The system of record for what you actually have.
SCANMAN HIVE · WMS · ERPNEXT · SELF-HOSTED
ScanMan Hive is the WMS that sits behind your storefront and accounting system. Shopify keeps selling. Xero keeps the books. ScanMan Hive runs the operation. Open-source ERPNext at the core, hosted on your cloud, supported by us. The system that finally tells your warehouse and your finance team the same number — and lets them both believe it.
Shopify
Keeps selling.
The customer-facing storefront. Cart, checkout, payment, customer accounts. What it was built for — and very good at it.
Xero / QuickBooks
Keeps the books.
Statutory accounting. Tax filings. Chart of accounts. Bank reconciliation. What the auditors and SARS / HMRC / IRS expect. Not a stock system.
ScanMan Hive
Runs the operation.
Open-source ERPNext under the hood. Real Bills of Materials, multi-warehouse, procure-to-pay, landed cost, batch tracking, stock reconciliation. The truth about what you have, what it cost, and where it is.
When does the threshold cross?
Four short reads — pick the one that sounds most like your operation today.
When you've outgrown Shopify + Xero for inventory
Six tells your storefront and accounting package have hit the inventory ceiling — and what ERPNext does about each one.
You're a small manufacturer in disguise
Gift boxes, subscription packs, hampers, repackaging — light manufacturing your tools deny. Bills of Materials done properly.
What does this actually cost?
Landed cost vouchers, freight allocation, true cost-per-unit. The margin question your CFO can't answer in under an hour.
"Sarah remembers" is not a reorder strategy
Per-item reorder rules, lead-time-aware safety stock, supplier-aware Material Requests. Replace tribal knowledge with automation.
The longer arc — open-source robotics
ScanMan WMS isn't new. It's been running DroneScan's robotic warehouse products — autonomous ground robots, reach-truck-mounted scanners, aerial drone fleet — since 2015. Ten years of warehouse-vertical IP, refined across thousands of production hours, sitting above the open-source autopilot stack that crossed an inflection in 2025.
That makes ScanMan Hive a different proposition than the SaaS WMS market: open-source under the hood (ERPNext + the open PX4 / Pixhawk stack for robotics adjacencies), with the IP and the support living at ScanMan. Strategic deep-dives — the position paper, customer brief, investor brief — sit behind sign-in for partners, prospective customers, and capital.
Pilot enquiries and access requests welcome — short form below, one business day turnaround.
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