MRPeasy is cheaper.
Until you add the parts a food factory actually needs.
MRPeasy is a great generic MRP tool at a great price. It's built for anyone who assembles a bill of materials, bikes, furniture, electronics, cosmetics. Food is different: variable-weight batches, retailer chargebacks, catch-weight invoicing, allergen ladders, kill-sheet reconciliation, mock-recall drills. Here's what the sticker price hides, using MRPeasy's own published rates as of 2026.
- MRPeasy at 20 users on the food-viable Enterprise tier: ~€980/month
- + external retailer EDI middleware: ~€300/month
- + external COA / traceability add-on: ~€200/month
- True cost at 20 users: €1,480+/month, still no native food workflows
- Keystone: one flat per-site licence, unlimited users, food-native from day 1
Real screens, from our Public Sandbox.
Every screenshot below is captured from the Public Sandbox demo tenant with sample Irish dairy data. No mockups, no client data, no NDAs.
MRPeasy is great, for the right buyer.
If you make bikes, furniture, cosmetics or electronics, MRPeasy is one of the best-value MRP tools on the market. Cloud-native, decent UX, no implementation fee, monthly billing. For a small workshop shipping stock to a distributor, it works. The mismatch shows up when a food manufacturer tries to bend it into shape, because MRPeasy has no concept of catch-weight, no retailer EDI, no HACCP records, no allergen ladders, no kill-sheet reconciliation, and no mock-recall workflow. Those aren't nice-to-haves for a food factory. They're the difference between shipping and being audited.
The at-a-glance number vs the true cost.
| Capability | Excel | Keystone |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | ✗ MRPeasy Starter: $49/user/mo | ✓ Keystone: flat per-site licence, unlimited users |
| Food-viable tier | ✗ MRPeasy Enterprise: $99/user/mo (needs Serial Numbers, Barcoding, MPS) | ✓ Keystone: all modules included in one licence |
| 20-user monthly cost | ✗ ~$1,069/mo (Enterprise) ≈ €980/mo | ✓ Flat per-site · same 20 users · no per-user growth |
| Retailer EDI (ASN, Tesco/Lidl/M&S) | ✗ Not included, bolt-on middleware ~€300/mo | ✓ Native, retailer-formatted from day 1 |
| Catch-weight invoicing | ✗ Not supported | ✓ Native, variable weight per line, PO tolerance modes |
| HACCP + COA records | ✗ Excel bolt-on | ✓ Native, per batch, auto-attached to dispatch |
| Kill-sheet reconciliation (meat) | ✗ Not supported | ✓ Native, supplier locking, first-pass yield |
| Allergen ladder per recipe | ✗ Manual | ✓ Native, mass-balance audit on every batch |
| Mock-recall workflow | ✗ Not included, Excel handoff | ✓ Under 90 seconds, signed PDF |
| Implementation approach | ✗ Self-serve import from CSV | ✓ Fixed-fee, two-day on-site, 30-day hand-holding |
| Support model | ✗ Ticket system, add-on training $150/hr | ✓ Direct line to the founding build team |
| True cost @ 20 users, food-native | ✗ ~€1,480/mo (Enterprise + EDI + COA) | ✓ Flat per-site · all-in · food-native |
We won't pretend everyone needs Keystone.
If (a) you don't supply retailers who demand EDI or formatted ASNs, (b) you don't work with variable-weight or catch-weight products, (c) allergen and HACCP records live in a physical folder that works for you, and (d) your traceability requirement is a single-lot lookup rather than a full mock-recall drill, then MRPeasy at $49–99/user/month is a very reasonable choice, and you should try it. Come back to us when a retailer sends you a chargeback dispute, an auditor asks for 12 months of batch genealogy in 60 minutes, or you add your first catch-weight SKU. That's the day the maths flips.
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