Custom ERP Solutions for Irish SMEs

A custom ERP solution is a single system, built for your business, that brings together things like orders, stock, jobs, invoicing and reporting so they're no longer spread across spreadsheets and separate tools. Unlike a large packaged ERP, it only includes the parts your business actually uses. We build these for small and medium businesses in Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Not always. If a good accounting package and a few well-organised spreadsheets are working, you may not need one yet. It's worth looking at when the same information is being typed into several places, stock or orders are getting lost between tools, or you can't get a clear picture of the business without a day of pulling figures together.

An off-the-shelf ERP is usually the better choice when your processes are close to standard for your industry and a packaged product already handles them well. Areas like accounting and payroll, which have to follow tax rules, are often best left in a proven package that your custom system connects to. We'll tell you honestly if we think a packaged product suits you better than a custom build.

A first version usually costs between €3,000 and €8,000, typically covering one or two key areas such as orders and invoicing. A mid-sized system is typically €8,000 to €12,000, depending on complexity, and larger builds start at €15,000, usually once the first version has proven itself. Building in stages means you spread the cost and only pay for what you use.

A first version usually takes 4 to 8 weeks, focused on the part of the business where the most time is being lost. The system then grows in stages over the months and years that follow, adding areas like stock, purchasing or reporting as you need them. You can use each part as soon as it's ready rather than waiting for the whole system.

It can manage whatever your business runs on, commonly customers, orders, stock, jobs, contracts, purchasing, invoicing and reporting. For a Cork office supplies business we built one system covering customers, printers, contracts and consumables, with automatic billing that cut over 90% of the manual work. For a plumbing and heating firm we built job tracking, quotes, invoices and supplier ordering from materials kits.

Usually, yes. Your custom system can work alongside accounting packages such as Xero or QuickBooks, so you keep the accounts software your accountant already knows. The Cork billing system we built, for example, exports its billing figures to the business's existing billing system.

Yes. We've built systems that surveyors fill in on tablets on site, with photos, sketches and problem areas flagged for the office. We can also build in GPS location tracking, barcode and QR code scanning with the phone camera for stock and equipment, and offline working that syncs when staff are back in coverage.

You own the source code and the data, so you're never tied to us. Systems run on Google Cloud with data held in an EU region and backed up every night to separate off-site storage. We'll sign a GDPR data processing agreement when you ask.

You deal with one person from start to finish, the person who designs, builds and supports your system, with no account managers in between. We're based in County Kildare and work with businesses across Ireland and Northern Ireland. After launch we stay on to look after the system and add new features as your business changes.