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by Frappe Technologies Pvt. Ltd. · frappe.io

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ERPNext at a glance

Vendor
Frappe Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Headquarters
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 28 Oct 2026
Data hosting
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 28 Oct 2026
Free plan
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 28 Oct 2026
Panel verdict
The AI panel rates ERPNext 2.5/5, the mean of 6 judges. ERPNext is the free and open-source ERP from Frappe Technologies Pvt. how scores are made
As of
Vendor pages captured 26 Oct 2026 to 28 Oct 2026; evaluated by the panel 29 Oct 2026. all sources

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Read this page as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.

The Head of Finance

Weighted verdict

Closes the books for three companies every month and has retyped one supplier invoice too many. Wants incoming e-invoices read and matched to the purchase order, GoBD stated with a procedure documentation, DATEV for the tax adviser, intercompany postings that balance, and every figure traceable to the order and the person behind it.

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Scored by The Head of Finance

Panel median The Head of Finance This judge’s scores over the panel median. Each label opens its reasoning below.
Scores per criterion, in stars out of 5
Criterion Panel median The Head of Finance
Finance, tax & compliance 3 of 5 3 of 5
Purchasing, inventory & order processing 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
Manufacturing, services & projects 3.5 of 5 4 of 5
Integration, API & data portability 3.5 of 5 4 of 5
Rollout, roles & operations 3 of 5 3 of 5
European sovereignty 2 of 5 2 of 5
Pricing transparency 3 of 5 3 of 5

Finance, tax & compliance

How this is scored

Whether the ERP keeps books a tax adviser and an auditor accept: general and subledgers, VAT per country, GoBD-compliant posting and archiving, e-invoices sent and received (XRechnung, ZUGFeRD), payments and dunning, and a DATEV export or a documented hand-over to the accountant.

0 — No accounting at all; invoices leave as PDFs and the books are kept somewhere else by hand.

3 — Invoices and credit notes are created in the system, but there is no ledger, no stated GoBD compliance and no export the accountant can import.

5 — Invoices, open items and payments in the system with a DATEV or accounting export, VAT rates per item, dunning, and e-invoices in XRechnung or ZUGFeRD format sent to customers.

8 — Full financial accounting or a live-synchronised one: general, receivables and payables ledgers, incoming e-invoices read and matched to purchase orders, bank feeds with payment matching, OSS and reverse-charge VAT, GoBD compliance stated with a procedure documentation, and several companies in one tenant.

10 — The money side closes inside the system: an auditor's GoBD or IDW PS 880 attestation published, consolidation and intercompany postings across entities, fixed assets and cost accounting, every posting traceable to the order, goods movement and user behind it, and period close with locked periods documented.

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The Head of Finance

Supplier invoices post the way a bookkeeper expects: submission credits the payable, books expense, asset, stock and tax lines, updates billed quantities on the order and writes payment-ledger entries, with duplicate supplier invoice numbers rejected and payments, holds, debit notes and withholding handled from the invoice. A marketplace DATEV app exports general-ledger entries in DATEV CSV and mails vouchers to the tax adviser's DATEV Unternehmen Online, and multi-subsidiary books, multi-currency with stored exchange rates and fixed assets are listed on the homepage. I found no public information on GoBD or a procedure documentation, on XRechnung or ZUGFeRD, on dunning or on bank-statement matching, and the e-invoicing pages cover the Indian IRN process — so German books close here only with add-ons. 1 5 7 6

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Purchasing, inventory & order processing

How this is scored

The goods chain from supplier to customer: quotes, orders and order confirmations, purchasing and goods receipt, stock per warehouse and bin, batch and serial numbers, picking and shipping, returns — and whether each step posts through to the next document and to the ledger instead of being retyped.

0 — No order or stock handling; the product is a contact list or an invoicing tool.

3 — Items with a stock count and an order list, but purchasing, goods receipt and delivery are not connected and stock is corrected by hand.

5 — Quote, order, delivery note and invoice as one document chain, purchase orders with goods receipt booking stock, and stock levels with reorder points per item.

8 — Several warehouses and storage bins, batch and serial number tracking, mobile picking and scanning, carrier and shop or marketplace connections, returns with restocking and credit note, drop shipping, and stock valuation that flows into the books.

10 — The goods chain runs and is evidenced in the system: demand-driven purchasing proposals, EDI with suppliers and customers, fulfilment and multi-channel stock allocation, best-before and recall traceability per batch from supplier to customer, and every movement attributed and dated.

