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>>flocia+(OP)
I'm trying to help my girlfriend manage the inventory for her cactus business. She raises cacti from seed, cuttings, but mostly from wholesale suppliers. She has a square account and store. I’m trying to set up inventory tracking for her. There are couple of things that make her business different than most inventory holding businesses.

1. Generally her inventory increases in value over time because it grows. Over time a plant will grow from a smaller pot to a larger pot, plants in large pots sell for more. 2. She wants to track which suppliers provide better quality plants (do the plants die quickly?). She also wants to track how fast different plants grow.

I could pretty easily write a django app that tracks this stuff.

Any recommendations for a platform I could build on top of (airtable? google forms+sheets?). Maybe some type of marketing automation platform.

Custom business apps are tricky. As a programmer it's easy to turn my nose up at excel based solutions, but I totally see how they end up being built.

>>paddy_+4E
Don't knock Microsoft Access for this sort of thing.

>>wbl+4I
Good point -- Access is a great middle ground between kludging something together in a spreadsheet and writing an entire app from scratch.

>>obtani+fP
I'm sure this exists, but it's probably about time we had a GUI you can put in front of a Postgres/MySQL server in a similar way to Access forms, as a kind of hybrid between niche app and off the shelf.

>>alexch+mh1
maybe data froms action!

http://www.data-forms-action.com/