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Anes Hamdaoui
Anes Hamdaoui builds business systems at Atheerium, a software studio in Algiers. He writes about the systems small companies actually run on — inventory, invoicing, delivery, integration — and about the decisions that come before any code: what has to be recorded, who owns the record, and what should stop being done by hand.
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Anes Hamdaoui writes about the systems small companies run on: inventory, invoicing, delivery and integration. Every article, in one place.
- AI will not fix data you do not trust
- AI order processing: where a model helps, and where it must not
- Airtable or Notion: a database, a wiki, and knowing which one you need
- Arabic, French or both: choosing the language of your website
- Publishing articles that get found: what to do after the site is built
- Asana or Monday: what actually decides it, and when neither fits
- Automated data onboarding without duplicate records
- A backup you have never restored is not a backup
- Cash on delivery is an operations problem, not a payment option
- How to compare SaaS tools without believing the comparison sites
- Why nobody opens the dashboard you paid for
- Work out delivery cost before you set a price
- E-invoice receiving: what automation must do before posting
- Excel or an ERP: the point where the spreadsheet stops coping
- Automating expense reports without losing the receipts
- HubSpot or Salesforce: the choice before the choice
- HubSpot or Zoho CRM for a small team: the differences that survive the demo
- The internal tool with no login is the risk you already own
- Invoice exception handling: where automation succeeds or fails
- A maintenance request is not a ticket
- Metabase or Power BI: what decides it for a small team
- A mobile app or a responsive site: the question behind the question
- A monthly report that reconciles: the five numbers that matter
- One stock number across several shops: what actually breaks
- Notion or Confluence: choosing a home for company knowledge
- Odoo alternatives for an Algerian company: four paths, and who each one suits
- Odoo or Sage for an Algerian company: the difference that decides it
- Accepting online payments in Algeria: the two paths, and who each one suits
- Digitising a paper form without breaking the process
- A local accounting package or an ERP: what gets outgrown
- What a private school's management system actually has to record
- Shopify alternatives for an Algerian shop: what to weigh instead
- Shopify or WooCommerce for an Algerian shop
- Why your site feels slow in Algeria — and what actually fixes it
- What to write down before you commission software
- Moving a spreadsheet into a real system without losing the numbers
- Why your stock count never matches the system
- What support after go-live should actually include
- Taking over a system from the developer who left
- Why two quotes for the same website differ by a factor of five
- Two systems, one customer: who owns the record
- What an AI assistant can actually do inside a small business
- What breaks when a website is translated into Arabic
- Meta's WhatsApp Cloud API or Twilio: who should hold the number
- Who owns the code you paid for
- Wix or WordPress for a small business: the question behind the platform
- WordPress or a custom site: what actually decides it
- What a workshop needs from its own system
- Zapier or n8n: where the automation runs, and who owns it
- Custom ERP or off-the-shelf: how to decide before you pay for either
- Why Most Algerian Small Businesses Don't Need an E-commerce Website
- When a 200-line script is the whole automation you need
- When building a small tool makes more sense than buying one
- A hundred pages without a hundred templates
- Custom software or a subscription: how to compare them honestly
- The Real Cost of Running an E-commerce Business in Algeria (Detailed Breakdown)
- Facebook Groups vs. Meta Ads: Where to Market Your Business in Algeria
- How to Find Reliable Suppliers in Algeria for Your E-commerce Business
- How to Handle Returns and Refunds in an Algerian E-commerce Business
- Why foreign SaaS pricing does not translate to the Algerian market
- What the WhatsApp Business API actually changes for an Algerian shop
- Where a WhatsApp order flow breaks, and what to put in its place
- Automating invoice processing: what the system actually has to do
- When repetitive work deserves software — and when it deserves a rule
- What reliability means for a small business system
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