Every European ERP tool reviewed
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.
What myfactory does well
- Broad conventional mid-market scope including production and e-commerce
- German contracting entity and German hosting
- Browser-based since well before cloud ERP was standard
- Per-user monthly pricing
Where myfactory falls short
- Group owner is American private equity, though the contracting entity is German
- Brand is far less visible than Exact, Visma or Odoo
- Pricing and scope are quoted per company rather than published
Standout feature. A German contract with a long operational history behind it — with the ownership question stated rather than left for you to find.
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.
What weclapp does well
- ERP and CRM in one application, no integration project
- Per-user monthly pricing with a 30-day free trial
- German company, German hosting, ISO 27001 certified infrastructure
- Order and stock flow are native, not bolted on
Where weclapp falls short
- Strongest in German-speaking markets; thinner elsewhere
- Not deep enough for complex discrete manufacturing
- Cloud only, with no self-hosted option
Standout feature. One application instead of two: for a mid-sized company, ERP and CRM sharing a database removes the integration nobody budgets for.
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.
What Xentral does well
- Built around multi-channel order and stock flow, not adapted to it
- Native integrations with shop systems, marketplaces and carriers
- German company, German hosting
- Scales with order volume rather than headcount
Where Xentral falls short
- Pricing is quoted, not published, and scales with volume
- Financial and manufacturing depth is limited compared with the older names
- Youngest vendor in this category
Standout feature. The operational middle solved: the mess between an order arriving and a parcel leaving is the product, not a module.
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.
What Scopevisio does well
- Accounting, CRM, projects and document management in one cloud suite
- German company, German hosting
- Aimed at getting live in weeks rather than months
- Per-user monthly pricing across modules
Where Scopevisio falls short
- No real manufacturing or warehouse capability
- Built for the German market; uneven fit internationally
- Smaller ecosystem than Exact, Visma or Odoo
Standout feature. Service organisations first: built for consultancies, agencies and associations rather than adapted down from a product-company ERP.
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.
What Odoo does well
- Open-source core under LGPLv3, fully self-hostable
- One data model across accounting, stock, manufacturing, CRM and e-commerce
- Belgian company, with EU hosting or your own servers
- Free plan for a single app, then per-user monthly pricing
- Large partner and module ecosystem
Where Odoo falls short
- Implementation is a project, not a signup, once you go past the standard flows
- The gap between the free community edition and paid Enterprise features catches people out
- Module quality across the ecosystem is uneven
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.
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.
What Exact does well
- Deep fit with Dutch and Belgian accounting practice and tax filing
- Established 1984 and independent, with a large local partner network
- Data stays in the Netherlands
- Accountancy firms already know it, which lowers the cost of your books
Where Exact falls short
- No published pricing; every quote runs through sales or a partner
- Manufacturing and warehousing are less native than in stock-first products
- Strongest in the Benelux, thinner elsewhere in Europe
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.
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.
What IFS does well
- Genuine depth in service management and asset lifecycle, not a bolt-on
- Swedish company, established 1983, with EU hosting regions
- Strong fit for manufacturing, energy, construction and aerospace
- Composable architecture, so modules can be adopted in stages
Where IFS falls short
- Enterprise pricing on request, and implementation runs into quarters
- Far too much system for a small or distribution-only business
- Almost always needs an implementation partner
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.
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.
What Visma does well
- Strong local compliance and payroll across the Nordics and beyond
- Norwegian parent, EEA jurisdiction, Nordic and EU data centres
- Accounting, HR, payroll and ERP available from one group
- Long track record and financial stability
Where Visma falls short
- A group of products rather than one system; integration is not a given
- Packaging and pricing differ per country and product line
- Which entity you contract with depends on the market
Standout feature. Payroll and ERP under one roof, in a market where payroll compliance is local — the part most international vendors quietly subcontract.
