Instead of Wiise
Stop renting Wiise Premium. Own the system that runs your workshop.
Enterprise DNA builds your version around how you quote, route and cost jobs, brings your Wiise customers, suppliers and items across, and keeps it running. Your accounting system stays where it is.
Wiise Premium, the plan with manufacturing, is A$210 (NZ$230) per full user a month ex GST. Team members are A$23.50 (NZ$27.50) each and shop floor devices A$84 (NZ$93) each, every month.
- check_circleYour data in a database you own
- check_circleOpen source, no lock-in
- check_circleBuilt and run by Enterprise DNA
Where the Wiise money goes
A per-user ERP licence, with the workshop features on the dearer plan
Each estimator, planner or owner with full access is A$210 a month on Premium, which is A$2,520 a year for one person before team members, devices or a partner's time. Under it sit ordinary records: customers, items, routings, production orders and hours.
Manufacturing only on Premium
Business at A$158 (NZ$175) a full user includes job costing but has no bills of materials for production, no routings, no production orders and no work centres. Those start on Premium.
A fee for each person who logs in
Full users pay the plan price. Staff who only need to look things up or record time are team members at A$23.50 (NZ$27.50) a month each.
Shop floor screens licensed separately
A shared device on the floor is its own licence at A$84 (NZ$93) a month, so a terminal at the saw or the press brake carries a monthly charge.
A partner project to go live
Wiise recommends an implementation partner and describes the process as spanning 6 to 9 months. The partner's fee is not on the pricing page.
Add-ons with no public price
Payroll, extra environments, extra database capacity, multi-entity management and Power Platform licences each say view pricing rather than show a figure.
A whole ERP for a workshop's questions
The questions a shop owner asks are simple: what is late, what is short, what is losing money. A full ERP answers them through menus, roles and setup that someone has to maintain.
What you get instead
The workshop half of an ERP, with nothing held back for a higher plan
Production
Jobs and routings you can ask about
Each job carries its promised date and what it has cost so far, so the morning meeting starts from facts.
- check Jobs behind their promised date, with the number of days behind
- check Fixed-price jobs flagged once cost passes 80% of the quote
- check Jobs where nothing has been booked or issued for a week
- check Work centres due a service, with the rule it is checked against
Costing
Job costing that does not wait for month end
Materials issued, hours at the rate on the day and outwork received add up to one cost per job that every report reads the same way.
- check Work in progress on any day, not just after a close
- check Margin per job and per customer, to price the next quote properly
- check Finished jobs nobody has invoiced, listed until they are
- check Progress claims and retentions tracked for construction work
Materials
Shortages before they stop a job
What each job needs is checked against stock and open purchase orders, measured against the date the customer was promised.
- check Each job's missing material, and the order that covers it
- check Stock under its reorder level, beside the usual supplier
- check Late purchase orders, with the jobs they hold up
- check Heat numbers recorded when steel goes to a structural job
Ownership
A system you change by describing it
Your records sit in a database you control, and a new field, check or document is a sentence away rather than a partner's quote.
- check Customers, suppliers and items brought over from Wiise, test run first
- check Quotes, job sheets, invoices and cost reports in your own branding
- check No charge per user, per team member or per floor device
- check Free and open source, with no minimum term to sit out
Make it yours
Design your own Wiise replacement
Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from Wiise. 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 Wiise data across and run it for you.
Switching
How to switch from Wiise
In practice, the move involves exporting and mapping your records, checking open jobs and stock, then proving the new system beside Wiise before cutover.
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Export the records you need
Wiise is built on Business Central, where you can open lists such as customers, vendors and items in Excel and save them. Export those records, plus any job and stock records your account allows, usually as CSV or Excel. Wiise’s exact export route may depend on your setup, so confirm it with Wiise. Plan to check open jobs and stock by hand as well.
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Load the records
Load the records the import supports through its CSV import path. If Wiise gives you Excel files, check with Wiise how to prepare them for that import. Start with the test run, which lets you see how records map before you load them. Do not make the live database your first attempt. Keep the original exports so you can compare them during review.
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Review gaps and verify records
Review the test result for records and fields that did not map, then correct the mapping before loading. Do not assume the import verifies workshop history. The documented import does not bring across heat numbers, work centre service records or open job costing. Check open jobs and stock against Wiise by hand, and record what still needs confirming before the new system becomes the working record.
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Run both side by side
Keep Wiise and Job Shop running side by side for a short period. Use that time to compare the jobs, stock and costs you rely on, and enter new workshop activity consistently so you can spot differences. Use any remaining time in Wiise’s agreed minimum term to check the new records and process before the cutover date.
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Stop using Wiise for workshop work
After cutover, stop entering workshop records in Wiise. Cancel Wiise only if you no longer rely on it for accounting or other functions, because Job Shop replaces the workshop side, not the general ledger or payroll. Wiise says there is no cancellation fee, but you must pay the agreed minimum term. Set the end date around that commitment.
Where the real effort goes
The main work is mapping your own fields and rules, then deciding how much history to bring across. Open jobs and stock need a hand check, and some workshop history is not brought across by the documented import. If you have Enterprise DNA install and run it, they handle the field mapping and import setup with you.
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Rather talk it through? Book a call arrow_forwardChoose how you switch
Use 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, then open the folder in Claude Code
- 3 Ask which jobs are late, short of material or not yet invoiced
- 4 Open your Wiise customer, vendor and item lists in Excel, save them as CSV and ask Claude Code to map 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 Wiise customers, suppliers, items and open jobs across and check the totals against Wiise
- check Your work centres and costing rules set up the way your floor actually runs
- check A link to Xero, MYOB or your existing ledger
- check Run for you inside Omni, our managed Command Center, beside the rest of your business
Questions
Instead of Wiise, answered
Wiise is our accounting system too. Does this replace all of it? expand_more
No. This replaces the workshop side: quotes, jobs, hours, stock, purchase orders and job costing. Your general ledger, bank feeds, BAS or GST returns and payroll need an accounting system, and many shops already run Xero or MYOB for that. Enterprise DNA builds the link so drafted invoices flow into it.
Is it worth it if we are only on the Business plan? expand_more
If Business already does what you need, the case is weaker. It fits best when you are paying Premium for production orders and routings, or putting off Premium because the per-user price is too much for a small workshop.
How do we get our records out of Wiise? expand_more
Wiise runs on Microsoft Business Central, which lets you open lists such as customers, vendors and items in Excel and save them. Those files carry their own columns, so mapping them is part of what Enterprise DNA does, or you ask Claude Code to map them and do a test run first. Open jobs and stock are best checked by hand once.
Our minimum term has not finished. Should we wait? expand_more
Wiise says there is no cancellation fee but the agreed minimum term must be paid. Use the remaining months to run both side by side, so the switch happens on the day the term ends with the new system already proven.
Can the people on the floor use it without a device licence? expand_more
Yes. Hours and material issues go in as one typed line, from any computer pointed at your database, with no charge per device.
Keep the ledger, own the workshop
Thirty minutes with Sam. We go through what Wiise costs you across full users, team members and devices, how your shop quotes, routes and costs its jobs, and what your own version would look like. If it fits, we build and run it. If not, the free version is yours to keep.
Job Shop for Claude Code is free and open source, published by Enterprise DNA.
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