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We set up and customise ERPNext, the open-source ERP.

ERPNext is an open-source ERP with no licence fee per user. We set it up for your sales, purchasing, stock, production and accounts, and build the parts your process needs on top. We built a pre-engineered building manufacturer its ERP on ERPNext.

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From our clients

A pre-engineered building manufacturer wanted the best ERP. We built it on ERPNext.

What you get

What we hand over

  1. 01

    ERPNext set up for your business

    The standard modules configured for the way you sell, buy, hold stock, make and account. Users, roles and approval steps are set up so each person sees only what they need.

  2. 02

    Custom apps and DocTypes

    A DocType is the ERPNext name for a type of record, such as a sales order or a job card, with its form, its fields and its permissions. We add new DocTypes and custom apps for the steps the standard product does not cover, and keep them separate from the core so upgrades stay possible.

  3. 03

    Your data and your print formats

    Items, customers, suppliers, stock and open orders loaded from the old system or from spreadsheets. Quotations, orders and invoices printed in your own formats.

  4. 04

    Hosting, integrations and support

    We host ERPNext on your own cloud account or server, connect it to the other systems you run through its API, and maintain and upgrade it after go-live.

How it works

Shaped to work that is engineered per order

Our ERPNext work started with a pre-engineered building (PEB) manufacturer. PEB makers quote per project, engineer per order and fabricate against drawings, which most packaged ERPs do not expect.

  1. 1Every sale starts a design, and every design changes the bill of materials (BOM). The ERP has to keep each revision of the BOM, not only the latest one.
  2. 2Costs are collected per project, so you can compare the estimate with what the job really cost.
  3. 3Production planning has to cope with late engineering changes, because fabrication waits for approved drawings.
  4. 4We map these steps with your team first, use the standard ERPNext modules where they fit, and build custom DocTypes where they do not.

Your options

Your options, compared honestly

  • Alternative

    ERPNext, set up by your own team

    The software is free to download, and a small company with a simple process can run it this way. You need someone who can manage the server, the backups and the upgrades, and custom work needs developers.

  • Alternative

    Odoo

    A larger set of ready-made apps and a bigger partner network. The Enterprise edition is licensed per user, so the cost grows with headcount. We implement Odoo too, and will tell you when it fits better.

  • Alternative

    A custom-built ERP

    The closest fit when your workflows are unlike anyone else. It costs more and takes longer than starting from ERPNext, which already has accounts, stock and purchasing.

  • With KTree

    ERPNext with KTree

    One engineering team sets up ERPNext, builds the custom parts and hosts and supports it. Because we also work on Odoo, Dynamics 365 and custom ERPs, the advice on which one fits is not tied to a single product. The code and the data are yours.

Technology

What we build it with

  • ERPNext
  • Frappe Framework
  • Python
  • MariaDB
  • Custom DocTypes and apps
  • Print formats and reports
  • REST API integrations
  • Linux servers
  • AWS
  • MCP servers

Ways to work with us

A project, a team, or support for what you already run

Project

We build it end to end

A defined scope, delivered in releases you can test. We own delivery from discovery to go-live.

Best for a new system or a rebuild

Dedicated team

Our engineers, your roadmap

Odoo, React, Node, React Native, AWS and PHP engineers who work as part of your team, month by month.

Best for a product that keeps growing

Support

Keep it running

Maintenance, upgrades and urgent fixes for ERP, web and cloud systems, including ones we did not build.

Best for a system already live

Industries

Where we have done this

Related reading

From our engineers

Before you ask

Questions about ERPNext

Short, straight answers. Anything else, ask in the form below and an engineer will reply.

ERPNext or Odoo: how do we choose?

We start from your workflows. ERPNext is fully open source with no licence fee per user, which suits a company with many users and a wish to own the whole system. Odoo has more ready-made apps. We work on both and compare them against your process before you commit.

Is ERPNext really free?

The software has no licence fee. You still pay for the set-up, the custom work, the hosting and the support, and we put all of that in a written estimate.

Where is it hosted?

On your own cloud account or your own server. We set up the hosting, backups and monitoring, and the accounts stay in your name.

Can ERPNext handle engineer-to-order manufacturing?

Yes, with custom work. We built a pre-engineered building manufacturer its ERP on ERPNext, where each order is engineered and costed as its own project.

Who owns the code and the data?

You do. ERPNext itself is open source, and the custom apps, the data and the hosting accounts are yours, handed over in full.

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Tell us what you are building.

A senior engineer replies within one working day.

  1. 1An engineer reads it. Not a sales desk.
  2. 2A short call. To understand the scope and what you run today.
  3. 3A written estimate. Scope, team and timeline on paper.
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