Instead of Pronto Xi
Paying for Pronto Xi modules you never open? Own your job shop system.
We build your version around the way your workshop prices, makes and bills, carry your Pronto Xi customers, items and open jobs across, and run it for you. No module bundle, and every record stays yours.
Pronto Software publishes no Pronto Xi price list. Each deal is quoted privately, and the products, modules and services you take on set the figure.
- check_circleYour data in a database you own
- check_circleOpen source, no lock-in
- check_circleBuilt and run by Enterprise DNA
What the quote covers
A Pronto Xi quote is priced for a business suite, not a workshop
Pronto Xi spans finance, payroll, distribution, retail, CRM, supply chain, asset management and manufacturing. A fabrication shop uses a small corner of that every day, and the private quote is the only place you see what the rest adds.
No number until you are in a sales cycle
There is a demo and a brochure on the website and nothing else. The figure arrives after the modules and services you need have been scoped.
Modules bought as a bundle
Manufacturing sits beside Financials, Payroll, Distribution, Retail and more. What you take on shapes the price, whether or not the floor ever opens it.
Planning built for a factory, not a job shop
Master production scheduling, multi-level bills of materials and capacity planning suit volume production. A shop building to order rarely needs them.
Setup that runs through specialists
Configuring a suite this wide, moving your history in and training the team is a project, and the first job waits until it is done.
New questions need a report built
Asking something the standard screens do not show means a report, a dashboard or a call to whoever looks after your Pronto setup.
Your history in a vendor's structure
Customers, items and job costs live in Pronto's own layout, so leaving takes planning and someone who knows where everything sits.
What the workshop gets
The part of Pronto Xi your floor uses, as a system you own
Winning work
From priced quote to live job
Price the work from the material and hours you expect, then open the job straight from the accepted quote so the price you gave is always there to measure against.
- check Quotes that have sat with no reply get flagged so someone rings
- check The accepted price stays on the job as the yardstick for cost
- check Fixed price or time and materials, set per job
- check Quote documents in your logo and colours
On the floor
Late, short or idle, said plainly
One question shows each open job against the date the customer was given, what material it is still waiting on, and which jobs have had no hours or stock booked lately.
- check Lateness counted from the original promise
- check Missing material per job, with the purchase order and arrival date
- check Load on each work centre from the jobs actually open
- check Paper job cards for the floor, so nobody needs a terminal
Cost and cash
Margin and WIP whenever you ask
Labour, issued stock and outside work post to the job as they are booked, so the month-end WIP figure is there on the fifth or the twentieth.
- check Warning when cost reaches 80% of a fixed price, while the job is still running
- check Cost in open jobs that no invoice covers, job by job
- check What each job really made after materials and hours
- check Payment claims and retentions for construction work, chased on their due date
Owned outright
Change it by saying what you want
Plain records in a database you own, reshaped by describing the change instead of booking it in with a consultant.
- check Customers, items, suppliers and open jobs moved over from Pronto Xi spreadsheets, checked in a test run first
- check A new field, a renamed status or a different rule, asked for in everyday words
- check Invoices, job cards and cost reports carrying your own brand
- check Free and open source: no modules to license and nothing to renew
Make it yours
Design your own Pronto Xi replacement
Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from Pronto Xi. 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 Pronto Xi data across and run it for you.
Switching
How to switch from Pronto Xi
A move like this involves exporting your job records, mapping the columns and checking the results, with the work depending on your data and the history you choose to bring.
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Export your job records
Ask your Pronto Xi support partner, or use Pronto reports if you have access, to export your customer, item, supplier and open job lists as spreadsheet files. The available material does not specify a self service export or file format, so check with Pronto Xi what your account can produce, usually CSV or Excel.
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Load the records
Map Pronto Xi's column names to the fields in Job Shop, then load the records using its import process. The import path accepts CSV, so check whether your exported spreadsheets need to be saved in that format first. Run a test import before anything goes live. If Enterprise DNA is installing and running the system for you, it maps the columns as part of the work.
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Review the test results
Check what the test import shows, and fix any problems before loading live records. Compare sample customers, items, suppliers and open jobs with Pronto Xi to catch mistakes in the mapping. Confirm that the records you need are present and make sure the results are good enough for your team to check during the move.
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Run both side by side
Keep Pronto Xi available while you use Job Shop for everyday job work for a short period. Compare quotes, jobs, labour, material issues, stock, purchasing and job costs, and ask the people who use those records to check them. Keep payroll and the general ledger in an accounting and payroll system, since this move replaces the job side, not those functions.
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Switch off Pronto Xi
Switch off Pronto Xi only when you have checked the job records and your team is ready to use the new setup. Keep any Pronto Xi records or history you still need for reference, and confirm that your accounting and payroll arrangements are in place elsewhere. Job Shop does not replace Pronto Xi's general ledger or payroll, so this is not a whole ERP replacement.
Where the real effort goes
The real work is usually mapping Pronto Xi's column names to your fields, agreeing how your own rules should work, and choosing how much history to bring. The stated Pronto Xi export covers customer, item, supplier and open job lists, so decide what else you need to keep for reference. Enterprise DNA handles the column mapping when you have them install and run it for you.
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Get your Pronto Xi switch plan by email
We will send you the step-by-step plan for moving your business off Pronto Xi, what the move really involves, and how we would do it for you.
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Start with the free version, or have Enterprise DNA build and run yours
Open source
Do it yourself
Free
- 1 Download the free version from GitHub
- 2 Load the sample workshop and open it in Claude Code
- 3 Ask which jobs are late, over price or not yet billed
- 4 Get your Pronto Xi customer, item and supplier lists out as CSV files and ask Claude Code to match the columns
Omni by Enterprise DNA
Have Enterprise DNA build it and run it
One setup fee, then a monthly retainer
- check We bring your customers, items, suppliers and open jobs out of Pronto Xi
- check Labour rates, work centres and costing rules set up to match your floor
- check Drafted invoices passed to Xero, MYOB or whichever ledger you keep
- check Looked after inside Omni, our managed Command Center, with the rest of your business
Questions
Instead of Pronto Xi, answered
Pronto Xi also does our payroll and general ledger. What happens to those? expand_more
They move to an accounting and payroll system. This replaces the job side: quotes, jobs, hours, stock, buying and job costing. Enterprise DNA links it to your ledger so invoices drafted here land there.
We plan production months ahead with multi-level bills of materials. Will this cope? expand_more
If you run volume production with deep assemblies and finite capacity scheduling across lines or sites, stay where you are. This suits shops building to order, where each job has its own price, material and hours, and the planning screens mostly go unused.
How do we get our records out of Pronto Xi? expand_more
Customer, item, supplier and open job lists come out as spreadsheet files, through Pronto's reports or with help from your Pronto support partner. They carry Pronto's own column names, so Enterprise DNA maps them for you, or you ask Claude Code to and run a test import before anything goes live.
Our team clocks on and off jobs from tablets. Do we lose that? expand_more
The free version takes hours as one typed line per entry from any computer on your database. If clocking on from a tablet or scanner matters on your floor, Enterprise DNA builds that into your version.
Is there a cost for each person who uses it? expand_more
No. Everyone works from the same database, from the office to the store, and there is no user count, no module list and no renewal.
Keep the jobs, leave the suite
Thirty minutes with Sam. We go through what your Pronto Xi quote pays for, which modules your workshop really opens each week, and what a version built for your shop would look like. If it fits, we build it and run it. If it does not, the free version stays yours.
Job Shop for Claude Code is free and open source, published by Enterprise DNA.
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