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VortexERP Lite is a fully cloud-hosted business platform that speaks your industry's language from day one. Pick your vertical at sign-up — school, restaurant, garage, dealership, pharmacy, salon, retail shop, wholesale, forex bureau, CFS, audit firm, practice, NGO, manufacturing or property — and get a workspace built for exactly how that business runs, no servers or IT team required.
VortexERP Lite is the one platform you don't have to wait for. Create your own account, pick your industry, and you're running a real system with full feature access for 30 days — no credit card, no obligation.
Two minutes at lite.vortexerp.net — your business details, a login, and optional KRA eTIMS setup right from the start.
Choose from 15 business types — school, restaurant, garage, pharmacy, forex bureau, NGO and more — and the platform reshapes itself around how your business actually runs.
Full feature access for 30 days. Bring your real workflows, add your people, and decide with evidence — upgrade to a paid plan only if it earns it.
Each vertical ships with its own modules, roles, permissions and landing pages — a teacher, a matron, a teller and a gate clerk each see a workspace made for them.
Schools, colleges, tutors & training centres — CBE & Cambridge curriculum, auto-timetabling, teacher workspace, report cards, fees, boarding, transport, clinic & library.
Restaurants, cafés, hotels & catering — floor tables, kitchen display, course firing, split bills, tips, room rack, housekeeping and OTA-ready bookings.
Auto repair, service & vehicle maintenance — work orders, parts & labour, job profitability, customer history and service reminders.
Vehicle sales, consignment stock, unit-level costing, buyer CRM and dealership operations — from the yard to the logbook transfer.
Pharmacies, clinics & health outlets — dispensing workflows, batch & expiry control, stock cards and controlled-line reporting.
Salons, barbershops, spas & beauty bars — appointments, stylist commissions, retail products and a fast till in one workspace.
Counter retail — POS with M-Pesa and fiscal receipts, stock management, purchasing and customer accounts.
Bulk trading & supply chain — credit customers, route sales, purchasing, suppliers and multi-branch stock.
Yard grid, gate in/out, customs entries & EACCMA watchlists, storage tariffs and billing to TIMS/eTIMS.
Rate board, till double-leg, KYC thresholds, CTR/STR compliance and tiered loyalty.
Engagements, two-file workpapers, review sign-off chains, timesheets, WIP and practice compliance.
Lawyers, architects, consultants & advisors — engagements, time & billing, WIP recovery and client files.
Funds & restriction classes, donor grants with burn-pace tracking, SoFA and donor-ready reports.
Manufacturers, processors & production plants — production orders, recipes and inventory consumption.
Landlords, property managers & real estate — units, leases, maintenance and owner statements.
Installable mobile app for field sales, CRM and delivery confirmation — keeps working without internet.
Run several companies, branches or campuses from one system — each with its own data, fully separated, under one roof.
A permissions catalogue with one-click role presets — head teacher, bursar, nurse, teller, compliance officer — every action gated.
A searchable in-app manual plus a contextual help drawer on every page, with step-by-step task recipes for real workflows.
A constraint-based timetable generator for schools, availability-aware and lockable, with drag-to-move review.
CBE rubric report cards with no rankings (KICD-compliant), Cambridge grade scales with positions, CBK-grade forex thresholds, EACCMA customs watchlists.
Email and SMS broadcasts, parent messaging, payment reminders and notification bells across the platform.
Both share the Vortex DNA — the difference is depth versus breadth.
| Best for | VortexERP Lite | VortexERP Enterprise |
|---|---|---|
| Business profile | SMEs & institutions that want an industry-ready system fast | Distribution, trading & manufacturing at scale |
| Industry fit | 15 tailored verticals | Deep distribution / FMCG focus |
| Warehouse (bins, FEFO, scanning) | Core inventory | Full WMS + scanner app |
| Predictive replenishment & forecasting | — | PRP + 13-week forecasts |
| Customer & supplier portals | Parent / customer portals per vertical | Full commerce portals + RFQ + e-invoicing |
| KRA TIMS/eTIMS & M-Pesa | Yes | Yes |
| Embedded AI | Help & insights | Full intelligence suite + board packs |
| Deployment | Fully cloud-hosted (SaaS) | Cloud or on-premise |
Don't take our word for it — create your account, switch on your vertical, and run your business on it free for 30 days. No credit card, full features, and our team one call away if you want a guided tour.
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