Instead of Perenso
Replace Perenso. Own your rep ordering and retail execution.
Enterprise DNA shapes your version around the way your reps call, the deals you give each account and the way orders reach your ERP, moves your Perenso customers and order history over, then operates it for you.
Perenso publishes no price list. You get a figure after a demo or a starter conversation with its sales team.
- 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
With Perenso you rent the screens around a customer list you already own
Perenso sells field sales, trade show ordering, registration and a customer ordering site as products that connect together. Beneath them all are the same records your business has always kept: accounts, products, deals, calls and orders.
A figure that arrives after the demo
Perenso's site has no price list. Every button leads to a demo or a starter call, so weighing it against anything else starts with a sales cycle.
Deal logic held inside the vendor's screen
Perenso works out deals on its order screen.
Separate products for field, show and online
Field sales, trade show ordering, event registration and online replenishment sit on their own pages, each pitched on its own.
The connection to your ERP
Orders travel to your ERP, accounting and inventory systems through an integration that has to be configured, tested and kept alive every time a product code or price rule moves.
Reports limited to what the builder offers
The report builder covers sales, coverage and distribution. A question it was not built for still waits on someone who knows the tool.
No public export guide
Perenso puts no export guide on its public site.
What you get instead
One set of plain records for every account, route and order
Customers
Each account with its terms, its range and its trend
An account holds its rep, its call frequency, its price list, its deals and what it has ordered. Head office and the field look at one record.
- check Core lines similar stores carry that this store has never ordered, valued per year
- check Accounts buying less than they used to
- check Deals written as rules you can read
- check Every store grouped by rep and territory
Routes
Call frequency and route coverage a manager can check
Each store has its own visit frequency. See who is overdue, who is close, and what the overdue stores spent in the last ninety days.
- check Coverage across the territory as a single percentage
- check Strike rate, calls per day and average order per rep against target
- check Shift stores from one rep to another and compare both workloads first
- check A weekly report for each rep, drawn from the records
Retail execution
Range, distribution and planogram checks you can query
Store audits stop being forms that sit in an app. Each check becomes a record you can count, compare and chase.
- check Facings, shelf price, gaps and off-planogram lines per store and per product
- check Promotion checks: display, ticket and price, plus stores nobody has checked
- check Shelf prices for each line across every store, so outliers surface
- check Which promotions moved orders only where stores set them up properly
Ownership
Your database, changed by describing what you want
No separate products to license and no renewal quote. Everything is held in plain records any tool can open.
- check Describe a new field, rule or report in plain English and it is added
- check Order confirmations and rep weekly summaries carry your own name and logo
- check Submitted orders written out for your ERP in one step, with anything unsent flagged
- check MIT licence and open source, with no vendor agreement to unwind
Make it yours
Design your own Perenso replacement
Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from Perenso. 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 Perenso data across and run it for you.
Switching
How to switch from Perenso
A move usually involves exporting the records Perenso or your ERP can provide, mapping the columns, checking a test run, and running both systems side by side before you stop using Perenso.
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Export your records
Ask Perenso support for your customers, contacts and order history as a spreadsheet, or get order history from the ERP that already receives it. Perenso does not publish an export guide, so check with Perenso which formats your account allows, usually CSV or Excel. Also ask what your account can provide for price lists and deals, rep calls and routes, and range or shelf checks.
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Load the records
Load the records into Field Sales for Claude Code. Perenso's columns will not match the new system's format, so the records need to be mapped as they come in. Start with a test run. It lists what the import would create before anything is saved, giving you a chance to review the result before loading your records.
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Review the test run
Check the test-run list and anything it flags before saving the import. Confirm that customers, contacts and orders are associated correctly, and that the pricing, deals and field history you chose to bring across have mapped as expected. Follow up on records that are missing or do not map cleanly, then run the import when you are comfortable with what it will create.
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Run both side by side
Keep Perenso in use for a short period while you work in Field Sales too. Compare the records and workflows your team relies on, such as customer details, orders and the field checks you brought across. This gives you a chance to spot gaps in the imported data or in the way your business rules are represented before you rely on the new system alone.
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Switch off Perenso
Once you have checked the imported records and your team is ready to work in Field Sales, stop using Perenso for the work you have moved. Keep any Perenso functions you still depend on, such as phone ordering or trade show ordering, until you have another way to handle them. The free version has no phone or tablet app, trade show ordering app or customer ordering site.
Where the real effort goes
The real work is usually mapping your own fields and rules, then deciding how much history to bring across. Perenso's columns will not match the new system's format, and complex deals may need to be written as rules in your version. If you have Enterprise DNA install and run it for you, Enterprise DNA does the mapping as part of the move.
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Try the free version, or have Enterprise DNA build and operate yours
Open source
Try it free
Free
- 1 Download the free version from GitHub
- 2 Load the sample stores and open it in Claude Code
- 3 Ask which stores are overdue for a call
- 4 Pull your customer list out of Perenso and map it in
Omni by Enterprise DNA
Have Enterprise DNA build and run it
One setup fee, then a monthly retainer
- check We move your Perenso customers, deals and order history across and reconcile the totals
- check A phone ordering screen for reps if your team writes orders in the store
- check We link your ERP so orders flow out and price lists flow back
- check It runs inside Omni, our managed Command Center, with the rest of your operation
Questions
Instead of Perenso, answered
Our reps write orders on a tablet in store. Can they keep doing that? expand_more
Not with the free version, which has no phone or tablet app. On it, a rep writes orders on a laptop between calls. If your reps order in the aisle, Enterprise DNA builds a phone screen into your version. You can keep the existing app for reps while reporting, retail execution and account management move across first.
We take most of our orders at trade shows. Is that covered? expand_more
No. The free version has no show ordering app, lead capture or badge printing. It holds the accounts, deals and orders those shows produce. If shows are a large share of your year, tell Sam on the call and show ordering is scoped as part of your version, or you keep Perenso for show season only.
How do we get our history out of Perenso? expand_more
Perenso publishes no export guide, so ask its support team for your customers, contacts and order history as a spreadsheet, or take orders from the ERP that already receives them. Those columns will not match the free version's format, so the data is mapped on the way in. Enterprise DNA does the mapping, and a test run lists everything it would create before anything is saved.
Can it work out our deals and rebates like Perenso does? expand_more
The free version prices each order line from the account's price list and picks up any running promotion. Complex deal structures, such as tiered volume deals or banner rebates, are written as rules in your version, so anyone can read why an order line carries the price it does.
Our customers reorder online through Perenso. What replaces that? expand_more
The free version has no customer ordering site. If your accounts replenish online today, Enterprise DNA builds an ordering page in your brand that reads the same price lists and deals.
Keep the customers, drop the rented screens
30 minutes with Sam. We look at your Perenso quote, which parts your reps and office really use, and what your own version would involve. If it fits, we build it and run it. If not, take the free version and run it yourself.
Field Sales for Claude Code is free and open source, published by Enterprise DNA.
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