Comparison · MRPeasy
MRPeasy is generic MRP that grows with you. Until you need food-specific traceability — and then it doesn't.
MRPeasy is a good, low-cost cloud MRP for small manufacturers. We've seen Irish food producers reach for it because the price point is friendly (~€50/user/month list) and the onboarding is fast. The honest issue is that MRPeasy is industry-agnostic — it doesn't know what a batch is in the FSAI sense, it doesn't speak retailer private-label SKU mapping, and the dispatch documents are generic rather than retailer-formatted. For a single-SKU manufacturer that's fine. For a batch-based food producer with retailer customers, it stops scaling early.
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Proof points
In one glance.
- Built for food: batch trace, FSAI / BRCGS workflows, retailer dispatch templates from day one
- Variable-weight batches, COAs, pallet labels (SSCC / GS1-128) are first-class
- Customer SKU mapping — your codes <-> retailer's private-label codes — bidirectional
- Founder-led: the person who wrote the code is your implementation contact
Where MRPeasy is genuinely strong
Cheap, fast onboarding, generic MRP.
MRPeasy is good value for a generic small-manufacturer MRP. Bills of materials, work orders, stock control, basic purchasing — all the boxes are ticked. For a small electronics assembler, a furniture maker, a tooling shop, it's a sensible choice. Their published list pricing starts around €49/user/month (source: mrpeasy.com pricing page, May 2026).
Where Keystone wins
Food-industry specifics MRPeasy does not have.
- Batch traceability the FSAI way — Forward and backward batch trace, supplier delivery → batch → dispatch → customer → retailer branch. Not 'lot tracking on a BOM' — actual chain trace.
- Retailer private-label SKU mapping — Your internal SKU ↔ Tesco / Aldi / SuperValu / M&S codes. Search either way. MRPeasy treats SKUs as opaque strings.
- Variable-weight batches — Cheese wheels, meat cuts, fish portions — batches with weight that varies per unit. MRPeasy assumes a unit is a unit.
- Retailer-formatted dispatch — Tesco / Lidl / Musgrave format dispatch notes, ASNs, pallet labels (SSCC / GS1-128). MRPeasy ships generic templates.
- COA per batch — Auditable Certificate of Analysis generated from the batch + QC record. Required for many export markets.
- Mock recall in 90 seconds — BRCGS Issue 9 §5.4 evidence. Generic MRP does not have this concept.
How to choose honestly
When to pick MRPeasy. When to pick Keystone.
Pick MRPeasy if you're a small manufacturer outside food, OR you're a food producer with a single SKU, no retailer customers, no batch-traceability obligations, and you mainly need work orders + stock tracking. Pick Keystone if you have multiple batch-based products, retailer customers, FSAI / BRCGS / EU 178/2002 obligations and the documents-the-auditor-wants problem is real.
FAQs
Frequently asked.
Has anyone migrated from MRPeasy to Keystone?
Yes — we have helped one Irish producer make this exact move once their retailer customer onboarding exposed the gaps. We can share the high-level pattern on a discovery call.
Is Keystone really worth ~10× MRPeasy on a per-month basis?
Not if you are an electronics assembler. Almost certainly yes if you have BRCGS / retailer audit obligations and a real recall risk. The ROI calculator on our pricing page gives you a concrete answer for your numbers.
Where can I see your pricing?
€790/month Standard, €1,290/month Plus (up to 3 sites), 15% annual discount, implementation €4,950–€16,500 fixed-fee — all published at /site/pricing.