Industry
ERP software for electrical panel builders
Panel building is made-to-order manufacturing where every job starts with a drawing and ends with a test certificate. Zaptiz is built around that reality: estimate from the drawing, quote before the customer chases, buy what the job needs, track the panel through the shop, and invoice with GST.
Estimate from drawings
Measure, count and trace on the drawing itself, with AI symbol detection proposing the component list.
Quote the same day
The bill of material becomes a priced quotation in minutes, so speculative enquiries stop going unanswered.
Buy for the job
Shortages against confirmed orders become requisitions before the panel stalls on the floor.
Protect the margin
Current component prices at quoting time, and the same component list from quote to build to invoice.
What actually goes wrong in a panel shop
The problems are remarkably consistent across the trade, and none of them are about the quality of the work. Enquiries pile up behind the one person who can estimate. Quotations go out late and lose to whoever was faster. A job stalls for a single missing contactor that nobody knew was short. The margin quoted in March is not the margin realised in June because component prices moved and nobody re-checked.
Underneath all four is the same cause: the information needed to prevent them exists, but it lives in a spreadsheet, an inbox, a WhatsApp group and someone's head, and none of those talk to each other.
Built for made-to-order, not repetitive production
Most manufacturing software assumes you make the same thing repeatedly and want to make it more efficiently. Panel building is the opposite: every job is a variation, the bill of material is created per order, and the estimating is the hard part.
Zaptiz starts from that assumption. Bills of material are generated per job from drawings, photos or specifications. Panel templates capture the families you build often — a standard distribution board, a common motor control centre — so a new enquiry starts from the nearest thing you have built rather than from nothing.
From enquiry to dispatch, in one chain
The practical benefit is not any single feature; it is that the same component list carries through every stage without being retyped.
- Enquiry arrives — by email, phone or WhatsApp — and becomes a lead with the drawing attached.
- Bill of material generated from the drawing, a photo, or a description, priced from your own supplier lists.
- Quotation produced with your margins and your branding, sent by email or WhatsApp, revisions kept.
- Won quotation becomes a sales order, which nets requirements against stock and drafts the purchases.
- Work orders reach the shop floor with the build kit; the kanban board shows where each panel is.
- Quality checklist completed, panel dispatched, GST invoice raised from the same lines, payment chased automatically.
The language is yours
Small things signal whether software was built for your trade. Zaptiz talks about panels, feeders, enclosures, busbar and price lists. It prices in rupees, files under GST, and stores HSN codes on products because you need them on the invoice.
You will not be translating your business into someone else's vocabulary, and you will not be maintaining a side spreadsheet because the system cannot express something ordinary about how panels are made.
Frequently asked questions
We are a 12-person panel shop. Is this too much software for us?
That is squarely the size Zaptiz is built for. Modules can be switched off, roles keep each person's screen to their own job, and most shops start with estimation and quotations alone. The comparison that matters is not against a bigger ERP, it is against the spreadsheet you use now.
Every panel we build is different. Does that break the system?
No — it is the assumption the system starts from. Zaptiz is built for made-to-order work where the bill of material is created per job, not for repetitive production of a fixed catalogue. Panel templates let you reuse the families you build often without pretending every job is identical.
Our estimator has 20 years of experience. What does AI add?
Speed on the mechanical part, not judgement. The AI produces the first draft of the component list so your estimator reviews and corrects instead of transcribing. Their experience is still what decides the spare way, the derating and the price.
We already use Tally. Do we have to stop?
No. Many customers keep Tally for statutory books and run Zaptiz for everything upstream — estimating, quoting, buying and building — because that is where the operational data lives. Exports and Zoho Books sync are available.
How long before we are actually using it?
Most shops quote a real job in the first few days. The onboarding wizard sets up your company and users, product and price-list import is assisted on paid plans, and the 9-day trial exists precisely so you can judge this with your own data.
What does it cost for a shop our size?
Business is ₹9,999 a month for up to 25 users, including all 11 AI agents and 150,000 AI credits. There is a 9-day free trial with no credit card, and no per-module licence games.