NutraSoft food manufacturing ERP software
Built for Rapid Deployment

Food Manufacturing ERP Built for Rapid Deployment

Stock in spreadsheets, the plan on a whiteboard, QA in binders? Run production planning, inventory, labels and FSMA 204 food traceability in one system, live in days, not months.

  • FSMA 204 lot traceability
  • FDA Nutrition Facts formats
  • CFIA bilingual NFt formats
  • SOC 2 Type II Infrastructure
5 days
Average go-live time
$0
Upfront setup cost
75% less
vs legacy food ERPs

What is food ERP software?

Food ERP software, also called food manufacturing ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), is one system that runs a food or beverage plant. Instead of stock in spreadsheets, the plan on a whiteboard, QA in binders and orders typed twice, purchasing, production, inventory, sales, traceability, quality control and compliance share the same records. Unlike generic ERP tools, a food manufacturing ERP gives every lot its own expiry date, carries allergens from ingredient to label, costs recipes, keeps HACCP records and prints FDA and CFIA Nutrition Facts. NutraSoft is a cloud-based food and beverage ERP for small to large manufacturers in Canada, the United States and beyond, and it scales with your business, so you won't need a new system as you grow.

What is included

What is included in the NutraSoft Food Manufacturing ERP?

Plan, make, check, label, ship and trace. One system. Every module works on the same lots, from the purchase order to the invoice and the books, and connects to QuickBooks and Shopify, or to your own tools through the NutraSoft REST API and webhooks (Enterprise).

  • Purchasing
  • Inventory Control
  • Production
  • Document Management
  • Lot Traceability
  • Nutrition Labelling
  • Packaging
  • Quality Control (Enterprise)
  • Storefront for B2B Sales
Production planning and sub-recipes

Production Planning, Sub-Recipes, and Live Scaling in One Workspace

Build the recipe once, sub-recipes included, and it costs itself as you go. Book each batch on a real line with its crew and machines, and every change flows to cost, allergens and labels.

Capacity-aware planning

Drag-and-drop production calendar tied to live inventory

Book each batch on a real line, inside its open hours, with crew and equipment shown available or busy. When open orders run short, one click starts the batches to cover them, and the plan drafts the purchase order for what's missing.

  • Live ingredient availability per batch
  • Pick lists per run, earliest expiry first
  • Batches started straight from open sales orders
  • Crew and equipment shown available or busy
FSMA 204 lot traceability

One-Click End-to-End Lot Traceability, Audit Ready in Minutes

When the call comes from FDA, CFIA, or a retailer, you have minutes to answer. NutraSoft maps every ingredient lot upstream to the supplier and downstream to every customer who received it.

Recall scenario

Almond supplier issues a Class II recall at 2:47 PM

NutraSoft pulls the affected supplier lot, finds every batch that used it, every finished lot made from those batches, and every customer who received them. Your QA team knows who to call before the recall hits the news cycle.

  • End-to-end lot traceability
    Search any lot and follow it through receiving, the batches it went into, finished lots, invoices and customers. Or start from a finished lot and see every ingredient lot inside.
  • Records for FSMA 204 requests
    Every receipt, batch and shipment is recorded against its lot as the work happens. When FDA asks, export the trace to PDF or Excel.
  • Mock recalls on demand
    Run a mock recall anytime on Enterprise: the trace is real and nothing gets frozen. Print the full trace as a PDF in one click.
  • Recall console (Enterprise)
    On Enterprise, the recall console freezes the affected lots, logs each customer contact, and times the evidence pack against your target.
Compliance visual blueprint

Switch FDA, CFIA, and Bilingual Layouts With a Single Toggle

Nutrition Facts come straight from the recipe, in ten formats: five US and five bilingual Canadian. Pick the format and NutraSoft lays out the panel, applies its rounding, and adds Contains and May contain statements.

21 CFR 101.9 reference

FDA Nutrition Facts Panel, ready for US retail

Standard vertical, side-by-side, tabular, linear for small packages, or simplified. Added sugars, vitamin D and % Daily Value are laid out and rounded for you.

  • Five US formatsVertical, tabular, linear, simplified
  • English panelIngredient list from the recipe
  • Contains statementPlus May contain
  • Lot labelsLot barcode and expiry, per lot
  • FDA roundingApplied as the panel builds
  • JPEG or SVG downloadReady for your label artwork
Legacy ERP vs NutraSoft

Why Food Manufacturers Are Replacing Legacy ERPs With NutraSoft

Legacy systems were built for general manufacturing. NutraSoft was built from day one for food: live in days, priced by the month, and it scales with your business, so you won't need a new system as you grow.

