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Rootstock
Manufacturing ERP built natively on the Salesforce platform
As of 31 August 2026, Rootstock's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. Cloud ERP for discrete manufacturers that runs inside Salesforce, which means you must buy and keep Salesforce platform licences underneath it. Softwr lists it under ERP. Rootstock is made by Rootstock Software, available on Web, Salesforce Platform, iOS, Android.
Overview
What Rootstock does
Rootstock is manufacturing ERP for mid-size discrete manufacturers, covering production, materials, inventory, supply chain, order management, project accounting and financials. It is not integrated with Salesforce, it is written on Salesforce: the objects, security model, workflow engine and reporting are Salesforce, and Rootstock ships as a managed package. That gives you a single database across CRM and ERP, one set of user administration, and the Salesforce toolchain for customisation. The consequence is the thing most evaluations get wrong. You do not pay for Rootstock alone. Every ERP user needs a Salesforce platform licence as well, and reseller and analyst estimates commonly put the Rootstock subscription at roughly 150 to 300 US dollars per user per month with Salesforce licences from around 25 to 300 on top, so a fully loaded seat frequently lands between 200 and 500 dollars a month. Implementation is a separate project generally quoted in the tens to hundreds of thousands. Rootstock does not publish any of this, so the numbers above are third-party reports rather than vendor rates, and the only way to get a real figure is a scoped quote. Buyers are discrete manufacturers, typically 50 to 1,000 employees, in electronics, industrial equipment, aerospace suppliers and medical devices, and most of them are already committed to Salesforce. If you are not a Salesforce shop, the platform dependency is a strategic commitment rather than a technical detail: your ERP now inherits Salesforce pricing changes, release cycles and governor limits. Rootstock acquired Salesforce-native applications firm Ascent Solutions in March 2026, extending it further into post-sale and mid-office processes.
What people use it for
- A discrete manufacturer already running Salesforce Sales Cloud that wants configured quotes to become works orders without an integration layer between two systems
- An engineer-to-order equipment maker that needs project cost tracking and CRM opportunity data in one database for margin reporting
- A medical device supplier that needs lot and serial traceability under the same security and audit model as its customer records
- A manufacturer replacing an on-premise ERP whose IT team wants to stop maintaining servers and standardise administration on a platform it already supports
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Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Rootstock.
- Every Rootstock user also needs a paid Salesforce platform licence, so the true cost is two subscriptions stacked; third-party estimates put a fully loaded seat around 200 to 500 US dollars per user per month, which is far above the Rootstock line item alone.
- Rootstock publishes no pricing whatsoever, so budget-setting depends on reseller and analyst figures rather than vendor rates, and there is no public benchmark to test a quote against.
- Building on Salesforce means inheriting Salesforce governor limits and API constraints, which surface as batch size and data volume ceilings in high-transaction manufacturing that a purpose-built ERP would not hit.
- Your ERP is now hostage to another vendors commercial decisions: Salesforce list price rises, edition changes or licence policy shifts flow straight into your ERP running cost with no alternative supplier.
- Implementation is a serious project, commonly quoted in the tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars and measured in months, and the partner pool that genuinely knows both manufacturing and Salesforce-native ERP is small, which lengthens timelines and raises day rates.
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Pricing
What Rootstock costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Rootstock Cloud ERP
On request
- Manufacturing, inventory and supply chain modules
- Runs as a managed package on the Salesforce Platform
- Salesforce platform licences purchased separately for every user
- Shop floor and limited-function licence types available
- Implementation scoped and priced as a separate project
- Annual subscription, priced per user
Capabilities
Features
Native Salesforce architecture
ERP objects live in the same org as CRM data, with no middleware sync between quote and order
Production and work orders
Multi-level bills of material, routings, work centre scheduling and shop floor transactions
Materials and MRP
Demand planning, requirements generation and purchasing against lead times
Inventory management
Multi-site, lot and serial control with full traceability
Order to cash
Sales orders originating from Salesforce opportunities without re-keying
Project accounting
Cost tracking for engineer-to-order and project-based manufacturers
Financials
General ledger, payables, receivables and multi-currency, or integration to an external finance system
Quality and compliance
Non-conformance, corrective action and traceability suited to regulated manufacturing
Salesforce reporting and Flow
Standard Salesforce reports, dashboards and declarative automation apply to ERP data
AppExchange ecosystem
Salesforce-native add-ons for tax, shipping and EDI plug in at the platform level
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Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Do I need Salesforce to run Rootstock?
Yes, and it is not optional. Rootstock is a managed package on the Salesforce Platform and every user requires a Salesforce licence in addition to the Rootstock subscription.
What does Rootstock actually cost?
Rootstock does not publish rates. Third-party estimates put the ERP subscription at roughly 150 to 300 US dollars per user per month before Salesforce licences, with implementation quoted separately.
Is it suitable for process manufacturing?
It is built for discrete manufacturing. Recipe and batch-driven process manufacturers are a poor fit and should look elsewhere.
Has Rootstock been acquired?
No. Rootstock remains independent and was itself the acquirer, buying Salesforce-native applications firm Ascent Solutions in March 2026.
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