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title: "Features — PaprPlain"
description: "PaprPlain is the workspace for the connected business: customers, orders, stock, payments and work, from the Excel Sheet you already keep."
source: "https://paprpla.in/features"
---

Product

# The workspace for the connected business.

Customers, orders, stock, payments and work in one place — from the Excel Sheet you already keep. Totals stay right, stages hold, and the team works from a phone.

Getting set up

## It builds the workspace. You check it.

Bring the file you keep, or describe how the business runs.

[How a business starts](https://paprpla.in/#steps)

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**Your file is read, not just loaded** Columns, how full they are, and whether values turn up on another sheet — that is how a link is spotted.

**Or say what you do** Describe the business. You are never asked to name a table.

**It asks only what it cannot tell** A straightforward file opens straight away. Otherwise you see what it will build, in plain words, and are asked only where your data could mean two things.

**Tell it what goes wrong today** Overdue payments slipping, the same thing typed twice — tap it, and the starting columns and screens change to catch it.

Your data

## Bring what you already have.

Excel, CSV, a Google Sheet, or a blank table you type into.

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**Excel or Google Drive** Columns set themselves up. A connected sheet can be read again whenever you ask.

**Money, dates, photos** Amounts add up. Dates sort as dates. The photo sits on the row, not in a folder.

**Take it all back out** Any list downloads as Excel or CSV, with your own headings.

One connected business

## An order that knows whose it is.

Customers, orders, stock and payments in one project, linked.

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**Rows link to rows** An order to its customer, a payment to its order. Open either from the other.

**Totals that keep themselves right** Change a line and every total above it follows. A missing price is missing, not zero.

**Nothing is left dangling** Delete a customer with orders against them and you are told what is in the way.

Screens

## The numbers on top, the rows underneath.

Your first screens are built with the workspace. Want another? Say what you need to see.

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**A home page worth opening** The numbers that matter — and every one opens the rows behind it.

**Five ways to show it** Table, list, cards, a board jobs move across, or a month. Totals follow the filter.

**Describe the one you want** It comes back with your real rows. Nothing is saved until you say so.

**Ten thousand rows, still quick** It scrolls, searches and adds up like a short list.

**A chart for the meeting** Download any chart as an image for a slide, headed with what it counted and the date.

Invoices and sharing

## Invoice from the records you already keep.

Raise it, issue it, get paid against it — and send it as a PDF or a link.

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**Numbered when it is issued** In sequence, per fiscal year, in your country’s format. An abandoned draft never uses up a number.

**Payments bring the balance down** Record what came in and the invoice shows partly paid, paid or overdue by itself.

**A credit note, not an edit** An issued invoice is locked. Cancel it with a numbered credit note, and every total stays right.

**A PDF or a link** Print it, save it as a PDF, or send a link that opens without an account. The same goes for any screen or the Dashboard.

Running the work

## A job cannot skip a step.

Say the stages work moves through. That is what it does.

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**Stages that actually hold** Cannot skip, cannot reopen once cancelled. A move can need something filled in first.

**What is yours to do** One list across the business, soonest first, overdue counted.

**One thing follows another** Dispatch an order and the delivery is raised, as part of the same save.

**Checks you can switch off** Insist something is filled in — or delete the check whenever you like.

The Analyst

## Ask, instead of building the summary again.

Ask in the Analyst tab the way you would ask a person. The answer says which list it read.

[What reaches an AI, exactly](https://paprpla.in/privacy#ai)

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**Plain language, read only** Numbers, charts or rows. A question can never change or delete anything.

**Add it to the Dashboard** Pin an answer to the project’s Dashboard. Everyone sees it, worked out again from today’s records, and its cards can be dragged into place and resized.

**Your data stays yours** A model sees your column names and a small sample of rows — never a whole table, never your files, and never for training.

Your team

## Who can do what.

Not everyone who needs to see the numbers needs to be able to change them.

[How we handle your data](https://paprpla.in/security)

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**Three roles, from Team up** Admin, Editor, Viewer. Hide a project and the server refuses it.

**A bell, not an app** Unread count beside your profile, and an email. Activity is a running list of what changed.

**A code to sign in** Password plus a six-digit code from the phone — or Google. A second business stays in its own workspace.

## Try it against your own numbers.

Send us the file you keep today — or just tell us how the business runs. On a half-hour call we get your workspace built, and you decide from there. Nothing to install.

[Book a demo](https://cal.com/parikshithv/30min) [See pricing](https://paprpla.in/pricing)