Czech wholesalers type incoming orders into their systems by hand

Orders reach Czech wholesalers as e-mails, PDFs and spreadsheets, and staff type each line into their accounting software.2 sourcesY Combinatorycombinator.comMercura (another site)Bavarian YC W25 company, around 20 people, automating quote and order processing for construction-supply distributors — the same buyer, one border away.Company abroad · Market checkapertia.aiApertia Tech, Alice and Dativery (another site)Apertia's 'B2B Objednávky pomocí AI' pulls orders out of e-mail into Pohoda, ABRA, Money, Helios and K2; Alice by Redque and Dativery sell the same extraction into the same ERPs.Market check ·

Good for Someone who'd like to work with wholesalers and their accounting software.

Category
B2B
Entry
Easy
Verified

The opportunity

0/2 · Unclear pain

Quote requests and orders reach Czech wholesalers as e-mails, PDFs and spreadsheets, and staff type them into their accounting software by hand.2 sourcesY Combinatorycombinator.comMercura (another site)Bavarian YC W25 company, around 20 people, automating quote and order processing for construction-supply distributors — the same buyer, one border away.Company abroad · Market checkapertia.aiApertia Tech, Alice and Dativery (another site)Apertia's 'B2B Objednávky pomocí AI' pulls orders out of e-mail into Pohoda, ABRA, Money, Helios and K2; Alice by Redque and Dativery sell the same extraction into the same ERPs.Market check ·

  • Staff read each order and look up every item's code themselves.2 sourcesY Combinatorycombinator.comMercura (another site)Bavarian YC W25 company, around 20 people, automating quote and order processing for construction-supply distributors — the same buyer, one border away.Company abroad · Market checkapertia.aiApertia Tech, Alice and Dativery (another site)Apertia's 'B2B Objednávky pomocí AI' pulls orders out of e-mail into Pohoda, ABRA, Money, Helios and K2; Alice by Redque and Dativery sell the same extraction into the same ERPs.Market check ·
  • Wholesalers and manufacturing suppliers both work this way.Y Combinatorycombinator.comMercura (another site)Bavarian YC W25 company, around 20 people, automating quote and order processing for construction-supply distributors — the same buyer, one border away.Company abroad ·
  • Their systems include Pohoda, Helios and ABRA — Czech accounting and stock software.2 sourcesY Combinatorycombinator.comMercura (another site)Bavarian YC W25 company, around 20 people, automating quote and order processing for construction-supply distributors — the same buyer, one border away.Company abroad · Market checkapertia.aiApertia Tech, Alice and Dativery (another site)Apertia's 'B2B Objednávky pomocí AI' pulls orders out of e-mail into Pohoda, ABRA, Money, Helios and K2; Alice by Redque and Dativery sell the same extraction into the same ERPs.Market check ·

Suggested solution

Build software that reads orders arriving by e-mail, PDF or Excel and enters them into the wholesaler's accounting system.

  1. Customer. Today: Sends an order by e-mail, PDF or Excel. With the suggested solution: Unchanged: customers order the way they do now.
  2. Sales staff. Today: Read each order and look up every item. With the suggested solution: Check the items the software matched.
  3. Sales staff. Today: Type the order into the accounting system. With the suggested solution: no longer needed.

Why now

0/3 · No deadline

A wholesaler's sales staff lose time on every order they type, and a slow reply can cost the sale.2 sourcesY Combinatorycombinator.comMercura (another site)Bavarian YC W25 company, around 20 people, automating quote and order processing for construction-supply distributors — the same buyer, one border away.Company abroad · Market checkapertia.aiApertia Tech, Alice and Dativery (another site)Apertia's 'B2B Objednávky pomocí AI' pulls orders out of e-mail into Pohoda, ABRA, Money, Helios and K2; Alice by Redque and Dativery sell the same extraction into the same ERPs.Market check ·

