david thomas

EST. 2020 · BORN IN A WAREHOUSE

Inventory software for the industries big software forgot.

BSimple runs stock, orders and invoicing for packaging businesses, coffee roasters and everyone else the enterprise giants decided were too niche. Australian made, Xero integrated.

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$ tail -f admin-pain.log · now suspiciously quiet

what it does

The paperwork, handled

01Inventory that tells the truth

One source of truth for stock across every order, location and team. The spreadsheet goes back to being a spreadsheet.

02Orders without the chase

From the first customer order to the final invoice, in one flow. No re-keying, no "which version is current", no end-of-month archaeology.

03Xero integration

Invoices and payments flow straight through to the books, reconciled and ready for the accountant.

04Automation that does the data entry

Order processing, stock updates, documents: the repetitive stuff just happens. Your team does the parts that need a human.

05Built for niche industries

Roasteries, packaging, trades: workflows the big ERP packages shrug at. If your industry runs on spreadsheets, that's our specialty.

06"Slices", not shared mess

Every customer gets a fully isolated system, spun up in minutes. Better security, less support overhead, lower prices for everyone.

see it move

Watch it work

order-to-xero.html · from the first customer order to the reconciled invoice, one flow
dashboard.html · every part of the business, one dashboard
2016
first light, as an internal tool
2020
launched mid-pandemic
1
coffee roaster who started it all
the accidental startup

In 2016 I bought a local packaging business. I thought I was getting into boxes and tape. Very quickly I learned I was actually in the administration business, and the admin was winning. Manual data entry, order processing, stock management: the single biggest drag on the whole company.

Having already built systems for Simple Telecom, I did what came naturally. I built a software platform purely for our own packaging team: automated our specific workflow, killed our specific headaches. It was never meant to be a product.

Then a customer, a local coffee roaster, caught a glimpse of it and asked, in effect: "I have the exact same problems in my roastery. Can you build me one?" We built his version on a shoestring. As soon as it was live, three more roasters asked for the same thing.

That's when it clicked. This problem wasn't unique to my warehouse. Small businesses everywhere, especially in niche industries like roasting, were stuck in the gap: enterprise software far too expensive and rigid, spreadsheets increasingly chaotic. A huge gap right in the middle, with my name on it.

There was one catch: the system wasn't built to scale. So I paused sales and re-engineered the whole platform around secure, isolated "slices". A fully separated system per customer, spun up in minutes. Less support overhead, better security, lower cost for everyone.

We launched the rebuilt product as BSimple in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. It seemed like a terrible time to launch a business. The need said otherwise, and the need was right.

Still on spreadsheets?

If your operation runs on spreadsheets and memory, that's a software gap. We close it.

Visit bsimple.com.au

Australian made. Xero friendly. Spreadsheet intolerant.