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Practical articles from Palmate Solutions on APIs, hosting, automation, e-commerce technology, and software planning — written beside the tools and services on this site. Page 3 of 5.
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51 articles, newest first. Page 3 of 5.
E-commerce Technology
What to Expect from Payment Gateway Integration
Capture, webhooks, reconcile, refunds, and test mode — the operational contract behind “add Razorpay / Stripe,” not a checkout button mockup.
E-commerce Technology
Designing a Product Catalogue for Multi-Channel Selling
SKUs, packs, variants, and channel listings as a model — so Amazon, the website, and the warehouse are not three different products with the same photo.
Business Systems
When to Replace Spreadsheets with Software
Spreadsheets are a valid system until they are the integration layer, the audit trail, and the only person who understands the formulas is on leave.
Business Systems
How to Write Software Requirements Developers Can Build From
Jobs, rules, exceptions, and examples — a brief that survives a sprint without a meeting to decode every mockup.
Business Systems
MVP vs V1: What to Ship First
Cut scope on purpose: a release thesis, explicit non-goals, and how “MVP” becomes a programme when nobody names what will wait.
Security
Access Control and Secrets Hygiene for Small Teams
Shared logins, keys in chat, and leftover contractor accounts — a practical baseline for who can do what, without an enterprise IAM programme.
Security
What Small Companies Should Do After a Security Incident
Contain, preserve, communicate, and recover — a practical sequence for a leaked key, a defaced site, or a ransomed laptop, not a Hollywood IR playbook.
Planning & Delivery
How to Run a Discovery Workshop Before You Write Code
A one- or two-day working session that produces jobs, systems, non-goals, and owners — so the first sprint is not a debate about what the project is.
Planning & Delivery
What Technical Debt Actually Costs a Growing Business
Debt is not “messy code.” It is delayed change, fragile deploys, and a person who is afraid to touch production — priced in time and risk, not in linter scores.
Planning & Delivery
How to Handover a Software Project Without Losing the System
Repos, environments, secrets, runbooks, and who gets paged — a handover that a competent engineer can pick up, not a zip file and a goodbye.
APIs & Integrations
Common Mistakes When Integrating Third-Party APIs
The integration bugs that survive demos: auth and JWT expiry, pagination that stops at page one, timezone-blind timestamps, and retries that double-apply money and stock.
Business Systems
What Businesses Should Know Before Building an Internal Dashboard
Define the questions, sources of truth, roles, and refresh rules before you commission charts — so the dashboard does not become a shadow ERP.