Suppose a small B2B team finds two contact records that appear to be the same person. One has the meeting notes and an open task; the other is linked to an active opportunity. Someone merges them, then a rep discovers they were two different people with similar names.

Exporting the contact fields before the merge seems necessary, but not sufficient. Restoring two names and emails doesn't automatically put the notes, tasks and opportunity links back where they belonged.

I'd want a pre-merge record of both IDs, the conflicting fields, and which activities/relationships belonged to each. The merge review would also show those relationships, rather than just ask which phone number to keep. I wouldn't let the merge silently decide which active follow-up should continue.

For teams that have had to undo a mistaken merge, what information made recovery possible? Is a pre-merge export plus an activity/relationship map enough, or do you require a native unmerge option before allowing routine merges? I'm asking about the recovery process, not recommendations for a different CRM.

I have a categories list on my homepage, but for some reason all of my posts are showing up in all of the categories. There is only supposed to be one post in the "Other Posts" category. I only checked one category for each and idk what is happening. Pls help, TIA. 🙏

1. Introduction

We are a Vietnamese law firm currently using Slack for internal communication. However, as our operational needs have expanded beyond communication, we are looking for a more comprehensive application that supports work management, centralized data management, workflow automation, and information sharing across departments.

We are looking for sales representatives, collaborators, or implementation partners with experience in enterprise software consulting, work management, CRM, workflow automation, and AI to help us research, recommend, and implement a suitable solution.

2. Specific Requirements

A. Finding a Work Management Platform with Centralized Data

We are looking for a platform that can:

• Centralize data and work-related information in one system.
• Manage tasks and subtasks, and organize work into approximately three to four categories or workstreams.
• Create and customize workflows, assign tasks, track progress, and automate relevant operations.
• Integrate with Google Calendar, Google Drive, Slack, and other tools currently in use.
• Support AI-powered search, information retrieval, or summarization, where feasible.

Our evaluation criteria include ease of use, data security, data export and migration capabilities, user and account limits, storage capacity and file upload limits, system performance, overall costs, plan-specific restrictions, and the risk of unexpected or hidden charges.

B. Integrating Workflows Across Sales, Business Development, Legal, and Other Departments Where Needed

We aim to establish an integrated system connecting different departments, from initial customer information collection to the completion of legal services.

The proposed workflow is as follows:

• Sales/Business Development: Enter customer information, business, investment, or legal project details, location, and other required data into structured forms. The system should use this information to calculate or assist in preparing quotations. Complex cases should be escalated through a ticketing system for separate pricing assessment by the person in charge.
• Work Handover: Once Sales has completed the required information, the system should automatically transfer the relevant records and data to the Legal team, minimizing repeated manual data entry.
• Legal: Receive the information and carry out the work according to defined workflows, including client communication, finalizing the transaction or scope of services, processing documents, and completing the relevant legal tasks.

3. Features and Implementation Capabilities to Evaluate

3.1. Workflow Automation and Document Templates

• Configure conditional workflows, automatic task assignments, ticket transfers, and notifications to relevant departments.
• Connect customer and project data with Google Workspace, including Google Sheets, Google Docs, Gmail, and mail merge tools.
• Build a standardized library of forms and legal documents, including ERC, IRC, and other relevant legal application documents.
• Allow data to be entered once and automatically populate the corresponding forms through field mapping between data fields and document templates.
• Support template version control, access permissions, and safeguards to minimize data-related errors.

3.2. AI and Data Validation, Where Feasible

• Read and extract information from documents, images, and supporting documents provided by customers.
• Compare extracted information against manually entered data, identify discrepancies, and flag them for review.
• Validate incoming data, identify missing fields, and flag potentially inconsistent or unusual information.
• Assess whether Google Gemini and other existing AI tools can support these requirements.

Our company currently uses Google Business with Gemini integrated. Therefore, we would like to explore and compare the following two AI implementation approaches:

1. Integrating Google Gemini with our existing Google Workspace tools and a work management application: Is this approach technically feasible, and can Gemini be integrated into the selected platform to support the workflows described above?
2. Building a custom AI Agent or integration solution: This approach would be considered if existing tools cannot fully meet our requirements.

For both approaches, we would like to assess technical feasibility, accuracy, legal data confidentiality and security, setup and operating costs, maintenance requirements, and overall effectiveness compared with using existing off-the-shelf solutions.

