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SAP SE · ERP software
SAP's ERP for small and midsize businesses, sold through partners on a request a quote basis.
SAP Business One is the smaller ERP in the SAP family. SAP's page describes a single, affordable ERP solution that covers accounting and financials, purchasing, inventory, sales and customer relationships, and reporting and analytics, with integrated business intelligence, integration with SAP HANA and quick deployment. It publishes no price and offers a Request a quote button.
Price
On request
A quote from a local partner
Scope
6 areas
Financials, purchasing, inventory, sales, customers, reporting
Founded
1972
SAP SE
Sold through
Local partners
Who also implement it
Figures marked as a vendor's own are that vendor's claims about itself and are not tested here.
Every plan SAP Business One lists, in rand, with a button to SAP SE's own pricing page.
Quoted by the vendor
SAP gives pricing through a quote from a local partner.
Each button opens SAP SE's own page in a new tab, where you buy or sign up. Prices are the vendor's, shown in rand.
SAP Business One does not publish a price. SAP SE gives it after you contact them, and the quote is the product: ask for the monthly price with the VAT basis stated, what is charged once only, and which SARS returns it handles for you.
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Price on request
Starting prices of the priced products in the same category, cheapest first. This is a price sort, not a ranking: the cheapest product is not the best one, and some are priced per user, some per month and some excluding VAT.
Bar lengths use a square root scale, so a very high price does not flatten the rest. The figures are exact.
Price on request, so not charted: Acumatica, NetSuite, Sage 200 Evolution, Sage X3, SAP Business One, SYSPRO.
A founding year says how long a company has existed. It says nothing about how good the product is.
An official video from SAP Business One on YouTube. Software Register did not make or edit them. They are the vendor's own account of the product, so read them beside the prices and limits on this page.
Solution overview
Overview, 2:40, published 16 May 2024. From the SAP Business One channel on YouTube.
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SAP says Business One helps you manage small businesses from accounting and financials to purchasing, inventory, sales and customer relationships, and to reporting and analytics. It also positions the product for subsidiaries of larger groups that want control over a business unit.
SAP's Africa page repeats the global description and does not list South African tax features. Business One is typically delivered through local partners, who configure VAT, eFiling and bank integration, so judge the partner's South African references as carefully as the software.
The page is brief and marketing led, offering no limits, user counts or pricing structure. The product's reputation is strong, but the experience varies with the partner.
Strengths
Limits
Best for
Think twice if
In short
A sensible shortlist name for a growing business that wants an ERP brand. Ask two partners to quote the same scope and show you VAT, eFiling and your bank in a live demonstration.
Start where the vendor sells it, and keep this page open beside you for the limits.
Price on request
Use the Request a quote button, or ask a local SAP partner. The quote should state licences, implementation, training and support separately, with the VAT basis.
SAP Business One gives its price on request, so there is no published figure to quote. Ask for the monthly price in rand with the VAT basis stated, and for any one off charges in writing.
Sold to South African businesses through SAP's local partners, who set up VAT, eFiling and bank integration.
On this register the closest are Acumatica, NetSuite, Odoo, Sage 200 Evolution, Sage X3. Each has its own page, and the compare tool sets any two side by side.
South African guides that help you weigh SAP Business One: what the rules ask, what to test and what to put in writing.
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Read the guideEvery price and fact on this page was read from SAP SE's own pages, researched on 5 October 2026. A figure the vendor states about itself is marked as the vendor's. This review gives no score and no rank, and a vendor cannot pay to change it. Read how the register works.
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Price on request
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