Datche · Cebu · since 1978

The first ERP in the Philippines you can just ask.

The whole system, built in Cebu — and you can ask it anything about your business, in plain English, from your own records.

Which outlets are losing money after overheads?Reading 412 rows from 4 islands…2 of 6after the carry412 rows · 4 islands
30 days
to be running
₱0
license, any year
Unlimited
users, every plan
1978
trading in Cebu since
Why the numbers always come late

Which branch made money last month?

Most companies cannot answer that until the middle of the next one. Sales are in one system, stock in another, payroll in a third, and somebody keys all of it into a spreadsheet to make them agree. Every time a number is copied it can go wrong — and by the time the report is ready, the month it describes is over.

On DBS One it is all one system, so you can ask this morning.

By what you run

Every one of these is a full ERP.

What changes between them is the three things the system does that nobody else in your trade has to think about.

Datche AI

No other ERP sold here can do this.

Ask in plain English and you get the figure, the tools it reached for, and the records it read — and two of the questions below, it refuses. Every vendor has AI this year; the one worth having is the one that will tell you when it does not hold the rows.

Datche AI your own records

Which outlets are losing money?

Outlet profitOverhead sharesCommissary costs
2 of 6
lose money once they carry head office and the commissary
412 rows · 6 outlets · August

It reads rows and reports them. It never does the arithmetic itself.

What it will not do

The reason to trust what it does.

Every AI page lists what theirs can answer. None of them say what happens when it does not hold the rows, because for most of them the honest answer is that it makes something up.

No

It will not invent a figure

Ask for a number the records do not support and it says so, and says what it would need. Every figure it does give comes from a view or a function — the model explains arithmetic, it never performs it.

“There is no cost on file for 1,827 of these lines. I have counted them as nothing rather than estimate them, so treat this total as a minimum.”
No

It will not show you somebody else’s rows

It runs as the person asking, through the same row-level security as the screens. A purchasing manager asking for payroll gets nothing back — not a polite refusal written into a prompt, but no rows at all.

“Payroll is behind payroll.view and this session does not hold it. Your controller asking the same question gets the register.”
No

It will not change anything on its own

Only two of its 217 tools can write, and both produce a proposal. The purchase order, the correction, the setting change — it drafts, a person approves, and the decision is recorded with who and when.

“I have drafted the purchase order for 48kg pork belly at the contracted price. It is waiting for you to approve it.”
What it actually costs

The proposal you get from anyone else is not the whole bill.

Every vendor names the license and the implementation. Almost none of them name the seats as you hire, the changes after go-live, or the maintenance on the license. Choose the business closest to yours.

Choose the business closest to yours

around 120 staff, one distribution center

A typical ERPlicense · seats · changes
₱17.5Mthree years
DBS Oneimplementation · maintenance
₱6.5Mthree years
Year oneYear two Year three Midpoints of the ranges in the table below.
The difference

Roughly ₱11.0M kept in the business over three years — and the gap widens every year after that, because their license renews and ours does not exist.

Year one, line by line9 rows
What you are billed forA typical ERPDBS One
Software license, year one₱2.5M to ₱5.0MNone. There is no license.
User seatsPer person, per year, foreverUnlimited. Every person, no charge.
Implementation partner₱1.5M to ₱4.0M, billed by the dayIn the implementation fee, by us
Philippine tax & BIR₱300k to ₱800k, an add-on moduleBuilt in. It is the shape of the system.
Servers, backup, recovery₱250k to ₱600k, plus somebody to run themIncluded and hosted
Training₱150k to ₱400k, per session, per personIncluded — and the assistant teaches
Changes after go-live₱400k to ₱1.5M in year one aloneIncluded in maintenance
Annual maintenance18–22% of the license, every yearOne monthly fee, that is all
Version upgradesA project, every few yearsContinuous. You are always current.

Ranges are what Philippine companies of this size are quoted. Ask any vendor to fill in the middle column themselves — in writing, for three years, with seats at your expected headcount. The exercise is short and it is usually decisive.

Side by side

There is not a row on this page we lose.

What A typical ERPDBS One
Time to live6 to 18 months, often longer30 days, written into the contract
UsersPriced per seat, per yearUnlimited, included
Annual license₱2.5M to ₱5M a year, foreverNone. There is no license.
A small changeQuoted, scoped, scheduledSame day to 48 hours, included
A new featureA change order with a priceIncluded in maintenance
Philippine tax & BIRAn add-on, maintained by a third partyBuilt in, updated centrally
Your tradeA vertical add-on bought separatelyNative, and built first
Your paper documentsKeyed in by your staff, foreverRead, checked and posted
IntegrationOnly where an API already existsAnything — and paper where there is none
AIA chatbot reading a help pageBuilt in, on your own ledger
The technologyOften a decade old underneathCurrent, and continuously updated
SupportA reseller and a ticket queueThe people who wrote it
UpgradesA project, every few yearsContinuous, and free
Where it was builtAbroad, localized afterwardsCebu, for Philippine trade
Who you would be dealing with

A Cebu company, trading since 1978.

New Datche Philippines Traders Corporation has served Philippine businesses for forty-eight years. We wrote every line of DBS One ourselves, we host it, and we answer the phone about it — no reseller, no offshore partner, nobody to escalate to. Walk in and meet the people who would run your implementation.

The Datche building on M. Velez Street, Guadalupe, Cebu City — a glass-fronted
            office block with DATCHE in red above the entrance.
M. Velez Street, Guadalupe · Cebu City
Live in 30 days

Thirty days, and the date is in the contract.

Not a twelve-month program, and not a pilot. Four weeks, with the date written into the contract — and you see your own documents running in week two.

What the four weeks look like
  1. 01

    Your chart, your companies, your locations

    We load your accounts, entities, branches, suppliers and items, and connect to the systems and devices you already run.

  2. 02

    Opening balances and one day of paper

    Balances in, and a real day of your own documents run through capture in front of you.

  3. 03

    Your people, on the system

    Roles, approvals and training — with the assistant answering “how do I…” from day one.

  4. 04

    Live, with us in the room

    You trade on it. We are on site and on call, and the first close happens with our team beside yours.

See it run on your own numbers.

Bring one day of whatever your business produces — invoices, a Z-reading, a payroll register. We will run it through in front of you and you keep whatever comes out the other side. About an hour, and no obligation.