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ERPAG alternative: an honest comparison with Ordamo

Of every tool compared on this site, ERPAG ticks the most boxes: it takes a deposit against a sales order, runs work orders with the time they actually took, costs them with overhead, gives customers a B2B portal and connects to Shopify. Nothing here is missing the features. What you are deciding is whether you want an ERP — $99 a month for five users, no annual billing, and a system that expects to be configured before it earns anything — to answer a question that is one screen wide.

ERPAG · checked 9 September 2026

Which one is right for you

Stay with ERPAG if
  • You want one system for stock, purchasing, production, invoicing and accounting integration.
  • There are five or more of you, so a five-user licence is value rather than overhead.
  • Work orders with real time booked against them, actual costing and overhead are the point.
  • Somebody in the business enjoys configuring software, or you can pay for that time.
Look at Ordamo if
  • You want the deposit, the balance and the margin visible today, not after a setup project.
  • There are two or three of you, and five seats of ERP is not what you are short of.
  • $99 a month with no annual option is three times a bill you would rather keep small.
  • The only thing you want a customer to see is their own order, not a B2B portal to log into.

We make Ordamo, so we are an interested party. What we can be is checkable: written by the people who built it for their own furniture studio in Buenos Aires, every price taken from the other side’s own page with the date we read it, and their wins listed above ours.

ERPAG vs Ordamo, at a glance

ERPAGOrdamo
Built aroundThe whole operation: stock, purchasing, production, invoicingOrders: deposits, balances, batch cost
Deposit and balance on one orderYes — an advance payment recorded against the sales orderBoth, with dates, on the order itself
What a run really costWork orders with actual time and overhead appliedA received batch writes what the run really cost onto its products
Margin per orderBuildable in its report builder, not a field on the orderPer order, on the order, after the real cost lands
A page the customer can openA B2B portalOne link per order, no login, updates itself
Store integrationsShopify and WooCommerceNo live sync; a store export imports as orders
Invoices and accountingYes, with Xero and QuickBooksNeither — it exports what an order earned
What you buy at the entry tier$99/mo including 5 users, then $9 each; no annual billing$29/mo for the business
Before it is usefulA configuration projectA sample workspace you can open before you sign up
Trying it15 days$0 today, first charge after 7 days, cancel in one click

One order, from deposit to delivery

Built for orders that take weeks to deliver, start in a message and get paid in parts.

01

Add a customer and their order

Deposit taken, balance still owed, and the date you promised.

02

Send your customer their order page

One link that updates itself, instead of twenty messages.

03

Record what the batch cost

What a run really cost, over the pieces it produced. One button puts that on the products it made.

04

See what you actually made

Revenue, cost and margin per order. Money in, money out, cash on hand.

Ordamo · Dashboard
Ordamo
Dashboard
Orders
Customers
Products
Batches
Income
Expenses
AI Assistant
Settings
Marlow & OakAll Time
Income$135,342
Expenses$88,000
Outstandingto collect / to pay$5,240 / $1,760
Profit35% margin$47,342
Withdrawn40% of profit$18,900
Left in business$28,442
Orders14 active186
Items313
Average order value$744
Repeat purchase rate31.4%
Inventory value$37,118
Add an order from a screenshot, or ask about your numbers
Incomelast 24 months
$0$4.5K$9K$13.5K$18K
Sep 24Mar 25Sep 25Mar 26Aug 26
Orderslast 24 months
05101520
Sep 24Mar 25Sep 25Mar 26Aug 26
Deposit paid$120 / $240
Real margin · order #1042$104 43.3%

Why people look for an ERPAG alternative

01

It has the features. That is not the same as being the answer

ERPAG genuinely holds a deposit, genuinely costs a production run with overhead, genuinely shows customers a portal. On a feature grid it beats us. What a grid cannot show is the distance between installing an ERP and having it tell you something: master data, units, workflows, roles, and a decision about every field before the first order is worth entering.

02

Five users is the smallest thing you can buy

$99 a month includes five seats whether you have five people or two, and there is no annual billing to soften it. That is fair pricing for a small manufacturer and it prices the licence, not the work: a two-person studio is buying capacity for a shape of business it does not have yet.

03

Margin lives in a report builder

You can build the number — a report joining the order, its costs and its overhead. You will also maintain that report, explain it to anyone else who needs it, and rebuild it when the model changes. Here margin per order is a field on the order, because it is the one question the whole tool exists to answer.

