How to get NOVOLIG working the way you work.
Walkthroughs, notes on the decisions behind the application, and straight answers. Written as the product is built, so nothing here describes something that does not exist.
- ReadWalkthrough4 min
Getting started
Download, install, activate your licence and set the business up — the five steps between an empty machine and a working workspace.
- ReadProduct tour8 min
Product guide
Every module in the application, what it holds, and how a record moves from a quotation through to a movement in the ledger.
- ReadField note6 min
Building your catalogue
SKUs, barcodes, attributes and variants — how to name a catalogue while it is small so that a second location and a third price list do not break it.
- ReadField note5 min
Inventory and the stock ledger
Why the quantity is not a number you store, what the movement types mean, and what a correction looks like when overwriting is not an option.
- ReadField note5 min
Units & packaging
Per-product conversion, choosing a base unit, the whole-item rule, and why what you typed is kept alongside what was stored.
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Questions and answers
What NOVOLIG is, what it can do today, how licensing works and how modules are switched on and off.
Guides that are not finished yet
These are scoped and on the list. They are shown here without links because an empty page behind a promising title helps nobody.
Business setup
Your business profile, letterhead and document numbering, the module picker, and the settings worth deciding on day one.
In writingSales workflow
Quotation to sales order to fulfilment: what each status means, when stock is reserved, and how partial sends are recorded.
In writingPurchasing workflow
Purchase orders, receiving in any unit, partial receipts, and how a receipt lands against the order it was bought on.
In writing
How we decided the hard parts
Longer pieces on the reasoning behind the parts of NOVOLIG that are easy to get wrong.
Why a stock figure should never be edited
What an append-only ledger buys you, and what a correction looks like when you cannot simply overwrite the number.
Naming a catalogue that will outlast you
How to name a catalogue now so that a second location and a third price list do not break it later.
Buy in boxes, sell in pieces, count in neither
How per-product unit conversion works, and why the quantity you typed is stored next to the quantity we kept.
Still have a question?
The FAQ covers what NOVOLIG can do today, how licensing works and how modules are switched on and off. If it is not answered there, ask.