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 "title": "Wundaly blog",
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 "description": "Practical notes for makers, sellers and freelancers on working with your own AI: shops, bookings, invoices, memory and saying yes, from the Wundaly team.",
 "language": "en",
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   "id": "https://wundaly.geenius.io/blog/use-the-helper-you-already-pay-for/",
   "url": "https://wundaly.geenius.io/blog/use-the-helper-you-already-pay-for/",
   "title": "Use the helper you already pay for",
   "summary": "Wundaly has no AI of its own. You bring Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok or another MCP assistant, use several at once and change any time, and keep your hoard.",
   "date_published": "2026-10-18T09:00:00Z",
   "authors": [
    {
     "name": "The Wundaly team"
    }
   ],
   "tags": [
    "ai",
    "product"
   ],
   "content_text": "Almost every product now arrives with an AI inside. It is a bit like every shop selling its own brand of umbrella: nice, but you already have one, and it is on the hook by the door.\nWundaly does not come with an AI of its own. This is on purpose, and it is good news for your wallet and for your freedom.\nYou probably have a helper already\nIf you make and sell things, you may already chat with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok. You know how it talks, what it is good at and what it costs. You pay for it where you already pay for it. Another assistant inside another product would be a second bill and a second memory.\nWe make the place\nThe helper is the brain. Wundaly is the studio where it works: the shop, the bookings, the invoices, the memory and the yes. You connect your helper once. Open the connector settings of your assistant, add Wundaly with the address from your invitation, and approve it. After that it works in every new conversation. The steps are in connect your AI.\nYou never paste a key or a password into a chat. The connector signs the helper in, and you can see and change what it may do.\nMore than one Spark\nYou can connect one assistant or several. Each becomes its own helper in the workspace, with a name, a role and its own permissions. One can keep the books while another writes your newsletter, and they work on the same projects. We call them the Sparks, and Wunda keeps the hoard they all read. Details are on agents and permissions.\nMade-up example: a florist gives one helper the shop and orders, and another only the blog and the website. The second cannot touch invoices at all.\nChange your mind, keep your things\nBecause your memory, projects and files live in the workspace, you can switch helpers when a better one appears. Nothing you built is trapped. A good first line in a new chat is: "Read the project and tell me where we are." See Your helpers and memory.\nWhat it costs\nWundaly plans are Pro at 19 euro, Premium at 39 euro and Max at 79 euro per seat per month, with VAT included for consumers. There is no free plan. Nothing here meters AI for you, because we do not provide it. The details are on pricing.\nYour helper is run by its own provider, under its own terms. What you ask it may be sent to that provider. Check those terms before you put anything sensitive in a request. Where our own servers are, and which processors we use, is to be confirmed. See Safe and sound.\nWhat helpers can and cannot do here\nA helper can do a lot: draft, look up, build previews, move bookings. It cannot decide your approvals, switch a shop live or mark an order paid. Those stay with you. The Wundaly pieces that make this safe are described in You say yes.\nIf you already chat with an AI every day, you are most of the way there. Ask for a place, connect once, and give your helper a studio to work in."
  },
  {
   "id": "https://wundaly.geenius.io/blog/what-wunda-keeps/",
   "url": "https://wundaly.geenius.io/blog/what-wunda-keeps/",
   "title": "What Wunda keeps",
   "summary": "Wundaly keeps your notes, decisions and regulars' likes in the workspace, so any AI helper can read them and a new chat picks up where the last one stopped.",
   "date_published": "2026-10-17T09:00:00Z",
   "authors": [
    {
     "name": "The Wundaly team"
    }
   ],
   "tags": [
    "memory",
    "ai"
   ],
   "content_text": "Every maker has a head full of small facts. Mrs Aydin likes the fig loaf, not the lavender one. The deposit for workshops is paid by the first of the month. You promised the school a quote by Friday. Chats are bad at keeping any of this. You close the window, and it is gone.\nWunda, our small dragon, keeps the hoard instead. The hoard is your memory, and it lives in your workspace, not in a conversation.\nWhat goes in\nWhatever your helper learns or you tell it. It can note something, search what is known, read one entry, confirm an entry when it meets it again, contradict one that is no longer true, and forget its own. So the hoard is not a heap. It is something that can be kept honest.\nMade-up example: you tell your helper, "Mrs Aydin prefers fig, and she is allergic to hazelnuts." It notes both. Three weeks later, a different helper drafts her order message and offers fig.\nAny helper can read it\nBecause the memory is in the workspace, it does not belong to one assistant. Switch from one helper to another, or use two at once, and both read the same hoard. This is the quiet reason people stay flexible: nothing you taught your first helper is trapped inside it.\nYou can read more about the idea in Wunda remembers and the practical details in memory.\nA habit worth having\nA helper still has to read the hoard. Starting a new conversation with one sentence does it: "Read the project and tell me where we are." That takes ten seconds and saves a surprising amount of explaining.\nWhen you make a decision, say it out loud to your helper: "From now on, deposits are thirty per cent." Decisions are the most useful things to keep.\nKeeping it true\nMemory goes stale. Prices change, a regular moves away, a rule you set in spring does not hold in autumn. That is why the hoard has confirm and contradict, and why it is worth asking now and then, "What do you know about my workshop prices? Is any of it out of date?"\nYours to take\nThe memory, your projects and your files can be exported, so the hoard is yours to take with you. See your data. Nothing in the workspace is meant to hold you in place.\nWhere the data is stored and which processors are involved is to be confirmed, and we say so on Safe and sound. The helper you connect is run by its own provider, and what you ask it can be sent to that provider. Please read their terms for anything sensitive.\nMeet the keeper\nIf you would like to meet Wunda and the Sparks, the little creatures who stand for your memory and your helpers, there is a page for that: Meet Wunda. When you want a hoard of your own, ask for a place."
