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Also serving Alleppey
Alappuzha runs on coir orders, houseboat bookings and Kuttanad harvests, each with its own season; ERPNext puts the accounts, stock and orders behind them into one system.
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Business in Alappuzha moves in seasons. Coir exporters in the Punnapra belt work towards overseas buying cycles, houseboat operators at Punnamada fill up between October and February, and Kuttanad's rice mills are busiest in the weeks after the punja harvest. Most are family-run MSMEs with accounts in Tally, orders in Excel and the rest on WhatsApp. It holds until the busy months, which is exactly when it breaks.
An ERPNext implementation brings sales, purchase, stock, production, accounts, GST and payroll into one database. Acube Innovations is an Official ERPNext Partner in Kochi, a short drive up NH 66, and has done this work since 2011. For an Alleppey business we first map how an order really travels through your units, then configure the system around that.
A coir export order passes through yarn purchase, weaving at outside units, finishing, packing and container stuffing. With each stage in a different notebook, nobody knows where an order stands without a round of phone calls. ERPNext ties every stage to the sales order, so status, cost and pending quantity sit in one place.
Tourism income arrives in a few crowded months while salaries, boat upkeep and loan instalments run all year. With bookings, advances and expenses in one ledger, an operator sees receivables, commissions due and cash month by month, and can plan for the monsoon.
Fibre, yarn, dyes and half-finished mats lie with job workers around Cherthala and Punnapra, and paddy or rice sits in more than one godown. ERPNext treats each location and each job worker as a warehouse, so material sent out, received back and wasted is recorded rather than guessed.
Coir products and export
Sales orders in foreign currency, subcontracting to weaving units, item variants for size, design and backing, and packing lists and export invoices raised from the same order, so the cost and margin of each shipment can be read off one screen.
Backwater and houseboat tourism
Each boat is set up as a cost centre. Agent and direct bookings are invoiced with the correct GST, advances are tracked against trips, and diesel, provisions and repair bills are posted to the boat that incurred them.
Kuttanad paddy farming and rice milling
Paddy is purchased by lot with moisture recorded, milling runs as a manufacturing process with rice, bran and husk as outputs, stock is held godown-wise, and dues to farmers and lorry owners are tracked against each lot.
Alappuzha town is near enough to Kochi for our consultants to spend full days with you. Discovery happens at your factory, godown or jetty, training goes to the people who will enter the data, and we are in the room on go-live day. Support then continues by phone and remote access, with visits when a new unit or boat is added.
Case studies
Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC)
KSRTC — ERPNext Courier System Delivered ₹1 Crore in Profit
Dumas Bakes N Meals Private Limited
Dumas Bakes N Meals — ERPNext Lifted On-Time Deliveries by Over 40%
Indus Motor Company Private Limited
Indus Motor — ERPNext Cut Stock-Outs 40% Across Showrooms
ERPNext is open source and carries no per-user licence fee, so a unit with a handful of users pays for the implementation work, not for seats. We switch on only the modules you need, usually accounts, stock and orders first.
Yes, and it should be. For houseboat and resort operators we aim to go live in the monsoon months, and for exporters between shipment peaks. Scope and go-live date are agreed in writing before work starts, and larger projects are phased so accounts and stock move first.
Masters, opening balances, outstanding bills and stock are migrated as a checked step and reconciled with your accountant before go-live. Older years can stay in Tally for reference, which keeps the migration small and the audit trail intact.
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Kochi (Kadavanthra & Infopark) · Thiruvananthapuram · across India & overseas · In business since 2011