Know what to make, what material you need, what each unit really costs and what you actually earned — with production, stock and accounts joined up instead of living in separate registers.
Software for a factory is what you use to know what to make, what material to buy, what each unit truly costs, and what you actually earned.
In most factories production is tracked on the floor, material in a register, and cost worked out afterwards in Excel — by which time the price is already quoted. PeppyBooks joins them: the order tells you the material you are short of, and the cost per unit is real, not a guess.
See what's being made, what it costs and what it earns.
Know the material position before the line stops.
Stock value and work-in-progress that tie to the books.
PeppyBooks works out the material you need from the recipe.
Material is issued, units are produced, wastage is recorded.
Real cost per unit, real margin, already in your accounts.
Set the recipe for each product once. From then on, an order tells you exactly what material you need and what you're short of.
Recipe (bill of material) per product
Material shortage list before you start a run
Purchase orders raised from the shortage
Production plan against confirmed orders
Sub-assemblies and multi-stage making
Your cost isn't just the material rate. Freight, duty, labour and factory overhead all belong in it — and if they're not counted, your price is wrong.
Material, labour and overhead in the unit cost
Freight and duty added to material cost
Planned versus actual material used
Wastage and rejection recorded, not absorbed silently
Real margin per product
Every issue to production, every finished unit and every dispatch posts to your accounts as it happens — so month-end is a report, not an investigation.
Material issue and finished goods posted automatically
Work-in-progress value you can actually see
Batch and lot tracking for traceability
Stock value that matches your balance sheet
Full history of who did what, and when
Buy material before you run out, not after.
When you know the true cost, you stop selling at a loss.
The floor and the books already agree.
An honest look. Each of these is good at what it was built for — the question is whether your billing, your stock and your accounts end up as one thing or several.
| What matters | PeppyBooks | Tally | Zoho Books | QuickBooks | Your current setup |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recipe, material shortage and cost per unit | Yes | Stock included; manufacturing depends on your setup | May require other Zoho applications | May require another application | Worked out in Excel afterwards |
| Accounts update from the bill | Yes — the bill is the entry | Yes — accounting is its core | Yes — accounting is its core | Yes — accounting is its core | No — added up separately |
| Stock goes down as you sell | Yes | Yes — stock is included | Depends on plan; may require Zoho Inventory | Depends on plan | A separate register |
| Works with no internet | Yes — sends everything later | Yes — a genuine strength, runs on your computer | Best suited for working online | Best suited for working online | Depends what you use |
| Reach it from anywhere, on a phone | Yes — built for the web | Best suited for a computer in the office; remote access is available | Yes | Yes | Usually not |
| More than one location on one login | Yes, on every plan | Depends on how your companies are set up | Depends on plan | Often a subscription per company | Each place on its own |
| Customers, purchases & staff pay together | Included by plan | Stock included; CRM and payroll may require another application | May require other Zoho applications | May require another application | Separate people and files |
| Country e-invoicing (India, Kenya, Zambia, Ghana, UAE & more) | 9 countries built in | Strong in India (GST & e-invoicing) | Depends on the country edition | Not available in India since 2023 | Handled by hand |
| How it is priced | From $17 per user per month | Mainly a one-time licence, plus yearly support | Monthly subscription, by plan | Monthly subscription, by plan | Free, until something is missed |
Where each is strong: Tally is a genuine strength if you want your books on your own computer and your accountant already knows it. Zoho Books and QuickBooks are strong cloud accounting products, particularly for service businesses. A dedicated package for your trade may fit that trade's specific needs very well. PeppyBooks is best suited for manufacturing businesses that want the bill, the stock and the accounts to be one record, across more than one location. Compiled from each vendor's published information — last verified 17 July 2026. Features and pricing change and vary by country and plan; please check the vendor's current terms before deciding.
Most manufacturing businesses we talk to are on registers and Excel costing sheets. You do not have to stop working to change.
Nothing switches off. Set PeppyBooks up alongside what you use today.
Your items, customers and opening stock in a spreadsheet — we load them for you.
Run one real day, or one real cycle, and compare it with your own numbers.
Only then. Guided migration is free on annual plans.
Your items, customers and opening stock come across, and we check your opening balances against your existing books before you go live. Old records stay where they are for your reference.
The day-to-day screens are simple enough for staff who use a phone. Train on a quiet day, not your busiest one.
Usually not. It runs on an ordinary tablet or computer, and works with most printers and barcode scanners you already own.
The trial is 14 days and takes no card. Whatever you put in stays yours, and you can export it at any time.
Native to the PeppyBooks platform, open where it counts.
Yes. Set up sub-assemblies and multi-stage production — each stage consumes material and produces an output that feeds the next one.
Yes. Batch and lot numbers follow material from goods-in through production to dispatch, so you can trace any unit back to its source.
Yes — material, labour, overhead, freight and duty are all counted into the unit cost, so your margin reflects what it actually cost you to make.
Yes. Manufacturing businesses use PeppyBooks for billing, stock, accounts, tax and customers in one platform — instead of separate tools that never agree with each other. Start with a free 14-day trial and see it with your own data.
No. Accounting, stock, billing, POS and customer management are all in the same platform, on one subscription. When you make a sale, your stock and your accounts both update — automatically.
Most businesses are billing on day one. If you're moving from another system, we bring across your customers, suppliers, products and opening balances — guided migration is free on annual plans.