Management software and ERP for Algerian companies
Custom management software costs from 1,000,000 DA at UpGrowth for a first module in service, with the firm price coming out of the cahier des charges. Your stock is in a notebook, your purchasing is in a mailbox, your sales are in one spreadsheet that a single person knows how to open. UpGrowth builds the software that replaces that arrangement, one module at a time, starting with the one that costs you the most today.
| Service | Published floor | Maximum delivery | What that floor covers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Custom management software | 1,000,000 DA | 12 weeks | Written scoping, migration of your existing data, entry and lookup screens, permissions per role, the reports you need at closing, and deployment on hosting in your name. |
| Each amount is a floor and each delivery time a maximum for the scope described on the same row. The firm price and the firm delivery date come out of the cahier des charges: on a very specific development neither the price nor the time has a ceiling. | |||
1. The problem almost always arrives before the word ERP
Very few Algerian companies call us asking for an ERP. They call because a customer was delivered twice, because the stock figure no longer matches what is in the warehouse, because a supplier is chasing an invoice nobody can find, or because on a Tuesday morning the owner cannot say how much the company owes and how much it is owed. The word ERP turns up later, when the answer needs a name. That is why this page starts with the situation and not with a feature list.
The figure exists, elsewhere
The information is not lost. It is spread across a notebook, two phones, a mailbox and a spreadsheet, and nobody can pull it together in under half a day.
One person knows
The tracking file effectively belongs to one person. When they are on leave, on the road or gone, the company loses the memory of its own operations.
The decision matters, not the screen
What you are buying is not an interface. It is the ability to answer one precise question, right now, with a figure nobody inside the company disputes.
2. The situations that make a company call us
We almost never arrive on a written specification. These are the usual starting points, as they are told to us:
3. Off-the-shelf package or software built to order
This is the first question to settle, and it matters more than the choice of technology. A packaged product is software that already exists and that you adapt to, and it is usually you who does the adapting. Custom software is written from the way you actually work. Both are legitimate answers, but they are not the same purchase, and we only sell one of them.
What we do
- We design and build management software written around your own way of working.
- We start from your real documents: delivery notes, invoices, stock cards, tracking sheets.
- We deliver module by module, putting the first one into real service before writing the next.
- We hand over the source code, the database and the hosting accounts.
What we do not do
- We do not sell licences for a packaged product and we are nobody's reseller.
- We do not take a commission on software we did not write.
- We do not promise a delivery date before the scope exists in writing.
- We do not put a module live that your team has not used in front of us.
If, after the scoping, an existing product answers your need better than anything we would write, we say so at that point. We have no financial interest in that choice, which is precisely why you can afford to ask us the question.
Is your problem commercial rather than logistical?
If what you are losing is not items in a warehouse but prospects vanishing between WhatsApp, a notebook and a spreadsheet, the answer is different and so is the tool.
See the CRM software page4. Where to start: the first module
A project that tries to cover everything at once takes months before anybody uses it, and that is how most management software projects die. We start with a single module, the one whose absence costs you the most, and we put it into real service before writing the rest. The modules below are the ones Algerian companies ask us for most often.
Stock and warehouses
Receipts, issues, transfers between sites, counts, reorder alerts, and a balance per item and per site that is recomputed from the movements rather than typed in by hand.
Purchasing and suppliers
Request, purchase order, partial or full receipt, matching against the supplier invoice, and the price history each supplier has charged on each reference.
Sales and invoicing
Quote, delivery note, invoice, credit note, payment and overdue tracking, with the mandatory Algerian mentions carried by the document itself.
Cash and collections
What has been collected, what is still owed, supplier due dates, advances, and a plain view of what the company owes and is owed on a given date.
Production and workshop
Bill of materials, production orders, material consumption, workshop output and a cost price rebuilt from real movements rather than from an estimate.
Oversight and access rights
Who may see what, who may change what, a trace of every entry with its author, and the handful of indicators you genuinely look at.
None of these modules is compulsory and the order is not imposed. Scoping exists to choose which one has to exist first, and to write down what that first module will do and what it will not do yet.
Tell us what is eating your timeWe look at how you work before we talk about software. The quote follows the scoping, never the other way round.Describe my need5. How a project runs
The sequence is always the same, whichever module is picked. It is built so that you can stop at the end of any stage without having paid for something you cannot use.
1. Scoping on your ground
We look at how you work today: the documents that move around, who enters what, where information is lost, and what absolutely has to keep working during the change. We come out with a written scope, not with an impression.
2. Written specification you validate
You receive the first module described in plain language: the screens, the roles, the business rules, the documents produced, and an explicit list of what will not be in it. The quote covers that document and nothing else. You validate it before a single line of code.
