European ERP Software

#1 Odoo

Ramillies, Belgium Founded 2005 One free app / paid plans per user per month Free plan and 15-day trial

Best for: Companies that want the option of running their own ERP, and paying for hosting only while it suits them

Odoo is the only vendor in this category where walking away from the supplier does not mean walking away from the software. The core is published under LGPLv3, so you can run it on your own servers, keep the version you have, and pay Odoo S.A. in Belgium for hosting and paid apps only as long as that arrangement makes sense. For an ERP — a system you will still be running in ten years — that is a materially different bargain from a licence that expires when the contract does.

The product itself is modular to a degree that is both its strength and its trap. Accounting, inventory, manufacturing, CRM, e-commerce, HR and point of sale are all separate apps that share one data model, so a company can start with one and grow into the rest without a second system. The trap is that the demo looks effortless and the implementation is not: the standard apps assume a way of working, and moulding them to a business that does things differently is real project work, usually through a partner. Budget for that, not just for the per-user price.

Standout feature. The exit is built in: LGPLv3 on your own hardware means the software outlives the contract, which is not true of anything else in this category.

#2 Exact

Delft, Netherlands Founded 1984 Subscription per module, quoted per company size Trial on request

Best for: Dutch and Belgian companies whose complexity is financial rather than physical

Exact B.V. has been writing Dutch business software from Delft since 1984, and it shows in the place it matters: the fit with Dutch accounting practice, tax filing and the accountancy firms that have to work with your books. For a company operating primarily in the Netherlands or Belgium, that is not a nice-to-have — it is the difference between an ERP your accountant can work in and one they invoice you to work around.

The product range spans from small-business bookkeeping up to Exact for Manufacturing, and the honest way to read that is as a ledger-first family that grew outwards. If your complexity is invoices, projects, hours and compliance, the fit is very good. If your complexity is production lines, serial numbers and multi-warehouse logistics, test it against your own product structure before committing, because that is where a vendor that grew out of accounting and one that was built around stock flow diverge. Pricing is modular and quoted per company, so there is no published list price to compare.

Standout feature. The accountant already knows it: for a Dutch company, an ERP your accountancy firm works in daily removes a cost that never shows up in the comparison table.

#3 IFS

Linkoping, Sweden Founded 1983 Enterprise pricing on request Demo on request

Best for: Asset-heavy manufacturing, field service and companies that maintain what they sell

IFS World Operations AB in Linkoping is the enterprise end of this list, and it is aimed at a specific shape of company: one that manufactures, installs and then maintains equipment over a long life. Where most ERPs treat service as an afterthought bolted onto sales, IFS treats the asset and its service history as first-class, which is why it turns up in aerospace, energy, construction and industrial equipment rather than in retail.

That focus is the reason to choose it and the reason not to. If your business is projects, assets and field service, IFS covers ground that lighter products simply do not reach. If you are a distributor or a webshop, you are buying complexity you will pay for and never use. Pricing is quoted per project and implementations are measured in quarters rather than weeks, with a partner almost always involved. Treat it as a capital decision, not a subscription.

Standout feature. Service is not an afterthought: the asset and its maintenance history sit in the core model, which is why equipment makers pick it over general-purpose ERP.

#4 Visma

Oslo, Norway Founded 1996 Varies per product and country Trial per product

Best for: Nordic companies, and groups that want payroll, accounting and ERP from one supplier

Visma AS in Oslo is less a single ERP than a family of business software companies under one roof, assembled over three decades of acquisitions across the Nordics and increasingly the rest of Europe. In practice that means the product you buy in the Netherlands is not the product you buy in Norway, and the right question is not "what is Visma like" but "which Visma product covers my country and my size, and who supports it".

The upside of that structure is real: local payroll and tax compliance in each market, done by a company that has been in that market for years, with accounting, HR and ERP available from the same group. The downside is equally real: integration between Visma products is not automatic just because they share a logo, and pricing and packaging vary by country and product line. Ask specifically which legal entity you are contracting with and which products are actually integrated in your market, rather than assuming the group brochure applies.

Standout feature. Payroll and ERP under one roof, in a market where payroll compliance is local — the part most international vendors quietly subcontract.

