Know which deviations are in effect today, and which end soon.
Four cards over the list count what is in effect today, what ends within 30 days and what is past its end date and still open. A new deviation is asked with guided questions or filled in on the full form, in your plant’s own word for it, and every one lives in one Excel workbook in the plant’s shared folder. Open one file in Chrome or Edge on each computer, with nothing to install.
The deviations in the made-up plant: what is in effect, what ends soon and what is past its end date, over the list.
Price
$199 once, for your whole organization.
Delivery
Download straight after payment. One HTML file that opens in Chrome or Edge: no install, no server, no account, no network.
Updates
Version 1.0.0 at launch. Every 1.x release, from the same download link.
No IT involvement
Buy it today. It works tomorrow morning.
DeviationLog runs in the browser you already have, from one file. One person can buy it this afternoon and the next shift can use it: no install, no IT ticket, and nothing leaving your network. Your data stays in your own files, in the folders your team already uses.
Nothing to install
DeviationLog is one file that opens in Chrome or Edge, the browser already on the computer. No installer, no admin rights and no server, so there is nothing for IT to approve or set up.
No account
Nobody signs up or signs in to anything of ours. Open the file and start work: there is no license server to reach and no subscription to lapse.
Runs offline
It makes no network requests at all. It works on a line with no internet, and nothing you type is ever sent to us or to anyone else.
Stays on your network
Every deviation, with the words, statuses, fields and lists your plant uses, is one ordinary Excel workbook in a shared folder on your network drive, with old versions of it kept beside it.
How it works
Three steps, and every deviation goes the same way.
Set it up once
Make a folder everyone who records deviations can open and write to, such as a shared drive or a synced folder, and choose it in DeviationLog. Choose Set up admin and set a passcode, then on Settings say what your plant calls a deviation, what each status means, and the fields and lists you use. Every other computer chooses the same folder.
Write it up, then Save
Answer the guided questions a card at a time, or fill in the full form: what the deviation is, what it covers, when it applies, and who asks and who approves. Changes wait until you choose Save, which keeps the database as it was in Old versions before writing it.
See where each one stands
The cards over the list count what is in effect today, what ends within 30 days and what is past its end date and not closed. Each one shows its deviations in the list, and any one prints whole for the paper file.
What it does
Where each deviation stands, in your plant’s words, in one workbook.
Try it before you set anything up: Try it with made-up deviations, on the first screen, opens a made-up plant’s deviations, some in effect, some ending soon and one past its end date. Nothing in the demo is saved, and a blank template is there to fill in in Excel.
Where each one stands
Four cards over the list
In the database, In effect today, Ending within 30 days and Past end date
Each card shows its deviations in the list; pressed again, every one
Where one stands is worked out each day from its start and end dates and its status: in effect, ending soon, past its end date, not yet in effect or closed
How many days before its end date one is ending soon is the plant's to set; 30 to start with
Search, filter by where it stands, status and type, and sort by number, dates, status or responsible party
Write one up
Guided questions or the full form
Guided questions, a card at a time: What is the deviation?, What does it cover?, When does it apply? and Who asks, and who approves?
Check the deviation lists what is still missing, each with Go to it, before you save
Or Show the full form: every section on one page, with a bar that goes to each
Gentle notes never stop a save: an end date before the start date, a date that reads two ways
Duplicate starts a new one like the one open, with its own number and without its dates and approval
Changes wait until Save
Then go into one Excel database
Adding, changing or taking out a deviation waits in your browser until you choose Save; the bar over every page says how many changes are waiting
Save reads the database afresh, puts only what changed here on top, keeps the database as it was in an Old versions folder beside it, then writes it and checks what it wrote
Old versions keeps the original, the last copy of each earlier day and the 20 most recent
A change that clashes with another computer's waits under Needs review, never saved over theirs
DeviationLog Database.xlsx is an ordinary workbook, and a deviation list kept in Excel opens as it is, read by its own headings, with its own columns and sheets kept
Your plant's words
Set by an admin on Settings
What you call one: a deviation, a concession, a waiver or a variance; every page and printout says your word
What each status means: waiting, approved and in effect between its dates, or closed
Which fields the plant uses and which must be filled in, the drop-down lists (also from an Excel lists file) and the number prefix
The plant's own extra questions, kept in the database
With a passcode set, only an admin changes these
Paper and lists
Everything that leaves the file
Print the deviation: every section with its answers, a line to write on where one is still empty, and lines to sign
Print the list, save it as a workbook or a CSV file, or copy it into a spreadsheet
Print forms opens the PDF, Excel and Word forms your plant keeps in the database's folder, and never changes them
In the Alderworks Quality Suite
The eighth app, after NCRLog
DeviationLog Database.xlsx is kept in its own folder in the suite's shared folder, with Old versions beside it
DeviationLog follows the suite's one admin, and the team lists are offered in its name boxes
Honest about what it is
The admin passcode stops accidents, not people: it is kept in the workbook as a one-way check, never as the passcode itself, and anyone who can edit that workbook in Excel can clear it. What keeps the records honest is who can write to the shared folder. Your name on the form is typed, not a sign-in.
What it is not
DeviationLog is a record-keeping aid, not a validated quality management system. It does not approve a deviation or decide whether one is acceptable: the status it keeps is the one you set. Check that the records it keeps meet your own quality system before relying on them.
A closer look
The questions, the form and the printout.
A new deviation, a card at a time: what it is, what it covers, when it applies, and who asks and who approves.Or the full form: every section on one page, with a bar that goes to each.The deviation on paper: every section with its answers, a line where one is empty, and lines to sign.
Price
$199, once. Your whole plant, every computer you have.
One payment licenses DeviationLog to your organization, not to a seat, so everyone who records a deviation and every admin can use it. The download starts as soon as payment completes, the link is emailed to you, and the same link fetches every 1.x update. Stripe sends the receipt and an invoice for your records.
All sales are final. DeviationLog is a one-time purchase, not a subscription, and the copy you download is yours to keep. Look through the screenshots on its page to see whether it fits before you buy.
Add it to your suite. Every Alderworks app you buy counts toward the $599 Alderworks Quality Suite, all nine apps in one file. With DeviationLog bought, the other eight together cost you $400 at most: each costs its own price until the one that would take you past $599, which costs only what is left and brings every app.
If there is ever a 2.0. It is a new purchase; your 1.x license keeps working and keeps getting 1.x releases.
Questions before or after buying go to support@alderworks.dev and reach someone who worked on DeviationLog. Answered by email, as soon as we can; we do not promise a response time.
What IT will ask. The license agreement that comes in the download, what the tool sends and stores in security, and what a purchase shares with us in privacy.
Checking the file. The current download is DeviationLog_1.0.0.zip, 999,741 bytes. Its SHA-256 fingerprint is below; anyone can confirm the file they received is the one we published by running certutil -hashfile DeviationLog_1.0.0.zip SHA256 on Windows or shasum -a 256 DeviationLog_1.0.0.zip on a Mac, and comparing.6d91f1e817c7c65ef94a2f0484ccde975b62c8f0ddd530130cb66ff01c0f9daf
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