Grant tracking across currencies, transparent reporting, and systems that don't quietly eat the budget in recurring licence fees meant for programs.
Reporting that holds up to a donor audit, built into the system, not reconstructed manually before each report is due.
Grant budgets and spend tracked accurately across currencies and funding sources.
Open-source ERP means the licence line item is zero, so more of the budget goes to the mission, not software fees.
We've written honestly about what "no licence fees" actually means in our Insights piece on open-source ERP economics: the software is free, but implementation and support still cost real money. For an NGO, that's still usually the better trade, since a proprietary vendor's per-seat fee compounds every year regardless of program funding, while an open-source implementation is a one-time cost you can budget for once and plan around.