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The Head of Finance

The purchase chain posts through end to end: purchase orders with an enforceable order-required policy, goods receipts writing stock-ledger entries into accepted and rejected warehouses with serial and batch control and barcode identification, then the invoice creating the payable, with partial receipts, partial invoices, returns, retained samples, landed-cost vouchers and perpetual inventory keeping warehouse value in step with the general ledger. I found no public information on the sales-side document chain, storage bins, reorder points, carrier or shop connections or drop shipping, which is what holds this below the fuller level. 8 7 8

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Manufacturing, services & projects

How this is scored

The depth for the buyer's own business model: bills of materials, work orders and capacity planning for manufacturers; projects, time, resources and milestone billing for service firms; contracts, subscriptions and field service. A product is judged on the models it says it serves.

0 — Nothing beyond trading goods; no bills of materials, projects or service billing.

3 — A simple kit or set of items, or a project tag on invoices, but no production orders, no time recording and no planning.

5 — For at least one model a working core: bills of materials with production orders consuming stock, or projects with time recording and billing from logged hours, with the supported models named on the vendor's pages.

8 — Multi-level bills of materials with routings, work centres and capacity planning, or projects with budgets, resource planning, milestone and recurring billing, and service or maintenance contracts — with costs flowing to cost accounting.

10 — Industry depth documented for the models served: MRP runs with material and capacity planning, shop-floor data capture and quality checks, variant configuration, or full professional-services automation with utilisation, contracts and revenue recognition — each described with its limits in public documentation.

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The Head of Finance

The manufacturing documentation is deep and states its own limits: multi-level bills of materials with routings, workstations defined for costing and work-order scheduling, job cards, backflush consumption, scrap and process-loss handling, enforced quality inspection, variant templates and BOM costing from valuation rates and operation costs, all attributable through cost centres, projects and branches. I found no public information on MRP runs or capacity planning, and projects appear only as a module name and a costing link on the bill of materials. 9 9 1

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Integration, API & data portability

How this is scored

How the ERP connects and how the data gets in and out: a public API reference, webhooks, standard connectors for shops, marketplaces, banks, payroll, DATEV and BI, data import from the previous system, and a documented full export when the company leaves.

0 — No API, no import and no export beyond printing.

3 — CSV import and export of some lists, a few named integrations, but no public API documentation and no full export.

5 — A documented REST or OData API, CSV or Excel import for master data and open items, and standard connectors to common shops, banks and DATEV.

8 — A public, versioned API reference covering all main objects with webhooks, a connector marketplace, a documented migration path from named predecessor systems, and a full data export of master data, documents and postings available to the customer.

10 — Open by design and evidenced: complete API coverage with sandbox tenants and rate limits stated, open data formats or open-source code, a contractual exit with export format and timeline, and self-hosting or on-premise as a documented alternative to the vendor's cloud.

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The Head of Finance

Exit and openness are the strongest part: the software is GPL-3.0 and self-hosting on your own server with installation scripts is a documented route, site data exports in a format importable into another ERPNext instance, and there is an app marketplace carrying connectors such as DATEV. The homepage claims an API-first RESTful design, but I found no public API reference, webhooks, sandbox or rate-limit details on the captured pages. 2 4 1 3

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Rollout, roles & operations

How this is scored

What it takes to go live and run the system: implementation path (self-service, vendor, partner network), onboarding and training, roles and permissions, audit log, updates and customisation that survive them, support channels and service levels, and availability.

0 — No information on implementation, roles, support or availability.

3 — A contact form and a help page, but no stated implementation path, no role model and no support terms.

5 — A described onboarding or implementation offer, user roles with permissions, a help centre with current documentation, and support channels with hours.

8 — Implementation methods with typical duration stated, a certified partner network or vendor services listed, fine-grained permissions with a change log, customisation without code that survives updates, and published service levels for support and availability.

10 — Operations are evidenced: a status page with uptime history, release notes and an update policy, a field-level audit trail, sandbox or test tenants, and support, training and implementation terms public enough to plan a go-live without a sales call.

