free discovery call and quote a specific bridge automation inside 48 hours.
Discovery is free · Quote in 48 hours · No retainer required