# CAI xTuple Reviews **Vendor:** CAI Software **Category:** [Discrete ERP Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/discrete-erp) **Average Rating:** 3.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 5 ## About CAI xTuple xTuple is a full service ERP platform that provides manufacturers and distributors with software needed for accounting, inventory and warehouse management, manufacturing processes, sales and CRM needs, and reporting and analytics. Manufacturers and Distributors across industries can utilize the ERP functionality to operate all areas of their business without having to rely on spreadsheets and manual processes. ## CAI xTuple Reviews ### 1. Used from 01-01-2014 to 12-31-2019 ending in v4.11.3 **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jason D. | Vice President of Information Technology, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2021 **What do you like best about CAI xTuple?** xTuple has endpoint clients for Windows, Mac, and Linux. We initually used the free "Postbooks" license and paid for training as our previous solution, DacEasy, was woefully outdated. As a small company, our budget was small, so the cost of training and a new, paid system was out of the question. I put together an inexpensive 1U Supermicro server in the back running Xubuntu, load up a PostgreSQL service and load the blank database. We also purchased a getting started app that I was able to install to help us get up and running fairly quickly. The manufacturing aspect of xTuple has been strong since we started the migration process in late 2013. A couple of years in, xTuple came out with an eCommerce app. We were happy with it and paid a rather steep price of about $25k. We could barely afford it but saw a lot of potential. For the 18 months that it worked, we started growing our sales in conjunction with Google ads and Google Merchant Center. **What do you dislike about CAI xTuple?** Once we had to move the commercial license and to cloud hosting, the price increased drastically to about $10k/year. On top of that, even though we had paid about $25k for the eCommerce upgrade, it took 18 months before that was up and running. Their implementation was very slow and they cited other customers having precedence over us. The eCommerce solution was very rough. The contact form let in 10 bot entries a day even though it had a CAPTCHA on it. Once I convinced them to upgrade it to ReCAPTHCA, the problem was all but eliminated. In addition to this problem, xTuple rarely passed PCI vulnerability scans. They often were supporting weak ciphers, and scans would come up with several points of failure. I spent many long hours on emails and phone calls trying to get them to up their security and be PCI compliant. In the 18 months of operation, I seem to recall they passed a monthly scan 3 times at most. In quarter 2 of 2019 purchased an upgrade to version 5.0 for a discounted rate of about $2.5k. Then, three months before we had to renew our yearly contract, they called us announcing that they would not be supporting the eCommerce app after December 31st. They had no alternative ready yet. They also could not perform the upgrade to v5 until we stopped using the eCommerce app as it was not compatible. We were rather unhappy with that. After a lot of searching, I stumbled upon Odoo. We performed a frantic, 3-month migration and haven't looked back since. We kept a copy of the xTuple database loaded on our original 1U SuperMicro server for reference. Being able to compare side by side with odoo, xTuple's clients were quite slow, even though they connected directly to the database. The workbench screens often took 10-15 seconds to close, regardless of when we wer cloud or locally hosted. I had encouraged xTuple to develop their web client, but while we were with them, it never seemed to go much of anywhere. In the end, they refused to refund us the $2.5k we spent on the upgrade that they could not perform with the eCommerce app. xTuple also suffered from locking you out of specific screens at some junctures. So, while you have a sales order line item open, there were parts of the item you could not open. You could run multiple instances of xTuple to get around this, but the design seemed a bit rough. I found out at one point that one of the support gals had to work hard to get xTuple to use their own product in their business and that for much of the time we were with them, they didn't. **Recommendations to others considering CAI xTuple:** Make sure their contracts have deadlines and consequences for not meeting them. Make sure their products have an explicit EOL expectancy. **What problems is CAI xTuple solving and how is that benefiting you?** The most significant benefit we got from xTuple was the training at the beginning and the experience in the ERP over 6 years. The experience with accounting beyond Quickbooks, inventory management, and production apps were crucial for the development of our company. When we were in the selection process for our first ERP vendor, we narrowed it down to Apache OFBiz, OpenERP, and xTuple. OpenERP would later be renamed Odoo. While looking back, I have often wondered if we could have done as well with OpenERP as it was in 2014. It is equally possible that we could have done better. I don't have a good answer. Even though I have many gripes with how we came to leave xTuple, I have to acknowledge that we wouldn't be where we are now without them. I hope that the change we saw in them at the end of 2019 was to refocus on what they do best to serve their customers better. ### 2. Outdated Product Tracking ERP **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Reilly M. | Quality Assurance and Control Technician, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2018 **What do you like best about CAI xTuple?** It is very simple and does its job of creating work and sales orders. It's lot tracking works well. **What do you dislike about CAI xTuple?** The product is outdated and has many flaws including how products are tracked by lot. Anyone can change the lot code when receiving a work or sales order. **Recommendations to others considering CAI xTuple:** Would not recommend, our company is in the process of switching to a new ERP system. **What problems is CAI xTuple solving and how is that benefiting you?** As our primary ERP system, it works for employees creating work orders, transferring product back to inventory, and other business management items. ### 3. Great ERP System **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** T B. