Recipes, allergens, lot traceability, shelf life, and recall readiness.
Recipes, batches, allergens, and a legal obligation to trace one step forward and one step back. Production is usually scheduled around what is perishable and what the co-packer or the market will take. Shelf life governs everything downstream: you cannot build inventory the way a hardware manufacturer can, so your planning horizon is short and your accuracy has to be high. When something goes wrong, a recall is measured in hours, not days.
Batch tracking sold as a paid add-on. Brahmin Solutions charges $38 a month for it on top of $199. Katana charged $249 a month for its Traceability module until its pricing page dropped all paid prices in 2026, so now the add-on is part of a quote. For a food producer this is not an optional extra. It is the reason you are buying software, so add it to the base price before you compare anything.
Do you need full MRP here?
Often yes. Food producers commit to dated orders, buy ingredients with real lead times, and cannot hold much buffer stock. That combination is the textbook case for time-phased planning rather than reorder-point alerts.
60 products in our catalog list this industry.
Inventory, assemblies and lot trace for QuickBooks users who build for stock and want to keep their books where they are.
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Food ERP on Business Central, with catch weight handled all the way to the invoice.
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Formula manufacturing with version-controlled recipes and planning that reads forecasts.
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Makers who want recipes, batch records and restock dates on a free plan, paying only as volume grows.
Free plan · From $0/mo
For Shopify makers who want production runs, real unit cost and recall-ready lot trace in one $69 plan.
From $69/mo
Small UK food makers who need recipe costing, batch records and recall-ready traceability in one place.
From £0/mo · £30/mo useful
Supplement, cosmetics and food makers who need GMP batch records and lot recall, with self-serve pricing.
From $149/mo
An early-access maker tool that suggests batches from open orders; free while channel sync is built.
From $0/mo · $29/mo useful
Formula manufacturing that can bolt onto QuickBooks instead of replacing your accounting.
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Brew-process tracking and TTB reports from $30 a month (Lite); costing and accounting from $313.
From $30/mo
Good CPG fit and unlimited users, undermined by add-on pricing for the basics.
From $199/mo · $337/mo useful
Brewery production, stock planning, sales and delivery at US$90 per concurrent user a month, no contract.
From $90/user/mo
Brewery production, traceability and sales in one system, priced by annual output with unlimited users.
From $34.99/mo
Formerly DEAR Systems, DEAR Inventory
Capable manufacturing, but only if you buy the module that has it.
From $349/mo · $599/mo useful
Small food and craft producers comfortable running Docker who want batches, lots and costing for free.
Free plan; no published paid price
For coffee roasters who want roast logging and quality control first, with production planning and traceability from the Scale package up.
From $35/mo · $319/mo useful
Chemical and formula manufacturing with the compliance paperwork built in.
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FDA-regulated batch makers who need electronic batch records and traceability tied to QuickBooks.
From $150/user/mo · $200/user/mo useful
One system for batch manufacturing, from forecast through to the shop floor.
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Cloud MRP from an all-in-one suite, per user with a five-user minimum and a required setup fee.
From $349/user/mo
The gentlest open-source ERP to start with, module by module.
Free plan; no published paid price
Beverage production, inventory and sales for craft drinks makers; pricing only by request.
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Batch records, QA and inventory in one place for a regulated producer that plans in a schedule, not an MRP run.
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A lot of ERP surface for $99 a month with five seats included.
From $49/mo · $99/mo useful
Small wholesalers and B2B sellers who assemble or make products and want orders, stock and manufacturing in one tool.
From $69/mo · $86/mo useful
A full open-source ERP with nothing held back for a paid edition, if you can carry the setup burden.
From $5/mo · $25/mo useful
Small makers who keep their books in QuickBooks Online and need lots, expiry and real BOMs on top of it.
From $49.99/mo
The veteran QuickBooks-attached manufacturing system, with manufacturing from $675 a month plus a required implementation package.
From $675/mo
Food processing and distribution on top of QuickBooks, with catch weight handled properly.
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The planning brain you bolt onto an ERP that cannot plan.
Free plan · From €546/mo
Engineer-to-order ERP where the BOM comes out of CAD.
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QuickBooks companion with barcode scanning and simple recipe-based manufacturing orders on the Pro plan.
From $49/mo · $129/mo useful
Business Central for food producers, packaged by food-industry people, from $115.50 per user a month with manufacturing.
From $84/user/mo · $115.50/user/mo useful
Heavyweight community ERP with no license fee and a long lineage.
Free plan; no published paid price
Lot-traced production, COGS and channel sync for CPG brands, sold by demo with no published price.
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Formerly Katana MRP
Strong production control with documented MRP planning; paid pricing is quote-only since 2026-10, last published at $299 plus $199 for manufacturing.
Free plan available
Free to use right now in beta, and built for people who make things from formulas.
Free plan · From $59.99/mo
Budget inventory and production orders with routings and a shop-floor app, if you add the $43 Production module.
From $5/mo · $67/mo useful
Recipe manufacturing with electronic batch records, aimed squarely at regulated small makers.
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A Finnish maker tool with lot costing, expiry and real COGS reports, priced in euros per seat.
From €30/mo
Open-source ERP for food and wholesale, with unusually transparent cloud pricing.
From €99/mo · €398/mo useful
Meat and dairy processing with lot and serial traceability and its own general ledger.
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The clearest small-shop system that genuinely tells you what to order and when.
From $49/user/mo
Formerly OpenERP, TinyERP
An open-core ERP covering manufacturing, stock and accounting; read the Community versus Enterprise line carefully.
From $0/user/mo · $24.90/user/mo useful
Brewery and distillery production with TTB reports at a published flat $201 a month, unlimited users.
From $201/mo
Inventory, work orders and forecast-driven MRP for small assemblers, from $185 a month for two users.
From $185/mo
A UK stock and accounts ERP with works orders, for makers who also wholesale and sell online.
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Formerly Stock&Buy
Inventory, orders and simple production for small product brands, from $99 a month with the accounting kept in Xero or QuickBooks.
From $99/mo
For coffee roasters who want green lots, roasts, packing and wholesale orders on one record, billed by the pound roasted.
From $79/mo
For wholesale coffee roasters who want orders to turn into a daily roast-and-pack plan, with green coffee deducted as they roast.
From $83/mo
The QuickBooks-native option, if you can reach the Pro tier.
From $69.95/mo · $194.95/mo useful
Formerly Craftybase
The strongest fit for makers who need real COGS and lot numbers, not a planning engine.
From $20/mo · $99/mo useful
Formerly Digit
Growing manufacturers who want shop-floor work orders and lot tracking without a long ERP project.
From $400/mo
Foundation-governed open-source ERP with no commercial edition to upsell you.
Free plan; no published paid price
Formerly Unleashed Software
Batch and serial tracking on every plan, with production $69 a month extra on Core and free on Pro.
From $399/mo · $468/mo useful
Adds formula manufacturing to QuickBooks Online or Microsoft Dynamics. You need one of them first.
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For small wineries, cideries, breweries and distillers who need vessel-level traceability, excise reporting and stock in one cloud tool.
From $24/mo · $99/mo useful
Built for recall-ready batch producers who need traceability and purchasing in one place.
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Made-to-order and batch makers who want a system set up around their process, not self-service.
From £435/mo
Formerly YAVEON ProBatch 365
Business Central Premium plus GMP-ready batch, recipe and QA apps for regulated process makers. Quote only.
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