Two years building a small-business ERP, but no paying customers yet

ERPlora is an ERP built over roughly two years for small businesses such as restaurants, hair salons, and retail stores. These businesses may use 5 to 12 separate tools for sales, , bookings, and invoices, forcing them to enter the same information repeatedly and creating wasted time and mistakes. In ERPlora, a customer entered once can appear in the booking calendar, sales ticket, and invoice.

Businesses can activate only the feature packs they need, with 26 currently available. The free single-device edition runs on Windows, Android, macOS, and Linux, supports multiple users, and works entirely offline; only the multi-device cloud edition requires a . Each customer receives an isolated setup with its own plus dedicated computing resources, instead of being stored as one entry in a large shared system.

Web developers can add features using , and support for VeriFactu, a Spanish tax requirement expected to cover hundreds of thousands of businesses by 2027, is built in. The product and public demo are live, but it has no , while its downloadable app is still awaiting approval from and the Microsoft Store.

Key points

  • The product took about two years to reach production and still has no .
  • Customer details entered once can flow into bookings, sales tickets, and invoices.
  • Businesses can choose from 26 optional feature packs instead of enabling everything.
  • The offline single-device edition is free; the multi-device cloud edition is -based.
  • VeriFactu support is included, but the downloadable app is still under store review.
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