Replace spreadsheets with one real app
Your business runs on shared sheets that break every Monday — formulas overwritten, two conflicting versions, and no one knows who edited what. Publish one app with a real database, real permissions, and a real audit trail.
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See how it works ↓Why this is harder than it should be
The business runs on a shared spreadsheet — until someone drags a formula the wrong way, two people save conflicting versions, or a copy gets emailed and quietly becomes the new master. There is no permission model, no validation, no audit trail of who changed what. Every report starts with a cleanup pass. Most teams know the sheet is broken; they just have no path to something that isn't another five-figure custom build.
What you can build from one prompt
The shape varies — Exepad publishes whichever you describe.
A relational database where every row has a clear owner.
Validated entry forms that reject bad data before it lands.
Per-role permissions so finance can't accidentally overwrite ops.
An audit log showing every edit, by whom, when, and the prior value.
Filtered dashboard views — no more pivoting the same sheet five times.
Scheduled exports back to CSV or Excel for anyone still attached to them.
What this might look like
Three real users, three different outcomes — same platform.
A 12-person operations team
8 tabs, 0 broken formulas
The team was tracking inventory, suppliers, and purchase orders across eight tabs in one shared sheet. Two people working at once meant lost edits weekly. They describe the workflow to Exepad and publish an app with separate tables, validation on every field, and a form for receiving stock. The sheet stays as a fallback export, but nobody opens it anymore because the app never breaks and shows real-time totals.
A franchise with 6 locations
6 sites, 1 database
Each location had its own copy of the daily sales sheet. Headquarters spent half of every Monday consolidating six versions with mismatched columns. They describe a unified entry form per location plus a head-office dashboard. Exepad publishes one app — each manager logs in, fills the same validated form, and HQ sees rolled-up numbers live. The Monday consolidation job disappears entirely.
A finance lead at a 40-person company
40 users, role-based access
She was tired of locking and unlocking ranges every time someone needed to add a row but not see the formulas. She describes who should read, who should write, and who should approve. Exepad publishes an app with row-level permissions, an approval queue, and an export endpoint. Auditors get a clean trail of every change instead of a folder of versioned XLSX files.
How it works
Four steps. No technical knowledge required.
Describe
Tell Exepad what your spreadsheet tracks today — columns, tabs, and the rules people break. The convert engine turns it into a no-code app schema.
Configure
Refine fields, validation, and relationships through prompts. Exepad builds the database, entry forms, and permission rules from your description.
Publish
One click ships the app to the global edge with SSL, Lighthouse 95+ performance, and GEO-ready markup so internal links and search resolve cleanly.
Invite
Point your custom domain at the app and invite teammates with role-based access. Daily backups and email notifications switch on by default.
Who builds this
Common audiences and the job each one is trying to get done.
Operations and inventory tracking
Stock counts, receiving logs, supplier records, and reorder points — one app that prevents the negative-quantity bug a spreadsheet never catches.
Project and task management
Projects, tasks, owners, and statuses — with assignment notifications, due-date reminders, and a kanban view a spreadsheet cannot render.
Customer and lead lists
Replace the contacts tab with a real CRM-style table, deduplicated by email, with intake forms feeding it directly from your website.
Finance trackers and approvals
Expense submissions, vendor records, and approval queues with permission boundaries — instead of locking spreadsheet ranges by hand each quarter.
HR records and time-off requests
Employee directory, leave requests, and equipment assignments — with sensitive fields restricted to HR roles, not visible to everyone with the file link.
Field data collection
Inspections, surveys, and audits filled out on phones — written into the same database your office team reads, no manual copy-paste step.
Metrics that matter
What to measure once it's live — the numbers that tell you it's working.
Data integrity rate
Percentage of rows that pass validation. Typed fields and required rules push this from the typical 70% in a free-text sheet toward 99%.
Reporting time
Minutes from a question being asked to a number being delivered. With saved views and live filters, weekly reports drop from hours to seconds.
Version conflict count
Edits lost because two people saved over each other. A single live database brings this from a weekly headache to zero.
Audit response time
How long it takes to answer 'who changed this and when'. A built-in audit log replaces archaeology through versioned XLSX backups.
Common mistakes
What goes wrong most often — and the fix that turns the mistake into a working result.
Mistake
Trying to model relationships in a single flat sheet.
Fix
Split into linked tables — customers, orders, line items. Exepad creates the foreign keys for you when you describe the relationship.
Mistake
Importing every column without questioning the schema.
Fix
Use the move as a chance to drop the 11 columns nobody filled in. Describe the workflow you actually need, not the sheet you inherited.
Mistake
Keeping the old spreadsheet alive 'just in case'.
Fix
Set a cutover date and disable edit access on the sheet. Parallel systems guarantee the old one wins because change is hard.
Mistake
Skipping permissions because 'we all trust each other'.
Fix
Permissions are about audit, not trust. You want to know who changed the payroll row at 11pm — even on a five-person team.
Mistake
Forgetting to export. Locking yourself into another silo.
Fix
Every Exepad app exposes REST and MCP endpoints, and exports CSV on demand — the data stays portable, unlike a CRM with no exit.
What replaces what
The stack collapses into one product.
One subscription. Eight production components.
Everything you need in the plan. No add-ons, no separate vendor invoices.
Database
Forms
File storage
Hosting
SSL
Visitor analytics
Custom domain
Frequently asked
Will this cost more than a spreadsheet?+
A spreadsheet is technically free; the hidden cost is the half-day per week someone spends fixing it, plus the breaches and broken reports nobody attributes back to it. Exepad is one flat monthly subscription that includes the database, forms, hosting, SSL, transactional email, daily backups, and audit logging. For most teams it pays for itself the first time a Monday cleanup pass disappears.
Do I need to be technical to migrate off a spreadsheet?+
No. You describe what the spreadsheet does — tabs, columns, who edits what, and the rules people keep breaking. Exepad infers the schema, builds the tables and forms, and gives you an app you can refine through more prompts. You never write SQL, never write a line of code, and never touch a server.
Can I import my existing data?+
Yes. Upload the spreadsheet and Exepad maps columns to the new database fields, flags rows that fail validation, and lets you fix them before the final import. You can also run the old sheet and the new app side by side for a week and compare numbers before the cutover.
What if I still need to export to Excel for some reports?+
Every table exposes one-click CSV export plus a REST and MCP endpoint. Anyone who lives in Excel can pull a fresh export on demand or schedule a recurring one. The database is the source of truth; spreadsheets become read-only snapshots, not the canonical record.
What about audit logs and compliance?+
Every Exepad app records the user, timestamp, field, and prior value on every edit. That trail is searchable, exportable, and immutable — exactly the kind of evidence a spreadsheet folder cannot produce when an auditor or regulator asks for it.
Can I have different permissions for different people?+
Yes. Describe roles in plain language — 'managers see everything, reps see only their own customers, finance sees costs but not pipeline notes' — and Exepad enforces it at the database level. Permissions are per-row, not per-file, which is impossible to do safely in a shared sheet.
Will my replacement app show up in search and AI assistants?+
Yes. Every Exepad app — including the public-facing intake forms on the new database — ships Lighthouse 95+, structured schema, and direct-answer passages. Search engines and AI assistants like ChatGPT or Perplexity can resolve and cite the public pages without separate SEO work.
Every Exepad app runs on a global edge network with 99.9% uptime, automatic SSL, daily backups, Lighthouse 95+ performance, and GEO-ready structure built in.
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