Small and mid-size firms are almost the whole of industry, yet most still run orders, stock, production and people on spreadsheets, e-mail and memory. The systems that would join it all up are priced per person and installed as projects. ZERSYNC is our answer: one system for the whole factory, at one price for the whole company.
Four published facts explain why so many good manufacturers still work this way.
In the EU, 99.8% of businesses are small or medium-sized, and they employ 64% of everyone in work. In the UK the picture is the same: 99.85% of private businesses, and 60% of private-sector jobs.
Eurostat, 2019 · UK Department for Business and Trade, 2025
Only 41% of small EU firms use ERP software, against 89% of large ones. The rest keep orders, stock and production in spreadsheets, inboxes and separate tools that do not talk to each other.
Eurostat, 2025 — firms with 10 or more people
Mainstream ERPs for smaller companies charge for every person who signs in — about €50 a month each on their published prices. Every person who needs the system makes the bill bigger — so accounts get rationed, and the shop floor stays on paper.
Published full-user list prices of three small-business ERPs, October 2026
Why €50: across three mainstream small-business ERPs, a full user averages about €43 a month on the entry plan and about €63 on the next plan up (see Sources). ZERSYNC is shown on Medium at every size; a small company may need only Small, at €59.
The median ERP project in 2024 cost US$450,000, and one in three went over budget. That is a budget written for large companies — not for a workshop of thirty people.
Panorama Consulting Group, 2024 ERP Report
ZERSYNC puts sales, purchasing, production and MRP, warehouse, accounts, HR and bookings on one record, in the browser — and charges the company, never the person.
How many companies we are built for, and what they choose between today.
≈ 830,000
already use ERP software≈ 1.0m
use no ERP softwareSources: Eurostat sbs_sc_ovw — businesses by size, 2024 · Eurostat isoc_eb_iip — ERP use, 2025: 45.2%, applied to the 1.83m. Split counts rounded; widths not to scale.
Our view of the categories, not a measurement.
ZERSYNC was not designed in a meeting room. It was built inside a working manufacturer, alongside the people who quote, buy, build, pack and ship every day — and it runs there now.
Every feature on this site exists because someone on that floor needed it. Now we are opening it to companies like it: the workshop of ten and the plant of two hundred.
Plans are sized by how much a company runs through the system — products, production, employees, customers and suppliers — never by how many people sign in.
Two firms already run on ZERSYNC every day. You can create an account today; the service opens to new companies as we expand capacity, and we will write to you when it does.
ZERSYNC is owned by its founders' team, two investors and its employees, and it carries no debt. We are not raising capital at the moment — but we are always open to a conversation.
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Founders' team
Built ZERSYNC inside a working manufacturer, and run it.
Investor 1
The company ZERSYNC was built inside. It runs on the system every day.
Investor 2
An individual investor from manufacturing.
Employees
One in sales, one helping new customers get set up.
Nothing on this page is an offer of shares or any other investment.