Simple ERP for Small Manufacturers
Inventory, purchasing, work orders, shipping, and accounting in one system. Built for shops with 5 to 50 employees. Live in 3 days.
Using PAX ERP is like a breath of fresh air to us, after using other ERP systems that are needlessly laborious, time-consuming, or complicated. PAX ERP is designed by people who have actually performed the functions and incorporated their improvement ideas into the design of the PAX modules. The operations functions are clear, logical and efficient; and the accounting functions and reporting are simple, accurate and flexible.
Steve O., President & CEO
Impulse Medical Technologies, Inc.
Medical device manufacturer · ISO 13485 · Since 1975
You Know the Pain
If any of these sound like your operation, you're in the right place.
Your ERP takes 7 seconds per click
Every module loads slowly. Your team avoids using it. They keep side spreadsheets because the system is too painful to navigate.
Every module loads in under a second. Your full customer list (5,000+ records) loads in 0.8 seconds. Reports that used to take minutes open in 0.3 seconds.
You're running 5 spreadsheets and 3 tools
Inventory in one place, orders in another, accounting in a third. Nothing talks to anything else. Your team spends hours re-entering data across systems.
Sales, inventory, purchasing, manufacturing, shipping, and accounting all share the same database. Enter data once.
Month-end close takes days
Your accountant spends days on month-end close because nothing reconciles automatically. Manual journal entries. Manual data pulls. Manual everything.
GL entries post automatically from every transaction. Balance sheet, income statement, and trial balance are always up to date. Close the period when you're ready.
Everything You Need to Run Your Shop
Six core modules that cover your full operation, from purchasing raw materials to shipping finished goods to closing the books.
Accounting That Runs Itself
GL entries post automatically from every operational transaction. No manual journal entries for day-to-day operations. Balance sheet, income statement, and trial balance are generated on demand.
- Chart of accounts with full hierarchy
- Automated GL entries from all transactions
- Balance sheet, income statement, trial balance
- Month-end and year-end closing workflows
- AP/AR aging reports
Inventory You Can Trust
Know exactly what you have, where it is, and what it costs. Lot tracking, expiration dates, cycle counting with ABC tiers, and automatic adjustments. Your inventory numbers are always right.
- Multi-lot tracking with expiration dates
- Real-time on-hand, on-order, and available quantities
- Cycle counting with ABC tier scheduling
- Weighted average costing
- Reorder point analysis
Purchasing Under Control
PO creation to receipt to invoice matching. Three-way matching catches errors before you pay for them. Manage vendor payments with check runs and payment tracking.
- PO creation with approval workflows
- Goods receipt with optional inspection
- PO-receipt-invoice three-way matching
- Check run management and check printing
- Vendor master with multiple contacts
Orders to Shipment, Automatically
One-click quote-to-order conversion. Inventory requirements update in real time. Ship partial orders with lot tracking. Invoices generate automatically when orders ship.
- Sales order creation with customer defaults
- Customer part number cross-referencing
- Partial shipments with lot-specific tracking
- Automatic inventory requirement updates
- Returns and RMA processing
Ship It Right
FedEx rate quoting and label generation built in. No third-party shipping software. Track every shipment. Auto-create invoices when orders ship. Carrier cost vs. customer charge tracking.
- FedEx rate quoting and label generation
- Tracking number management
- Shipment-to-invoice linking
- Carrier cost vs. customer charge tracking
- Partial shipment support
Manufacturing Made Simple
BOMs, routers, and work orders. Issue materials, log labor, complete jobs. Outside service PO coordination. WIP-to-finished-goods cost tracking with automatic GL entries.
- Bill of Materials with component explosion
- Work orders: create, release, issue, log labor, complete
- Custom routers per product and customer
- Outside service coordination
- WIP-to-finished-goods GL transfers
The PAX Difference
How PAX compares to the alternatives most manufacturers are coming from.
| Spreadsheets | Legacy ERP | PAX ERP | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to go live | Already using them | 3-6 months | 3 days |
| Monthly cost | Free | $1,500-3,000+/mo | From $350/mo |
| Implementation cost | $0 | $15,000-50,000+ | $0 |
| Learning curve | Low | Weeks of training | Hours |
| CRM included | No | Usually no | Yes, at every tier |
| Automatic GL entries | No | Sometimes | Yes, from every transaction |
| Work orders | No | Yes | Yes |
| Data migration help | N/A | Extra cost | Free |
End-to-End Workflows
Every process is connected. Data flows from one step to the next without re-entry or manual handoffs.
Purchase-to-Pay
Create purchase orders, receive goods with inspection controls, match invoices to receipts, and pay vendors with check runs. Inventory updates automatically on receipt. GL entries post at every step.
Quote-to-Cash
Generate quotes from the CRM, convert to sales orders when accepted, fulfill from inventory, ship with FedEx label generation, and invoice with automatic GL posting.
Make-to-Stock
Create work orders from BOMs, issue raw materials, log labor, complete the job, and receive finished goods into inventory. WIP costs transfer to finished goods automatically. Outside service POs coordinate with vendor operations.
Real Financial Reporting
PAX is not a lightweight tool pretending to be an ERP. It includes the full financial reporting suite your accountant expects.
All reports load in under a second, even with thousands of transactions.
Cost reduction vs. legacy ERP
Time recovered per team
Report load times
Typical go-live timeline
Your team can be live in 3 days
Stop overpaying for ERP your team doesn't use. PAX handles your full operation for a fraction of the cost, and we'll migrate your data for free. See our full breakdown of manufacturing ERP software pricing.