The same three years, head to head.
Fourteen rows against a typical ERP. There is not one of them we lose, and the ones that decide it are not the features — they are what happens after go-live.
| What | A typical ERP | DBS One |
|---|---|---|
| Time to live | 6 to 18 months, often longer | 30 days, written into the contract |
| Users | Priced per seat, per year | Unlimited, included |
| Annual license | ₱2.5M to ₱5M a year, forever | None. There is no license. |
| A small change | Quoted, scoped, scheduled | Same day to 48 hours, included |
| A new feature | A change order with a price | Included in maintenance |
| Philippine tax & BIR | An add-on, maintained by a third party | Built in, updated centrally |
| Your trade | A vertical add-on bought separately | Native, and built first |
| Your paper documents | Keyed in by your staff, forever | Read, checked and posted |
| Integration | Only where an API already exists | Anything — and paper where there is none |
| AI | A chatbot reading a help page | Built in, on your own ledger |
| The technology | Often a decade old underneath | Current, and continuously updated |
| Support | A reseller and a ticket queue | The people who wrote it |
| Upgrades | A project, every few years | Continuous, and free |
| Where it was built | Abroad, localized afterwards | Cebu, for Philippine trade |
A per-seat license turns your own growth into a bill, and a change-order model turns every good idea into a quotation. Over three years that is usually the larger number.
Three of those rows decide it.
“A small change”
Every business needs a field, a report or an approval rule that nobody anticipated. With most vendors that is a quotation and a queue. With us it is maintenance, usually the same day.
“Your paper documents”
If the answer involves your staff keying it in, that cost never goes away and it grows with you. Ours reads the paper instead.
“AI”
Every vendor has AI this year. Ask what it is wired into. Most of them have a chatbot reading a help page; this one reads your ledger.
Ask us the hard ones.
We printed the eight questions worth putting to every vendor you speak to, ourselves included.