Time to first production run
5 days
vs 3 to 12 months for legacy or food-specific competitors
Upfront setup cost
$0
vs $15,000 to $80,000+ implementation fees
3-year total cost
75% less
All-in subscription with QuickBooks, labels, and traceability included
FeatureNutraSoftFood-specific ERPLegacy enterprise ERP
Average time to go live5–14 days3–6 months6–12 months
Upfront setup fee$0$15,000+$80,000+
Food and beverage by design
Multi-level sub-recipe engine
FDA Nutrition Facts output
CFIA bilingual Nutrition Facts
FSMA 204 lot trace and export
Bilingual EN / FR interface
QuickBooks Online sync
Floor app for phones and tablets
Free trial, no card
Bilingual North American support

Comparison based on publicly listed pricing and feature pages of three competitive categories as of May 2026. Your mileage may vary based on scope and customization.

A production day with NutraSoft

From Shift Planning to Closed Lots in Three Logical Steps

Here is one production day on NutraSoft. It's the day your team already runs on paper and whiteboards, except every step lands on the lot's record as it happens.

  1. 07:00, shift start

    Open the schedule, confirm the day

    The supervisor opens the production schedule. Every batch sits on its line with its ingredients, crew, equipment, and the customer orders riding on it.

    What you walk away with
    Confirmed schedule, a pick list for each run
  2. 08:00 to 16:00, line execution

    Record production at the line

    Operators record the lots they use, earliest-expiring suggested first, and enter what was produced, or weigh each piece on catch-weight runs. On Enterprise, a machine overdue for cleaning or calibration won't start.

    What you walk away with
    Lots used on record, finished lots created
  3. 16:30, shift close

    Close the shift and release to shipping

    The supervisor closes each batch, and it becomes a costed lot with actual cost against the estimate. On Enterprise it waits for a signed QC release. Then ship the day's orders in one click, earliest-expiry lots first.

    What you walk away with
    Batch records, invoices with lots, books or QuickBooks updated
Which NutraSoft plan fits

Full ERP or Standalone Nutrition Labels, Same Recipe Engine

Both products share the same sub-recipe and label engine. Start where you need help today, and upgrade without ever migrating data.

Recommended for manufacturers

NutraSoft Food Manufacturing ERP

Production planning, lot traceability for FSMA 204, inventory, accounting and QuickBooks in one platform. White-glove onboarding included.

From $99 CADper facility, billed monthly
  • Daily production planning with capacity and order linkage
  • FSMA 204 lot trace; recall console (Enterprise)
  • Lot-level inventory, expiry, and barcode scanning
  • QuickBooks Online and Shopify sync
  • HACCP, checks and signed release (Enterprise)
  • Multiple production lines and warehouses

Best for: small to large plants, from one line to many, with FSMA 204 or retailer audits ahead.

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For labels-only buyers

Standalone Nutrition Analysis and Label Generator

Build FDA and CFIA compliant nutrition labels, with sub-recipes and allergen detection. Self-serve, no demo required.

$69 CADper month, billed monthly
  • 10+ FDA and CFIA label formats
  • Multi-level sub-recipes
  • Automatic allergen detection
  • Cost and margin per serving
  • Print-ready PDF and PNG exports

Best for: contract manufacturers, CPG brands, R&D teams, restaurants entering retail.

See nutrition analysis

Both plans share the same recipe engine and database. You can start with labels and upgrade to the full ERP without re-entering a single ingredient.

ERP questions, answered

Food Manufacturing ERP FAQ

Direct answers to the questions buyers actually ask before booking a demo.

Test five things with your own data. Can one search trace a raw lot forward to every customer, and a finished lot back to every supplier? Does the recipe cost itself, carry allergens to the label, and scale to any batch size? Do HACCP checks, holds and supplier approval run on the same records as production? Can it print FDA or bilingual CFIA Nutrition Facts from the recipe the batch used? Does it connect to the accounting and e-commerce tools you already run, with an API for the rest? A generic ERP usually needs add-ons for three of these.

