Consulting · ERPNext
We assess whether ERPNext fits, implement it in fixed-scope phases, migrate your data and train your team — or review a rollout that has stalled. Independent advice with no reseller margin. Doha-based; remote engagements across the GCC, UK and US.
Fixed fee — quoted after the callReply within one business dayYou own the system and the data
Who it is for
Stock lives in one file, quotes in another, and month-end is a week of re-keying. You need one system for sales, purchasing, stock and accounts — and want to know whether ERPNext is that system before you commit.
The site is installed, some modules are configured, nobody trusts the numbers and go-live keeps moving. You need an independent review of what to keep, what to redo and whether to carry on.
You hold a quote — or three — and want a vendor-neutral fit/gap and a three-year cost comparison before you sign anything.
What we do
Readiness assessment
Fit/gap against the modules you need, a migration inventory, a hosting decision and a go/no-go. Ten working days; the output is yours whether or not you continue with us.
Fixed-scope implementation phases
Accounts and core masters first, then selling, buying and stock, then manufacturing, projects or HR if you need them. Each phase has a written scope, an acceptance checklist and its own go-live.
Data migration
Chart of accounts mapped rather than copied, cleaned customer, supplier and item masters, opening balances that reconcile to your closing trial balance, and open documents carried across.
Training
Role-based sessions on your own data — the accountant, the storekeeper and the salesperson each learn their screens, not the whole product.
Support and hand-over
A documented configuration, a runbook for backups and updates, and a defined support window after go-live so your team is not left guessing.
Self-host or Frappe Cloud advice
Self-hosting costs a server and someone to own backups, updates and MariaDB. Frappe Cloud lists site plans from $5/month and dedicated servers from $40/month (frappe.io, as of September 2026). We model both on your numbers.
Start here
The assessment is the decisions that make or break an ERP project — made properly, before they cost ten times more in month six. If the honest answer is “not yet”, that is the answer you get.
Fixed-fee assessment
For 20–200-person firms evaluating ERPNext, leaving QuickBooks or Tally, or holding another ERP quote — and for stalled rollouts that need a rescue review.
Timeline
Typical planning ranges by company size — not promises. They assume a standard ERPNext configuration with light customisation, one decision-maker on your side with a few hours a week, and master data your team can clean within the first month. Heavy customisation, several integrations or unowned data add time.
| Company size | Typical scope | Typical range to first go-live |
|---|---|---|
| 10–25 staff | Accounts, selling, buying, basic stock; one company, one warehouse | 6–10 weeks |
| 25–60 staff | The above plus multi-warehouse stock, projects or light manufacturing, and one or two integrations | 3–5 months |
| 60–100+ staff | Multi-company or multi-branch, manufacturing with BOMs, HR and payroll, custom reports and print formats | 5–9 months, phased |
Honest limits
We implement ERPNext because it suits many growing firms. It does not suit all of them, and you should hear that before you spend money.
The licence costs nothing. Configuration, data clean-up, training and hosting do — and they are most of any ERP budget.
Custom fields and scripts survive upgrades well; forked core code does not. If your process needs the core rewritten, ERPNext may be the wrong product.
ERPNext handles multi-company and multi-currency accounts, and version 16 adds consolidated reporting. Groups with many legal entities across several tax regimes are usually better served by Dynamics 365 Finance or a similar tier.
Regional support depends on the country. UAE VAT settings ship with the product; Saudi ZATCA e-invoicing relies on third-party apps from the Frappe Cloud Marketplace. Always check your country before assuming coverage.
Support comes from Frappe’s paid plans, a partner, the community forum or your own team. If you want one phone number and a vendor to blame, buy a product sold that way.
If your pain is bookkeeping rather than operations, good accounting software plus a CRM is cheaper and faster. We will say so on the call.
ERPNext itself is open source under the GPLv3 licence, so there is no per-user licence fee. The cost is hosting plus the implementation work: process decisions, configuration, data migration and training. As of September 2026 Frappe Cloud lists site plans from $5 per month and dedicated servers from $40 per month. Our own work is fixed fee, quoted in writing after a free 20-minute call, because the honest number depends on your modules, your data and how much your team can do itself.
For a 10–25-person company going live on accounts, selling, buying and basic stock, plan for roughly 6–10 weeks. A 25–60-person firm with multi-warehouse stock, projects or light manufacturing typically needs 3–5 months; larger or multi-company rollouts run 5–9 months in phases. These are typical planning ranges, not promises — the biggest variable is how quickly your side can clean master data and make process decisions.
Self-host only if someone on your team will own backups, updates, security patches and the MariaDB database. Frappe Cloud is the managed hosting run by the company behind ERPNext; as of September 2026 it lists shared site plans from $5 per month and dedicated servers from $40 per month, with managed upgrades and off-site backups. For most firms under 100 people without an operations engineer, managed hosting is the safer default. The assessment models both over three years.
Yes. Migration means a mapped chart of accounts, cleaned customer, supplier and item masters, opening balances that reconcile to your closing trial balance, and open invoices and orders carried across. We do not recommend importing years of transaction history into ERPNext; keep the old system read-only for reference instead. ERPNext’s Data Import tool loads masters from CSV or Excel files, so the real work is cleaning the data, not moving it.
ERPNext has an Arabic interface with right-to-left layout, and print formats can be bilingual. UAE VAT settings, including the VAT 201 report, ship with the product. Saudi ZATCA Phase 2 e-invoicing is handled by third-party apps on the Frappe Cloud Marketplace, which need checking against your ERPNext version. Qatar has no VAT as of September 2026, though a draft e-invoicing law was approved in May 2026. The UAE begins mandatory e-invoicing in phases from January 2027.
You do. ERPNext is open source, so there is no licence that can be withdrawn, and your database can be exported or moved between Frappe Cloud, another host or your own server at any time. We set up hosting accounts, domains and backups in your company’s name, hand over administrator credentials and document the configuration, so you can change consultant — or stop using one — without losing anything.
Vendor facts from frappe.io and the ERPNext repository on GitHub, read 18 September 2026. Regional tax status from the UAE Ministry of Finance and ZATCA announcements; check the current position before acting.
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Twenty minutes, free, no preparation. You leave with a plain view of whether ERPNext fits and what the next step is — with us or without us.
