From the founder
Hi, I’m Tommy.
I built Notch and Turnover around one number: what you actually kept. Sales are easy to count. The fee the marketplace took, the postage, what the stock cost to land and the pieces still sitting unsold are not, and most tools either leave them out or hide the sum. A spreadsheet can do it, right up until one formula is wrong and nobody can see which.
A profit arrives with the sale, the fee and the cost behind it, printed in full:
You can check it rather than trust it. If a number is example data, it says so.
The second thing I cared about was who gets to see those numbers. Costs, suppliers and margins are some of the most sensitive data a small business has. So I made the decision that shaped everything else: give people a way to lock their records so that even I can’t read them. That’s the Vault, and it is on every plan, the free one included.
I want to be straight about the trade-offs. The default mode, Standard, keeps a synced copy we can read, because it is simpler and recoverable. The Vault is opt-in and encrypts on your device. If you lose your Vault passphrase, I can’t get it back for you. I’d rather tell you that plainly than pretend there’s a magic recovery button.
Try it, and tell me where it falls short. That is how it gets good.
Tommy O’Connor