Most single-facility customers go live in 5 to 14 days. That includes ingredient import, recipe migration, user training, and a first production run on NutraSoft. Multi-facility rollouts run 3 to 6 weeks. Legacy ERPs typically quote 3 to 12 months for the same scope.

Zero. NutraSoft is a subscription. We do not charge implementation fees, ingredient import fees, or training fees on standard plans. Multi-facility and custom-integration projects are scoped separately.

NutraSoft keeps the lot records FSMA 204 relies on. Every receipt, batch and shipment is recorded against its lot, and one search traces any lot back to suppliers and forward to every customer. When FDA asks, export the trace to PDF or Excel. There is no separate FSMA 204 report.

Yes. One recipe gives you both: a US Nutrition Facts panel or a bilingual EN / FR Canadian Nutrition Facts table, from ten formats in all. Pick the format and NutraSoft lays out the panel, applies the rounding, and adds the allergen statements.

There's no fixed limit. A sub-recipe can sit inside another sub-recipe, and so on, from raw ingredient to packaged SKU. Cost, allergens and the bilingual ingredient list roll up through every level, and Nutrition Facts come from the finished recipe.

One search traces a lot back to its suppliers and forward to every customer, and the trace prints as a PDF or exports to Excel. On Enterprise, the recall console freezes the lots, logs each customer contact and times the evidence pack; mock recalls freeze nothing.

It doesn't have to. Both ERP plans, Food Manufacturing and Enterprise, include NutraSoft accounting. If you keep QuickBooks Online, NutraSoft sends it invoices with their lots, bills, customers, suppliers, products and cost of goods sold. Shopify syncs products and stock too.

Yes. Both ERP plans, Food Manufacturing and Enterprise, include an accounting app built on the same records as the plant. Invoices, bills and production close post balanced entries as they're saved, cost of goods sold is booked for each shipped lot, and bank reconciliation, period close and 19 financial reports are built in. Prefer QuickBooks Online? NutraSoft syncs to it, so your books still start from what actually happened on the floor.

Yes. When open orders run short, one click starts the batches to cover them, and the plan adds up what those batches need, minus stock and open purchase orders, so the purchase order is a click away. Each batch is booked on a real line, inside its open hours, with crew and equipment shown available or busy, and a drag reschedules it. On Enterprise, a machine overdue for cleaning or calibration won't start. Because the schedule runs on the same lot and inventory records as purchasing and traceability, your APS plan starts from real stock, not a guess.

Yes. The same ERP runs bakery and prepared foods, beverage manufacturing, confectionery and chocolate, dressings and sauces, edible oils, meat and seafood processing, and co-packers. What changes is the recipe, the units, and the compliance profile — not the underlying system. Catch-weight, nested sub-recipes, allergen control, and shelf-life tracking are handled natively rather than bolted on.

Yes. NutraSoft is cloud software, so inventory, lot traceability, production planning, quality control, purchasing and sales work for food and beverage manufacturers in any country, in metric or imperial units. The one exception is nutrition labelling: the built-in label formats follow US FDA and Canadian CFIA rules. If you sell into other markets, such as the UK, the EU or Australia, tell us your label requirements before you rely on that module.

The NutraSoft floor app runs on Android phones and tablets, and in the browser on Windows floor tablets, so operators record work at the line instead of on paper. If parts of your floor have no Wi-Fi, ask us about offline use before you rely on it.

Yes. NutraSoft scales with your business, so you won't need a new system as you grow. Add lines, warehouses and users as you go, and move to Enterprise for quality control, the 3D warehouse and the REST API with webhooks, with no migration.

Yes. Book a personalized demo and we will spin up a sandbox with your own ingredients and recipes loaded. Try the workflow end to end before you sign anything.

Book a personalized demo

Book Your Personalized NutraSoft Demo

A focused working session with a NutraSoft engineer, not a sales rep. We map your operation, identify the fastest path to go-live, and walk you through the platform on your own data.

  • Same-week scheduling
    Most calls are booked within 48 business hours of your request.
  • Engineer-led, not sales
    You speak with someone who has implemented NutraSoft in production, not a generalist.
  • Walk away with the recap
    Even if NutraSoft is not the right fit, you keep the recommendations and the recap document.
What the demo covers
  • 01.Your operation: SKUs, lines, facilities, current pain
  • 02.Where NutraSoft replaces spreadsheets and paper
  • 03.Deployment timeline and pricing for your scope

Required: name, company, work email, consent.