Compare Totaum vs Katana, NetSuite, Business Central & more

What year one actually costs

Licenses are the easy part. Implementation is where manufacturing software really bills you — the line Totaum removes. Pick what you're comparing against.

Office / ERP users (sales, purchasing, finance, admin)

15 users

Shop-floor operators & service techs free on Totaum

10 operators

Other software Totaum replaces ($/yr)

Integration tax ($/yr, multi-system only)

Hours/week lost to re-keying

Loaded labor rate ($/hr)

Add optional Guided Launch (+$2,500) to Totaum

Year-one, all-in

Four-tool stack—

Totaum (Manufacturing)—

Operators & service techs at $0 · $0 required implementation

Year-one Savings—

Est. value of time saved (shown separately, never subtracted)—

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See the head-to-heads: vs Katana · vs MRPeasy · vs NetSuite · vs Business Central

How this is estimated

Four-tool stack: QuickBooks Advanced ($340/mo, capped at 25 users — larger teams need additional instances), Katana Core + Manufacturing + Warehouse (~$647/mo, unlimited users), HubSpot Sales Pro ($100/seat, ~¾ of office users, + $1,500 onboarding), Zendesk Suite ($69/seat, ~half of office users). Integration tax is pre-filled ($6,000 + $130/office user) and you can overwrite it with your real number.
Integration tax: applied only to the two multi-system setups — the four-tool stack and job-shop ERP + QuickBooks. Business Central and NetSuite are single systems, so they carry none.
Time saved: shown separately and never subtracted from any cost figure. It's your estimate, not our claim.
Job-shop ERP + QuickBooks: ~$120/user/mo (estimated; vendors in this class don't publish pricing) plus QuickBooks (25-user cap) plus an implementation that scales with team size.
Business Central Premium: $110/user/mo + $8/mo Team Member licenses for the floor, plus a partner implementation ($30K–$100K+, partner-quoted).
NetSuite: platform base + named users + a manufacturing module, plus a partner implementation ($60K–$145K, partner-estimated).
Totaum: office users at the published $110/user/mo Manufacturing rate, Service add-on ($30) for service staff, operators & service techs not billed, and $0 required implementation. Guided Launch is optional (+$2,500).

Planning estimates from 2026 published and partner-reported pricing — not a quote. Integration tax and time saved are your estimates. Business Central and NetSuite are single systems, so no integration tax is applied to them. Your numbers will vary.

Straight comparison

Here's the honest landscape

As a modern system that knows how to do production and finance the right way, we're here to be a partner — real-time data at your fingertips. See how we stack up to others.

Band 1 — Inventory & MRP tools Other software run your parts, then hand your invoices to QuickBooks

System	Production BOM · MRP · floor	Real double-entry books	Native CRM	Service / RMA	Modern interface
Totaum	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Katana	Basic MRP	No — needs QuickBooks/Xero	No	No	Yes
Fishbowl	Yes (Advanced)	No — 2-way QuickBooks sync	No	RMA only	Cloud / legacy
MRPeasy	Yes	Basic, built-in	No	No	Yes
inFlow	BOM only	No — needs QuickBooks/Xero	No	No	Yes
SOS Inventory	Work orders (Pro)	No — requires QuickBooks Online	No	RMA only	Functional

Band 2 — Shop-floor ERP Other software run parts and books, but you wait months and pay to implement

System	Real double-entry books	Native CRM	Service / warranty	Modern interface	Time to live	Implementation cost
Totaum	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Days	$0
Cetec ERP	Yes (basic reporting)	Yes	No	Dated	Days–weeks	$0 DIY / $5k+
JobBOSS²	Yes — has a GL	Add-on	No	Dated	3–6 months	Partner-quoted
ProShop ERP	No — QuickBooks / Sage	No	No	Yes	Weeks	Quote only
Dynamics 365 Business Central	Yes	Basic, included	Add-on	Partial	3–6 months	$30K–$100K
NetSuite	Yes	Yes	Add-on	Partial	Months	$75K–$145K

Based on 2026 published pricing, vendor documentation, and independent review sources. Software pricing is published where the vendor publishes it; implementation costs and timelines are partner-quoted ranges — vendors in this band do not publish them. Competitors are named because you'll evaluate them anyway — and we think the comparison holds up.