The licence fee is R0, forever. The method is published in the open. We move South African manufacturers and distributors off SysPro, Sage, Dynamics and spreadsheets onto ERPNext — and we prove it works next to your current system before you commit.
The mid-market squeeze, as we find it in almost every first conversation:
Per-user, per-module fees that track hard currency and grow every time your team does. You pay this year's bill again next year — plus the increase — for the system you already have.
Multi-warehouse stock, production planning and the month-end pack stitched together by spreadsheets and one heroic person who knows how they join.
The management pack lands weeks after month-end, hand-built from extracts. Every meeting starts with whose number is right.
Multi-level BOMs, variants, costing and shop-floor capture — sold as add-on modules by legacy vendors, too much for spreadsheets to fake.
ERPNext is open source — the same codebase run by tens of thousands of companies worldwide, maintained by a profitable product company and 600+ contributors. You don't rent permission to use your own system of record. You own it, and pay for the work of making it fit.
Production deployments, not pilots. Named walkthroughs and reference calls are arranged on request — we don't put clients' names on websites.
Two trading entities live on ERPNext with a Shopify storefront, CAD-to-BOM import and live CNC machine telemetry feeding the factory floor.
10+ warehouses, 500+ customers, 100+ staff — migrated off QuickBooks and Excel onto one stock and finance core.
109 users across 7 modules, multi-level BOMs driving order-based production.
4 branches, 9,000+ SKUs, 400+ B2B accounts and 10,000+ walk-in customers on one system.
The Playbook is our working methodology in the open: migration guides per source system, the manufacturing patterns, the platform case, and the honest commercial model. No sales gate, no email capture. That's the point.
Or skip the reading — tell us what you run and we'll bring the right playbook to the conversation.
Your own research will find these, so here they are from us first — each with how it's actually covered.
ERPNext gives capacity visibility, not constraint-based auto-scheduling. Most plants our size run better on visible load + a human sequencer — and if the proof-of-concept says otherwise, open-source APS integrates over the API.
The Shopify connector is single-store. Additional storefronts are a well-trodden, scoped integration build — real work, honestly priced, never a checkbox.
If your accounting genuinely works in Xero, integration may beat migration — and our Xero playbook says exactly that.
Our proof-of-concept ends at a go/no-go review with written success criteria. Sometimes the answer is no — better to find out for the cost of a POC than a migration.
The same evidence-gated sequence every time — sized to you, priced fixed-fee per phase, stoppable at every gate.
The method is public. Start with the guide for your current system — it's the same one we deliver with.
A half-day: we model two of your real products as live BOMs in a demo instance and run an order through to dispatch.
ERPNext stands up beside your current ERP, models a representative slice of your business, and is judged against written criteria.
Only after the gate: fixed-fee phases, a factory pilot on real orders, cutover when the numbers reconcile to the cent.
Nothing is migrated until the gate passes. Your current system stays live and authoritative throughout — the only exposure is the cost of the proof, never business continuity.
Tell us what you make and what you run today. We reply within a business day — usually with the right playbook attached, and an offer to model two of your real products in a live demo instance.
Prefer reading first? The Playbook is open.