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2018 **What do you like best about CAI xTuple?** It has a multitude of functions capable to displaying and filtering data however you want. It is very self-explanatory and simple to use. **What do you dislike about CAI xTuple?** I do not dislike anything about the software, but at my company there were too many modifications/customizations made that the original software had become clunky. Not good for best business practices. **What problems is CAI xTuple solving and how is that benefiting you?** Provided financial analysis data reporting along with traceability. ### 4. Old, patchy feature set, trying to figure out how to be a startup again **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Wholesale | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2018 **What do you like best about CAI xTuple?** Availability of source code is helpful. Tech. support is ok but is mined for upsell. **What do you dislike about CAI xTuple?** Horrible technology stack. Functionality is very disconnected and showcases the number of teams that have tried to "fix" this ERP. Very, *very* dishonest and opportunistic CEO who knows next to nothing of the manufacturing space he claims to support. **Recommendations to others considering CAI xTuple:** There are too many ok options to consider this one. **What problems is CAI xTuple solving and how is that benefiting you?** Light manufacturing/kitting and wholesale distribution. We bought a small license but never went live one we realized the mess it would have caused use. We're on RockStock - it's not great, but it work and we doubt that xTuple would have. ### 5. Very reliable software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2018 **What do you like best about CAI xTuple?** It really help us on our operations on a daily basis. Everything you need is in that software. **What do you dislike about CAI xTuple?** None so far. The support team has been very accommodating on all our concerns **What problems is CAI xTuple solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us to monitor, transact everything regards on our daily operations. - [View CAI xTuple pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/cai-xtuple/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-15+14%3A47%3A13+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=988490a1-0c2e-493b-8146-54c74630af24&secure%5Btoken%5D=11f0c1d317335a046535e4618f0dc232f88caa0372f80a32f3496276bf5f4684&format=llm_user) ## CAI xTuple Features **Accounting** - Chart of Accounts - AP Automation - AR Automation - Journal Entries - Tags & Dimensions - Cash Management - Payment Batches - Payments Scheduling - Payment Settlements - Payment Methods **Accounting ** - Chart of Accounts - AP Automation - AR Automation - Journal Entries - Tags & Dimensions - Cash Management - Payment Batches - Payments Scheduling - Payment Settlements - Payment Methods **Accounting** - AP Automation - AR Automation - Audit Trail - Budgeting / Forecasting - Collections Automation - Financial Statements - Invoice Customization - Journal Entries - Monitor Cash Positions - Multi-Entity / Consolidation - Payment Processing - Recognition Rules - Reconciliations - Tags / Dimensions - Payments Scheduling - Payment Batches - Payment Settlements - Payment Methods **Inventory** - Inventory Tracking - Inventory Costing - Product Master - Inventory Forecasting - Integrations **Inventory & Warehouse** - Inventory Tracking - Inventory Costing - Product Master - Inventory Forecasting - Integrations **Back Office** - Allocation - Asset Register - Lean Management - Maintenance - Organization Management - Payroll - Portfolio Mix - Purchase Orders - Requisition - Shift Scheduling - Sourcing - Status - Time & Attendance Tracking - Warranty Management **Warehousing** - Locations - Multi-Warehouse - Third-Party **Purchasing** - Demand - Purchase Orders - In Transit - Receiving **Front Office** - ATP - Checkout Process - Configuration Rules - Contact & Account Management - Customer Portal - Field Service Booking - Field Service Dispatch - Product & Price List Management - Product Catalog - Promotions and Discounts - Quote & Order Management - Returns / Refunds - Storefront Design Tools - Territory & Quota Management - Tickets - Visual Configuration **Purchasing** - Demand - Purchase Orders - In Transit - Receiving **Sales & Marketing** - Customer Master - ATP - Order History - Returns - Credit Limits - Pricing & Discounts **Integration** - Breadth of Partner Applications - Data Import and Export Tools - Integration APIs **Sales & Marketing** - Customer Master - ATP - Order History - Returns - Credit Limits - Pricing & Discounts **Manufacturing** - WIP - Work Orders - MRP - BOM - MPS - Shop Floor **Logistics** - Centralized Inventory Database - In Transit - Inventory Forecasting - Inventory Pricing and Costing - Inventory Reporting - Inventory Tracking / Ordering - Picking Methods - Picking Planning - Receiving - Shipping Options **Assembly** - BOM - Kitting - Disassembly **Quality Management** - Inspections - Rework - Waste - Defects **Platform** - Customization - Internationalization - Output Document Generation - Performance and Reliability - User, Role, and Access Management - Workflow Capability **Logistics ** - Picking & Packing - Packaging - Shipping - Routing - Tracking **Distribution** - Picking & Packing - Shipping - Tracking **Production** - BOM - Defects - Identify Demand - Inspections - Manage Resources - MPS - MRP - Production Plans - Rework - Shop Floor - Waste - WIP **HR** - Payroll - Workforce Management - Time & Attendance **HR** - Payroll - Workforce Management - Time & Attendance **Reporting & Analytics** - Custom Reporting - Dashboards - Integration **Generative AI ** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Agentic AI - ERP Systems** - Decision Making **Agentic AI - Discrete ERP** - Cross-system Integration - Natural Language Interaction - Decision Making **Agentic AI - Distribution ERP** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning ## Top CAI xTuple Alternatives - [NetSuite](https://www.g2.com/products/netsuite/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (4,607 reviews) - [Odoo ERP](https://www.g2.com/products/odoo-odoo-erp/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (310 reviews) - [Acumatica](https://www.g2.com/products/acumatica/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (1,905 reviews)