Wholesale & distribution ERP softwareThe van is loading an order for a dealer who hasn’t paid since July.

ERPNext's Stock, Selling, Buying and Accounting modules give distributors one connected system — real-time multi-warehouse inventory, fast order-to-invoice, scheme and pricing automation, enforced credit control, and route/van sales with secondary-sales reporting.

Module	What it does for you
Multi-warehouse inventory	Real-time stock, batch/serial/expiry, transfers and reorder rules across every godown and branch.
Order-to-cash	Quotations, sales orders, delivery, GST invoicing and receivables — one connected flow.
Route & van sales	Beat/route planning, van-stock loading, field-sales order capture and van reconciliation back to the warehouse.
Schemes & pricing	Customer price lists, quantity slabs, discounts and promotional schemes — automated and enforced.
Credit control	Customer credit limits, ageing and on-invoice blocks to stop overdue exposure before it grows.
Procurement & suppliers	Demand-based purchasing, supplier terms and landed-cost tracking for true margin.
Secondary sales & analytics	Distributor/dealer sell-through and margin by SKU, customer, route and warehouse.

Every month on disconnected systems carries a price you're already paying — you just can't see it on one page. Illustratively, for a distributor doing ₹50 crore a year, the leakage hides in five places:

• Dead-stock working capital. Even 8–10% of inventory sitting as slow or dead stock can lock up tens of lakhs of cash you could be turning — money that's earning you nothing.
• Stockout lost sales. Every time a fast mover runs dry, that order walks to a competitor. A point or two of lost sales on margin-thin volume is real profit gone.
• Scheme over-payment & mispricing. Manual schemes and unauthorised field discounts quietly give away margin on a price-sensitive business — fractions of a percent, multiplied across every invoice.
• Overdue receivables & bad debt. Credit limits nobody enforces turn into 90-day-plus ageing and, eventually, write-offs — the most expensive "sales" you'll ever book.
• Invoicing & reconciliation errors. Re-keyed orders, wrong prices and Tally-vs-Excel reconciliation eat hours every month and erode customer trust.

You don't need a number from us to feel this. Add up your slow stock, your lost orders, your over-90-day receivables and the hours your team burns reconciling — that's the bill your current setup sends you every quarter. An ERP that closes even half of it pays for itself fast.

What it costs to put in depends on how many godowns and routes you run, how many dealers you bill, and how many people need to be on it. The calculator on this page asks about exactly those, and gives you a figure before anyone calls you.

Most distributors choose between three options. Here's how they really compare for a margin-thin, high-volume business:

	ERPNext (with Acube)	Tally + spreadsheets	Generic / proprietary ERP
Total cost of ownership	60–80% lower — open-source, no per-seat licences	Cheap, but caps your growth	High licences, climbing yearly
One connected system	Stock, sales, credit & accounts on one data set	Siloed — accounts here, stock in Excel	Often yes, at high cost & complexity
Fit to distribution	Customisable to your beats, schemes, credit policy & distributor hierarchy	Rigid, accounting-only	You bend to the software
Route / van sales & secondary sales	Built in and tailored	Not supported	Rarely native; costly add-ons
India compliance	GST, e-invoice (IRN/QR), e-way bill, TDS built in	Partial	Costly localisation
Tally migration	Clean, validated migration as a defined step	N/A	Often painful
Ownership & lock-in	Open-source code you control	Limited, siloed	Proprietary black box

ERPNext gives you the connected, customisable system a distributor actually needs — without the per-seat licence trap that makes proprietary ERP so expensive on a price-sensitive business.

Built for wholesalers and distributors across India and overseas:

• FMCG and food & beverage distributors running beats, vans and secondary sales.
• Pharma and medical distributors needing batch, expiry and tight stock control.
• Building-materials and hardware traders managing multi-warehouse, multi-branch stock.
• Electrical and electronics distributors balancing schemes, slabs and credit.
• Import/export and trading companies tracking landed cost and true margin.

See the broader sector workflows we tune on our Retail & Distribution industry page.

We've delivered ERP and enterprise software for 200+ organisations across India and overseas, including demanding multi-branch trading and distribution operations.

Mini case study — Indus Motor. For Indus Motor, a large multi-branch automotive operation, the recurring pain was the classic distribution trap: stockouts on the parts that move and dead stock on the parts that don't, spread across a dealership network. Working from a process-first approach — mapping how stock, sales and branches actually operate before configuring anything — the ERPNext rollout brought multi-location inventory onto one connected system. The qualitative outcome: fewer stockouts and leaner inventory across the network, with stock decisions driven by real data instead of each branch's best guess. The same method drives every distribution rollout we do. See the case studies →