Getting started

The quickest way to judge an ERP is to put your own products and a real order through it. This page gets you to that point. Everything below happens inside the app at app.manufacturedon.com.

1. Company details

Start in Settings → Company Details. This is where your trading name, registration and VAT numbers, addresses and logo live. These feed straight onto the documents your customers see, so it is worth getting right before you send anything — quotes, invoices, picking slips and delivery notes all pull from here.

While you are in Settings, set your regional options. Date format, currency and tax treatment affect every screen and every printed document.

2. Tax and pricing

Set up your tax rates before loading customers, because each customer is linked to the rate that applies to them. Price tiers work the same way: define the tiers you actually use, and products can then carry a price per tier rather than one price with manual discounting on every order.

3. Products

Products are the centre of the system. Each one carries a type that determines how it behaves — whether you buy it, sell it, make it, or some combination. Two distinctions matter most:

• What you buy versus what you sell. A product can be purchasable, sellable, or both. This drives which products appear when you are writing a purchase order versus a sales order, which keeps those pickers short and relevant.
• Whether stock is tracked. Stock-managed products have quantities that move as goods move. Non-stock items — services, labour, once-off charges — can still be sold and invoiced without pretending to have a stock level.

You can create products one at a time, or import them. Get the codes right at import time: product code is what everyone will search by for years afterwards.

4. Customers and suppliers

Both live under their own menus and share the same underlying record, so a business that is both a customer and a supplier is not duplicated. Each carries addresses, contacts, payment terms, a price tier and a tax rate. Delivery addresses matter here — they flow onto delivery notes automatically, and getting them in once saves re-typing on every order.

5. Opening stock

Before you rely on stock figures, do a stocktake to establish opening quantities. See Inventory and purchasing for how counts are captured and posted.

6. Your team

Add users under Team → Users and give each one a role. Roles carry permissions, and permissions are granular — a picker can be given the pick-and-pack screens without ever seeing pricing or margin. See Users and permissions for how roles and per-user grants interact.

7. Run one real order

Take an actual order and follow it the whole way: quote, convert to a sales order, print a picking slip, create a delivery note, then invoice it. That single pass will tell you more about the fit than any feature list, and it exercises stock movement, documents and the ledger together.