ERPNext · AI-native · built for Africa

Your system of record, deployed in minutes.

ERPNext is already running Africa's factories, farms & fisheries. 2nth stands it up for you in minutes — AI agents built in, South-Africa-localised, with zero per-user licensing.

Minutes, not 6–18 months R0 per-user licensing Pay-per-use — scale to zero when idle SA-localised — VAT, PAYE, POPIA
The reality

Spreadsheets don't scale. Legacy ERPs take forever.

The mid-market gets stuck between QuickBooks/Excel and a R500K–R5M, 6–18-month enterprise rollout. ERPNext breaks that trade-off.

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QuickBooks/Excel can't keep upspreadsheets can't track inventory across warehouses or tie field sales to finance.
2
Disconnected systemsCRM, accounting and stock in separate tools; no single source of truth.
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No real-time reportingdecisions on stale data; poor visibility into production cost and labour.
4
SAP/Oracle cost barrierenterprise licensing doesn't match African business economics.
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Manufacturing complexitymulti-level BOMs, variants, QC stages, seasonal demand.
Proof from the field

Already running Africa's factories, farms & fisheries.

Not pilots — production deployments. These companies evaluated SAP/Oracle and chose ERPNext. Their operations mirror South Africa's core sectors.

Steel · Kenya

Bigger Steel

10+ warehouses · 500+ customers · 70+ suppliers · 100+ staff. Off QuickBooks/Excel.
"ERPNext has transformed our operations, significantly improving inventory tracking."David Kinyua, Finance Manager
Food processing · Kenya

Meru Greens Horticulture

Make-to-order canned veg. 109 users · 7 modules · multi-level BOMs.
"ERPNext has been a good decision and we're satisfied with its product and services."Operations Team
Aquaculture · Kenya

Victory Farms

Large-scale tilapia, Homa Bay. Consolidated many tools into one platform.
"We found a very good and affordable way to consolidate all functions."Lucia Ehimika, Director of Data Analytics
Agri-inputs · Kenya

Cropchem & Speedling

Agrochemicals + seedling propagation under one instance. 10/10 partner rating.
"We manage inventory, HRMS, CRM, and everything under one roof."Patrick Musyoka, Managing Director
Distribution · Kenya

CIIRA Agrovet

4 branches · 9,000+ SKUs · 100+ suppliers · 400+ B2B + 10,000+ walk-in customers.
"ERPNext has transformed our business by improving sales tracking and inventory management."Antony Githinji, Director & GM

Same complexity. Same economics.

Hundreds of users, thousands of SKUs, multi-site networks — proven on the continent, ready for South Africa.

Projects

Implementations we've delivered.

Real ERPNext builds and migrations — explore a live example.

NOHA · ERPNext

A live ERPNext implementation.

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Lulu Local · Migration 🔒

Private client migration — password-protected. Access on request.

How it works

From demo to production — without months of consultants.

Demo in minutes

We spin up a personalised ERPNext instance pre-loaded with your industry's data.

Configure with AI

2nth AI agents assist with configuration, data migration and customisation.

Go live, stay smart

Your staging instance becomes production. The agents keep working.

Built on Google Cloud with a Cloudflare edge — zero-ops, infinite scale, every component independent. Idle demos cost nothing.

AI agents

ERPNext is the OS for your AI agents.

Agents are only as good as their data source. ERPNext gives them structured reality, persistent state, role-scoped access and full audit trails — so they assist without hallucinating, and never auto-submit. Humans approve; agents do the legwork.

Inventory Agent

Monitors stock levels, flags reorder points, drafts purchase orders.

Invoicing Agent

Drafts sales invoices from delivery notes, checks SA VAT (15%), routes for human approval.

Data Quality Agent

Scans for duplicates, missing tax IDs and orphaned records; sends a weekly digest.

Why this compounds: open-source ERPNext means zero per-user licensing — so the budget that would go to seats funds the intelligence layer instead: agent-driven reporting loops, demand forecasting from real orders, automated quality & compliance checks. Skills that improve every cycle, with no vendor lock-in.
Built for South Africa

Localised where it counts.

Compliance and money handling, set up from day one:

ZAR throughoutSA VAT (15%) & VAT201PAYEPOPIA-compliantSA banking integrationsafrica-south1 (Johannesburg) region
~R900/mo
Idle demo — compute scales to zero
~R1,200/mo
Active demo — light, pay-per-request usage
R0/seat
No per-user licensing, ever

Pay for what you use — scale to zero when idle. Compare to R500K–R5M+ and 6–18 months for traditional ERP.

Switching systems

Already on another system? We've mapped the move.

Step-by-step playbooks for migrating your finance/ERP data into ERPNext — a reconcile-to-the-cent method, tailored per source system.

SysPro → Sage X3 → Sage 300 → Microsoft Dynamics → QuickBooks → Xero ↔ ERPNext
See the migration playbooks

See your business in the system.

Book a discovery call and we'll spin up a demo on your industry's data — usually within the call.

Book a discovery call