"Has anyone here ever developed their own MIS in FileMaker? Would love to hear about their experience in that regard. Yes, it's definitely doable!
We have our own in-house solution that started in FM 7 and we've since migrated to 12.
It does litho, digital and inkjet estimating, prospect management, order processing, scheduling, inventory, job costing and billing.
There's really nothing you can't do with it (which is especially true since version 12).
We just added the ability to use the iOS client to collect signatures upon delivery, send out notifications and store them with the job ticket.
We've never used an outside developer.
We've been developing it on an ongoing basis for about 8 years.
We're probably on the order of 1500 hours of development over that time.
We do about 7mm per year in revenue, so a comparable MIS would be $50-100k or more plus 10-20% maintenance yearly.
After all that it still wouldn't be as flexible as our FileMaker solution.
I've looked at some of the systems out there over the years and I've never been tempted to switch.
So go for it!"
Source: https://www.tacatech.com/results/forums/Filemaker+MIS+Database+Estimating+Invoices+Job+Tickets
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