PriorStates StudioPriorStates Studio
PriorStates Studio · for small business

Everything your small business runs on, day to day.

The technology a small business needs, customized with your words.

Orders, payments, customers, staff, your store's screens and your year-end numbers. Change any of it by asking, and your records stay in your own Google Drive.

See it in under a minute

A café's day with the example data from the Gallery: an order comes in, it is paid, the customers add up, the menu is on the TV, and the year is ready for the accountant.

With narration and captions in English.

One business, five steps, apps that work together

Each app can read what the one before it recorded, once you tap Allow. Orders become payments, payments become a picture of your customers, and the year's money lands in the lines of the tax form.

  1. 1

    Take orders

    Shop in PriorStates Studio, with example data

    🏪 Shop

    Customers order from a link in their browser, with nothing to install. The orders come to your phone. A service business takes appointments the same way, with Bookings.

    Also:

    • 🥬 Order Form
    • 📅 Bookings
    • 🧾 Quotes & Invoices
    • 📋 Sign-up Sheet
  2. 2

    Get paid

    Payments in PriorStates Studio, with example data

    💳 Payments

    Send each customer a request with your own payment details and the amount filled in, then mark who has paid.

  3. 3

    Know your customers

    Customer Insights in PriorStates Studio, with example data

    📊 Customer Insights

    One view across all your selling apps: who buys, how often, what sells, who has not paid, and regulars who have gone quiet.

  4. 4

    Run the store

    Menu Board in PriorStates Studio, with example data

    🍽️ Menu Board

    Your menu on the store's TV, with what is sold out, and notices on the screen in the hall. Any TV opens them from a link, updated from your phone within a minute; a Google TV app is coming. Music that fits the time of day. Who works which days.

    Also:

    • 🎵 Store Music
    • 📌 Notice Board
    • 📋 Shift Board
  5. 5

    Year-end numbers

    Tax Year Pack in PriorStates Studio, with example data

    🧮 Tax Year Pack

    Income, receipts, subscriptions and mileage through the year, sorted into the lines of the tax form for your accountant.

    Also:

    • 💼 Side Income
    • 🧾 Receipt Keeper
    • 🔁 Subscriptions
    • 🚗 Mileage Log

Doesn't do something you need? Ask Studio to change it.

Every app here is a starting point. Say what you'd change in plain words; History keeps every version, so any change can be undone.

  • ShopAdd a tip line at checkout: 10%, 15% or 20%.
  • Menu BoardShow the menu in English and Spanish, one page after the other.
  • Quotes & InvoicesAsk for a 30% deposit when a quote is accepted.

Check the numbers on a money change once; History takes you back in one tap.

Changes are made by AI: a free starter AI, limited per day, or add your own key.

Your records stay yours

Orders, customers and receipts are your business's records. They live with you, not on our servers.

📱On your phone and your computerEach app keeps its data on your device. Customers' orders reach you sealed end to end.
🗂️A copy in your own Google DriveOptional, and off until you turn it on. Studio uses a hidden folder in your Drive that only Studio can see. PriorStates never receives the copy.
🖥️Bigger work on your computerStudio on your computer opens the same records, even with your phone off, for Customer Insights and the Tax Year Pack on a wide screen.

What we offer

16 free apps for running a small business, by step. Each one works on its own, and better with the others.

Coming next

Not built yet, and no dates: each one ships when it is good enough to use every day.

ComingBusiness Page

Your hours, services and contact on one page, with links to your shop and bookings.

ComingStock

Counts, low-stock alerts and reordering from your suppliers.

ComingLoyalty and reviews

A loyalty card, and review requests sent from your own phone or mail app.

What we don't do, and what works with it

Studio covers the everyday parts of running a business. For the regulated and physical parts, keep the providers you already use.

Card payments and card terminals

We don't process cards. Payments sends your own PayPal, Venmo, Cash App or Zelle details; keep Square, Stripe or your bank's terminal for cards.

Payroll

Shift Board plans who works when. Pay your staff through your payroll service.

Filing taxes

Tax Year Pack and Mileage Log prepare a summary for your records and your accountant. They are not tax advice and file nothing.

Delivery

Shop takes pickup and delivery orders. The delivering is yours, or your delivery partner's.

Music in the store

Store Music plays files you have the rights to play in your business (licensed, royalty-free, or Creative Commons that allows commercial use), or opens a business music service you pay for. Personal streaming plans are not for business use.

Start with one app

Studio is free on your phone, in your browser and on your computer. Open the Gallery and add Shop or Order Form first.