SiMS HQ — Internal Ops Console

The console for running our own software business. It manages our ~300 Classic clients end to end — and it replaces the internal Oracle APEX app. This repo is internal only; it is not shipped to clients.

One place for the client book, what each client has bought, the money they owe, and every document and conversation we've had with them.

What it does

• Client book — the registry of ~300 clients: contacts, GSTIN, status, notes.
• Modules + price book — the sellable software modules with a dated price book (a price change is a new row, not a code release) and per-client subscriptions.
• Documents — quotations (QT), proforma invoices (PI), invoices (INV) and credit notes (CN), built on editable letterhead templates, rendered to PDF (headless Chromium), with shareable public links (one token-guarded, rate-limited, revocable read route).
• Interactions — call / visit / meeting tracking against each client.
• AMC contracts and AWS cost recovery — per-client cost attribution pulled monthly.
• Payments + allocations, recurring plans, and reminders sent via Gmail on the company mailbox, with bounce handling and a manual queue when the token dies.
• Quote-to-close funnel — employee accounts (owner / manager / staff), a cross-client pipeline chase-list (stages derived, oldest-overdue on top), and escalating quote follow-up that nudges the owning employee and emails the client a share link on a dated schedule (reminder_schedule), stopping automatically on accept / lose / convert.
• Reports, a Dashboard, an append-only audit log (every mutation), an APEX importer for the initial 300-client load, and a scheduler (runs on boot + every 6h: reminders, bounce polling, AWS cost pull).
• A redesigned ops UI — light/dark theme with accent + neutral palettes, grouped sidebar with a live reminder badge, a Ctrl-K command palette (clients, documents, tickets, pages, actions), and a Client 360 with tabbed sections and a 12-month relationship-pulse ribbon; phone-usable drawer layout.
• Support tickets (aging/SLA/assignee workbench, bill-from-ticket), onboarding milestones, and per-module operational fields each module declares (config, not code) — surfaced per client on Client 360, across all clients in the Module data directory, and as a Portals quick-list of every stored login. For the SMS module those fields include a live credit balance pulled from the provider gateway (manual refresh + a daily pass), with low balances flagged for a one-click top-up quote.
• Renewals command center, an owner MIS cockpit, an audit-log viewer, and database backups (npm run backup → compressed, restorable pg_dump). Credentials are stored in the clear (no HQ_SECRET_KEY), so the DB and its backups are the security boundary.

Build state (start here)

Working codebase, not a plan. npm install + typecheck are clean and 416 tests pass. Current state and run-vs-pending detail live in STATUS.md; the go-live runbook (server, HTTPS, backups, Gmail/AWS/import wiring, the Postgres switch) is in docs/DEPLOY-HQ.md.

Architecture

• Backend — apps/hq/src: an Express JSON API over better-sqlite3, behind portable repositories (repos-*.ts, one per domain: clients, modules, documents, payments, amc, aws, interactions, recurring, reminders, shares, reports, dashboard, email). SQLite is the dev/test engine; Postgres is the locked production engine (see DEPLOY-HQ.md). DB at data/hq.db; server on :5182 (also serves the built web UI and the public /share/:token route).
• Frontend — apps/hq-web: React + Vite. Pages: Home, Dashboard, Pipeline, Reminders, Tickets, Onboarding, Clients, ClientDetail, Documents, NewDocument, DocumentView, Renewals, SMS credits, Modules, Module data, Portals, Reports, MIS cockpit (owner), Employees (owner), Profile, APEX Import (owner), Audit log (owner), Settings.
• Shared packages (trimmed forks): @sims/domain (ids, money, business-day, doc-series, gstin, documents), @sims/auth (pin/scrypt), @sims/billing-engine (compute, tax — our invoices are GST documents, computed to the paisa), @sims/ui (design system).

Planning docs

Doc	What it covers
docs/14-SPEC-HQ-CONSOLE.md	The console spec: shape, data model, features, delivery sequence (D15)
docs/superpowers/specs/2026-07-17-quote-to-close-funnel-design.md	The delivered D16 funnel slice — employees, pipeline, escalating reminders, convert/supersede, module roster
docs/superpowers/specs/2026-07-17-hq-console-redesign-design.md	The delivered warm ops-console UI redesign
docs/11-ADMIN-SUPPORT-CONSOLE.md	The vendor-side HQ / support console this app implements
docs/07-DB-AND-CONFIG.md	Everything-in-DB design (messages, plans, settings) and the local DB engine analysis
docs/06-DECISIONS.md	Founder decisions, including D15 (build HQ early) and the Postgres call
docs/16-PROJECT-RULES.md	The hard rules a PR must satisfy to merge
docs/DEPLOY-HQ.md	Go-live runbook for the console

Run

npm install                     # from the repo root (workspaces: packages/*, apps/*)

# Backend — HQ server. Build the bundle, then run it FROM THE REPO ROOT: the DB
# path resolves to ./data/hq.db against the current working directory, so the
# server must be launched from the repo root (not from apps/hq, which would look
# in apps/hq/data and boot an empty database).
npm run build --workspace @sims/hq
node apps/hq/dist/server.cjs     # serves :5182 (API, built web UI, /share/:token)
# First boot on an empty data/ creates data/hq.db and prints a one-time owner
# password — capture it. Log in as admin@sims.com, then change it.

# Frontend — hq-web dev server (Vite on :5183, proxies /api and /share to :5182)
cd apps/hq-web && npm run dev

Nothing in apps/hq/.env is required to boot; each var unlocks a capability (Gmail sending, AWS cost pull, security peppers) — see apps/hq/.env.example and DEPLOY-HQ.md. Repo-wide checks from the root: npm run typecheck and npm test.