  },
  {
   "id": "https://wundaly.geenius.io/blog/ten-packs-and-passes/",
   "url": "https://wundaly.geenius.io/blog/ten-packs-and-passes/",
   "title": "Ten-packs and passes",
   "summary": "How Wundaly memberships work for workshops, lessons and classes: packs with credits, subscriptions, and what happens when a pack is used up or has expired.",
   "date_published": "2026-10-17T09:00:00Z",
   "authors": [
    {
     "name": "The Wundaly team"
    }
   ],
   "tags": [
    "bookings",
    "memberships"
   ],
   "content_text": "If you teach, coach, run workshops or open a studio, you have probably been asked: "Do you do a ten-pack?" It is a lovely thing to sell, and a slightly fiddly one to keep track of. Who has how many sessions left? Did the last one expire? Did somebody cancel in time and get the session back?\nWundaly's memberships do the counting.\nThree kinds of plan\nA membership plan is one of three kinds: a subscription (per month or per year), a pack of a set number of sessions, or a trial. You give it a name, a price and a VAT rate. Packs carry a number of credits; a plan with no credit count is unlimited. You say which services it applies to, and then selling it to a customer is one step.\nMade-up example: a pottery studio sells a "Ten evenings" pack for its Thursday class. A student buys it, and each booked evening takes one credit.\nThe rules are the useful part\nA booking of a service the plan covers uses one credit when it is confirmed.\nA cancellation within the rules gives the credit back.\nAn eleventh booking on a ten-pack is refused with a friendly \"buy a new pack\".\nAn expired pack is refused, even if credits are left.\nA payment that is past due blocks the bookings that need it.\nCustomers see their credits and dates in the app and can cancel there themselves. For subscriptions, the end comes at the first period end after the notice days, and a confirmation goes out. Your helper can read memberships, sell plans, pause and resume them, and adjust credits with a reason that is kept. Changing plans and adjusting credits is reserved for owners and admins.\nThese tools belong to a business web app built with Wundaly Sites. Whether they are included on your plan is to be confirmed. Notice rules and cancellation wording follow the law of your customers' country: please check them with your adviser. Wundaly does not give legal advice.\nSelling produces an invoice draft\nSelling a plan answers with an invoice draft, with VAT per line, for the invoicing tool. It is a draft: the invoice and the email that carries it wait for your yes in approvals. See invoices for the legal lines for Germany and the Netherlands.\nWhere bookings come from\nBookings come from a public booking page where people pick a free slot, or from you booking a guest in by hand after a phone call. Moving or cancelling tells the guest by email, and that message waits for your approval. The booking basics are in calendar and bookings, and the whole idea is in bookings and packs.\nAutomatic reminders before a class are to be confirmed. We do not describe them as available.\nPasses, stamps and gifts\nPacks are about sessions. If you would rather reward visits, there is a loyalty card with stamps or points, and gift vouchers that are redeemed in parts. That is a different tool, described in regulars and rewards.\nTry it on paper first\nBefore you sell your first pack, write down the rules you want: how many sessions, how long it lasts, how late a cancellation may be. Then tell your helper. Rules that are clear to you tend to be clear to customers, and to the workspace.\nCurious how a studio with classes and a shop fits together? Read a day for a studio with workshops, or ask for a place."
