We found 8,800+ Reddit posts discussing more than 870 different ERPs. Somehow, a growing manufacturer is supposed to figure out which one actually fits their business. So we built something to make that decision less opaque.
A decision with too many options
I hear some version of this problem constantly from manufacturers. They've outgrown QuickBooks, or they're finally ready to move off a legacy ERP everyone has complained about for years. They know the current system can't support the next stage of the business, but figuring out what comes next is overwhelming.
There are hundreds of options, and from the outside a lot of them sound remarkably similar. And every manufacturer runs differently. Your planning process is different, your accounting setup is different, your production workflows are different, and the way you migrate years of business logic into a new system will be different too.
What we built
Over a weekend, we built a first version of the ERP Chooser.
We organized 8,800+ tagged posts and comments from r/ERP, going back to 2011 and covering more than 870 systems. You can filter ERPs by company size and industry, see the overall conversation around each system, and click into every community comment, unfiltered and linked back to the original thread.
Why Reddit?
Is Reddit the definitive source of truth for a decision this important? Of course not.
But ERP vendors are already very good at telling you why their system is great. We thought it would be useful to also see what people say after they've actually had to live with it.
There's no single "best ERP"
One thing became obvious while building this: there isn't one "best ERP." There are clear winners and losers for certain types of businesses, but company size, industry, workflows, and especially the right implementation partner can dramatically change the experience.
That's also why we care about this at Structify. Before we help a manufacturer deploy AI, we need to understand the systems underneath it. So we accidentally built a pretty ridiculous ERP database along the way.
What's next
If people find it useful, we'll keep adding to it: more review sources, customer examples, feature and functionality comparisons, better pricing data where we can get it, and anything else that makes evaluating these systems easier.
If you're scaling off QuickBooks, considering replacing your ERP, or just curious, take a look.
