Getting started

1. Create your factory

After you sign up, you land on a short setup form. It asks for:

• Business name and base currency — the currency your totals and reports are shown in. You can add other currencies later with a conversion rate (see Settings & customization).
• Who you sell to — retail, wholesale, or both. This decides whether you'll see wholesale-specific pricing tools later.
• How you get your products — buy finished items ready to sell, buy raw materials and manufacture in-house, or both.
• Recipe complexity (only asked if you manufacture) — simple, where raw materials go straight into a finished item, or multi-level, where you build sub-assemblies first and use them in other recipes.

None of this is permanent. Every one of these answers can be changed later from Settings → Business, and the app adjusts what it shows you accordingly — for example, if you switch from "buy finished" to manufacturing in-house, the Manufacturing and BOM screens become relevant where they weren't before.

2. Look around the sample data first

Every new account starts pre-loaded with a small working example — raw materials like Canvas fabric and Cotton webbing, finished products (Canvas tote, Canvas tote XL, Apron, navy, and Chili oil 250ml), a real BOM for each, and a few manufacturing orders sitting in different stages. It's there so you can click through Items, the BOM screen, and the Manufacturing Schedule/Board/Tasks views and see a real, working example before you type anything in yourself. Once you're ready to add your own catalog, just delete the sample items — nothing else depends on them.

3. Set up your warehouse(s)

Go to Settings → Warehouses. You get up to 10 locations. Each one can be set to hold raw materials only, finished products only, or both — useful if your raw-material storage and finished-goods storage are physically separate spaces. Most businesses start with a single warehouse set to hold both, and split it later only if they actually need to.

4. Add your first items

Go to Items and add whatever you sell or use to make what you sell. Each item needs a name, a type (product or material), and a unit of measure (pcs, kg, m, etc). Products are what you sell; materials are what gets consumed in a recipe. See Items & BOMs for the full picture, including how to build a recipe once you have both a product and its materials in the catalog.

5. Get stock on the books

There are two ways stock gets into MRPverse:

1. Receive a purchase order. Create one under Purchasing, then mark it received when the goods arrive — this adds the quantity to stock and logs a lot number automatically. See Purchasing.
2. Adjust stock directly. Open an item's Stock page and log a manual quantity change with a reason (cycle count, damage, opening balance, etc). Useful for entering your existing stock on day one.

6. Start working

From here it depends on your business model:

• If you manufacture, set up your production stages under Settings → Production stages (Cutting → Sewing → QC → Packed, or whatever your floor actually does), then create manufacturing orders — see Manufacturing.
• If you sell directly, create sales orders under Selling, or connect Shopify under Settings → Integrations so orders sync in on their own — see Selling.
• If you run a physical floor, check out Shop floor — the scan-and-go mode built for a barcode scanner instead of a mouse.

What's billed, what isn't

MRPverse is one flat price with everything included — manufacturing, batch traceability, a second warehouse, and API access are not add-ons here. The one thing you do need to set up separately is billing itself, under Settings → Billing, once your trial period ends.