Against the kinds of tool a business usually runs instead — not against brands, which change every month. What each usually does, what skynat.ai does, and, further down, where one of them is the better buy.
One system in place of the nine your team switches between.
| The job | Spreadsheets and WhatsAppWhat most small businesses actually run on. | An accounting packageBuilt for the books, from the invoice onwards. | A CRM or a project boardBuilt for the pipeline, or for the tasks. | A trade's own systemA till, practice software, a field-service app: one trade, done deeply. | skynat.aiOne system, on one ledger. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quotes and invoices | Partly: Typed up each time from a template | Yes: Yes | Partly: Usually through an add-on | Partly: For that trade's own work | From your catalogue or in your own words, read for mistakes before they go, and an invoice in one step once accepted. How |
| Getting paid on time | No: Somebody remembers to ask | Partly: Reminders on a schedule | Partly: By hand, from the pipeline | Partly: Varies | A ladder of reminders that stops the moment money lands, and a limit you set that holds the next order to a customer who has stopped paying, unless somebody says so. How |
| The books and the tax return | No: Rebuilt at the year end | Yes: The whole point of it | No: No | Partly: Usually exported to an accountant | A double-entry ledger under everything, so the return is a report over records that were already right. How |
| Stock and the till | No: A count on a sheet | Partly: Usually basic stock levels | No: No | Yes: For a shop, yes | Stock, batches, stocktakes and a till, in the same ledger as the rest of the business. How |
| Jobs and proof from site | Partly: Photos lost in a chat | No: No | Partly: Tasks, without proof | Yes: For a field-service trade, yes | Job cards, the week's plan, field mode that works offline, and proof with the time, the place and the person on it. How |
| Your trade's own register | Partly: A notebook | No: No | No: Custom fields, set up by you | Yes: For its one trade | A clinic's sealed records, a funeral parlour's cases, a herd register, a pawn book, a guest register — nineteen trades, on one engine. How |
| A customer can check a document is really yours | No: No | No: Not usually | No: Not usually | No: Not usually | Every quote and invoice carries a code to check it by, and a customer can ask you to confirm it before paying. How |
| The scams aimed at you | No: Up to whoever opens the email | Partly: Varies | No: Not usually | Partly: Varies | Changed supplier bank details questioned, proofs of payment set against the bank, the overpayment refund held, the fake purchase order said. How |
| An assistant that does the work | No: No | Partly: Increasingly, a chat box | Partly: Increasingly, a chat box | Partly: Varies | It reaches the same functions the buttons do, and stops for a person before money moves or a customer is contacted. How |
| One record across all of it | No: Copied between files | Partly: Through integrations | Partly: Through integrations | Partly: Its own corner, well | One customer, one price, one ledger: nothing to keep in step, because nothing is kept twice. How |
skynat.ai: From your catalogue or in your own words, read for mistakes before they go, and an invoice in one step once accepted. How
skynat.ai: A ladder of reminders that stops the moment money lands, and a limit you set that holds the next order to a customer who has stopped paying, unless somebody says so. How
skynat.ai: A double-entry ledger under everything, so the return is a report over records that were already right. How
skynat.ai: Stock, batches, stocktakes and a till, in the same ledger as the rest of the business. How
skynat.ai: Job cards, the week's plan, field mode that works offline, and proof with the time, the place and the person on it. How
skynat.ai: A clinic's sealed records, a funeral parlour's cases, a herd register, a pawn book, a guest register — nineteen trades, on one engine. How
skynat.ai: Every quote and invoice carries a code to check it by, and a customer can ask you to confirm it before paying. How
skynat.ai: Changed supplier bank details questioned, proofs of payment set against the bank, the overpayment refund held, the fake purchase order said. How
skynat.ai: It reaches the same functions the buttons do, and stops for a person before money moves or a customer is contacted. How
skynat.ai: One customer, one price, one ledger: nothing to keep in step, because nothing is kept twice. How
Usual, not universal: a particular product may do more than its kind usually does. Check your own tools against the rows above — it is the comparison that matters to you.
The places a business is better served by something built for exactly that, and why.
Practice software built for claims switching
Claims are tracked here — submitted, denied, reworked, paid — but not sent through a switch.
Manufacturing software
Recipes cost a plate and take its ingredients off the shelf; there is no planning of production runs or machine capacity.
A channel manager
The booking sites are read through the calendar links they give, which catches a double booking but is not a live connection, and deposits are not taken online.
A debit-order provider, alongside
Standing orders are matched from the bank statement; debit orders arrive from a provider as one batch total and need its own connection.
A local payroll bureau
Payroll is built country by country, and the seven newest countries wait for a bureau to work with.
A free invoicing app
This is a whole system, priced as one. If invoices are all you will ever need, it is more than you need.
No card to start. Per seat, because a team of ten should not run the agent on one person's subscription.
$29
a month, including 3 seats
One person, or one person and a hand or two.
$19
per seat, per month
A team that runs the business in here every day.
$34
per seat, per month
Several locations, or a team that leans on the agent hard.
Custom
volume seats from $28 each
Volume seats, your own security review, a contract.
Full detail, including field seats and what the agent costs, on the pricing page.
14 days free, no card. Set it up with your own customers and prices, and judge it on those.