  },
  {
   "id": "https://wundaly.geenius.io/blog/invoices-for-two-countries/",
   "url": "https://wundaly.geenius.io/blog/invoices-for-two-countries/",
   "title": "Invoices for two countries",
   "summary": "How Wundaly drafts quotes and invoices with the legal lines for Germany and the Netherlands, which VAT rates the catalogue knows, and why you check the first ones.",
   "date_published": "2026-10-17T09:00:00Z",
   "authors": [
    {
     "name": "The Wundaly team"
    }
   ],
   "tags": [
    "invoices",
    "freelance"
   ],
   "content_text": "If you work for clients on both sides of the border, you know the small dance: one customer in Utrecht, another in Stuttgart, two sets of rules, and one evening that was supposed to be for something else. Wundaly cannot do your tax for you, but it can draft the paperwork so you start from a tidy page.\nWhat it drafts\nA quote becomes an invoice as a PDF with the legal lines for Germany and the Netherlands. Other countries are not covered. An accepted quote becomes an invoice without retyping, billable hours become invoice lines, and a monthly timesheet is available as a PDF. E-invoices and payment reminders are available too. The email that carries an invoice waits in approvals until you say yes.\nYou can read the details in invoices and quotes and the overview in invoices and money.\nThe VAT rates it knows\nThe catalogue lists VAT rates per tax class: 21, 9 and 0 per cent for the Netherlands, and 19, 7 and 0 per cent for Germany. When a product or a line is added to an invoice, it carries its net price and its rate. Which class a service belongs to, whether a reverse charge applies, and whether you charge VAT at all depends on you and your clients. That is for you or your adviser to decide.\nTemplates are not legal or tax advice. Wundaly does not decide which VAT treatment applies to you.\nCheck the first invoices\nThis is the one piece of advice we would underline. Make your first few invoices with a helper, then put each beside one of your own, and compare line by line: the numbering, the VAT, the wording, the payment terms. If they match, you have learned how your helper writes. If they do not, tell it what to change, and ask it to note the decision in the workspace so every future invoice follows it. See what Wunda keeps.\nMade-up example: a translator sends one quote to a client in Utrecht and one in Stuttgart. The helper drafts both, each with its own rate. She compares them with her usual layout, changes one phrase, and approves the emails.\nYour rates, your rules\nWundaly does not apply professional fee schedules or price lists on your behalf. You enter your own rates and lines. Your helper can read them back to you, and a note in the hoard such as "day rate is 480 euro excluding VAT" keeps every future draft consistent.\nFrom hours to lines\nIf you bill by the hour, start and stop a timer on a project, or add a finished entry. Unbilled billable time can become invoice lines, and entries can be marked as invoiced so nothing is billed twice. Then you read the timesheet PDF before you send anything. Spending is a separate corner: expenses and budgets.\nWhat it will not do\nIt will not send the invoice on its own. It will not tell you what to charge. It will not know what you agreed on the phone unless you tell it, and it will remember it afterwards if you do.\nWundaly is in early access. Look at the first few documents with your own eyes, and keep your usual process alongside until you trust the new one.\nWhen you want to try it, ask for a place. If you are a freelancer, a day for a translator shows the loop in a made-up week."
  },
  {
   "id": "https://wundaly.geenius.io/blog/one-yes-before-it-goes-out/",
   "url": "https://wundaly.geenius.io/blog/one-yes-before-it-goes-out/",
   "title": "One yes before it goes out",
   "summary": "How approvals work for a small studio: your AI helper drafts, you read, you say yes, and only then does a message reach a customer.",
   "date_published": "2026-10-16T09:00:00Z",
   "authors": [
    {
     "name": "The Wundaly team"
    }
   ],
   "tags": [
    "approvals",
    "control"
   ],
   "content_text": "There is a particular kind of nervous you feel when a helper that is very quick and very keen is let loose near your customers. It might write the loveliest email you have ever seen. It might also tell Mrs Visser her order shipped when it has not even been baked. In Wundaly, that email never leaves without you.\nDrafts wait in a queue\nWhen your helper does something that reaches a customer, or changes something that matters, it does not just do it. It places the step in approvals and tells you it is waiting. You open the queue and see exactly what will happen: the words of the email, the invoice it belongs to, the booking it moves.\nYou can read it, change it, and then say yes. Only a person decides. A helper can ask for an approval; it can never grant one to itself. That is the whole trick, and it is a good one.\nWhat typically waits\nAn invoice email, a message about a moved booking, a signature request, a website publish. The details of what waits are on the approvals page, and the idea behind it is in You say yes.\nMade-up example: you ask, "Send Jonas his invoice for the three mugs." Your helper makes the invoice, drafts the email and puts it in approvals. You change "Dear Jonas" to "Hi Jonas", say yes, and it goes.