Instead of eraPower
Stop licensing eraPower to reach your own records. Own your dealer system.
We build your version around how your franchises sell and service, bring your eraPower history across, and run it for you while your team keeps working.
Pentana does not publish eraPower pricing. Its product pages send you to a contact form, and each dealership is quoted privately.
- check_circleYour data in a database you own
- check_circleOpen source, no lock-in
- check_circleBuilt and run by Enterprise DNA
What the contract covers
One vendor holding the showroom, the workshop and the books
Strip away the screens and a franchise dealer keeps a short set of records: who enquired, what is in stock, what sold, which jobs are in the workshop, which parts moved and which payments came in. eraPower puts all of them, plus your accounts, inside one Pentana platform.
A cost you only learn after the form
There is no rate card on Pentana's site. You fill in a contact form, wait for their team to be in touch, and get a quote nobody else can compare against.
Your accounts inside the dealer system
eraPower runs multi-franchise accounting centrally, and version 5 adds payments, banking and reconciliation. The more of the ledger it holds, the harder it is to walk away.
A CRM that comes from another product
Pentana lists its CRM as supplied through DealerSocket. Your prospects and follow-ups sit in a second system you did not choose on its own merits.
Reports shaped by the vendor
The questions an owner asks across departments, such as which sold cars never returned for a service, or what an aged unit has cost to hold, can wait on a report someone else has to build.
No public word on getting your data out
Neither eraPower page says how a dealer exports their customers, stock or repair orders. Ask before you sign, and again before you renew.
Years of history on someone else's platform
Every deal, service visit and parts sale lives on Pentana's cloud while the contract runs. Here the same history is ordinary records you back up and read with any tool.
What you run instead
Showroom, workshop and parts counter, on records you keep
Showroom
Every car on the floor, and what it costs to hold
New and used stock on one list with days held, preparation spend and the finance interest each car has run up.
- check Ask which cars have passed your aged line and see the holding cost of each one
- check A car cannot enter stock without its odometer reading on file
- check Preparation work lands in the car's cost, so the gross on each sale is the real one
- check Customers and their deals live beside the stock, with no separate CRM to license
Selling
A sale that cannot skip the paperwork
Each step from deposit to handover checks the record the law expects, at the point it applies.
- check A used car takes no deposit until its Consumer Information Notice is on file
- check No handover until a PPSR search is recorded, and never with money still owing on the car
- check Cash over the limit New Zealand set in May 2023 is turned away automatically
- check Each lost sale records why, so you see where deals actually go
Service and parts
Workshop jobs closed out properly
Customer repair orders and internal preparation sit on one job list, and nothing finished slips past without an invoice.
- check Completed jobs with no invoice are listed with their value before they turn into a write-off
- check A job cannot close without notes of the work done, your record if a customer disputes it
- check WoF inspections sit only with a technician whose authorisation is current that day
- check Parts that have sat still for months are listed with the money tied up in them
Yours
Change the rules yourself, keep the books with your accountant
Your thresholds, your documents and your history, in a database no vendor holds.
- check Owners who have not been back for a service are listed with their phone number, ready for a call
- check Your Consumer Information Notices, sale agreements and service histories print under your own name
- check Sales, invoices and parts movements hand to your accountant or Xero in one export
- check MIT licensed: copy it, change it, run it anywhere, with no contract to renew
Make it yours
Design your own eraPower replacement
Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from eraPower. 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 eraPower data across and run it for you.
Switching
How to switch from eraPower
A move usually involves getting the records eraPower can provide, mapping their columns, checking a test import, and running both systems side by side before you switch.
- 1
Ask eraPower for your records
Ask Pentana which customer, stock and repair-order reports you can save. Export what your account allows, usually as CSV or Excel, and check with eraPower if you are unsure. Decide which history you need to bring across. The available export options are not published on eraPower’s product pages, so confirm what you can get before planning the import.
