What Skipper can do
Skipper works from everything Keelvy knows about your business: products, photos, prices, stock, specifications, batches, costs, suppliers, channels and documents. It does what a person in each of those jobs would do in the screens, using the same rules and the same permissions.
Where you can ask
Section titled “Where you can ask”- In the app, from any screen. See Ask Skipper a question in the app.
- In Telegram or Slack, as a direct message to the Keelvy bot. See Use Skipper in Telegram or Slack.
- By email, to a second address of your workspace. See Ask Skipper by email.
The workspace’s ordinary address is different: it only files documents into the Inbox, and Skipper does not read it. See Send documents to Keelvy by email.
What it does by role
Section titled “What it does by role”| Job | Examples of what you can ask |
|---|---|
| Catalog manager | Find products with no description, draft one, translate it, fill in attributes, put a product in a collection, show what is listed on a channel. Ask which products have no recipe, translation, barcode, weight or channel listing and get the total with the first rows |
| Pricing | Show what a customer pays for a product, set a product’s price on a list, set a price break for larger quantities, read the markup and margin of products on any price list against planned, actual or latest-purchase cost |
| Purchasing | Look up a supplier, record what a supplier quotes for a material, draft a purchase order, record a payment to a supplier |
| Production | Read a specification, check where a material is used, draft a specification, create and schedule a production order |
| Stock | What is on hand, what is below its minimum, count stock in a stocktake, record opening stock |
| Shop manager | Find an order, create a draft order, add lines, confirm, dispatch, record a return |
| Documents and money | Preview an invoice before it is issued, issue or cancel a document, draft a credit note, read the profit and loss |
| Files | Read a file you attached, say what it is and propose where to file it |
Money figures follow your role. If your role can’t see costs or prices, Skipper can’t either.
What waits for you
Section titled “What waits for you”Skipper runs reads on its own. Every write becomes a proposal that you approve or reject. Nothing is changed before you press Approve. See Approve or reject Skipper’s changes.
What it doesn’t do
Section titled “What it doesn’t do”- It can’t do anything your role can’t. If a step needs a permission you lack, it tells you which one.
- It doesn’t create price lists or change price-list rules, and it doesn’t connect integrations.
- It doesn’t close your books. It can read them.
- It doesn’t write to a channel or a shop by itself. It proposes, you approve.
Try it
Section titled “Try it”Ask for a result you can check: Which North & Kiln materials are below their minimum, and who supplies them? Compare the answer with the screen.