invent.sale
deployment

We have our own accounting system

You can keep your accounting and compute on top of it. You can move onto ours — it exists, and locations and warehouses run on it. The difference from a classic ERP is that there is nothing to buy on top: one subscription, everything included.

one subscription

Pay for one product, get every capability

There are no modules. Everything below is in the subscription from day one: nothing is sold as an extra licence or spun off into a separate rollout.

The books: catalogue, stock, receiving

A product record with packs and multiples, stock per location and hub, receiving with discrepancies, recounts, write-offs and transfers. The reason people buy an accounting system in the first place.

The till and store work

Sale, refund, discount, shift and end of day. A daily action list for the store manager — on a phone, because they are not at a desk.

Need and ordering

Forecast, replenishment, allocation from the hub, the supplier order and the supplier's reply. Most accounting systems have none of this; where they do, it is a separate licence and a separate project.

Document flow with suppliers

Order, confirmation, delivery, receipt and discrepancy — one chain, each step stamped with a time and a name. The supplier installs nothing.

Money: payables and the payment calendar

Who is owed what, what falls due this week, how much cash is parked in stock and what frees up if the pile is cleared.

The owner's screen and access to the data

A morning summary in a messenger, questions in plain text, big-order sign-off in the same place. Plus read access to your own data over an API — pull it into your BI without asking us.

how this differs

How ERP is usually sold, and how it works here

The difference is not the feature list but what you are charged for, and when the first value appears.

invent.sale · How ERP is usually sold, and how it works here
QuestionUsuallyHere
What the price is made ofa core plus modules: ordering, analytics, mobile — each priced apartone subscription; everything above is in it
When you need something newa new licence and a new implementation projectswitched on in settings; the price does not move
What is countedper seat and per moduleby the size of the network: locations and warehouses
Time to the first resultmonths: the whole rollout first, value afterwardsweeks: the maths on your data first; the move later, if you want it

An anonymised example: the dataset is shared across every screen on this site.

Three ways

1

Connected

when it fits

The accounting system works and nobody plans to change it. What is missing are the decisions: need, allocation, supplier ordering.

how it works

We read an export or connect directly, compute, and send the order. Nothing is written back until you allow it.

Decision quality is capped by export quality: what is missing from the data is missing from the maths.

2

Hybrid

when it fits

Some processes are easier here — usually supplier ordering and store work — while accounting and the warehouse stay put.

how it works

We agree where the system of record lives for each entity, and enable write-back only for those.

It demands discipline: two systems of record for one entity is the fastest way to a mismatch.

3

Native

when it fits

There is no accounting system, it cannot carry the network, or it is run in spreadsheets. Then we become the retail or distribution system.

how it works

Catalogues, stock, orders, receiving and store operations live here. Bookkeeping stays with the bookkeepers.

It is the longest route: what moves across is data, habits and people — not just tables.

what lives where

The three ways side by side

In all three cases bookkeeping stays in your system: we do not replace it and do not intend to.

invent.sale · The three ways side by side
WhatConnectedHybridNative
Product cataloguein your systemyours, with a reconciled copy herehere
Stock per locationread from the exportkept here, pushed to accountinghere
Supplier orderhere; the file goes to the supplierhere, returned into accountinghere
Receiving and discrepanciesin your systemhere; the document goes to accountinghere
Till and receiptsyour till; we read the salesyours or oursour till
Bookkeeping and reportingin your systemin your systemin your system
How long the start takesfastest: an export is all it takeslonger: the system of record must be agreedlongest: data and habits both move

An anonymised example: the dataset is shared across every screen on this site.

Show us one critical process. We will show how it runs here.

We look at your cycle: how an order is assembled today, who decides, where time leaks and what the system takes over.

Start with one critical process

Connect replenishment, supplier ordering or another first workflow, then expand across one platform.

Working with your accounting system — invent.sale