Most ERP projects fail in the same place: the product is bought first and the business is bent to fit it afterwards. We build the other way round — the system follows how you already work, and you own it at the end rather than renewing a licence for the rest of the company's life.
Asli One Global builds custom ERP systems for companies in the UK, Europe, the United States, Australia and Singapore. We are not resellers — five ERPs of our own run in production: a restaurant ERP taking live orders through internet outages, an education ERP computing NAAC, NBA and AISHE returns from its own records, a legal practice ERP, a pharmaceutical distribution ERP live in the UAE, and a general business ERP. A first module set typically runs £15,000–40,000, quoted against a written scope.
Not in the technology. In these five places, every time.
A licence is signed, then the business discovers what it does not do. We scope first, in writing, and quote the phase against it — so the surprise arrives before the money does.
Eighteen months, no working software, then everything changes at once. We ship a module set that is genuinely used, then the next. Something works from the first phase.
The old spreadsheets stay in use alongside the new system and you now maintain two truths. Migration is part of the phase, not an afterthought priced later.
If the compliance return is assembled manually each year, the ERP has not replaced the spreadsheet. Ours compute returns from the same records the operation writes.
Per-seat licences that only go up, and an export format designed to make leaving hard. Whatever we build, the contract settles ownership before work starts.
We would rather tell you to buy SAP or Odoo than sell you a build you did not need.
| Your situation | What we would actually say |
|---|---|
| Standard processes, no unusual compliance, tight budget | Buy off the shelf. Odoo, Zoho or NetSuite will be cheaper and faster than anything bespoke. We will say so. |
| A process that is genuinely your competitive advantage | Build that part. Bending it to fit someone's product is how the advantage quietly disappears. |
| A regulator wants returns computed from operational records | Build, or heavily extend. This is where products break down and where we have already done it — NAAC, NBA and AISHE from one data spine. |
| You have outgrown spreadsheets but not the whole business | Build one module set first. Inventory, or purchasing, or payroll — not the entire company at once. |
| Per-seat licensing is the actual pain | Build. The maths flips somewhere around forty to sixty seats, and after that it keeps flipping further your way every year. |
We are unusual for a development company in that we do not only build ERPs for clients — we operate our own, with paying customers on them. Each of these is live.
The relevance is not the list. It is that the failure modes above are ones we have hit on our own money, in production, with a customer waiting — which is a different kind of knowledge from having read about them.
A first module set typically runs £15,000–40,000 (about $20,000–50,000), quoted against a written scope rather than estimated on a call. Discovery and a written scope on its own is £1,500–3,000. For comparison, UK agencies commonly quote £60,000–150,000 for equivalent work. Your scope will differ; these are bands to indicate order of magnitude, not a rate card.
A first module set is typically eight to fourteen weeks to something your team genuinely uses, not a demo. We deliberately do not run eighteen-month launches — everything changing at once is the single most reliable way to fail.
Whatever the contract says, settled in writing before work starts — either full assignment of the bespoke work to you, or a licence at a lower price where we retain the core. What we will not do is leave it ambiguous.
Yes, and usually we must. Most engagements involve an existing accounting package, a CRM or a warehouse system that is staying. Integration is scoped as part of the phase rather than discovered afterwards.
Sometimes, and we will say so. If your processes are standard and your compliance is ordinary, an off-the-shelf product will be cheaper and faster. Build when a process is genuinely your advantage, when a regulator wants returns computed from operational records, or when per-seat licensing has become the actual pain.
Your choice, and it is part of the quote. We run infrastructure in the EU (Frankfurt) and can deploy a dedicated instance in India (Mumbai), and we will deploy into your own cloud account if your policy requires it. For UK and EU clients this is a GDPR question we expect to be asked, not one we hope is forgotten.
Better than most assume, and honestly for the rest. Singapore and Australia get near-complete overlap with our working day. The UK and Europe get a half-day overlap, which covers a standup and any escalation. North America gets our afternoon against your morning. We do not claim 24/7 cover; we tell you the overlap and work within it.