Instead of Datapel
Stop paying Datapel per login. Own your warehouse system.
Enterprise DNA builds a version shaped to how your floor receives, picks and dispatches, moves your Datapel items, customers, suppliers and stock levels over, and looks after it from then on. No user count to manage, no module list to climb.
Datapel publishes its Basic plan at A$120 per user per month with a minimum of three users. Manufacturing, e-commerce, the B2B portal and handheld picking (PDA) are modules charged on top, and onboarding is billed by the hour.
- check_circleYour data in a database you own
- check_circleOpen source, no lock-in
- check_circleBuilt and run by Enterprise DNA
Where the money goes
A Datapel bill is seats, modules and hours
Only one Datapel price is public: A$120 per user per month, which is A$1,440 a year for every person with a login, and you start at three of them. Nothing beyond the Basic plan has a published price. Underneath it all sit a few plain records: items, locations, customers, suppliers, orders and stock moves.
Three logins before you start
The Basic plan has a minimum of three users at A$120 each per month. A two-person business still pays for three, and every extra picker or buyer adds another A$1,440 a year.
A module for each step up
Manufacturing, the e-commerce connection, the B2B ordering portal and handheld picking (PDA) are separate modules added on top of the standard fee. None of their prices is published.
Onboarding by the hour
Getting set up is charged hourly. No hourly rate is published, so the total depends on how many hours your setup takes.
Handheld picking sold as an extra
Picking directions and stock counts on a handheld sit in the PDA module, outside the base plan. The scan is the moment a warehouse lives in, and it costs more.
The reports someone else chose
Automated reports and product performance analysis come as designed. A question like which back orders have no purchase order behind them waits for a report that may never be built.
Years of movements inside their system
Every receipt, pick and count lives in Datapel's cloud. The movement history that explains your stock is worth asking about before you leave.
What you get instead
One stock record you own, open to everyone who works with it
Headcount
Grow the team without growing a subscription
The bench, purchasing, accounts and the owner all read and write the same records. Hiring for peak season changes your wage bill, not your software bill.
- check No minimum user count and no charge per login
- check Temporary staff work from day one with nothing to license
- check Questions asked in everyday English return short, plain answers
- check A new location or a new check is a change you describe, not a module you order
Stock
On hand you can trace, unit by unit
Stock levels come from recorded movements: what arrived, what left, what was counted, each with its reason attached.
- check On hand, committed and free stock for every location from one record
- check An adjustment with no reason written down is refused
- check Reorder suggestions that weigh committed stock, inbound orders and each supplier's lead time
- check Stock sitting 90 days with no sale and nothing committed, totalled in dollars
Order to invoice
Shortfalls named, billing tied to dispatch
An order that cannot be filled in full records the gap, along with the purchase order that will cover it or a warning that none exists.
- check Each customer's price level applied as the order goes in, with the source of the price shown on the line
- check Back orders sorted into those with stock coming and those with nothing ordered
- check Invoices drafted only for what was dispatched, GST shown on its own line
- check Sales below cost caught by product and customer
Ownership
Records that stay when the contract ends
Items, customers, suppliers and every stock movement sit in a database you control, readable by whatever tools you choose next.
- check Your Datapel items, customers, suppliers and stock levels brought over and checked on arrival
- check Your logo and GST number on invoices, picking slips, purchase orders and price lists
- check Credit accounts checked for signed terms of trade and a PPSR registration
- check Open source under the MIT licence, with nobody to ask permission to leave
Make it yours
Design your own Datapel replacement
Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from Datapel. Try it here, and we build the real one.
2. What it runs
3. Make it fit
4. Your colour
Answered from your own database
Good morning. Here is what needs you today.
We build it from the open-source base, bring your Datapel data across and run it for you.
Switching
How to switch from Datapel
A move usually involves exporting the records your account allows, matching Datapel’s columns to the new database, and checking the results before you switch over.
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Ask Datapel for an export
Before you give notice, ask Datapel what a full export of your cloud account includes. Request items, customers, suppliers, stock by location and open orders. Export what your account allows, and check with Datapel if you are unsure what is available. Keep the exports together so they can be reviewed before anything is loaded.
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Load the records
Have the records loaded into the new database, matching Datapel’s columns to the layout it expects. Start with a test run that checks the records without writing them into the database. Review the test results before loading the records for real. If you use Enterprise DNA to run your version, they handle this matching work.
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Review what the import flags
Check the import results for records or fields that did not match, and resolve them before relying on the new database. Open orders, customer price deals and sales history are not included in the import. Plan to re-enter open orders and price deals, checking each deal against today’s cost. Decide which history you need to keep available outside the import.
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Run both side by side
For a short period, keep Datapel available while you check the new database against your day-to-day records. Compare stock by location, customer and supplier details, and the orders you have entered again. Ask the team to report anything that does not match how your business works, then correct the data or rules before making the new system your source of truth.
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Switch off Datapel
Once the records and day-to-day work check out, choose a clear point to stop entering new activity in Datapel. Make sure the team knows where to record orders, stock moves and invoices from then on. Keep any Datapel exports or records you still need to refer to, and only cancel Datapel when you are satisfied the new system is ready to run the business.
Where the real effort goes
The real work is usually matching your own fields and rules, then deciding how much history to bring. Some records, including open orders and customer price deals, need to be entered again rather than imported. If you have Enterprise DNA run your version, they do the field-mapping work and help fit the system to your operation.
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Rather talk it through? Book a call arrow_forwardTwo ways to start
Try the free version, or let Enterprise DNA build yours
Open source
Run it yourself
Free
- 1 Download the free version from GitHub
- 2 Load the sample distributor and open it in Claude Code
- 3 Ask what needs attention today
- 4 Map your Datapel exports into it when you are ready
Omni by Enterprise DNA
Have Enterprise DNA build it for you
One setup fee, then a monthly retainer
- check We move your Datapel items, customers, suppliers and stock levels across and reconcile them against the old system
- check Your locations, batch and expiry rules and credit terms written in, plus a phone or tablet scanning app if your floor needs one
- check We link the invoice run to MYOB or Xero
- check Run for you inside Omni, our managed Command Center, alongside the rest of the business
Questions
Instead of Datapel, answered
Our pickers scan on handhelds all day. What happens to that? expand_more
The free version has no scanning app. Stock moves are recorded by asking for them or by loading a file. When Enterprise DNA builds your version, a phone or tablet scanning app for picking, receiving and counts can be part of it, built to your floor rather than sold as a module.
How do we get our records out of Datapel? expand_more
Ask Datapel what a full export of your account includes before you give notice: items, customers, suppliers, stock by location and open orders. The free version expects a different layout, so matching Datapel's columns to it is part of the work when we build your version.
We track batches and expiry dates. Is that covered? expand_more
The free version records stock by product and location. Batch, lot and expiry tracking for food or health lines is something Enterprise DNA can add to your version, sized to how your products are actually received and sold.
There are only three of us. Does moving make sense? expand_more
Maybe not on the user fees alone. The stronger reasons tend to be the modules and onboarding hours that pile up, and owning the record outright. On the call we add up what Datapel costs you a year, and if staying put is the better choice, we will tell you.
Does it still talk to MYOB or Xero? expand_more
Your accounting system keeps the books. The free version drafts invoices from what was dispatched and hands them over as a file. When Enterprise DNA builds your version, we connect the invoice run to MYOB or Xero.
Keep the warehouse, drop the per-user bill
30 minutes with Sam. We go through what Datapel costs you each year in users, modules and onboarding hours, what your floor depends on, and what your own version would look like. If it fits, we build it and move your records across. If it does not, the free version is yours to run.
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