PORTWARE · The productive business management system
The resource that teaches you to use and run the system — with the daily flow of every process, screen by screen.
INTRODUCING PORTWARE
From quotation to collection, from manufacturing to maintenance, every process in the same database. Built on the world's most widely used open-source business-management core, backed by CapitalG, the growth fund of Google's parent Alphabet — and taken far beyond it with manufacturing, engineering, AI and office layers.
One page, thirty minutes. No technical knowledge needed.
BUILT TO GROW
The biggest obstacles to growth are the same in most companies. PORTWARE builds the order and the system that solve them, and much more.
Text to sit down and read. Every part also works on its own.
The whole system in 33 chapters: what it is, how it is used and the daily flow of every process.
Separate reading orders for new users, process owners, project managers and system administrators.
The terms used on the screens and in this book, in one sentence each.
Screen-by-screen use of the applications.
Financial accounting, invoicing, payments and reporting
Customer relations, opportunity management and sales processes
Inventory management, shipping and the supply chain
Manufacturing orders, bills of materials and work centres
Vendor management, purchase orders and goods receipt
Employee management, payroll, time off and recruitment
Project management, timesheets and field service
Corporate site, catalogue and document centre
Documents, knowledge base, calendar, chat and AI
POS sessions, receipt design and cash management
Equipment, preventive maintenance and breakdown requests
Vehicle management, contracts and cost tracking
The layer written for this system, not found in the open-source core.
The AI assistant that works with the system's data: it searches records, reads inside PDFs, produces reports and updates records with your approval.
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Z.ai GLM, ElevenLabs and local AI behind one interface; web research never opens the company up.
Every MCP client connects at one address, with the rights of the person who connected it; writes are undoable, critical work waits for PORTWARE.
On request it transcribes the meeting by speaker, writes the note an expert would, and turns actions into tasks in one click.
Cowork Assistants that take tasks: they research, draft, watch and reconcile; they prepare the work and leave the decision to a person.
The company's pulse on one screen: live dashboards that respect permissions, compare with last year and open every figure's records.
Word, Excel and presentation files open in the browser, are written together, and every save leaves a version.
A Notion-style knowledge base: nested pages, {{variable}} and [[property]] system.
A draw.io diagram editor inside rich text; the drawing carries its own source and stays editable.
STEP, DXF, DWG and STL files open in the browser without downloading.
The system's own document format: it lives in the chatter, its page is designed, drawn on and versioned.
Tab strip, side panel, application memory, global search and the mobile shell.
A dealer sees the catalogue everyone sees with their own prices; the basket becomes a request, the request an order.
A win probability that states each factor's share in points, opportunity back to lead and a required lost reason.
The commercial chain from quote to online signature, change request to renewal, installation to maintenance; the product price list.
A new company opens with the configuration an industrial SME expects, an exemplary project template and a company formation system.
Every guide and module page in this documentation, by group. Ctrl+F finds an application by its name. 125