Almost every company here already has reports. One person makes them, in Excel, on Monday morning, from three sources that do not agree.
The problem is not a missing tool. It is that sales from 1C, orders from the site and receipts from the bank do not line up, and whoever combines them makes small decisions along the way that nobody writes down.
What actually gets fixed
Definitions. What does "a sale" mean: the order placed, the invoice issued, or the money received? Three answers, three different figures, and usually all three circulating in the company at once. That gets settled before any chart.
Sources. Where each figure comes from and which system is the source of truth when two of them disagree. Without that rule, the dashboard becomes another opinion.
Automating collection. The same data, arriving on its own, at the same hour. What took two hours becomes something that already exists when you get to the office.
A small number of questions. A dashboard that answers five important questions gets used. One with forty indicators gets opened twice and abandoned.
What actually gets built here
Reports combining 1C with the website. The most frequent request in Moldova. Stock, sales, margin per product, in one place.
Dashboards per role. What the owner sees is not what the warehouse manager sees. The same data, different questions.
Alerts. Margin below threshold on a category, a product that has not moved in 90 days, a client whose orders dropped sharply. A report says what happened; an alert says when.
History kept. Many companies cannot compare this month with the same month last year, because the old data was lost when a system changed.
What is not worth building
A dashboard nobody opens. That happens when it is built from what is easy to measure rather than from what actually gets asked in a meeting.
The test is simple: if you cannot write down the five questions it has to answer, the dashboard is not ready to be built.
Questions
Where do we start if everything is in Excel?
With the three to five figures you calculate by hand most often. Those get automated first, because the time saved is immediate and measurable.
Do we have to change 1C?
No. Data gets read from it; it does not get replaced. Replacing the accounting system is a separate and far more expensive decision.
How long does it take?
From a few days for one automated report to a few weeks for a dashboard combining several systems with history.
Who keeps the dashboard up to date after delivery?
It updates itself. What needs maintenance is a change in a source's structure — that is, when someone alters a field in 1C or in the shop.