Who it’s for
The pattern is the same in every one of these: the orders are worth having, the customers are not going to change, and somebody in the building is paying for that with their afternoons.
Thousands of SKUs, customers who order by their own internal codes, and a counter that has always just typed it in.
The catalogue is the hard part here, not the reading. One maintenance customer might have four ways of writing the same bearing, none of them yours.
Daily standing orders, short cut-off windows, and a mistake that cannot be fixed tomorrow because tomorrow it is compost.
Volume arrives in a two-hour band every morning. The cost of keying here is not the wage — it is the orders that miss the truck.
Contractors ordering off a phone from a job site, often as a photograph of something handwritten.
This is where the photographed-paper case earns its keep. The order was written on a scrap on a tailgate, and it still has to become a picking list.
Dealers and reps sending orders on their own forms, each convinced theirs is the standard one.
You cannot mandate a format across a dealer network without losing dealers. So you accept all of them, and somebody pays for that in keystrokes.
Is this you
Two or more of these and the arithmetic on the calculator page will not be close.
Put your real numbers in. If the figure is small, we will tell you it is small — this is not worth buying to save four hours a month.