Custom business suite for Pleated Up
Small businesses face a frustrating choice: expensive enterprise software that does too much, or a chaotic pile of spreadsheets that does too little. Pleated Up needed something in between.
Using Figma Make, I built a custom suite of multiple tools that solved various problems for the business:
Smart invoice processing. Photograph a vendor invoice, and AI plus OCR extracts the details automatically. Data gets stored in Google Sheets, files organized in Google Drive. What used to take 15 minutes per invoice now takes 30 seconds.
Employee and leave management. Tracks attendance, permissions, and leave balances. Computes salaries based on actual days worked.
Shopify analytics. Sales metrics, variant breakdowns, and monthly trends pulled directly from Shopify into a custom dashboard.
Design asset library. A searchable repository connected to Google Drive for all textile design files.
Role-based access. Different team members see only what's relevant to their work.
Why this matters
This isn't about the tools. It's about what's now possible. A designer with AI built production software for a real business, tailored to specific problems, deployed automatically, for practically nothing. Every small business should be doing this.