ERP Setup
ERP and accounting software are not the same decision
When a growing small business needs books, inventory and a sales pipeline, buying a finance tool and hoping it becomes an ERP is how shadow spreadsheets start.
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What the ledger is for
Accounting software is the system of record for money: invoices, bills, banks, tax and the close. It should be boring, controlled and reconcilable. If a tool cannot produce a defensible trial balance, it is not your books — however attractive the dashboard.
What ERP is for
ERP is the operating system for documents that create those books: quotations, stock movements, production, purchasing, projects. Finance modules inside ERP only work if the operational documents are clean. Many small-business failures are inverted: a powerful ERP with nobody posting receipts, or clean books with inventory living in WhatsApp.
A practical sequence
Start from the bottleneck. If cash and GST are the fire, fix the books first. If you are selling what you do not have, inventory and orders come first — with a finance handover designed in. This is ERP setup work. It is not a website brief.
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