sento ERP
sento ERP is a DACH-region SMB and Mid-Market (mid-market) ERP product targeting services organisations and project-driven businesses between roughly 10 and 150 users. The vendor positions sento as a configurable ERP backbone with particular depth in project workflow, time management and services billing, designed for organisations whose value driver is professional services rather than manufacturing or trade. The installed base concentrates on German Mid-Market services organisations including engineering and planning offices, IT consultancies, agencies, training providers and similar service-driven businesses with cyclical project flow and time-and-material billing.
Vendor and background
sento ERP is sold and supported by an independent DACH vendor focused on the SMB and Mid-Market services segment. The independent vendor model gives buyers direct access to the product team without the multi-tier partner channels typical of Microsoft Dynamics or SAP partner ecosystems. The product's tenure in the services segment means its data model and process templates reflect actual services workflow rather than generalised ERP patterns retrofitted with a project module.
Functional scope
sento covers financials with German HGB accounting, AR and AP, CRM, project accounting with work-breakdown structures and project costing, time and expense recording for project work, project invoicing including milestone, time-and-material and fixed-price patterns, resource planning, document management and reporting. Financial accounting depth includes GoBD-compliant audit trail (the German principles for proper digital bookkeeping), DATEV (the German payroll and accounting standard) export, and ZUGFeRD plus XRechnung e-invoicing. The project-services workflow is the differentiating depth against horizontal Mid-Market ERPs.
Architecture and deployment
sento is offered as cloud SaaS and on-premises deployment, with the cloud variant hosted in German data centres. The browser-based UI works across desktop and mobile-responsive scenarios, which matters for the target audience of consultants and service professionals capturing time and expenses from variable work locations. The product is not strictly multi-tenant cloud-native in the manner of weclapp or myfactory; the cloud variant is more accurately described as hosted SaaS, which is the typical pattern for DACH services ERPs of this generation.
Compliance, GoBD and GDPR
The product carries the standard DACH services-ERP compliance scope: GoBD-certified audit trail, DATEV-pattern handover for tax-advisor workflow, ZUGFeRD and XRechnung e-invoicing, DSGVO/GDPR-compliant data handling with the German data-centre hosting addressing residency concerns, and the typical access-control and data-export features expected for services organisations holding client confidential data. For services organisations the GDPR and confidentiality dimension matters more than for trade or manufacturing buyers because the data carried in the system includes client-confidential project content.
Market position and selection considerations
sento competes against several other DACH Mid-Market services ERPs: Scopevisio (broader finance, less project workflow), Projektron BCS (deeper PSA, less finance-and-CRM scope), Deltek Maconomy (more international, weaker DACH localisation) and a long tail of agency and consultancy specialists. For German Mid-Market services organisations between 10 and 150 users, sento belongs on the shortlist alongside these alternatives, with the decision usually driven by the specific project-workflow patterns of the buyer's business, the depth of the implementation partner in the buyer's industry segment, and the 5-year total-cost comparison. Pricing follows the DACH services-ERP pattern of per-user subscription with modular scoping for the optional project, time-recording and document-management components. Typical implementation projects run 2 to 6 months for a small to mid-sized services organisation, with the migration of historical project and time-recording data from the legacy system being the most common project-risk factor.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What size of services organisation fits sento?
DACH SMB and Mittelstand services organisations between roughly 10 and 150 users with project-driven workflow and time-and-material or milestone-based billing. Larger PSA deployments above 150 users usually evaluate Projektron BCS or international PSA suites instead.
Is sento truly cloud-native?
The cloud variant is hosted SaaS from German data centres rather than strictly multi-tenant cloud-native in the weclapp or myfactory pattern. The browser-based UI delivers the cloud user experience, but the architecture is the typical DACH services-ERP hybrid rather than a pure cloud-native design.
Does sento support DATEV and GoBD?
Yes. GoBD-certified audit trail and DATEV-pattern handover for tax-advisor workflow are native, alongside ZUGFeRD and XRechnung e-invoicing. This is table stakes for any DACH Mittelstand services ERP.
How does sento compare with Scopevisio?
Scopevisio is broader in financial accounting and lighter on project workflow; sento is more project-services focused with stronger time-recording and project-costing depth. The choice depends on whether the buyer's primary workflow is finance-heavy (Scopevisio) or project-heavy (sento). Both products carry the standard DACH services-ERP compliance scope and the practical decision often comes down to the depth of the implementation partner.