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SeamSet builds what your NetSuite instance is missing.

Approvals, collections, stock views, dashboards, imports, exports, portals: you name it. SeamSet gets it done: it works out what you need, starts from what NetSuite already does, and writes only the scripts and apps still missing.

  1. Describe what you need, in plain words.

  2. SeamSet builds it: with what NetSuite already offers when that is the right fit, custom where it is not.

  3. Tested, documented, reviewed, approved: nothing goes live until your NetSuite admin approves it.

Describe what you need

A weekly list of overdue invoices for the collections team.

Sent by Lena Voss, A/R lead

SeamSet builds itThe first version

Overdue invoices, this week

For the collections team

Native

: A scheduled saved search emails the overdue list.

Custom

: A collectors' worklist: promise-to-pay date and a reminder button.

CustomerPromise to payNext step
Calder Freight Co.30 SepCall if missed
Opaline Dental SupplyNone yetSend a reminder

Tested, documented, reviewed, approved

  1. Tested

  2. Documented

  3. Reviewed

    Changes: 1 saved search, scheduled weekly; 1 worklist page; 1 field added, 1 removed; 1 reminder email script.

  4. Approved

    by Daan Achterberg, NetSuite admin

Livefor the collections team, after the approval

The work that happens beside NetSuite

  • weekly-report-v7.xlsx

    The weekly report, rebuilt in Excel from a saved search.

  • overdue-chase-sept.xlsx

    Overdue invoices, chased from a spreadsheet.

  • RE: RE: PO 4471, ok?

    Purchase orders approved by email, then keyed in.

  • order_0923.pdf

    Customer orders retyped from the file they sent.

  • Import failed: row 212

    A journal import rejected as out of balance, and nobody can see why.

"How do I learn NetSuite when no one at my company seems to know it?"

Posted on r/Netsuite

NetSuite can already do much of this, natively or with a small addition. What your team never had is the time, or someone who knows where to look.

A first version in minutes. Live once your NetSuite admin approves.

  1. Connect.

    Your admin connects SeamSet to your account and decides what it can access.

  2. Describe.

    You say what you need, in plain words: "every Monday, send purchasing the open POs by vendor." SeamSet asks the questions your admin would ask (which records, who sees it, what happens on an exception) and restates the need for you both to check. That one is a scheduled saved search: no code. Otherwise, SeamSet builds a first version in minutes.

  3. Test it before it goes live.

    You check the first version and ask for changes. Nothing goes live untested.

  4. Your NetSuite admin approves.

    Nothing goes live without that approval.

NetSuite, and only NetSuite

It starts from your account, not from a template.

  • Native first, with pragmatism. SeamSet checks what NetSuite already does: saved searches, workflows, approval routing, the CSV Import Assistant. If a native feature covers the need, SeamSet sets it up (a saved search, a workflow, an approval rule), through the same approval, and writes no code. If the native route would cost more to set up and run than the need is worth, SeamSet says so and proposes the lighter option. Account features stay your admin's switch.
  • By the book. SuiteScript 2.1 in SDF projects, and a SeamSet prefix in every object ID, linked to its request.
  • Inside by default. What SeamSet builds runs inside your NetSuite account. Outside for two reasons only: portals for people with no NetSuite login, and screens NetSuite's pages handle badly. SeamSet itself runs outside.

Request

"a weekly list of overdue invoices for the collections team"

Native

Covered natively: a scheduled saved search emails the overdue list.

Custom

Not in this account yet: a worklist for the collectors.

Building only that.

Worklist page · promise-to-pay date · reminder button

The right way

Writing the code was never the hard part. Going live without breaking anything is.

  • Tested first. Every change is tested before it goes live.
  • A change your admin can read. Your admin sees what changes, in plain words, and approves it, sends it back or rejects it. Nobody approves their own request: when your admin is the one asking, a second approver they name signs off.
  • Logged for your auditor. The log records who asked, who approved, what changed and when. SeamSet keeps it, and you can export it at any time. NetSuite also logs each deployment in your account.
  • Three tags, before approval. Every line of a change carries one: Reversible, Removes stored data or Cannot be undone.
  • Release upkeep. Before each of NetSuite's two major releases a year, your admin requests a release preview account. SeamSet reruns its checks there and tells your admin what needs attention. Fixes go through the same approval.

REQ-0112 · Requested by Lena Voss, A/R lead · Approver: Daan Achterberg, NetSuite admin

In plain words

Emails the collections team the overdue list every Monday, from a saved search. Adds a worklist for the collectors and a promise-to-pay date on invoices. Removes the old "Chase note" field. From the worklist, collectors can send reminder emails.

  • Schedules the saved search "Overdue invoices" to email the collections team every Mondaycustomsearch_seam_overdue_invNative: no code
    Reversible
  • Adds the page "Collections worklist"customscript_seam_collect_wl · customdeploy_seam_collect_wlAudience: A/R Clerk, Collections Manager
    Reversible
  • Adds the field "Promise to pay" on invoicescustbody_seam_ptp_date
    Reversible
  • Removes the old free-text field "Chase note" on invoices, replaced by Promise to paycustbody_chase_note
    Removes stored data
  • Sends a reminder email to the customer when a collector clicks Sendcustomscript_seam_remind · customdeploy_seam_remindA sent email can't be recalled.
    Cannot be undone

Code, folded: 2 scripts, 312 lines · SDF project

ApproveSend backReject

What SeamSet adds, and what the wait costs

A model writes the code, as in general AI tools. SeamSet adds everything around it.

Versus a general AI coding assistant
A general AI coding assistantSeamSet
Looks for a native feature before writing codeIf told toEvery time
Between "it works" and "it's live"Up to youTesting, admin approval, log
Versus an integration platform
An integration platformSeamSet
ConnectsTwo systemsNetSuite and the person doing the work
DeliversScheduled flows between systemsA report, a screen, an import someone runs
Where its output runsOn its own platformBy default, inside your NetSuite account

Small custom requests are hard to estimate, so they wait. The cost is quiet: a slower close, cash collected later, decisions made on stale numbers.

Frequently asked questions

Is SeamSet software or a service?
Software.
Could our NetSuite partner do this?
Yes. Large projects stay with them. For the smaller requests, they can use SeamSet on your account when you invite them.
We don't have an in-house NetSuite admin.
Approval goes to whoever holds that role: a controller, an IT lead, or your NetSuite partner.
We don't have a sandbox account.
Every change is tested before it goes live. We go through how for your account when we talk.
What does SeamSet access?
What your admin allows. Your admin connects SeamSet and decides what it can reach. We go through access and data in detail when we talk, and in your security review.
What if we stop using SeamSet?
What runs inside your NetSuite account keeps running. Portals stop.

Bring one request.

Tell us about one request your team still does by hand, in a spreadsheet or by email. We'll talk it through.