Pricing
The whole ERP is free, and there is no charge per user, ever. We are paid a small percentage of what you actually dispatch through it, and nothing at all until you have shipped your first £100,000. Accounts are provisioned on successful application.
Free, permanently
There is no starter tier. Everything below is what every customer gets, including the ones who never pay us anything.
No per user, ever
Per-seat licensing is the worst thing about buying an ERP. It makes you ration access to your own system, so the people who most need to scan a bin, book a delivery in or close a work order are the ones nobody wants to buy a licence for. Then the data is wrong, and everyone blames the software.
We do not count your people. Not at sign-up, not at renewal, not ever. Add the yard, the second shift, the agency staff who are with you for a fortnight in August. It changes nothing about what you pay.
A 40-person business dispatching £2m
Illustrative, using a per-seat rate of £90 a user a month
a year, before implementation, and it rises every time you hire
a year, all 40 people, and it only moves if you dispatch more
The gap widens with every person you add, because on our side adding a person costs nothing at all.
The order fee
Measured on the value you dispatch through Adestio over a rolling twelve months, excluding tax and net of anything you credit back. The bands are marginal, like income tax, so growing past one never costs you more than the growth was worth.
Rate card
| Dispatched, rolling 12 months | Rate |
|---|---|
| First £100,000 | 0% |
| £100,000 to £2m | 0.50% |
| £2m to £10m | 0.35% |
| Above £10m | 0.20% |
| Capped at, per year | £60,000 |
All figures are in pounds sterling and exclude VAT. Bands are marginal, so crossing one only changes the rate on the value above it.
What that comes to
| You dispatch | A year | A month |
|---|---|---|
| £100,000 | Nothing | – |
| £500,000 | £2,000 | £167 |
| £2m | £9,500 | £792 |
| £5m | £20,000 | £1,667 |
| £10m | £37,500 | £3,125 |
| £25m | £60,000 | £5,000 |
For comparison, a per-seat licence for a business dispatching £10m would typically run well past this before anyone had implemented anything.
Drag to the value you dispatch in a year. Everything is in pounds and excludes VAT.
How it is made up
You would pay
£792
a month, or £9,500 a year
0.48% of what you dispatch
Apply to registerYour rate is agreed before you go live.
Your rate is agreed before you go live. The table above is the default. Margins differ enormously between a machine shop and a stockholder, so if a flat percentage of turnover does not suit how your business makes money, tell us during setup and we will agree a number that does. It is then fixed, and it does not move with headcount, facilities, products or modules.
The small print, in plain words
Apps and infrastructure
Two of these are real recurring work on our side rather than software, which is why they are not free. Everything else on this page is.
Free
Your logo, your colours, your app name, delivered as an APK you hand to your operatives or push through your own device management. No store, no review, no waiting. This is how most shop floors should do it.
£2,500
once, then £1,200 a year
Your app published under your own name on the App Store and Google Play. The annual part is not a licence: it is us rebuilding, resubmitting and getting your listing back through review every time we ship a release or a platform changes its rules.
You will need your own developer accounts. Apple requires the publisher to be the legal entity, which means a D-U-N-S number for a company.
from £6,000
a year
Every customer's data is segregated already, and that is not the paid part. This is for when segregation on shared infrastructure is not enough on paper: your own database, your own instance, in a region you pick. Usually because a contract you have signed or an audit you have to pass demands it in writing.
Registering is an application, not a sign-up form. There is no instant self-serve account, and that is deliberate. Under this model we only earn anything if the system genuinely ends up shipping your orders, so we would rather turn down a business Adestio does not suit than take it on and watch it fail quietly.
Every application is read by a person. If it is a fit we provision your tenant by hand, set your first facility up with you, and tell you the rate we are proposing before anything goes live.
What we look for
When we say no
How it goes
You apply
A few lines about what you make and how many sites. Two minutes.
We read it
Usually the same working day. We tell you either way, including when the answer is not yet.
We provision you
Your own segregated tenant, your branding on it, and your rate agreed in writing.
You count your stock in
And you owe us nothing until you have dispatched £100,000 through it.
Reasonable questions
Then you never pay us anything. A business dispatching under £100,000 a year runs the full system for nothing, indefinitely. We would rather be in the building when you grow than charge you for the privilege of trying.
Not always, and we would rather say so. A distributor on ten per cent gross margin is giving up far more of its profit than a machine shop on forty five for the same software. Tell us during setup and we will agree a rate that reflects how you actually make money.
Your agreed percentage does not change unless you agree to change it, and there is no annual uplift. What you pay only moves because you dispatched more, which is the point of the model.
You export everything as CSV, we invoice for what you dispatched up to that point, and that is the end of it. No notice period, no minimum term, and no exit fee. Your data was always yours.
Apply, and if it is a fit we provision your tenant by hand, usually the same working day. Then you set up your facilities and invite your people. No implementation partner, no licence, no credit card, and no charge per user.
Tell us who you are and what you make. A person reads every application and answers either way, usually the same working day.
In the browser. Add your plants and bin locations, then print the barcode labels straight to your own printer.
Tick the modules each person needs. They pick up the app and start scanning.
Then your team gets the app
For scanning, counting, picking and clocking. You keep running the business from the desktop.
Nothing to pay and no card. We read every application, and we agree your rate before anything goes live.
Thanks, that is with us.
A person will read it and come back to you either way, usually the same working day. If it is a fit we provision your tenant and send you the link. If it is urgent, reply to that email and say so.
