Point of sale
Tills, receipts and payments for shops, restaurants and salons, including the fiscal rules each country imposes.
Thinking
Categories
Every class of software we cover, and what we mean by each one.
Salon and booking
Appointment calendars, online booking and client records for salons, studios and clinics.
Email and inbox
Shared inboxes, email clients and triage tools for teams that live in their mail.
Inventory
Stock levels, purchase orders and warehouse movements across one or many locations.
Accounting
Ledgers, VAT returns, e-invoicing and the handover to an accountant or fiduciary.
AI tools
Assistants, document extraction and automation that uses a language model to do real office work.
Security
Password managers, endpoint protection, backup and the paperwork that an audit asks for.
Developer tools
Hosting, source control, deployment and the plumbing that software teams run on.
CRM
Pipelines, quotes and customer records for teams that sell to other businesses.
Project management
Tasks, planning and time tracking for agencies, trades and internal teams.
HR and payroll
Contracts, absences, rotas and payroll under the local labour rules.
Weekly, Thursday morning, Central European Time.
The Thinking briefing
One email a week: what changed in European business software, which prices moved, and which comparison we published. No sales mail.