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Point of Sale

Point-of-sale system — records sales, processes payments, and sends kitchen orders in restaurants and retail.

USD 2,500 – 10,000

Order the waiter sends from the POS to the kitchen or bar. In modern systems it appears on a kitchen tablet/printer instantly.

Property Management System

Central hotel management system — reservation calendar, check-in/out, housekeeping, rates, and occupancy reports.

USD 3,000 – 15,000

Online Travel Agency

Platforms like Booking, Airbnb, and Expedia that distribute hotel reservations in exchange for a per-night commission.

Software that syncs availability and rates between your own system and OTAs (Booking, Airbnb, Expedia) in real time.

USD 2,000 – 4,000 custom · USD 50–300/mo SaaS

Average Daily Rate / Revenue per Available Room

Two key hotel metrics: ADR measures average rate per sold room; RevPAR measures revenue per available room (sold or not).

EHR / HCE

Digital system where the doctor records consultations, diagnoses, prescriptions, and patient files. Replaces the paper chart.

USD 2,500 – 8,000

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

US federal law that regulates the privacy and security of medical information. Applies if you handle data from US patients.

USD 2,000 – 4,000 (module)

Personal Data Protection Law (Costa Rica)

Costa Rican law that regulates the processing of personal data. Applies to any system that stores information about identifiable people.

Medical consultation conducted remotely via video call, with digitally signed records and prescriptions.

USD 3,000 – 6,000 (module)

Ability of an ecommerce or inventory system to manage stock across multiple locations (warehouses, physical stores) simultaneously.

USD 1,500 – 3,000 (add-on)

Customer who added products to cart but left before paying. Recovering them with automatic emails is one of ecommerce's most profitable plays.

USD 800 – 1,500 (add-on)

National Electronic Payment System (Mobile)

Instant bank-to-bank transfer system in Costa Rica tied to a phone number, with zero commission on colones-to-colones transfers.

USD 800 – 2,500 setup · 0% per transaction

Mandatory system in Costa Rica to issue invoices with digital signature and validate them with the Ministry of Finance ATV system.

USD 2,500 – 4,500 (module)

Service that processes online payments (card, transfer, SINPE) and deposits the net amount in your bank account.

USD 200 – 3,000 setup · 0–3.5% per transaction

Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Technique that combines an LLM (GPT, Claude) with your private knowledge base so it answers with your data, not its general training.

USD 1,500 – 3,000 (RAG bot)

Large Language Model

AI model trained on trillions of texts that understands and generates natural language. Examples: GPT-4, Claude, Gemini.

Meta's official API to send and receive WhatsApp Business messages from your system — the only legal way to automate WhatsApp at scale.

USD 800 – 1,500 setup · USD 0.0085 per message

Three Google metrics that measure the user's real web experience: load speed, interactivity, and visual stability.

Minimum Viable Product

Minimum functional version of a product that can already charge a real customer. Ugly, fails on edge cases, but alive.

USD 3,000 – 5,000