// COST COMPARISON
Automate ERP work without another module.
ORiON does not replace your ERP, CRM or payroll system; you keep paying for those either way. It replaces the cost of the work between them: per-module ERP add-ons that each automate a narrow slice, the glue tools, and the hours your finance and ops team spends re-keying, matching and checking data by hand.
// THE STACK AROUND YOUR STACK
- ERP add-on modulesVendor automation, one slice at a timeper module
- Automation & glueZapier · n8n · Makeper task
- Internal toolingRetool · custom scriptsbuild + maintain
- Re-keying between systemsCRM to ERP, billing, AP matchingteam time
- Close prep and AR follow-upThe same checklist, every monthheadcount
// WITH ORiON
- ✓Any manual ERP process automated, for example CRM to ERP setup
- ✓Agents do the re-keying and matching, then report what they did
- ✓Nothing to build in-house, and nothing to keep alive afterwards
- ✓One platform across every system, not a module per process
- ✓Volume grows without the next hire on the finance team
// WHERE THE MONEY ACTUALLY GOES
The licence fee is rarely the expensive part.
Four costs that don't appear on any invoice, and usually dwarf the ones that do.
A module for every slice of automation
ERP vendors sell automation one module at a time, each priced separately and each covering a narrow slice of one system. None of them touches the work that crosses into your CRM, billing, bank or inbox, so that work stays manual.
The re-keying nobody wants to own
Every finance team has someone copying closed deals from the CRM into the ERP, or matching bills to POs line by line. That is real salary, spent on copying data between systems, every month, forever.
Automations only one person understands
The zap chain that quietly holds a billing process together, built by someone who has since left. It breaks when a field is renamed, and the cost lands as an outage rather than a line item.
Growth that means another hire
Usually the largest cost of all. While the work between systems is manual, more volume means more of it, and the usual answer is another hire, then another.
// BE FAIR ABOUT IT
What ORiON doesn't replace.
A cost comparison that claims to replace everything isn't a comparison, it's a pitch. Here's the honest version of where ORiON does and doesn't take a line off your budget.
Your ERP, CRM or payroll system
These stay, and so does their cost. ORiON works on top of them as your systems of record.
A dedicated data warehouse, if you have one
If you've already built a warehouse for regulated reporting, keep it. ORiON automates the manual ERP work; regulated reporting stays in your warehouse.
Narrow ERP automation modules
If a module exists to automate one slice of ERP work, ORiON can usually do that work, across systems.
The automation layer between systems
Agents take on any manual process between systems, and unlike a zap chain they hold writes for approval.
The next hire for manual work
The role you'd add to keep up as volume grows. SpotHopper: 0 hires as setups head toward 1,300 a month.
// BEFORE THE CALL
Five things to add up.
Bring these numbers and the conversation takes fifteen minutes instead of three meetings. We'd rather you arrive knowing whether this is worth it.
What you pay your ERP vendor for automation modules, and which ones get used.
Spend on automation and integration tooling, including anything on a corporate card.
Hours per month spent re-keying data from the CRM into the ERP and billing.
Hours on other manual ERP work: for example close prep, AR or AP matching.
The hire you expect to make next if volume keeps growing, and what it costs.
// RUN THE NUMBERS WITH US