No more Excel issues at datrycs

Software Agency

eCommerce

Composable Commerce

Germany

10+ employees

Key results:

Higher Customer Satisfaction

3x Faster Estimates

Less human errors

Markus Lorenz

CEO at datrycs

"Estimates done in Apropo are very easy to understand by our customers - they can clearly understand different options of the offer that we propose to them. Apropo also helped us to deliver the proposals much quicker, which helps in the sales process. Last but not least, we can finally forget about hiccups typical to Excel, like messing up the formulas, etc."

What is datrycs and what’s your role there?

datrycs is an eCommerce software development agency based in Dortmund, Germany, specializing in building composable commerce and Shopware stores. I am working as the CEO of the company.

What estimation challenges were you trying to solve?

We were trying to address the following problems:

Confusing spreadsheet offers - Legacy spreadsheets made it extremely hard for merchants to understand complex scope paths, creating communication friction and lowering overall buyer satisfaction.

Slow and repetitive scoping - Manually drafting exhaustive functional specifications for modern composable commerce architectures from absolute zero severely bottlenecked our business development pipeline.

Fragile calculation frameworks - Relying on static Excel tables exposed our pricing workflows to human slips, where single unlinked cells or corrupted formulas directly threatened project margin security.

How Apropo helped you address these challenges?

Apropo helped to solve each of them in the following way:

Interactive digital proposal view - The platform replaced flat files with beautiful online offers that lay out multi-variant options clearly, making commercial decisions transparent and straightforward for our targets.

Knowledge-based block architecture - We can now package our specialized engineering knowledge into reusable components, enabling our technical teams to generate comprehensive project scopes rapidly.

Robust automated structural pricing - Moving parameters to a dedicated system completely neutralized standard grid calculation glitches, providing total architectural reliability during negotiations.

Estimates made in Apropo.io are incredibly easy to understand for our clients. We can finally forget about typical Excel hiccups like breaking formulas.

What are the 3 top benefits you observed?

Higher Customer Satisfaction

Delivering beautiful, option-rich scope variations immediately empowered our buyers and elevated our customer feedback metrics.

3x Faster Estimates

By leveraging pre-built architectural blueprints, our commercial desk optimized output velocity and began delivery of proposals three times faster.

Less human errors

Transitioning calculations to an automated cloud infrastructure permanently removed the execution risks associated with manual data entry and broken ranges.

What are the 3 top Apropo features for you?

Proposal sharing

Transforms dense technical details into highly intuitive and collaborative digital offers that prospects genuinely enjoy navigating.

Reusable components

Enables our developers to instantly repurpose recurring e-commerce frameworks, significantly decreasing structural configuration time.

Buffers

Maintains absolute data execution accuracy across all sections and calculations, eliminating the threat of hidden formula errors.

Do you recommend Apropo for other software agencies?

Highly recommended. If your software development agency is determined to eliminate spreadsheet errors, dramatically accelerate operational turnaround times, and establish an transparent presentation standard that corporate buyers appreciate, adopting Apropo is an absolute necessity.