I'm responsible for purchasing our computer equipment for our startup. Every time I make a purchase on our company (@MakeSpace) credit card, I have to remember to send an email to our accountants (record the purchase as an asset, depreciation for taxes, etc). More importantly, it's hard to keep track of what equipment was given to each employee. I imagine at a larger company this would be handled by an IT department,…
Register for an account.
Follow the little tutorial balloons to create your first collection: "Employees." Create some basic employee pages.
Create another collection, "Equipment," with pages named after serial numbers, and add some facts: perhaps "Used By," "Purchase Date," and "Type."
This will probably take no more than a couple of minutes. What you get is a wiki-like site with permissions; an easy way to create and present charts, distributions, overviews, etc; and a newsfeed showing fact changes, like "Owner changed to X from Y."
Once you see how the product works, you can upload your existing data as CSV. You will need to upload existing receipts by hand, or use our API (we can help you with this).
Example queries that you can build trivially with the "explore" view, and then store on a page or embed:
- Equipment with "Used By" nonempty, grouped by memory amount
- Table of equipment with owner, price, date purchased
- Pie chart of equipment's memory size distribution
Check out https://www.silk.co/teams and write an email if you want some help setting it up. Or send me a message.