The software that bends to how you trade not the other way round.
Most businesses have a handful of things they do their own way. DataFlow accommodates them with user-defined fields, branded installer builds, bespoke report layouts and customer-specific EDI variants — so the system fits your trade without forking the product.
The problem
When the software will not bend.
Every business has a few things it does its own way. Standard software either ignores them or forces an expensive fork.
The data you need has nowhere to go
Your documents carry details the standard fields never anticipated, so they end up in a notes box, a spreadsheet or somebody’s memory.
Reports never quite match the house style
The standard layouts are close but not right, and there is no supported way to produce the document your customers actually expect.
A big partner speaks their own dialect
One large trading partner wants EDI their way, and a generic feed cannot meet the exact fields, codes and sequencing they insist on.
Starting from an empty system
Moving in means the chart of accounts, customers, suppliers, stock and opening balances all have to be re-keyed by hand, so the first weeks go on data entry instead of trading.
Overview
The same product, shaped to fit.
Customisation without a fork you have to maintain forever.
User-defined fields that add data without a core change
Extra fields added to documents without touching the core code. Delivered as a pluggable DLL, so upgrades stay clean.
No core changeto add the fields you need
Extra tabson the document edit windows
Customer-specific installer builds, branded and configured
Branded installer with default settings and a licence association. Custom code paths where the standard product needs to flex.
Same productbranded and pre-configured
Scopedas a sales-and-engineering decision
Bespoke report layouts loaded alongside the standard set
Layouts commissioned to your house style and requirements. Loaded alongside the standard reports, not in place of them.
Bespokelayouts to your requirements
Alongsidethe standard reports
EDI variants for a large partner’s own dialect
Variants that meet a large partner’s specific EDI dialect. The fields, codes and sequencing that partner requires.
Partner dialecthandled as a specific variant
Exactfields, codes and sequencing
In their words
The system grew with us. Over the years we ran it, our turnover roughly doubled.
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Explore more
More capabilities.
Customisation is one of the ways DataFlow shapes to your business — explore the other capabilities that flex around how you trade.
Yes. User-defined fields add extra data to documents without a core code change. They are delivered as a pluggable DLL that surfaces as additional tabs and fields on the document edit windows.
What is a customer-specific installer build?
It is the same product, branded, with default settings, a licence association and custom code paths. It is a sales-and-engineering decision rather than a self-service option, so it is scoped deliberately for the customer that needs it.
Can DataFlow produce our own report layouts?
Yes. Bespoke report layouts are commissioned to your requirements and loaded alongside the standard reports, so you keep the standard set and add the documents your customers expect.
How does DataFlow handle a partner’s specific EDI format?
Customer-specific EDI variants handle a large partner’s own dialect, meeting the exact fields, codes and sequencing that partner requires without changing the core feed.
