Comparison
ERPs like PHC, Primavera or Sage are powerful and do almost everything. The problem is they were built for finance departments, not for a restaurant kitchen. Here's the honest comparison.
Quick summary
An ERP is a complete company management platform, with invoicing, accounting and stock, but it needs a consultant, training and weeks of implementation. Tinz does one thing, expense control, food cost and restaurant margins, and it's up and running in 10 minutes with no training required. For most restaurant owners, an ERP is more than they need and more expensive than makes sense.
Comparison
In detail
Getting started
An ERP needs a consultant, configuration, staff training and, often, per-seat licences. Weeks can pass between buying it and actually using it.
Tinz opens, you photograph your first invoice and that's it. No implementation, no consultant, no training. You're up and running the same day.
Focus
An ERP serves a factory, a clinic or a shop with the same generic base. Anything restaurant-specific you have to configure yourself or pay extra for.
Tinz only knows one business: restaurants. Food cost per dish, BCG menu analysis, VAT at 6/13/23%, Portuguese banks, Zone Soft integration and importing from other POS systems like WinRest. Nothing to adapt.
Cost
An ERP usually involves per-user licences, modules billed separately, and consultant hours. You only see the real cost at the end.
Tinz has unlimited users on every plan and a fixed monthly price from €49. You know down to the cent what it costs, no surprises.
Honest comparison
An ERP does things Tinz deliberately doesn't: issuing customer invoices, reporting to the tax authority, handling official accounting, managing HR and complex production chains. If you run a large group, with your own finance department, and need everything in one system, the ERP makes sense. Tinz doesn't replace that. It replaces Excel and the daily invoice chaos of running the restaurant.
No, and it doesn't try to. An ERP handles invoicing, accounting and full company management. Tinz focuses on expense control, food cost and restaurant margins. Many customers use Tinz precisely because they don't want the complexity of an ERP.
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