AutoProbaho

Solution · Digital transformation for Bangladesh

A business digitalization company in Bangladesh for factories, traders and service firms

Digital transformation in Bangladesh rarely fails for lack of software. It fails because the plan starts with a product instead of the business, ignores how staff actually work, and tries to change everything at once. AutoProbaho digitalizes businesses the practical way: audit the real processes, replace paper and Excel where it hurts most, connect the rest, and train every role in Bengali — one working step at a time.

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Paper, Excel and WhatsApp are holding the business together — and holding it back

Walk through a typical factory in Gazipur or a trading office in Chattogram: attendance in a register, production on a whiteboard, stock in a store-keeper’s notebook, orders in WhatsApp, accounts in Tally that only one person opens, and a dozen Excel files with slightly different numbers. It works because experienced people carry it in their heads. It breaks when they are absent, when volume grows, when a buyer or a bank asks for data, or when the owner wants to know today’s position today.

Many owners have already tried a “digital” fix — a software bought from a vendor, an app a nephew built, a consultant’s roadmap. What was missing was sequencing: what to digitize first, how to bring staff along, how to keep systems talking to each other, and who is accountable when something stops working.

Who this is for

  • Family-run factories, trading houses and distributors in Dhaka, Gazipur, Narayanganj, Chattogram and district towns
  • Garments and textile units under pressure from buyers, banks and auditors to show traceable data
  • Clinics, schools, agencies and service firms still running on registers and spreadsheets
  • Second-generation owners and managers who want to professionalise operations without disrupting them

Current pain points

  • Knowledge in people, not systems

    Processes live in the memory of a few senior staff; the business cannot scale or survive their absence.

  • Numbers that disagree

    Stock, sales and cash differ between the register, the Excel file and Tally; nobody knows which is right.

  • Slow answers to buyers and banks

    Compliance, audit and financing requests take days of collecting papers.

  • Failed software attempts

    Tools were bought or built, never adopted, and quietly abandoned.

  • Fear of disruption

    Owners worry that changing systems will stop the factory or upset staff.

What AutoProbaho builds

  1. A digitalization roadmap

    A prioritised, phased plan based on a process audit — which registers to replace first, what to connect, what to leave alone.

  2. Core systems that fit

    Custom ERP, CRM, HR/employee portals and internal tools designed with the staff who will use them, in Bengali and English.

  3. Migration from paper and Excel

    Registers and spreadsheets cleaned, structured and imported so history is not lost.

  4. Connected tools

    Tally, bKash and bank feeds, WhatsApp, Daraz, attendance devices and Google Workspace linked with APIs and n8n.

  5. Adoption and support

    Role-based training, floor-level champions, offline-tolerant mobile screens and a support agreement so systems stay used.

Modules & capabilities

  • Process audit & roadmap

    Current-state mapping, pain ranking, phased plan with indicative timelines and owner sign-off.

  • Operations core

    Inventory, purchasing, sales, production and delivery in one system.

  • Finance & compliance

    Receivables, payables, mobile-money and bank reconciliation, VAT (Mushak) registers, audit trail.

  • People & attendance

    Employee master, attendance devices, leave, shifts, payroll inputs, staff self-service.

  • Customer & sales

    Leads, follow-ups, dealer credit, order status and collections.

  • Documents & approvals

    Digital forms, approvals and document storage replacing paper files and signatures.

  • Automation layer

    Notifications, reconciliations and reports that run without manual hand-offs.

  • Management dashboards

    Owner and director views of cash, stock, production and people — daily, on mobile.

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Example workflows

From attendance register to payroll sheet

  1. 1Attendance device or mobile check-in replaces the register
  2. 2Shifts, leave and overtime are calculated automatically
  3. 3Supervisors approve exceptions on mobile
  4. 4Payroll inputs are generated for accounts
  5. 5Staff see their own attendance and leave balance

From stock notebook to live inventory

  1. 1Opening stock is counted and imported from the notebook and Excel
  2. 2Receipts and issues are recorded on a tablet in the store
  3. 3Transfers between godowns are tracked
  4. 4Minimum-stock alerts trigger purchase requests
  5. 5Owner sees stock value and movement daily

From paper approvals to digital trail

  1. 1Requests are raised on a mobile form instead of a slip
  2. 2Routed to the right approver by amount and type
  3. 3Approved on mobile with comments
  4. 4Documents and history stored against the record
  5. 5Auditors and buyers receive exports on request

Integrations

  • Tally and local accounting packages
  • bKash, Nagad, SSLCommerz and bank statements
  • WhatsApp Business, SMS and email
  • Attendance and access-control devices
  • Daraz, Shopify and WooCommerce
  • Google Workspace / Microsoft 365
  • n8n workflow automation
  • Power BI / Looker Studio

Implementation process

  1. 01

    Audit the business

    We visit the factory, godown and office, map how work actually flows and rank where digitalization pays first.

  2. 02

    Agree the roadmap

    A phased plan with the first step clearly scoped and priced — no big-bang commitment.

  3. 03

    Deliver the first step

    Typically inventory, attendance or sales — live within weeks with real data and trained staff.

  4. 04

    Connect and extend

    Next modules and integrations added phase by phase; automation removes remaining hand-offs.

  5. 05

    Support and measure

    Ongoing support, monitoring and quarterly reviews of what to digitize next.

Expected business outcomes

  • One trusted picture of the business

    Stock, cash, production and people come from systems, not from memory.

  • Faster answers

    Buyers, banks and auditors get data in hours instead of days.

  • Less dependence on individuals

    Processes are documented and enforced by the system, so the business survives staff changes.

  • Change without disruption

    Phased delivery and Bengali training mean the factory keeps running throughout.

Security & ownership

  • You own the systems and data

    Deployed in your cloud account or on your server, with source access and documentation.

  • Access control

    Role-based permissions, approvals with history, audit logs on every record.

  • Backups & continuity

    Automated encrypted backups, tested restores and offline-tolerant capture for power and connectivity gaps.

Frequently asked questions

With an audit, not a purchase. In most SMEs the first win is inventory, attendance or sales — wherever the daily pain and the data loss are greatest. We help you rank and pick.

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Book a free consultation. We will visit or call, look at your registers, Excel files and software, and propose the first practical step towards a digital business.

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