One integrated suite. Built for independent businesses of every kind.
Whether you sell services, ship products, build custom goods, or run a client practice, the core needs overlap: winning customers, delivering the work, getting paid, and keeping clean books. The pages below are real-world examples of the same general-purpose platform — the emphasis changes, not the software.
Who it is built for
Auto repair & field trades
Inquiry, work order, invoice, paid — in that order, on a laptop that lives in a van and works when the signal does not. The job card is the product: parts and labor on one sheet, margins worked out before the customer says yes, and the invoice posting its own entry the moment it is raised.
- Quotes become work orders; work orders become invoices.
- Customer assets — the machine you service twice a year — with their full history.
- A production work-order view that prints clean and hides margin fields.
Mechanics, electricians, plumbers, HVAC, landscapers — anyone whose day is a sequence of stops, each one a small business transaction.
Makers & custom manufacturing
A bill of materials is a recipe, and a batch build is an event: components leave raw materials, the build lands in finished goods at what it actually cost, and every movement is an inventory transaction rather than a note on a whiteboard. When a supplier raises a price, the margin watchdog flags the quotes that would now lose money.
- Items with unit costs tracked over time, and inventory that moves when you buy and sell.
- Bills of materials and batch builds, costed from what went in.
- Raw materials, work in progress and finished goods as real accounts.
Cabinet makers, fabricators, small manufacturers, anyone who turns components into things and needs to know what a thing cost.
Independent retail & e-commerce
The payout from a marketplace is not revenue — it is revenue minus platform fees, minus shipping, minus affiliate commissions, plus refunds. FoundrySuite splits the payout into its components before it is booked, so the books say what actually sold, what the platform took, and what really arrived at the bank. A sales tax center turns the same records into the liability figure.
- Payout splits for TikTok Shop, Shopify, Etsy and Square, from their own payout files.
- Merchant fees, shipping revenue and refunds as their own accounts.
- A sales tax center: taxable and non-taxable sales, and the liability, per period.
Brick-and-mortar shops, marketplace sellers and small e-commerce brands that sell where their customers are.
Solo contractors & local services
You are the sales team, the admin and the accountant. The problem with serious software is that it assumes a company exists behind it — a seat count, a team plan, a subscription for a person who is one person. Here the license is per workstation, the product is the whole thing, and the trial needs no company size field.
- Leads, quotes, invoices and the ledger without a team in the way.
- Documents read on your machine: the PDF the client sent, the receipt in the glovebox.
- One license, one machine, owned outright — $110/mo for 24 months, $200/mo for 12 months, or $2,200 once.
Consultants, designers, cleaners, tutors, gardeners — anyone whose entire operation fits in one head.
Also built for
The same program serves businesses that sell time and judgment rather than things. The software does not change; the emphasis does.
Agencies & studios
Client work, proposals, pipeline, and billable expenses — for an agency whose competitive edge is being good at something, not being large.
Read more →Law firms & accounting practices
Professional confidentiality duties are real, and they were written for a filing cabinet in your own building.
Read more →Nonprofits & campaigns
Member and donor records handled by volunteers, with a procurement process that asks increasingly pointed questions.
Read more →Investigative & private advisory firms
For private investigators, forensic researchers, litigation support, and journalists where a leaked client or source name in a cloud CRM puts people or cases at risk.
Read more →If none of those is you
Then the general case is the one to read. Almost any small business between one and fifty people that keeps a list of people it needs to follow up with, or a ledger it needs to trust, will get what it needs here.
The sections exist because the software is the same and the reason it is worth switching is not.
Who it is not for
FoundrySuite is built for single-site businesses, solo operators, and local office teams of 1 to 50 people. The short list of what it deliberately is not:
- Globally distributed enterprises that need real-time multi-continent cloud database replication or custom Okta/SAML enterprise SLAs. A local application is the wrong architecture for that, and no amount of marketing will fix it.
- Large organizations whose actual requirement is multi-region resilience, identity provider integration and a support contract with an SLA. Build one of those and FoundrySuite becomes the small business's problem.
- Anyone who does not want to own the machine. There is no managed version. That is the product.
Or just try it
Every one of these objections is answered faster by an afternoon with your own data than by another page.