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The Ofivio products, explained
A guide for every product, each with the limits named as clearly as the features. The catalogue itself is at products.
One spine, eleven products: what actually happens when you add a second oneEvery platform says its products are connected. Here is the specific, checkable version of that claim, and the two places it stops being true.Ofivio Classroom, explained: a student's own record, freeEvery institution's system is built for the institution. When a student leaves, the record leaves with it. Classroom is the other way round.Ofivio POS, explained: a till that keeps proper booksMost point-of-sale software ends at the receipt. The takings are then summarised into a cash book and the shop's real position becomes a matter of the owner's instinct.Ofivio Business, explained: the work before the workEvery project business has a second business attached to it: finding the next project. In most firms that one lives in a notebook, a phone and one person's memory.Ofivio Engineering, explained: review and issue as first-class recordsEngineering consultancies produce calculations and the documents that carry them. The calculations belong in specialist software. The documents are where the time goes.Ofivio Manage, explained: projects with a fee, not a boardThere is no shortage of project management software. There is a shortage of project management software that knows a project costs money, employs people and ends in a handover.Ofivio Real Estate, explained: the rent roll as the systemA property portfolio is a small number of large facts and long gaps in which nothing happens except that a date quietly approaches. That is what a spreadsheet handles worst.Ofivio Planning & QS, explained: the bill as a live objectA bill of quantities is the most re-used document on a project and the least respected one in software: priced in Excel, sent as a PDF, re-typed into an order, measured against by hand.Ofivio People, explained: the roster is free, the paperwork is the productBetween five and five hundred people, HR is a real job nobody has been given. Leave is approved in a chat, attendance is a photographed register, and a letter takes two days.Ofivio Books, explained: a ledger the work writes for youMost small firms keep two systems: the one where work happens and the one where it is later described to an accountant. Ofivio Books is the second one, written by the first.Ofivio Build, explained: construction management on the product systemOfivio Build is the construction product on the Ofivio spine: the BOQ is the backbone, and procurement, warehouse and site reporting hang off it. Here is what's in the box and how the pricing works.Ofivio AE, explained: what's in the box, what it costs, and how the product system worksOfivio moved to a product system: you buy the product for your industry, size it by seats, and add whole dashboards as you grow. Here is exactly how that works for an architecture or engineering practice.What is Ofivio? One spine, eleven products, explained in five minutesOfivio (that's O-F-I-V-I-O — not "oficio") is a software platform for project-driven businesses, built in Pakistan and used by design practices, contractors and the firms around them. This is the five-minute map of what it is and how the pieces fit.
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Other sections
- Running an architecture practice11 articles
- Drawings, revisions and document control2 articles
- Construction, the site, and getting paid for it4 articles
- Bills of quantities and quantity surveying2 articles
- The money side of a project business2 articles
- People, payroll and the roster1 article
- Property, tenancies and the rent roll1 article
- Choosing software for a project business9 articles
- Building and designing in Pakistan3 articles
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