Result
self-reported“Automated away hours and hours of manual typing” in about two evening hours.
Their old in-store POS could only email out order data. After putting it off for two months, they spent a couple of evening hours with Claude, which wrote a small plugin to pull those emails into their system.
Who did it
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- Grab a sample of what your old system sends out (an email, CSV or file).
- Paste the prompt below into Claude and follow its install steps one at a time.
- Check the record count it logs each morning.
I have [old system] that can only export data by [email / CSV / FTP]. I need it to land in [new system, e.g. WooCommerce] automatically. Here’s a sample of the raw output: [paste]. Write the smallest possible [plugin/script] to do this, explain how to install it step by step for a non-developer, log how many records it processed each run, and make it alert me if it processes zero.
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A commenter’s tip: have the script log how many records it grabbed and fail loudly when it gets none, so a quiet morning doesn’t hide a broken script.
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