Big Beam Development & Technology

Print formats, numbering, reporting and the platform layer

The parts that make the system yours — your documents, your numbering, your roles, your mailbox — configured through the application, not by a developer.

10 modules

Platform modules

  • Standard
  • Configurable
  • Custom scope
PLT.01Configurable

Print format designer

Eight document types, each designable two ways: tick which header and line-item fields appear and rename any label, or write the HTML yourself in a built-in code editor with live preview. QR codes embed automatically on quotations, purchase orders, invoices and delivery notes.

PLT.02Configurable

Business setup

Fourteen configuration areas — company information, multiple office addresses, multiple company banks, tax categories, per-module terms and conditions, per-document signature images, letterhead, transportation and more.

PLT.03Configurable

Document numbering

Fifteen document series, each with its own prefix, format template, sequence length and next number. Your numbering convention, not one imposed on you.

PLT.04Configurable

Reporting

Fourteen built-in reports, from vendor purchase ledgers and sales tax and withholding tax, to raw material purchased against production consumed, rolled up daily, weekly, monthly or yearly. Paper size, orientation, header, logo, letterhead, watermark and footer are configurable per report, and every one exports to CSV or prints.

PLT.05Standard

Data import

Nineteen entities importable from Excel or CSV, each with a downloadable template. Every run is logged with rows total, inserted, skipped and errored, plus the per-row errors — so a failed import tells you which line failed and why.

PLT.06Custom scope

Email

A full mail client inside the system, speaking IMAP and SMTP. Folders, attachments, drafts, an address book that builds itself from who you correspond with, and a company signature image applied on send. Big Beam provisions and manages the mailbox for you.

PLT.07Standard

Edit requests

When someone without rights to a locked document needs a change, the system captures the change they wanted — the full proposed record and their reason — as a request for review, instead of simply refusing them.

PLT.08Configurable

Drive folders

Google Drive folders embedded in the application and scoped per role, so a team opens its own documents without leaving the system or being handed a link to everything.

PLT.09Standard

IT support & assets

An internal ticket desk with categories, priorities and attachments, and an asset register covering assignment history, condition out and in, service and repair costs, warranty expiry, and printable QR asset tags.

PLT.10Standard

Internal chat

Direct messaging between users with read receipts, on a floating widget available from every screen.

Make the system look and number like your company

Software that forces its own document numbers and layouts creates more work than it saves. The Platform layer is where the system is fitted to your business without a developer: document series with your prefixes, print formats written or designed to your template, tax categories, letterheads, signatures, role permissions and the mailbox your team works from.

It also carries the controls an auditor asks about — a before-and-after audit trail, soft deletes that only an administrator can purge, and an edit-request workflow that captures a change instead of refusing it. Existing data comes in through Excel or CSV import with a logged result for every row.

Common questions

Can we keep our current document numbering?

Yes. Fifteen document series each have their own prefix, format template, sequence length and next number, so numbering can continue from where your records are today.

How much of the print layout can we change?

Eight document types are designable. Either tick which header and line-item fields appear and rename any label, or write the HTML yourself in the built-in code editor with live preview.

How do we load existing customers, vendors and employees?

Nineteen entities import from Excel or CSV, each with a downloadable template. Every import is logged with rows total, inserted, skipped and errored, plus the per-row errors.

See it running on your own documents

Tell us what your company does and which modules you would actually use. We will walk you through the system handling your work — not a slide deck.