3. Development in visible iterations
You watch the software grow on a test address, not at the end. Every iteration finishes with something you can click, and a correction asked for at that point costs a fraction of the same correction asked for after go-live.
4. Data migration and go-live
We load your existing data, we run the old way and the new one side by side long enough for you to judge, and only then do you switch for good. Nobody switches on a Monday morning without a net.
5. Training, handover and what comes next
Your users are trained on the real software with your own data. You receive the code, the database and the accounts. Whatever comes next, a second module or maintenance, is decided at that point and contracted separately.
6. Migrating your data, and what you own at the end
This is the part sales proposals stay quiet about, and it is almost always the longest part. Your data exists, but it does not exist in a state software can use: the same supplier is spelled four ways, one item has two references, a column sometimes holds a date and sometimes a comment. Nobody can know in advance how much work that represents without having seen your files.
- We ask for your real files at scoping, not for a clean sample prepared for the occasion.
- We show you what is broken before we quote, with the offending rows on screen.
- Cleaning is a decision that belongs to you: some corrections can only be made by someone who knows the history.
- Anything that cannot be migrated cleanly is left out explicitly rather than loaded halfway.
- A migration is replayable: if the result is not right, we reload from your original files.
What you own at the end
- The source code, handed over in a repository you have access to.
- Your database, exportable in an open format at any time and without asking us.
- The hosting and domain accounts, in your name and not in ours.
- Documentation of what was built, so the next developer does not start from nothing.
7. What you can open and check yourself
We publish no testimonial, no rating and no project figures. The clients we are free to name are named on our portfolio page, each with the address of their site. Instead, here is what we have built and what you can open right now, without writing to us, from the site you are reading. This site is itself the example: it is fully pre-rendered to HTML, serves three languages including a right-to-left edition, and carries its own search engines and its own calculators.
These tools are open, with no account required. If any of them does not behave as described, tell us: that kind of check is one we far prefer to a brochure.
Demonstrations you can drive yourself
These applications are demonstrations we built, not client projects. Open them, look for the crack, try to make them accept something silly.
8. What to prepare before writing to us
The more concrete your message, the faster the scoping gets to the point and the more the quote covers a real scope rather than an average.
- What the company does, and at what volume: how many references, suppliers, sites, orders per day.
- The number one problem, with a precise example from last week.
- The documents that circulate today: a delivery note, an invoice, a stock card, even filled in by hand.
- The tools already in place, spreadsheet included, and who genuinely uses them.
- How many people will enter data, and from which desks or which phones.
- The working language of those people, which is not always the language of the management.
- Who decides, who validates the specification, and who will be our contact during the project.
9. Frequent questions
How much does business management software cost in Algeria?
From 1,000,000 DA for a first module in service: written scoping, migration of your existing data, the entry and lookup screens, permissions per role, the reports you need at closing, and deployment on hosting in your name. Below that floor you are not talking about management software but about an improved spreadsheet. What moves it is the number of modules, the volume to migrate and the number of users. The firm quote is issued after scoping, on the written specification you have approved.
How long does it take to put management software in place?
Management software goes live within twelve weeks, a maximum for the scope described in our price table. The firm schedule then depends on the cahier des charges and on the state of your data files, because a schedule announced before seeing them is a sales promise and not an estimate. On a very specific development the time has no ceiling.
Off-the-shelf ERP or custom management software: which one?
We do not resell licences and we do not present ourselves as the integrator of any particular vendor. Our trade here is building software to order. If your need is standard enough that an existing product covers it better, we say so at scoping, before you pay anything.
Will the software work if the internet connection drops?
That depends on the module and it is a question to settle at scoping, not afterwards. A till or a poorly covered warehouse do not have the same constraints as an office. We will tell you what can carry on offline and what cannot, with the consequences of each choice.
Who hosts the software and the data?
The choice is yours and it is made at scoping: on a server you rent, on a machine in your own premises, or on hosting we set up in your name. In every case the accounts are in your name and you can export your database whenever you want.
What happens if we stop working together?
You keep the code, the database and the accounts. That is why we hand them over at go-live and not at the end of a maintenance contract. A company that cannot leave is not a client, it is a hostage.
Does everything have to stop during the switchover?
No. The old way and the new one run side by side long enough for you to judge the result on your own data. The final switch is decided once you have seen the software produce the same figures as your current method.
Can we have management software in Arabic?
Yes. The interface can be in French, Arabic or English, and Arabic means a right-to-left layout, not only translated words. The site you are reading serves its three languages that way, and you can check it by switching language at the top of this page.
Let us talk about what you can no longer keep track of
Write to us through the form, on WhatsApp or by e-mail. We start by understanding how you work, then we propose a first scope and a quote that covers it.
