Move off spreadsheets without stopping work
The fear is that switching systems will halt the business for a week. Here is the order that keeps work going while you change.
Abhilash Purohit
12 May 2026 · 2 min read
Most owners know their spreadsheets have to go. What holds them back is the switch itself: the worry that work will stop, data will get lost, and the team will revolt.
It does not have to be that way. A changeover goes wrong when it is done all at once, on a demo company, with a hard cut-over on a Monday morning. Done in the right order, the business barely feels it.
The order that works
- Start with the one thing that hurts most, usually stock or outstanding. Not everything at once.
- Move your real data in, not a sample. People trust a screen that shows their own godowns and parties.
- Run the old way and the new way side by side for a week, until the numbers match and nobody is nervous.
- Only then switch the spreadsheets off, one at a time.
Keep the momentum small
You do not need to move the whole business in one leap. Move the part that hurts, prove it, then move the next part. Each step earns the next, and the work never has to stop while you do it.
Abhilash Purohit
Co-founder and Technical Architect
Abhilash spent over a decade on manufacturing shop floors, working next to sales, production, and every other department, before building ERPs full time. He designs how each i1ERP system fits together and makes sure it holds up once real work runs through it.
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