4. Expected Scope of Support

We are looking to work with individuals or organizations that can:

• Assess our requirements and recommend suitable software products.
• Compare solutions based on features, costs, integration capabilities, and usage limitations.
• Arrange product demonstrations or trials to test our actual workflows.
• Evaluate integration possibilities between work management platforms, Google Workspace, Slack, CRM, and AI tools.
• Provide implementation and configuration consulting, develop automations, or establish API integrations where necessary.
• Provide a clear cost estimate, defined scope of work, and implementation roadmap.

We prioritize solutions suitable for a small or medium-sized company that are easy to use, scalable, and do not require unnecessarily complex infrastructure.

If you have a suitable solution or experience implementing similar systems, please introduce your recommended tools, the requirements they can address, estimated costs, and proposed implementation approach.

We are looking for a practical, needs-based consultation and would consider proceeding with an implementation partnership if the proposed solution meets our requirements.

So Liquid Web bought the Events Calendar. And now for more money, they are combining it with 3 other plugins that I neither want nor can use and will automatically bill my credit card and modify my WordPress dashboard. I do host vis Liquid Web, but may be moving because of this BS.

I have to use WordPress for school and my internship. WordPress looks like a maze to me. I need a video, tutorial, or other resource that explains the basics of WordPress for posting blogs. I need to be told like a toddler. I have the free version.

Hello everybody

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I've been thinking about how much money gets wasted on development and staging environments that sit idle most of the time.

For example, DigitalOcean still charges you for a Droplet even when it's powered off. The only way to stop compute charges is to destroy it entirely.

But then you have to deal with snapshots, restoring env vars, networking, etc. whenever you need it again.

I'm curious how other developers deal with this. Do you just leave everything running and accept the cost? Destroy and recreate environments manually?

As a total newbie with WP (and web development except for some drag and drop site builders), I am trying to rebuild my small business website in WP (I am coming from Weebly->Articulation which if I understand correctly is Laravel/PHP so it can't be imported directly into WP).

The layout I am looking for is two columns, where one column might be a picture and the column next to it might be a text paragraph with a button. When the website is visualized in mobile, these two columns should be visualized on top of each other, so it is readable.

I believe this layout is pretty standard.

I am trying to do this using Gutenberg blocks but when I add a 2 column block in Gutenberg, the width is pretty tight and the layout doesn't look nice on a wide desktop screen (the picture is too small and the text too cramped). I can't figure out how to make the two columns wider (more pixels). I have found that one could do this with a single container block (set at wide) with the two columns nested inside it but then on mobile it stays locked with the two columns next to each other.

I have also found a pattern in the twenty twenty five template that achieves the look I am after and renders correctly on mobile. But I don't want to be so dependent on a particular pattern of a particular template, so I am wondering if there is a more standard way to get the layout wider?

Sorry for the newbie question.

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for advice on how to design and implement an automation system for a small renovation company. Our main objective is to reduce the number of human hours spent on repetitive administrative tasks, improve reliability, and prevent information from being lost between systems.

We don't want to introduce AI just for the sake of using it. We want to identify which processes can be automated using existing tools, clear business rules, and reliable integrations, using AI or OCR only where genuinely useful.

Our current setup

We currently use:

• SAGE One for issuing customer invoices. API access is still to be confirmed.
• Google Sheets as our internal financial management system.
• Google Apps Script for custom automations.
• Google Drive for storing documents.
• Looker Studio for dashboards and reporting.
• XLSX bank statements for tracking bank transactions.

Our internal financial system includes the following spreadsheets and modules:

• Transactions (Movimentos): the main register for costs, sales, and other financial transactions.
• Settings (Configurações): categories, classification rules, and configuration.
• Projects (Obras): renovation projects and their associated information.
• Income Statement (DRE): financial performance and profitability.
• Cash Flow and Treasury (Tesouraria): cash movements and financial position.
• Assets (Ativos): company assets.
• Financing (Financiamentos): loans and other financing.

We process more than 150 financial documents per month. We already have some custom scripts and business rules, so we need to improve the system without breaking what is currently working.

The problems we want to solve

1. Manual entry of costs and sales

Supplier invoices arrive by email or on paper. Customer invoices are issued through SAGE One. We still have to manually enter financial information into Google Sheets.

We want costs and sales to be imported automatically from their original sources, without entering the same information twice.

