Open Source ERP Guru

Visiting Openbravo’s website today I noticed a banner on their homepage referring to ‘Openbravo Network’. I might have missed it before, but clicking the banner got me to a ‘Buy Openbravo Network’. Openbravo is offering a commercial edition of their open source ERP solution, which includes support, upgrades, ERP appliance for simple deployment and advanced system administration features. This is the the classic feature set offered by similar open source offerings.

In my opinion, this is another sign to the growing maturity of open source ERP solutions. It will help increase adoption and make the solutions more reliable while increasing implementation projects success. On the product side, it will drive the projects to provide a better product with more functionality as competition with proprietary ERP solutions will become tougher.

Since many open source ERP solutions now offer some form of paid services, I would like to  take this opportunity to provide you with a summery of the different editions and prices.

Open Source ERP Product Editions and Prices

Openbravo

Openbravo provides a single paid edition (‘Openbravo Network’). Prices are 5,000€ for the first 5 users and then 500€ per user, per year. They currently offer a promotion price of 10,000€ for unlimited users, which is a really good deal if you plan to run more than 20 or so users.

Openbravo Editions Comparison
Openbravo Price Comparison

Compiere

Compiere has been offering commercial editions of their ERP product for a long time now. They offer both Standard and Professional editions. The Standard edition goes for 25$/User/Month and the professional for 50$/User/Month.
Compiere Editions and Pricing

xTuple

xTuple offers 3 editions – Postbook, a free,open source edition, Standard Edition and OpenMFG, the latter 2 being enhanced, commercial ERP versions based on Postbooks.

For Postbooks, the open source edition, xTuple offers varying prices for support and services, depending on the number of users. For 5-19 users, for example, the price is 500$/User/Year,going all the way down to 100$/User/Year for 200+ users.

xTuple Pricing

OpenERP (Former TinyERP)

OpenERP does not offer different ‘editions’ of its software, but they do offer different support packages. Average price is 100€ per hour.

OpenERP Support Plans

OpenERP is also offering a SaaS ERP ( ERP On Demand). They are currently the only open source ERP vendor to offer that. They have a very flexible pricing scheme, allowing you to choose which modules you want to use and pay for. Their SaaS ERP offering is sold for 140€ per user per month.

OpenERP On Demand Pricing