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The Head of Finance

Go-live paths are described — self-implementation with documentation, guides, videos and the community forum, Starter Packs through certified partners, and a 200+ partner network — with granular roles and permissions and approval workflows named, and support routed through a portal governed by a published support service-level agreement. I found no public information on implementation durations, a change log or an audit trail, and the terms themselves state Frappe does not guarantee uninterrupted access. 1 2 3

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Who the contracting entity and the parent company are, where the ERP data — customers, suppliers, prices, postings, employees — is hosted, and who the subprocessors are (cloud infrastructure, email, support tooling, AI features). Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline; an ERP holds a company's entire commercial record, so the ownership chain counts, not only the server location.

0 — Non-EU vendor and contracting entity, hosting unstated, subprocessors unnamed, and no data processing agreement offered.

3 — A privacy policy exists, but hosting location is unstated or non-EU and the processors behind the service are not named.

5 — EU hosting stated and an EU contracting entity, but parts of the chain (US hyperscaler, AI features, support or email tooling) run through non-EU providers without a stated safeguard.

8 — EU hosting on named infrastructure, EU contracting entity, subprocessors listed with locations, a data processing agreement offered, and an on-premise or EU-only hosting option stated.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: European ownership, entity, hosting and every subprocessor, data export and deletion documented, and a certification such as ISO 27001 or BSI C5 published rather than implied.

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The Head of Finance

The contracting entity is Frappe Technologies Pvt. Ltd. under Indian law with Mumbai courts and arbitration, and the cloud stores data in locations across the world with offsite backups in India — not a chain I can hand three companies' commercial records to as it stands. The footholds are real, though: a documented self-hosting option under GPL-3.0 on your own servers, a data processing addendum available on request, a published processors list, a named EU/UK GDPR representative and a stated ISO 27001 compliance practice. 3 2 4 3

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Pricing transparency

How this is scored

Whether a company can compute the real annual cost from public pages alone: price per user, module, company or transaction volume, which modules (accounting, warehouse, production, POS) cost extra, implementation and onboarding fees, minimum term, and what happens to the data on cancellation.

0 — No public prices at all; every customer is a sales call or a partner proposal.

3 — A starting price or "from" figure exists, but what is included and how it scales with users, modules or companies is unclear.

5 — Prices per edition or module are public with the main inclusions, but at least one commonly needed piece (implementation, extra companies, warehouse or production module, API use) is unpriced or "on request".

8 — Every edition and module priced publicly with its scaling rule (per user, company or volume), onboarding and implementation packages priced, minimum term and VAT treatment stated.

10 — Complete price computability: annual cost derivable for a given company size and module set, with every add-on, implementation, support and hosting cost and the cancellation and data-return terms published.

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The Head of Finance

Hosting is priced publicly with inclusions — sites at "$5 onwards /mo", servers at "$20 onwards /mo", dedicated at "$125 onwards /mo", all taxes exclusive — and the software itself carries no licence fee, so there are no per-user or per-module costs to compute. But these are "onwards" figures scaled by usage limits the vendor may set at its discretion, prices may be modified at its sole discretion, and I found no public figures for Starter Packs or Enterprise plans — so the true annual cost is not computable from public pages alone. 2 1 3 4

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European sovereignty — proven facts

0 of 4 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

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Questions about ERPNext

Is ERPNext European?

No. whats-best.ai classifies ERPNext as Rest of world.

Where does ERPNext store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 28 Oct 2026.

Does ERPNext have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 28 Oct 2026.

What are the best alternatives to ERPNext?

As of 29 Oct 2026, the panel rates Odoo (4/5), weclapp (3.5/5) and Haufe X360 (3.5/5) highest among the other 13 ERP products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is Odoo (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: ERPNext alternatives.

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Sources (9)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor homepage frappe.io Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Pricing page frappe.io Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Terms naming the legal entity docs.frappe.io Checked 28 Oct 2026 +1 earlier capture: 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Privacy policy docs.frappe.io Checked 28 Oct 2026 +1 earlier capture: 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Finance, tax & compliance — found from sitemap docs.frappe.io Checked 28 Oct 2026 +1 earlier capture: 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Finance, tax & compliance — found from sitemap docs.frappe.io Checked 28 Oct 2026 +2 earlier captures: 26 Oct 2026, 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Purchasing, inventory & order processing — found from sitemap docs.frappe.io Checked 28 Oct 2026 +1 earlier capture: 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Purchasing, inventory & order processing — found from sitemap docs.frappe.io Checked 28 Oct 2026 +1 earlier capture: 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Manufacturing, services & projects — found from sitemap docs.frappe.io Checked 28 Oct 2026 +1 earlier capture: 26 Oct 2026 Details →