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 change requests after go-live, the maintenance on the license, the localization module or the servers. Those are the larger number.
Three years, side by side, for a company your size.
Print has to choose one company per edition. This does not — say which shape is closest to yours and every figure below moves with it.
around 120 staff, one distribution center
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 for | A typical ERP | DBS One |
|---|---|---|
| Software license, year one | ₱2.5M to ₱5.0M | None. There is no license. |
| User seats | Per person, per year, forever | Unlimited. Every person, no charge. |
| Implementation partner | ₱1.5M to ₱4.0M, billed by the day | In the implementation fee, by us |
| Philippine tax & BIR | ₱300k to ₱800k, an add-on module | Built in. It is the shape of the system. |
| Servers, backup, recovery | ₱250k to ₱600k, plus somebody to run them | Included and hosted |
| Training | ₱150k to ₱400k, per session, per person | Included — and the assistant teaches |
| Changes after go-live | ₱400k to ₱1.5M in year one alone | Included in maintenance |
| Annual maintenance | 18–22% of the license, every year | One monthly fee, that is all |
| Version upgrades | A project, every few years | Continuous. 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.
Their bill renews. Ours does not exist.
This is the part that decides what an ERP costs you, and the part that never appears in a first proposal. What you will have paid, by the end of each year.
A per-seat license turns your own growth into a bill, and a change-order model turns every good idea into a quotation. Over three years that is usually the larger number — and it is the one nobody puts in the proposal.
Why we can do this
We wrote it, we host it and we support it. There is nobody in the middle taking a margin, so the price is the cost of our own people and nothing else.
Why they cannot
A license sold through a partner has to pay the vendor, the partner and the support firm. The change-order model is not greed; it is how that chain survives.
What that means for you
The money stays in the business, and the answer to “can we also do this?” is yes rather than a quotation.
Everything that is normally a line item.
No license, in any year
Nothing to renew, nothing to true up at audit, and no price-rise letter in year three.
Hiring is free
Fifty more people costs nothing. You will never again decide who does not get access because of what a seat costs.
Changes are included
A new report, a new field, a new approval rule, a new form — part of maintenance. Other vendors quote each one of those separately.
Most of it lands the same day
Twenty-four to forty-eight hours is the promise. In practice small things are done while you are still on the phone.
One company, one bill
Not a license from abroad, an implementation partner in Manila and a support contract with a third firm.
Always the current version
No upgrade project, no re-testing your customisations, no year where you are stuck two releases behind.
Ask us for the real number.
Tell us how many companies, branches and people you run, and we will put a proposal in writing — with the go-live date in it.