Krakow, Poland
Founded 1993
Quoted per product line (XT, Optima, Enterprise); no published price list
Demo on request
Best for: Polish companies wanting one ERP vendor long-term
Comarch S.A. is a publicly listed Krakow company founded in 1993, and one of the few vendors in this category that is not a subsidiary of an American private equity group — a distinction worth naming here because two other vendors elsewhere in this list are.
Its ERP range runs from Comarch ERP XT for sole traders through Optima for small and medium businesses up to Comarch ERP Enterprise, so a growing company can in principle move up the product ladder without changing vendor, accountant or integrations partway through.
It also builds and runs its own data centres — in Krakow, Warsaw, Dresden and Lille — certified to ISO 27001, ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, which is unusual for a vendor this size: most names in this category buy hosting from someone else rather than operate it themselves.
For a company whose main worry is who physically holds the ledger, that is a genuine point in Comarch's favour, though it says nothing by itself about the quality of the ERP modules.
The trade-off is that Comarch's ERP business is one part of a much larger IT group spanning billing, banking and telecom software, and pricing for every product line is quoted rather than published, so comparison requires a conversation with sales. The brand is also far less known outside Poland and its export markets than Exact, Visma or Odoo, and English-language documentation is thinner than for the German or Belgian names on this list.
What Comarch ERP does well
- Independent, publicly listed Polish company, not US private-equity owned
- Product tiers from sole trader through to enterprise
- Runs its own ISO 27001 certified data centres
- Broad suite: BI, WMS, DMS and e-commerce included
- Founded 1993, one of the longer track records here
Where Comarch ERP falls short
- Pricing is quoted, not published, for every product line
- Less brand recognition outside Poland than Exact or Visma
- ERP is one division of a much larger IT group
- Thinner English documentation than the German-market vendors here
Standout feature. One of the few vendors here that owns its own certified data centres instead of renting someone else's.
Weilerbach, Germany
Founded 1992
Quote-based, priced by users, licensed modules and implementation scope
Demo on request
Best for: Manufacturing SMEs wanting deep production and shopfloor functionality
Proalpha GmbH in Weilerbach has built ERP for industrial small and mid-sized manufacturers since 1992, and the product is aimed squarely at discrete and process manufacturing rather than at services or retail — production planning, shopfloor control and multi-plant, multi-currency operation are treated as core parts of the system rather than added later as an afterthought.
That focus places it closer to Xentral and IFS in spirit than to the accounting-first products in this category, though its typical target company is smaller than the ones IFS usually serves.
One fact is worth stating plainly, in the spirit of this directory: Proalpha GmbH itself is German and passes the jurisdiction test this site applies, but the group has been majority-owned by ICG, a London-listed private equity firm, since 2017, with the founding family retaining a minority stake.
That is European ownership rather than American, which is a real difference, but it is still a fact a buyer doing diligence should have rather than assume. Hosting is in Proalpha's own German data centres, ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certified.
Pricing is entirely quote-based — the company's own pricing page says explicitly that the only honest answer is "it depends" — so there is nothing to compare until a vendor conversation happens, and no self-service trial, only a demo on request. Outside manufacturing and wholesale, the fit is narrower than a general-purpose ERP, and English-language material is thinner than the product's German-market depth.
What proAlpha does well
- Deep discrete and process manufacturing functionality
- German-hosted, ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certified data centres
- Founding family still holds a stake alongside the PE owner
- European (UK) rather than American private-equity ownership
- Can run on your own servers instead of the cloud
Where proAlpha falls short
- No published pricing and no self-service trial, demo only
- Majority owned by a private equity firm since 2017
- Narrower fit outside manufacturing and wholesale
- English documentation thinner than the German-market material
Standout feature. Manufacturing depth close to IFS, but scoped and priced for a mid-sized industrial company rather than an enterprise.