\nA small habit that helps\nPick a moment in the day for your yes. Many people take five minutes after the first coffee, and again before they close the laptop. Approvals do not expire in a way that surprises you, so there is no need to hover over them.\nIf you work with a partner or a family member, decide who says yes to what before you begin. "I do money, you do messages" is a perfectly good rule.\nEvery step leaves a note\nAlongside the queue there is an audit trail: what was done, when, and who approved it. It is append-only, so it cannot be tidied up afterwards, and you can filter it and export it as CSV. When a customer asks, "Did you ever send me that?", the answer is on record. See the audit trail.\nLimits of the yes\nThe yes protects the steps that go through approvals. It is not a promise that your helper understood you perfectly, so read the draft the way you would read a note from a new assistant on their first week: kindly, and with a pen.\nAnd one honest point: which steps wait is decided by the workspace, not by the helper's good intentions. You can look at the list yourself, and you can set what each helper may touch in the first place. That second part is described in agents and permissions.\nWhy we built it this way\nSmall studios live on trust. A customer who buys three mugs from you is buying from a person. Letting a helper speak in your name without you is a bigger step than most makers want to take, and they should not have to. So the helper does the typing, and you keep the signature.\nIf you want to see it before you ask for a place, the animations on how it works show an email waiting for its yes. They use made-up names and amounts. When you are ready, you can ask for a place."
  },
  {
   "id": "https://wundaly.geenius.io/blog/a-shop-that-starts-in-test-mode/",
   "url": "https://wundaly.geenius.io/blog/a-shop-that-starts-in-test-mode/",
   "title": "A shop that starts in test mode",
   "summary": "Why every new Wundaly shop begins as a test shop with a mock payment, what the readiness check looks at, and why only a person can switch a shop to live.",
   "date_published": "2026-10-16T09:00:00Z",
   "authors": [
    {
     "name": "The Wundaly team"
    }
   ],
   "tags": [
    "shop",
    "selling"
   ],
   "content_text": "Opening a shop feels like unlocking the door. Opening one by mistake, with a price wrong by a decimal point, feels like leaving it unlocked overnight. So in Wundaly a new shop is a test shop first, and it stays one until a person decides otherwise.\nWhat a test shop is\nYou ask your helper for a shop, perhaps from a preset such as a bakery shop. It builds the storefront, and you put products in the catalogue, each with a price in the shop's currency. A test shop can be published in seconds, so you can walk through it like a customer. A whole test order can run through a built-in mock payment, so nobody is charged and nothing real moves.\nThat mock matters. You find out that the flow makes sense, that the product pictures look right, and that the thank-you message does not greet everyone with an empty name, before a real customer finds out for you.\nMade-up example: you ask for a small shop for your sourdough kits. Your helper builds it and adds three products you named. You place a test order, notice the postage line is missing, and ask for it before anyone else sees the shop.\nThe readiness check\nBefore a shop can go live there is a readiness check. It lists, in the order to fix them, what is holding the shop back. Typical things are seller details, legal texts and how payments are set up. You can ask your helper to read it out and work through it with you.\nPayments run through the mock, or through a provider you set up (the shop supports Stripe and Mollie). The keys for a provider go into the workspace settings, never into a chat. See your shop for the full picture, and the catalogue for products and orders.\nOnly a person goes live\nYour helper cannot switch a shop to live. It cannot mark an order paid either, and it cannot invent a price: prices come from the catalogue and are recomputed on the server. These are deliberate walls, because they are the three places where a quick helper could do the most damage.\nWe describe the shop and its test mode, because that is what exists. Whether real payments work on a live shop in your setup is to be confirmed. Do not promise customers a launch date based on this page.\nLegal texts are templates\nThe shop comes with legal texts, such as terms. They are templates, not legal advice. Please have them checked before you take real orders, and enter your own seller details. The same goes for any website you publish from your website.\nVAT, in plain words\nThe catalogue knows the standard VAT rates for two countries: 21, 9 and 0 per cent for the Netherlands, and 19, 7 and 0 per cent for Germany. You choose the class of each product. If you are unsure which class a product belongs to, ask your adviser; Wundaly does not give tax advice.\nA good first week\nBuild the shop in test mode, run three test orders, read the readiness list, and only then think about going live. There is no prize for speed, and the shop will still be there on Monday. When you are ready for a place of your own, you can ask for one."
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