Honestly
How it compares to what you are probably using.
Three comparisons. None of them say the alternative is bad — most of our customers like the accounting package they already run, and a tier-one ERP is the right answer for some plants.
Against an accounting package plus spreadsheets
| Accounting + spreadsheets | MANUPRIME | |
|---|---|---|
| Stock and books | Books are current, stock is a register somebody maintains | One transaction updates both, at the moment the material moves |
| Production | Outside the system entirely | Job cards, WIP and stage progress inside it |
| Costing | Worked out afterwards, in Excel | Actual cost per batch as the batch closes |
| Quality | A file, or nothing | Inspections that hold the dispatch |
| Who enters data | One or two people in the office | The floor enters what the floor knows |
| Asking a question | Somebody builds a pivot table | Plain English, answered from the live record, with the report linked |
Against a generic or tier-one ERP
| Generic ERP | MANUPRIME | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to go live | Nine to eighteen months, commonly | One line live in three to four weeks |
| Implementation cost | Frequently more than the licence | Included on most plans, quoted where it is not |
| Does it know your trade | Configured to, by a consultant, at your cost | 37 industry templates, shipped |
| Tax and compliance | A localisation pack, sometimes lagging | Compliant invoicing, e-invoicing and transport documents are core, not an add-on |
| Who you call | A partner, then a queue | The people who build it |
| AI | A module on the roadmap, or a chat window bolted on | On the screens that hold a decision — drafting, never releasing |
Against building it yourself
| Custom build | MANUPRIME | |
|---|---|---|
| Year one | Looks cheaper, often is | A subscription |
| Year three | The developer has moved on and nobody can change it | Still maintained, still updated |
| Compliance changes | Your problem, at your cost, every time | Ours |
| New requirement | A quote and a wait | Configuration, mostly |
| What you own | Code you cannot maintain | Your data, exportable at any time |
Where a tier-one ERP is genuinely the better answer — a listed group, a dozen countries, consolidated statutory reporting — we will say so on the call rather than after the purchase order.
Due diligence
What to ask any of us, including us.
- Ask to see your own BOM in it before you sign, not a demo BOM.
- Ask what happens in month 13 to the price you were quoted in month 1.
- Ask whether the messaging, e-invoicing and bank accounts are in your name or the vendor’s.
- Ask who answers when the line is stopped at 11pm, and what they are contractually allowed to promise.
- Ask for the export. If your data cannot come out in a format you can read, it is not your data.
Our own answers are on this site rather than in a call: pricing is introductory pricing from ₹4,999 a month, the provider accounts stay in your name, and what we do and do not claim about security is on the security page.
Plan by plan
And if you are comparing our own four plans.
Every line, every limit and every rate, side by side — including the ones most pricing pages move to a footnote.
Compare the four plans →Book a demo and see it running on your own process.
Forty minutes, on a call, with your BOM and your job card in front of us. No slides.