04

An ERP answers a question you may not be asking

The reason to run ERPAG is that purchasing, production, stock and invoicing all need to agree with each other. If your business is three commissions at a time, a workshop invoice and a customer waiting for a date, those departments do not exist — and the software's real value is in coordinating departments.

ERPAG pricing against Ordamo

ERPAG

From $99/mo

Basic and Professional are $99 a month and Advanced $199, each including five users with extra users at $9; an introductory $49 for the first three months is published. The tiers differ mainly in portal seats and support rather than in the manufacturing features. No annual billing is published, and the trial is 15 days.

Ordamo

$29/mo

One plan, per business, everything included — however many of you there are. $0 today, first charge after 7 days, cancel in one click. 14-day money-back on the first month. Nothing is metered.

What is in the plan

How to switch from ERPAG to Ordamo

  1. 01Export your open sales orders and customers from ERPAG as CSV.
  2. 02Drop the file in. No template to fill — AI reads the columns for you, and nothing saves until you have seen what was found.
  3. 03Add each deposit and the date the balance is due. The amount comes across; the schedule is what has to be entered.
  4. 04Enter the batches in production. What a run cost, over the pieces it produced, is the per-piece cost.
  5. 05Keep ERPAG if purchasing and stock need it. Only the order process has to move.

Where Ordamo is the wrong answer

  • Being an ERP. No purchasing, no accounting, no payroll, no warehouse — one process, and nothing behind it.
  • Configuration. There is nothing to model, which is the point and also the limit: a genuinely unusual process will not be accommodated.
  • Work orders and shop-floor time. A batch records what a run cost; nobody books hours against it.
  • Taking the payment. Your bank details or a payment link sit on the customer's page; the money does not move through us.

Other ERPAG alternatives

We are not the only answer, and pretending otherwise wastes your afternoon.

ERPAG alternative: frequently asked questions

Does ERPAG track deposits on custom orders?+

Yes — an advance payment is recorded against the sales order and its own documentation covers exactly that. This is the tool on this site least vulnerable to a missing-feature argument. What differs is where that leaves you: the deposit is one field in a system whose subject is the whole operation, and the setup to get there is a project rather than an afternoon.

What does ERPAG cost?+

Basic and Professional are $99 a month and Advanced $199, each including five users, with extra users at $9 and an introductory $49 published for the first three months. The tiers differ mainly in portal seats and support. No annual billing is published and the trial is 15 days. Ordamo is $29 a month for the business. Confirm the current position on erpag.com before deciding on the strength of a number here.

ERPAG or Ordamo for a small workshop?+

If purchasing, stock, production and invoicing all have to agree with each other, ERPAG is the right kind of tool and this is not. If what you need is the deposit, the balance, what a run cost and what the order earned, then you are choosing between a system to configure and a screen that already answers it — at a third of the price.

Is ERPAG cheaper than Katana or MRPeasy?+

Cheaper than Katana, which starts at $299 a month before add-ons, and different from MRPeasy, which is $49 per user with a one-user minimum. ERPAG's $99 buys five seats, so which is cheapest depends entirely on headcount rather than on features.

Does Ordamo do work orders and overhead?+

No. Nobody books hours against a job here and there is no overhead allocation. A production batch records what the run actually cost — usually the workshop's invoice — and divides it across the pieces it produced. If you need labour time and overhead in the cost, that is an argument for an MRP.

Does Ordamo have a B2B portal?+

No, and the difference is deliberate: one page per order, no login, showing what was ordered, what is paid, what is owed and when it will be ready. A portal is for buyers who place repeat orders themselves; this is for a customer waiting on one piece.

What is the best ERPAG alternative for a two-person studio?+

For orders with deposits and a production cost, this is $29 a month and needs no implementation. For materials and cost of goods on stocked products, Craftybase starts at $20 a month and Inventora at $19. For planning a floor, MRPeasy is $49 per user. Nothing in that list replaces an ERP, and if you wanted an ERP you should keep one.

How do I switch from ERPAG to Ordamo?+

Export open sales orders and customers to CSV, import the file as it comes — there is no template, the columns are read for you — then add each deposit with the date the balance is due and enter the batches currently in production. Start new orders here and let the open ones finish where they are.

Plan prices, the five included users, the $9 extra-user price, the introductory $49 for three months, the absence of annual billing and the 15-day trial read from erpag.com/prices on 9 September 2026; deposits and advance payments on a sales order, work orders with actual time and overhead, the B2B portal and the Shopify and WooCommerce integrations from ERPAG's own documentation and news pages the same day. Software pricing moves; confirm with the vendor before deciding on the strength of a figure here.

One order, from the deposit to the final balance.

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