Advantages of scripting your business processes

I recently had the pleasure of helping the owner of a flight school complete a script that helps them create schedules that best incorporate their many students, instructors and aircraft according to their availability. Recently prior to that, I also wrote a set of scripts to help a music studio automate parts of one of their service offerings that they had recently taken online.

Scripting is the process of writing code that usually operates on an ad-hoc basis to achieve certain ends. Scripts are different than full-fledged apps mainly due to the fact that they don’t have a typical user interface; you can’t get to them through an app or a browser, they are triggered through command-line interfaces that developers are familar with, or through automations.

Scripting is a good way to get started with reaping the benefits of automation, as it can be a cheaper and faster way than creating a full-fledged custom app for your purposes.

Save Time

When you have tedious, time-consuming tasks, scripts can help you save time by doing the busy work for you. In the flight school schedule use case that I mentioned, the owner of the flight school used to lose hours manually poring over the schedules of their students, instructors and aircraft, to create a schedule that yielded the most classes, but did not overrun equipment or instructor availability. With a script, that same owner can now put all of the info in one place, and press a button to get the best schedule for their school.

Reduce Errors

Having a computer do a task can help reduce human error.

Save Money

Development is expensive, and scripting can be a cheaper option than having a custom app developed for the same purpose.

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