Lotics vs ERP

An ERP manages accounting, inventory, purchasing and production in standard modules, set up by a partner. In Lotics, your AI builds the system the way your company works, changes it when you ask, and enters the data, checks the numbers and drafts the documents in it.

Updated October 2026. Each fact about ERP cites its source.

Choose ERP when

  • You need one system for accounting, inventory, purchasing and production, on standard processes at high volume.
  • You keep statutory books for several legal entities and consolidate their financial statements.
  • You have an IT team or a partner to administer, change and upgrade it.

Choose Lotics when

  • Your process changes with each customer and shipment, and you want to change the system by asking your AI, not by waiting on a partner.
  • Your staff spend hours a day retyping data from email, Zalo and Excel files into documents and invoices.
  • You want ChatGPT, Claude or the built-in AI doing whole jobs on the company's records, from data entry to a draft invoice.

At a glance

ERPLotics
What it isSoftware that puts accounting, inventory, purchasing, sales and production into modules over one database.AI business management software: the data, an app for each desk and automations, where AI does everything the company needs and gets better at its work the longer it is used.
Built forCompanies that want accounting, inventory, purchasing and production in one system, on standard processes.SMBs that still enter data and prepare documents and invoices by hand, starting with logistics and supply chain.
AIThe vendor's own AI, such as Copilot in Dynamics 365. Some ERPs let ChatGPT or Claude connect once an administrator sets it up.ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or the built-in AI, able to do anything a person can.
SetupA partner sets it up into its standard modules over weeks to months.Your AI builds it from the files the company already uses in about 10 minutes, or the Lotics team does it for you.
E-invoicesDepends on the ERP and its partner. FAST, for example, has its own e-invoicing software that connects to its ERP.AI drafts e-invoices in MISA, BKAV or WinInvoice for the accountant to review and sign.
PricePer user, plus the partner's fees. Business Central Essentials, for example, is $80 per user a month, paid yearly. Source: Business Central pricingFrom $60 a month, with unlimited users.

Where they differ

What a change costs

After go-live the process keeps changing: a new customer wants the container number on the delivery note, a new quotation form, another approval step. If each change needs a partner's quote, that fee and that wait come back every time the process changes.

ERP
A new field or a changed print layout goes to the partner or a trained administrator, and the partner bills it by the hour or from a support plan. In Dynamics 365 Business Central, a new field is a developer's job. Source: Microsoft Learn: Business Central table extensions
Lotics
You say what to change; your AI changes the tables, apps and templates, and you check them. No quote to wait for, and no code to carry through upgrades.

The AI you choose

Your team already uses ChatGPT or Claude. When that same AI works on the company's records, nobody copies its answers from a chat window into the system, and when a better AI comes out, the company switches to it without changing systems.

ERP
For ChatGPT or Claude to work in Business Central or NetSuite, an administrator sets up the connection and picks the data the AI may use. In Business Central, the AI can only read by default. Source: Microsoft Learn: Business Central MCP server
Lotics
ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini connect with your own account and can do anything you can, including changing the system.

How it is priced

An ERP is priced per user, and the partner's work is billed on top. Add both, for the number of people who will use it, before comparing it with a monthly fee.

ERP
A licence for each user, bought through a partner; Business Central is paid yearly, and the partner's consulting is billed separately. Source: Business Central pricing
Lotics
Unlimited users, from $60 a month, with AI Credits for the built-in AI included. No implementation fee.

Moving from ERP to Lotics

  1. Export the lists and orders you need from the ERP to Excel.
  2. Hand those files to your AI (ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini) with the setup prompt.
  3. It builds the tables, apps and document templates in Lotics from the columns in each file, then imports the data.
  4. The books, inventory and production stay in the ERP if it serves the company well.

Rather not do it yourself? The Lotics team does it all, from $60 a month. See pricing

What customers say about Lotics

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Frequently asked questions

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ERP (enterprise resource planning) software puts accounting, inventory, purchasing, sales and production into modules that share one database. Examples are SAP Business One, Oracle NetSuite and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, and FAST and Bravo in Vietnam.

An ERP is good when a company needs standard processes for accounting, inventory, purchasing and production on one database, with statutory books. In return, a partner sets it up over weeks to months, and later changes need the partner or an ERP administrator.

Not its accounting core: Lotics has no general ledger and no material requirements planning (MRP), so a company that needs those should choose an ERP. If you were weighing an ERP to get off Excel and the hand entry around orders, documents and invoices, Lotics does that part, and the books stay in your accounting software.

Yes. The ERP keeps the work it does now. The work still done in Excel and Zalo around it moves to Lotics, where AI enters the data, checks it and prepares the documents.

An ERP's AI works inside the vendor's own features, such as Business Central's Sales Order Agent reading customer emails and preparing quotes and sales orders. In Lotics, the AI you choose does a whole job on the company's records, from data entry to a draft invoice, and can change the system itself when the process changes.

What builds up is what the AI has to work from. Lotics logs every change to every record, with who made it and when, beside the company's knowledge docs: its prices, procedures and terms with each customer. Any AI reads them with the access of the person who asks, so the next job starts from how the last one was done, and the way the work is done stays with the company when people leave.

Tell the AI and the system changes with it, no developer needed.

Yes. The Lotics team builds and keeps the system up to date for you, from $60 a month, with a 3-month minimum.

Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, hosted in Singapore. Each person sees only what they are given access to, and every change records who made it and when.

By plan, from $60 a month, with unlimited users. Your own ChatGPT or Claude uses no AI Credits.

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