#5 weclapp

Kitzingen, Germany Founded 2008 Paid plans per user per month 30-day free trial

Best for: Small and mid-sized German-speaking companies wanting ERP and CRM in one place

weclapp GmbH in Kitzingen built a cloud ERP for the Mittelstand rather than for the enterprise, and the scope reflects that: CRM, quoting, orders, stock, purchasing, project management and accounting in a single application, priced per user per month with a published thirty-day trial. There is no separate CRM to integrate and no module licensing puzzle, which for a company of thirty people is worth more than any individual feature.

It is built around order and stock flow rather than around the ledger, so warehouse, batch and multi-channel selling behave like native concerns instead of extensions. The limits are the ones you would expect from a product aimed squarely at its home market: it is strongest for German-speaking companies and German accounting practice, the depth in complex discrete manufacturing does not reach IFS, and hosting is in Germany with ISO 27001 certified infrastructure but the international footprint is thinner than the larger names here.

Standout feature. One application instead of two: for a mid-sized company, ERP and CRM sharing a database removes the integration nobody budgets for.

#6 Xentral

Augsburg, Germany Founded 2017 Paid plans, quoted per order volume Trial on request

Best for: E-commerce and multi-channel sellers whose bottleneck is order and stock flow

Xentral ERP Software GmbH in Augsburg is the most sharply aimed product in this category: it exists for companies that sell physical goods across several channels and are drowning in the operational middle — orders arriving from a webshop, a marketplace and a phone call, stock to reserve, pickers to instruct, carriers to book and invoices to raise. That flow is the product, and the integrations with shop systems, marketplaces and carriers are treated as core rather than as partner add-ons.

The trade-off is scope. Xentral is not trying to be an accounting suite or a manufacturing planner, and a company whose complexity is financial rather than logistical will find it thin where Exact is deep. Pricing is quoted rather than published and scales with order volume, which is honest for this kind of product but means comparison requires a conversation. It is German-hosted and the company is German-established, founded 2017 and rather younger than most names here.

Standout feature. The operational middle solved: the mess between an order arriving and a parcel leaving is the product, not a module.

#7 Scopevisio

Bonn, Germany Founded 2007 Paid plans per user per month Trial on request

Best for: German service companies and associations that want cloud ERP without an implementation project

Scopevisio AG in Bonn sits between bookkeeping software and a full ERP, and is aimed at organisations whose work is service and project based rather than physical: consultancies, agencies, associations and hospitality. Accounting, CRM, document management, projects and reporting sit in one cloud suite, and the pitch is that a company can be running in weeks rather than starting a six-month implementation.

That positioning sets the limits honestly. There is no serious manufacturing or warehouse capability here, and a product company will outgrow it. Pricing is per user per month across modules, and the product and its support are built for the German market, so an international group will find the fit uneven outside it. What it does well is the thing most mid-market ERPs make hard: getting a service organisation onto one system without a project plan and a partner invoice.

Standout feature. Service organisations first: built for consultancies, agencies and associations rather than adapted down from a product-company ERP.

#8 myfactory

Munich, Germany Founded 1972 Paid plans per user per month Trial on request

Best for: German mid-sized companies wanting a cloud ERP with a long operational track record behind it

myfactory is sold in Germany by Forterro Deutschland GmbH, and the product has one of the longer histories in this category — the business it grew out of dates to 1972, and myfactory itself has been a browser-based ERP since long before that was the default. The scope is conventional mid-market: financial accounting, ERP, CRM, production, e-commerce and a portal, on per-user monthly plans with German hosting.

One thing is worth knowing before you shortlist it, because this directory records establishment rather than ownership and the two differ here. The company you contract with, Forterro Deutschland GmbH, is German and passes the test this site publishes. The group above it, Forterro, is owned by American private equity. That has no bearing on where your data sits or which law governs your contract, and it is not the same exposure as contracting with a US entity, but if your reason for reading this list is sovereignty in the broadest sense, it is a fact you should have rather than discover.

Standout feature. A German contract with a long operational history behind it — with the ownership question stated rather than left for you to find.