  • One Czech seller says each e-mailed request took 10–15 minutes by hand.Market checkapertia.aiApertia Tech, Alice and Dativery (another site)Apertia's 'B2B Objednávky pomocí AI' pulls orders out of e-mail into Pohoda, ABRA, Money, Helios and K2; Alice by Redque and Dativery sell the same extraction into the same ERPs.Market check ·
  • Typing each line again brings mistakes into the order.2 sourcesY Combinatorycombinator.comMercura (another site)Bavarian YC W25 company, around 20 people, automating quote and order processing for construction-supply distributors — the same buyer, one border away.Company abroad · Market checkapertia.aiApertia Tech, Alice and Dativery (another site)Apertia's 'B2B Objednávky pomocí AI' pulls orders out of e-mail into Pohoda, ABRA, Money, Helios and K2; Alice by Redque and Dativery sell the same extraction into the same ERPs.Market check ·
  • More orders mean more staff, because each one is typed by hand.Market checkapertia.aiApertia Tech, Alice and Dativery (another site)Apertia's 'B2B Objednávky pomocí AI' pulls orders out of e-mail into Pohoda, ABRA, Money, Helios and K2; Alice by Redque and Dativery sell the same extraction into the same ERPs.Market check ·

Willing to pay

0/2 · No sign yet

Czech firms appear to buy this from local vendors, one naming dozens of customer integrations, but no price is on file.Market checkapertia.aiApertia Tech, Alice and Dativery (another site)Apertia's 'B2B Objednávky pomocí AI' pulls orders out of e-mail into Pohoda, ABRA, Money, Helios and K2; Alice by Redque and Dativery sell the same extraction into the same ERPs.Market check ·

  • Wholesalers and suppliers decide and buy for themselves.
  • Until they buy, they pay in staff time for every typed order.2 sourcesY Combinatorycombinator.comMercura (another site)Bavarian YC W25 company, around 20 people, automating quote and order processing for construction-supply distributors — the same buyer, one border away.Company abroad · Market checkapertia.aiApertia Tech, Alice and Dativery (another site)Apertia's 'B2B Objednávky pomocí AI' pulls orders out of e-mail into Pohoda, ABRA, Money, Helios and K2; Alice by Redque and Dativery sell the same extraction into the same ERPs.Market check ·
  • Abroad, distributors already pay for the same software; see Validated abroad.

No price paid by a Czech buyer is on file yet.

Validated abroad

2/3 · Proven once

Young, funded companies in Germany and the US already sell this software to distributors.2 sourcesY Combinatorycombinator.comMercura (another site)Bavarian YC W25 company, around 20 people, automating quote and order processing for construction-supply distributors — the same buyer, one border away.Company abroad · Y Combinatorycombinator.comVentura (another site)A two-person YC W26 team selling ERP-integrated quote and order entry as an 'AI workforce for distributors and manufacturers' — a third funded company on this wedge inside two years.Company abroad ·

Where it works: DE, US — home market CZDECZUS
  1. Mercura (another site)Based in Germany
  2. turian (another site)Based in Germany
  3. Workist (another site)Based in Germany
  4. Ventura (another site)Based in United States

Market gap

0/2 · Crowded

Three Czech firms already sell software that reads orders into these accounting systems, and two have traded for ten years or more.Market checkapertia.aiApertia Tech, Alice and Dativery (another site)Apertia's 'B2B Objednávky pomocí AI' pulls orders out of e-mail into Pohoda, ABRA, Money, Helios and K2; Alice by Redque and Dativery sell the same extraction into the same ERPs.Market check ·

New, selling this: Alice (Redque) (since 2022). Established, selling this: Apertia Tech (since 2004), Dativery (since 2016). New, selling something nearby: nobody on file. Established, selling something nearby: nobody on file.

Execution difficulty

3/3 · Easy

Makes it easier

  • Wholesalers and suppliers sign for themselves.
  • No licence is needed.
  • Writing an order into the buyer's own accounting system is ordinary software work.

Makes it harder

  • Three Czech firms already sell this into the same accounting systems.
  • Two of them have traded for ten years or more.