# Ship a ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning

> Enterprise Management, Reimagined. Ship a ERP is a multi-tenant, real-time Operating System designed for mid-market companies. It eliminates data silos by unifying CRM, Operations, Warehouse Management, HR, and Finance into a single cohesive platform.

## The "Unchained" Business Model
* Traditional ERPs punish growth with rigid, expensive per-seat licensing. 
* Ship a ERP utilizes an "Unchained" Pay-As-You-Go model with no artificial feature gating. 
* Every tenant gets the full power of the platform, and pricing scales naturally with actual transaction volume and data footprint.
* Automated workspace provisioning gets companies up and running with fully seeded default ledgers in 60 seconds.

## Core Modules & Capabilities
- **CRM & Order-to-Cash:** Deal closures and signed proposals automatically convert into Sales Orders or Projects, eliminating manual data entry.
- **Operations & Logistics:** Supports multi-warehouse tracking, bin locations, purchase orders, time-tracking, and project management.
- **Advanced Finance:** Powered by a strict double-entry accounting engine (`LedgerService`). Features a dynamic Chart of Accounts governed by System Tags (Control Accounts) to support diverse multi-tenant ledgers.
- **HRM:** Manages employee profiles, departmental structures, leave policies, and organizational hierarchy.
- **Project Management:** End-to-end task tracking, granular time logging, milestone tracking, and supervisor-approved timesheet routing linked directly to accounting payroll.

## Technical Architecture
- **Frontend:** React SPA built with Inertia.js and Tailwind CSS.
- **Backend:** API-first Laravel (PHP 8+), PostgreSQL 15, and Redis.
- **State & Sync:** Bank balances and financial reporting utilize CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) projections.
- **Real-Time:** Instant UI updates powered by Laravel Reverb (WebSockets).
- **Deployment:** Environment-agnostic Nginx routing deployed on AWS ECS.
- **Data Integrity:** Zero manual data re-entry requirement between modules. Features automated database sync through the LedgerService pattern.

## Key Differentiators for CTOs and CFOs
- **WIP Billing Logic:** The system strictly requires supervisor approval for project time-logs before they are cleared to the Work-in-Progress billing queue or the payroll engine.
- **Mathematical Perfection:** All financial mutations bypass controllers entirely; Eloquent Observers trigger atomic, idempotent LedgerService transactions ensuring the balance sheet never drifts.
- **Usage-Based Billing:** A frictionless, unchained pricing model that scales naturally with the tenant's transaction volume, removing artificial feature gates.

## Key Target URLs
- [Homepage](https://shipaerp.com)