ERP Implementation for Growing Businesses — Led by Accountants, Not Just Software Installers

ERP implementation is the process of selecting, configuring, and deploying an enterprise resource planning system that runs your core operations — accounting, inventory, purchasing, fulfillment, and reporting — in one connected platform. At Certum Solutions, implementation includes data migration, workflow configuration, integration with your existing tools, user training, and post-go-live support. We manage the full process so your team is not doing it alone.

Yes. Certum Solutions is an accounting and systems firm that implements ERP, so the people configuring your software are the same people who understand your books. Most ERP failures are accounting-configuration failures — a wrong chart of accounts, broken COGS mapping, or a migration that kept the numbers but lost the financial logic. Because we are accountants first and implementers second, we configure the operational and the financial side as one engagement instead of two disconnected projects.

Certum Solutions professional-services fees typically run $10,000–$60,000 depending on platform, data complexity, integrations, and user count. QuickBooks Enterprise setups can start lower, around $3,000–$15,000. Software licensing is billed separately by the vendor. Every complex project begins with a paid Discovery engagement that produces a written scope and a fixed-price proposal, so you know your full investment before implementation starts — no hourly billing surprises.

Many businesses do not need a full ERP yet. Sometimes the right answer is a chart-of-accounts rebuild, two integrations, or an upgrade to Intuit Enterprise Suite — not a $100,000 platform migration. Our free ERP Readiness Assessment exists to answer exactly this. We will tell you whether to optimize what you have or move to something new, and why, before any proposal is written.

We implement Intuit Enterprise Suite (IES), Zoho One, QuickBooks Enterprise, Cin7 Core and Omni, and Katana MRP, and we hold certifications across them. We recommend among these based on your industry, revenue stage, inventory needs, and entity structure — not on which certification pays us most. If you are already running Odoo, we serve as your certified Odoo accounting firm for ongoing support and accounting configuration; we do not sell Odoo ERP implementations.

Yes. ERP rescue and stabilization is a significant part of our practice. We audit the accounting configuration first, because most failed implementations have software that technically works while the chart of accounts, COGS mapping, or reporting structure is wrong. We provide a written diagnostic before quoting, and we reconfigure an existing system rather than rebuilding from scratch whenever that is faster and less costly.

Most implementations take 4 to 16 weeks depending on the platform, operational complexity, number of integrations, and the condition of your existing data. Cin7 and Katana setups often run 4–8 weeks; IES, Zoho One, and QuickBooks Enterprise typically run 6–12 weeks. We provide a project timeline during the paid Discovery phase so you know what to expect before work begins.

Certum Solutions does. Most firms price ERP work by the hour, so scope creep is their revenue model. We use a Discovery-first approach: a paid Discovery engagement produces a written scope document, a Gantt-chart project plan, and a fixed-price proposal with an explicit change-order policy. You know the scope, timeline, and price before implementation starts.

Your historical data migrates with you. Every Certum implementation includes full data migration — chart of accounts, vendor and customer records, open balances, transaction history, and inventory data are extracted, cleaned, mapped, and imported. We preserve year-over-year reporting so comparisons stay intact after cutover. We also audit your current file for data-quality issues before import, so problems are resolved up front rather than discovered after go-live.

Large advisory and Dynamics/NetSuite partners are built for companies above $50M, on platforms like Dynamics 365, NetSuite, and Sage Intacct, where fees often reach six figures and the people in the sales meeting are not the people doing the work. Certum is a boutique firm for the $1M–$50M lower mid-market. You work directly with the consultants doing the work, the engagement is fixed-price, and because we are not locked to one platform we recommend what actually fits — including telling you to stay on QuickBooks when that is the right call.

For multi-entity and multi-location businesses under roughly $50M in revenue, Intuit Enterprise Suite (IES) is usually the natural path because it handles intercompany transactions, consolidated reporting, and entity-level P&Ls natively while keeping a familiar Intuit interface. Zoho One suits service-driven and sales-led organizations that also need CRM, projects, and operations in one system. We assess which fits during the readiness conversation.

Yes. Certum Solutions is headquartered in Monroe, NC, in the Charlotte metro, and we work with businesses across North Carolina and all 50 states. Most implementation and rescue work is delivered remotely, and clients across NC, SC, and nationwide get the same fixed-price, accountant-led process. Most assessment calls are scheduled within 48 hours.