What was decided, and what it cost.

Every listing had to answer one question before anything else: is this in Bolgatanga today, or is it not?

The first decision was to hold stock. It is the expensive one. Dropshipping would have let the storefront launch with a hundred listings and no capital, but the failure mode is that a customer in Bolgatanga pays and then waits on someone I do not control. That is the exact experience the shop exists to replace, so the catalogue is small and most of it is in a room I can walk to.

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If the number on the screen is not the number that was actually paid, the software is worse than the exercise book.

ImportBrain started as the spreadsheet I kept for GearDockGH. It worked until a single batch arrived in two shipments with three separate clearing charges, and I could no longer say what one power bank had cost me. The first version of the software did exactly one thing: divide a batch into per-unit cost correctly.

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