Seattle-based MiiR makes stainless-steel drinkware and specialty coffee products for B2B companies and consumers while prioritizing people and planet through its impact efforts. To-date, MiiR has donated over $4 million dollars through grantmaking to its nonprofit partners. It is also a Certified B Corp, 1% for the Planet member and is Climate Neutral certified.

MiiR, named partly in homage to environmentalist John Muir, has funded projects with nonprofits Splash and Water1st to bring clean water to people in developing countries like Honduras, Bangladesh, and Nepal and also closer to home, partnering with Viva Farms in Skagit County to provide irrigation to 45 acres of land designed to support up to eight farm businesses for 25+ years.

When Papé and his wife started MiiR, he set the company up on QuickBooks Enterprise, which worked well when the company operated out of their apartment and a small 10-foot storage unit. But as growth ballooned inventory into a sizable warehouse, problems emerged.

With QuickBooks, an entry-level accounting package running on a virtual PC, there was a huge time lag when information came in from other systems. “Bank feeds didn’t go in properly and connections were hard to forge when MiiR grew from [eCommerce platforms] Volusion to Magento to Shopify,” Papé says. “We saw tremendous growth over the years. That (growth) came with a lot of systems that were challenging to keep up with.”