- 2
Load a test import
Use the import path to test the records before saving them. In plain terms, this means checking how the columns in your exported reports line up with the fields Dealership reads. The free version reads common column-name variations, but eraPower’s columns may differ, so they may need matching. If Enterprise DNA runs the move, it handles this mapping as part of the import.
- 3
Review the import flags
Check the test results before saving anything. The import names rows it skips, so review each one and resolve any missing or mismatched information. Imported vehicles arrive without a CIN or PPSR recorded, even if the old system showed those details. Verify the paperwork as each vehicle comes across rather than treating the old record as proof that it is current.
- 4
Run both systems side by side
Keep eraPower available while you use Dealership for a short period. Compare the records you rely on, including customers, stock and repair orders, and check that the imported information is usable in your day-to-day work. Use this period to spot anything missed in the export or mapping, and resolve it before you depend on the new system alone.
- 5
Switch off eraPower
Once you have checked the imported records and are comfortable using Dealership for your work, switch off eraPower. Make sure you have dealt with any records or reports you still need from eraPower before ending access. If your accounts are part of eraPower, agree with your accountant how they will be handled separately, since the general ledger stays with your accounting system.
Where the real effort goes
The main work is usually matching eraPower’s columns to the fields Dealership reads, checking which records and rules matter to your business, and deciding how much history to bring across. Export options vary, so confirm them with eraPower. If you have Enterprise DNA run the move, they handle the field matching and import checks with you.
Not ready for a call?
Get your eraPower switch plan by email
We will send you the step-by-step plan for moving your business off eraPower, what the move really involves, and how we would do it for you.
Sent. Check your inbox.
Your eraPower switch plan is on its way.
Rather talk it through? Book a call arrow_forwardTwo ways to switch
Try it yourself, or have Enterprise DNA build and run it
Open source
Try it yourself
Free
- 1 Clone dealership-for-claude-code from GitHub
- 2 Run npm run demo and open the folder in Claude Code
- 3 Type /attention to see what the demo dealership needs today
- 4 Get CSV exports of your customers and stock from eraPower, then ask Claude Code to map the columns and do a dry run before importing
Omni by Enterprise DNA
Have Enterprise DNA build and run it
One setup fee, then a monthly retainer
- check We bring your customers and stock across from eraPower and check each record as it lands
- check We set it up per franchise: your makes, your aged line, your finance rates, your sign-off steps
- check We connect what you rely on: your accounting, and a web front end for your team if you want one
- check It runs inside Omni, our managed Command Centre, beside the rest of your business
Questions
Instead of eraPower, answered
Can we get our records out of eraPower? expand_more
Pentana's product pages do not say how exports work, so ask Pentana which customer, stock and repair order reports can be saved as spreadsheets. eraPower's columns may differ from the ones the free version reads, so matching them is part of what Enterprise DNA does, and every import gets a test run before anything is saved.
eraPower also runs our accounts. What happens to them? expand_more
They go back to a proper accounting system, with your accountant. Sales, payments, invoices and parts movements stay on the record here and hand over in one export, or we connect it to Xero so it happens automatically. Keeping the ledger separate is what keeps you free to change dealer systems again.
We hold more than one franchise. Does it cope? expand_more
Yes. There is no licence per franchise or per site, so adding a make does not add a contract line. In the version we build, every franchise and rooftop reads from one database, with stock, gross and workshop numbers reported each way, and each manager sees only what they should.
Our technicians clock jobs on their phones. Do we lose that? expand_more
The free version keeps the jobs and work notes as records, with no technician app. A web front end for your team is one of the things Enterprise DNA can add when we build your version.
What about our OEM and factory reporting? expand_more
The free version does not connect to manufacturer systems on its own. When we build your version we work out which reports each of your makes needs and add those connections, so the factory still gets what it asks for.
Find out what eraPower is really costing each rooftop
30 minutes with Sam. We go through what your eraPower contract covers, which parts your showroom, workshop and parts counter actually use, and what your own version would look like. If it fits, we build it and run it. If not, take the free version and try it yourself.
Dealership for Claude Code is free and open source, published by Enterprise DNA.
Done paying for eraPower?
Get your version built