Home-Based Business Tools in Singapore: What You Actually Need

At its core, a home business needs five things: a way to show what you sell, a way to take orders, a way to get paid, a way to schedule anything time-based, and a way to remember your customers. Everything else is optional.

The common mistake is solving each of those with a different app — one for the storefront, one for chats, a spreadsheet for orders, a notebook for bookings — until keeping them in sync becomes a second job.

Every extra app is another login, another place to check, and another chance for something to fall through the cracks at 11pm. The cost is not just the subscriptions — it is the time and the missed orders.

Consolidating the essentials into one place means less admin, fewer mistakes, and more of your evening back.

Kedai brings those essentials together for Singapore home businesses: a storefront customers can order from, a shared inbox for your Telegram chats and storefront orders (WhatsApp support is rolling out), PayNow at checkout, bookings for service-based work, and a customer list you own and can export.

Because it is built around how home-based sellers actually work, you manage products, orders, payments, and bookings in one place — and Kedai charges a flat subscription rather than taking a cut of your sales.

List the apps and notebooks you currently use to run your business, then look for the overlaps — those are the ones worth consolidating first.

Create a Kedai shop for free and see how much you can move into one place.