2. Manual document management

We spend time downloading or scanning invoices, renaming files, organizing folders, and entering invoice details into spreadsheets.

We want documents to be automatically collected, renamed, archived, linked to their financial records, and processed with minimal human intervention.

3. Lack of clear payment and collection tracking

We need to know at any time:

• Which supplier invoices have been paid.
• Which supplier invoices are still outstanding or overdue.
• Which customer invoices have been collected.
• Which customer payments are still outstanding or overdue.
• Which bank transactions have been matched to invoices.

We currently use XLSX bank statements and would like to automate their import and reconciliation, including partial payments and cases where one bank transaction covers multiple invoices.

4. Lead and potential customer management

We need a reliable way to capture and track every potential customer, regardless of where the enquiry originates.

We want to avoid losing leads, forgetting follow-ups, or having customer information scattered across emails, spreadsheets, and messages.

Ideally, leads would be registered automatically, assigned a status and a responsible person, and given a scheduled next action.

5. Quotation management

We need to track quotations throughout their entire lifecycle:

• To be prepared.
• Ready to send but not yet sent.
• Sent to the customer.
• Accepted.
• Rejected.
• Awaiting a response.

We want to automate status tracking, follow-up reminders, and notifications for quotations that have been prepared but not sent or have remained unanswered for too long.

Ideally, when a quotation is accepted, the relevant information should automatically move into the project management process without being entered again.

What we want to achieve

Our goal is to build a connected system in which information is entered once and reused throughout the business.

For example:

• A supplier invoice arrives → the document is archived, its data is extracted and validated, and its financial record is created automatically.
• A customer invoice is issued in SAGE One → its data is synchronized with our internal financial system.
• A bank statement is imported → transactions are matched to outstanding invoices, with ambiguous cases flagged for review.
• A new lead arrives → it is registered, assigned, and tracked until a decision is reached.
• A quotation is sent → follow-ups are scheduled, its status is tracked, and acceptance triggers the next stage of the workflow.

Human intervention should be limited to genuine exceptions, financial approvals, and decisions that require judgment.

Our constraints

• Prefer free or low-cost solutions.
• Reuse Google Sheets, Apps Script, Drive, and our existing systems wherever possible.
• Avoid unnecessary complexity and AI-first architectures.
• Preserve our existing financial data structure and business rules.
• Prevent duplicate records and ensure that failed processes can be safely retried.
• Maintain a clear audit trail and reliable error monitoring.
• Build and test in a separate development environment before changing the live system.

We understand that a large part of the implementation effort lies in connecting APIs, normalizing data, handling exceptions, and monitoring failures. We want to account for these requirements from the beginning.

Questions for the community

1. Architecture: Would you build this with Google Apps Script alone, or use n8n, Activepieces, or another workflow automation platform? Why?
2. Document processing: What free or low-cost tools would you recommend for automatically extracting data from invoices, including scanned documents and photographs?
3. Accounting integration: Has anyone integrated SAGE One with Google Sheets through an API or structured exports?
4. Bank reconciliation: What is a reliable approach for importing XLSX bank statements and automatically matching transactions to invoices?
5. CRM and quotations: Would you extend Google Sheets into a lightweight CRM, or use a dedicated CRM with automation?
6. Reliability: How would you design duplicate prevention, retries, error handling, and monitoring across these workflows?
7. Implementation order: Which process would you automate first to achieve the greatest reduction in manual work without creating unnecessary technical complexity?

I'm looking for practical recommendations and proven approaches from people who have built similar systems for small businesses.

TL;DR

We run a small renovation business and want to significantly reduce manual administrative work across finance, document management, banking, leads, and quotations.

Our current stack is SAGE One, Google Sheets, Google Apps Script, Google Drive, Looker Studio, and XLSX bank statements. We process 150+ financial documents per month.

Our main pain points are manual entry of costs and sales, manually renaming and filing invoices, lack of reliable payment/collection tracking, lost leads, and quotations that are difficult to track from preparation to acceptance or rejection.

We want a reliable, low-cost system that automates repetitive tasks, integrates our existing tools, prevents duplicates, handles errors safely, and minimizes human intervention. We prefer deterministic rules and straightforward automation over AI-first solutions.

The main question is: How would you design a reliable, low-cost system that minimizes human involvement in financial administration, document management, lead tracking, and quotation follow-ups?

Thanks in advance for your help!