Lublin, Poland
From 249 PLN/month per module (Wapro 365, net); multi-user and perpetual licences quoted separately
30-day free trial, or an unlimited demo mode on sample data
Best for: Small Polish businesses wanting published, transparent pricing
Wapro ERP is the small-business product line of Asseco Business Solutions S.A. in Lublin, part of the Polish Asseco group rather than of any foreign private equity fund.
What sets it apart in this category is not ambition but honesty about price: wapro.pl publishes a full rate card, from 249 PLN a month for a single Wapro 365 module up to several thousand PLN for larger bundles, with perpetual licences and multi-user deployments quoted separately. Every other closed-source vendor in this list quotes on request; Wapro does not.
That transparency matters for the audience this directory serves, because it means a small company can size the cost before ever talking to sales, and can start on a 30-day free trial or an unlimited demo on sample data without committing to a call.
The functional scope is correspondingly modest: invoicing, warehouse, accounting and basic CRM for micro and small businesses, sold in Poland primarily, with an English interface available but the company and its support built around the Polish market.
It will not suit a company that has outgrown per-module pricing or that needs multi-country consolidation — Comarch, Exact or Visma go further there. And unlike the other Polish and German names here, the exact physical location of Wapro's own cloud infrastructure was not stated clearly enough on its public pages to record with confidence, so treat that as a question to ask directly rather than an assumption to make.
What Wapro ERP does well
- Published monthly and per-module pricing, not quote-only
- 30-day free trial plus an unlimited sample-data demo
- Polish parent company (Asseco), no foreign private equity
- Modular: add users and modules as the company grows
- Low entry cost for a single-module start
Where Wapro ERP falls short
- Scope is modest: aimed at micro and small businesses
- Built for the Polish market; support is Poland-centric
- No multi-country consolidation depth of Comarch, Exact or Visma
- Exact data centre location not stated on its public pages
Standout feature. The only vendor in this category that publishes its prices instead of asking you to fill in a form.
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Founded 1981
Quote-based subscription, priced per named user and module
Best for: International manufacturers wanting a large, established vendor
Sage traces back to Newcastle upon Tyne in 1981, and is now a FTSE 100 company with Sage (UK) Ltd as its UK operating entity — by far the largest and longest-established vendor added to this category, and one with a name most finance and IT buyers already recognise.
Sage X3, the product that actually competes with NetSuite and Dynamics 365 here, is aimed at mid-market manufacturers and distributors that operate across several countries: it natively handles multiple legislations, languages and currencies across more than 60 countries, sold as preconfigured Financials, Distribution and Manufacturing bundles.
That scale is also where it differs from the smaller, more sharply focused vendors elsewhere in this list.
Sage is a UK company under a UK adequacy decision rather than an EU one, so it sits with the other adequacy-decision names on this site rather than with the EU-jurisdiction majority here. Hosting for Sage X3 runs through AWS or Microsoft Azure, with the region chosen at implementation rather than fixed by the vendor, and Sage itself says only AWS is fully validated for X3, with Azure left to partners.
Pricing is entirely on request and runs through a certified implementation partner rather than Sage directly, with no published rate card and no self-service trial — a company evaluating it should expect a sales process closer to IFS's than to Wapro's.
The upside of the scale is a partner and support network few names here can match; the trade-off is that X3 is one product inside a much larger group whose other lines, such as Sage Intacct, are run from outside Europe.
What Sage X3 does well
- Large, well-established vendor with deep partner and support network
- Multi-legislation, multi-currency operation across 60+ countries
- Preconfigured Financials, Distribution and Manufacturing bundles
- Long operating history dating to 1981
- Cloud, private cloud or on-premise deployment options
Where Sage X3 falls short
- UK jurisdiction under adequacy decision, not an EU member state
- No published pricing; sales runs through a certified partner
- Region for hosting is chosen at implementation, not fixed
- Sibling product Sage Intacct is run from outside Europe
Standout feature. The biggest name added here — useful reach and partners, at the cost of the sharper focus smaller vendors offer.
