Rutba ERP

Most ERP systems arrive as one huge application with features turned off. Rutba ERP goes the other way. This open-source business management platform consists of seventeen separate Next.js applications in an npm workspaces monorepo, and they cooperate through a shared Strapi 5 API instead of a shared codebase. It is published under the MIT licence.

Modules a business can add one at a time

A shop can start with point of sale and stock only, add order management once it ships goods, and bring in manufacturing or payroll later, with no dead-weight modules and no migration each time. Across the seventeen applications, commerce and sales are covered by point of sale, a storefront, order management and a customer-facing My Orders portal), inventory and supply, manufacturing with work orders and material lots plus bills of material, HR with payroll, accounting, CRM, a rider delivery app, and a CMS with social tools. Each is a deployable application in its own right and shares state through the central API.

What holds them together

Consistency comes from shared infrastructure and not from convention. Every application has a generated API client, so a schema change cannot drift unnoticed. A shared UI component package serves them all. An OAuth-style authentication portal issues JWTs for each application, and a descriptor-driven permission layer means a role defined once is enforced at the API instead of separately in each front end.

The technology

The technology is Next.js 16 and React 19 on the front, Strapi 5 behind them, and MySQL or MariaDB for storage. Deployment can be local, in Docker containers, or on shared hosting, and the repository documents a quick start, development setup and a production Docker build.

Proven in a live shop

The storefront, checkout, order pipeline and rider delivery applications power Rutba.pk, a working retail shop run by the same company, so awkward cases appear there before they reach anyone else. The company, Tech Style Ltd, also offers implementation, customisation and support around the open-source code.