Your old ERP belongs
in the past. Getting to
Zinye takes 8 weeks.
We have moved hundreds of businesses off spreadsheets, QuickBooks, Sage, Tally and NetSuite. The data arrives intact, the team gets trained, and you go live with a system that actually fits how your business runs. No 18-month implementation, no consultant labyrinth.
White-glove migration included on Growth and above
Which system are you leaving?
Inventory lives in a separate tool, payroll is another add-on, and multi-entity consolidation requires a consultant. The books only tell part of the story.
Powerful on paper but painful in practice. Most customers leave because the interface hasn't kept up and customisation requires a Sage partner at billing rates.
Great for the early years. But once you add warehouses, manufacturing, or a second entity, you're bolting on third-party apps and reconciling the gaps manually.
Enterprise-grade cost at mid-market scale. Customers leave when the annual bill lands, the implementation never quite finished, and every change needs a developer.
Reliable for statutory filing but isolated. Inventory, CRM, HR and manufacturing all live outside it, so the business runs on Tally plus a tower of spreadsheets.
The most common starting point. Works until it breaks, usually at month-end when two versions of the same file disagree and nobody knows which one is right.
Not a handoff. A partnership.
Every Growth and Professional customer gets a dedicated migration specialist who takes ownership of your data from day one. This is not a data dump and a "good luck." We stay until you're live and confident.
Chart of accounts mapping
We map your existing account codes to a clean Zinye chart of accounts, keeping your reporting structure while fixing inconsistencies you've been living with.
Customer and supplier master data
Every contact, address, payment term and credit limit transfers intact. Deduplication is part of the process, so you arrive with a clean master list.
Open invoices and purchase orders
Outstanding receivables and payables move over in full, so your AR and AP ageing reports are correct from day one. No manual re-entry.
Opening balances
We post a validated trial balance as at your migration date. Your accountant can sign off on it before you go live, with zero ambiguity about starting figures.
Inventory items and on-hand quantities
Item master, units of measure, pricing tiers and current stock quantities transfer across. We reconcile counts against your last physical stocktake before cutover.
Historical transactions (last 2 years on Growth+)
Two full years of sales invoices, purchase orders and journal entries come with you. You keep the audit trail, your accountant keeps their reference points.
User accounts and permissions
Your team's roles and access rules are configured before go-live. Nobody arrives on day one to find they can't log in or that permissions need fixing.
Training sessions (2 per team)
Two live training sessions for each team group: finance, operations, and management. Recordings and written guides are shared before the sessions end.
A migration that moves fast
because it's done right.
Eight weeks is the median. Some businesses go live in five, a few take ten. What doesn't change is the structure: we never rush data validation, and you never go live on guesswork.
Data audit and mapping
We extract a full export from your current system. Every table, every field. Your migration specialist audits it for gaps, duplicates and inconsistencies, then produces a mapping document you review and approve before anything moves.
- Source data extraction
- Account code mapping document
- Contact deduplication report
- Inventory reconciliation baseline
Parallel run and validation
Your data loads into a staging environment. Your team runs real transactions alongside the old system. We compare outputs daily. Nothing goes live until the numbers agree and your team trusts what they see.
- Staging environment loaded
- Trial balance sign-off
- User acceptance testing
- Team training sessions
Go-live on Zinye, old system on standby
Cutover happens on a weekend, so Monday morning your team logs into Zinye. Your old system stays read-only for six weeks. You can cross-reference historical data any time without any pressure.
- Weekend cutover
- Opening balance posting
- Live transaction processing begins
- Old system preserved read-only
Cleanup and handover
The first real month-end close on Zinye, with your migration specialist in the room. We resolve any edge cases, complete the final reconciliation, and hand over a clean system you own outright going forward.
- First month-end close support
- Final reconciliation sign-off
- Documentation handover
- Migration specialist offboarding
You can leave Zinye any time.
Take everything with you.
We are built on ERPNext, an open-source platform. There is no proprietary lock-in, no export gating, and no "premium data portability" tier. Every byte of your business data is exportable on demand, in open formats, without contacting support.
Full exports run from inside Zinye. Schedule them, automate them, or pull them on demand. When your accountant or auditor asks for a copy of your data, you send it in minutes. When you outgrow Zinye, you leave with a complete archive that any accountant can read.
What people ask before they commit.
Will I lose historical data?
No. Historical transactions from your previous system come with you. On Growth and Professional plans, we migrate the last two full years of sales invoices, purchase orders and journal entries. Older history can be migrated as a summarised archive if needed, and your old system's export is always available as a permanent reference.
Can I run both systems at the same time?
Yes, and we recommend it. During weeks three and four of the standard plan, you run transactions in both systems and we reconcile the outputs. After go-live, your old system stays accessible in read-only mode for six weeks so your team can cross-reference anything they need. We do not rush you off the old system until you are confident.
What if migration takes longer than expected?
Eight weeks is the median, not a hard deadline. If your data is complex, your team needs more time in the parallel run, or a critical reconciliation takes longer, we extend the timeline at no extra charge. We have a single goal: you go live confidently. A rushed migration that leaves problems behind is worse than a thorough one that takes two extra weeks.
Does migration cost extra?
Migration is included on Growth ($39 per seat per month) and Professional ($69 per seat per month) plans. There is no separate migration fee. Starter plan customers ($19 per seat per month) can purchase a migration package separately; contact us for a quote based on your data volume and source system.
What about custom fields and configurations from my old system?
We review your current custom fields, item attributes and workflow configurations during the week one audit. Anything that maps cleanly to a standard Zinye field gets migrated directly. Anything that requires a custom field in Zinye gets built before data loads, so no field is left behind. Unusual workflows are documented and either replicated in Zinye or flagged for a conversation about whether the old workflow was actually needed.
What happens to my NRS tax history and compliance records?
All submitted NRS invoices and their reference numbers migrate as read-only records so your compliance archive is intact. Zinye connects to NRS e-invoicing natively, so new invoices from go-live onwards submit automatically. Your previous submissions remain accessible for audit reference for the full statutory retention period.
Ready to make
the switch?
Start a free trial, explore Zinye with your own data, and book a migration call when you're ready to move. No commitment until you are certain.