DMS With Your Own Database

A distributor management system (DMS) with your own database means the application reads and writes directly to a PostgreSQL database and file storage bucket you provision and control, rather than copying your data into the vendor's own systems. It's for IT and security teams who want channel billing software without handing over a second copy of the company's data.

The problem

Most SaaS billing or channel software asks you to trust it with a full copy of your data, stored on infrastructure you never see. That copy becomes its own liability -- another place the data can be breached, leaked, or simply mishandled, and another thing to migrate out if you ever switch providers.

How WorklikeGenie does it, step by step

1. You provision the infrastructure. Your own PostgreSQL database and a file storage bucket.
2. You give WorklikeGenie the connection details once, during setup.
3. Connection credentials are encrypted and stored centrally -- never in plain text.
4. Decrypted only per request, in memory, for the length of that one request, never cached beyond it.
5. Every dashboard reads your data live -- there is no second, WorklikeGenie-controlled copy to lose control of.
6. Per-company separation is enforced structurally -- one company's data can never appear in another's.

What you see in the portal

Example
During setup, you enter your database connection string and storage bucket credentials once. From then on, every dashboard -- billing, orders, beat plan -- reads from that database in real time; nothing about day-to-day use reveals or requires re-entering those credentials.

Who it suits

Companies whose IT or security policy requires keeping business data on infrastructure they control, or who simply don't want a second copy of billing and partner data sitting with a vendor.

How this compares with a conventional SaaS

A conventional SaaS stores your data on its own servers -- convenient, but it means trusting the vendor's own security practices with a full copy of your business data, and a migration project if you ever leave. With WorklikeGenie, the data was never anywhere but your own infrastructure to begin with, so there's no copy to migrate out.

Read the full security & data page for what this means in detail, or see what a DMS is more generally.