“Most business software is built by tech people who've never run a real business. I have. 27 years of it.”

— Shane Smale, Founder & Builder

Built from frustration.
Refined over 27 years.

We didn't start as a software company. We started as a business — supplying parts, working with tradies, and fighting every day against systems that were too slow, too clunky, or simply built for someone else entirely.

For over a quarter century, we felt every pain point firsthand. A parts inventory with tens of thousands of SKUs that needed real search — by product name, description, hidden manufacturer codes, or a quick warehouse barcode scan. Pricing that had to show hidden dealer costs, live stock levels, low-stock alerts, and automatic supplier reorder emails.

And then there were our tradies — losing hours every week to paperwork, late invoices, complicated systems they had no time to learn.

So we stopped looking for the right tool and built it ourselves.

27Years in trade & parts
Inventory items supported
18Months of build & testing

Meet the founder

Invven was founded and built by Shane Smale, who has owned and operated a motorhome dealership in New Zealand for 27 years. After nearly three decades of chasing paper invoices, managing parts inventory by hand, and watching good jobs fall through the cracks, Shane built Invven to solve the problems he lived every day.

No guesswork. No features built by people who've never run a trade business. Just software that actually works the way your business does.

What we solved

Real problems we lived with. Real solutions we built.

🎙️

Voice to Job

Record on-site what needs doing. No typing, no forgetting.

📸

Photo to Quote

Upload a photo, AI pulls relevant items from your inventory.

🎤

Voice to Invoice

Speak your job, the invoice builds itself.

📦

Inventory that works

Search by name, code, description or barcode. Costs, margins, stock levels, auto-reorder.

💳

Get paid on the job

Take payments on-site. See exactly what you earned, GST included.

📊

Know your margins

Profit, GST, supplier campaign emails — all automatic.

Where we're headed

Built in the open. Shipping fast.

Core platform shipped✓ Shipped
Xero & accounting integration✓ Shipped
Invven AI Receptionist✓ Shipped
GPS job trackingBeta

“We built what we wished we'd had on day one. Eighteen months of planning, building, and testing — by people who've actually run a business. We hope you enjoy Invven as much as we do.”

— Shane Smale, Founder & Builder

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