Troy Webber never planned to own a software company. The third-generation owner of Chesterfield Auto Parts needed to solve a business problem and found others in his salvage industry were facing a similar issue.
“We had been using a piece of software that was created in the early 2000s,” Webber said. “It was written with really old code.”
The system to track inventory and sales only ran on old Windows machines, and it got to the point where Webber had to update the software. He researched the marketplace and found only one piece of software existed.
“We looked around in the industry and tried to find something that would work for us; unfortunately, there was only one viable option and there were huge features that were lacking that were a necessity for us,” Webber said.
Webber hired Richmond software development company Simple Thread. The company worked with Chesterfield Auto Parts and learned the needed features. Simple Thread built a custom platform. For the last year,…
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