One system for the whole company: the money, the work, and the people.
Accounting, sales, purchasing, stock, projects, HR and payroll, and the front of house, in one place, with one set of numbers that always agree. And it goes deeper than the rest in the trades other software treats as an afterthought.
One system, one set of numbers
It replaces four subscriptions, instead of sitting beside them.
Most companies run the accounts in one place, the stock in another, the payroll in a third and the till in a fourth, then spend the month making them agree. Orbit is the one place they all read and write to, so the numbers agree because there is only one set of them.
The money
Books a sceptical accountant can check inside a demo.
Full double-entry accounting, entered once and reported the way the filing wants and the way you actually manage.
Full double-entry accounting
Invoices, bills, credit notes, payments, journals, bank statements and reconciliation, fixed assets and depreciation. Bring your chart of accounts with you.
The reports an accountant asks for
Profit and loss, balance sheet, general ledger, trial balance, partner ledger, aged receivable and payable, budgets, cash-flow forecast, VAT return, partner statements, consolidation.
More than one currency, properly
155 currencies, a rate for every day, revaluation, and an engine that refuses to guess a missing rate rather than quietly using one to one.
More than one company
Separate books per company, a group view when you want it, intercompany invoices that mirror themselves, and shared contacts across the group.
Two views of the same trading
A statutory book for what gets filed and a management book that includes it plus anything posted only there. Entered once, reported two ways.
The cash desk
Every note in and out of the company across cash and bank, handovers between people, and a daily close that actually closes.
The work
Sell it, buy it, make it, deliver it.
The whole trading cycle on the same records as the accounts, so a sale, a purchase and a stock move are one entry, not three.
Selling
Quotations, sales orders, invoices, price lists, quotation templates, and a CRM pipeline with leads, stages and activities.
Buying
Purchase orders, blanket orders, bills, three-way match, requests for quotation with side-by-side comparison, vendor scorecards, shipments and landed cost.
Stock
Multi-warehouse, locations and bins, lots and serials, cycle counts, replenishment, planning, scrap, delivery notes, and valuation that ties to the ledger.
Projects
Tasks, a board, a programme, timesheets, my work, and job cost and project profit and loss underneath.
Documents
Every file attached where it belongs, with search and text recognition across scans, plus document registers.
Signatures
Send a document for signature and keep the signed copy against the record it belongs to.
The people
From the roster to the payslip.
The team, their time and their pay, tied to the same finance the rest of the company runs on.
Employees
Records, departments, positions, contracts, skills, certifications with expiry, onboarding and appraisals.
Time
Attendance, rosters, shifts, shift templates, leave requests and allocations.
Payroll
Payslip runs, salary structures and heads, end-of-service indemnity, and payroll consolidation across companies.
Hiring
Job positions, applicants, and a careers page that publishes straight from Orbit.
The platform underneath
Made yours, and it leaves a trail.
The parts that make software you can trust with the whole company: control, adaptability, and a record of who did what.
Who can see what
Roles and permissions you design yourself, per company, plus a portal so a customer or supplier can see only their own.
Approvals
Set what needs signing off, above what value, by whom. Thirteen document types are gated, and the decision is authorised by the database, not the browser.
Your own fields and your own words
Add fields to any form without a developer, and rename anything Orbit calls something you do not.
It leaves a trail
An audit log of who did what, a data health check that runs twelve reconciliations, and nightly checks on the money itself.
Your brand on every page
Logo, tagline, five letterhead layouts, your document numbering, and printing that works on A4 and on an 80mm till roll.
Your website
Build and host the company site from inside Orbit, with the careers page and the contact form feeding the CRM.
Where Orbit is different
General for everyone. Deep where it counts.
All-in-one is what every rival says. Ours is depth in the trades they treat as an afterthought: a bar is not a metre, a plate has a cost, a building splits its charges by share. Pick your trade and see the screens only it gets.
Contracting & construction
Tenders, progress certificates, retention and live job cost.
Facade, aluminium & glass
Take-off, cut list, nesting and recost from the metal price.
Restaurants
Reservations, kitchen display, plate cost and split bills.
Retail & trade counters
A till that moves stock and posts the entry as it happens.
Property & syndics
Charges by millieme, arrears notices, reserve and portal.
Clinics & healthcare
The diary, the patient file and the money in one place.
Not a demo company
Real businesses keep their books here.
A fabricator runs on it
A Lebanese fabricator moved its chart of accounts, suppliers, catalogue and two hundred live opportunities across, with nothing orphaned.
A building runs on it
Sixteen units, sixteen owners, sixty-eight invoices, with the balances matching the old system to the cent.
The till survives the internet
The point of sale keeps taking orders and payments when the connection drops, then catches up when it returns. We will show you live.
Your data, and how it stays yours
Isolated, exportable, and GDPR-ready.
The honest answer to the fair question every careful buyer asks: what happens to my data, and what if you disappear.
Straight answers
The four things people say before they switch.
“We have an accountant and Excel.”
That works until two people need the same spreadsheet at once, or a stock count eats a weekend. Orbit is one shared set of numbers, not a file passed around.
“Odoo is free.”
The licence is the cheap part. The cost is who configures it, who fixes it when it breaks, and who answers at eleven at night in the middle of service.
“What if you disappear?”
A fair question. Every list and report exports, the database is standard PostgreSQL, and the privacy page shows how to take everything out.
“Will it do it our way?”
Start from your industry page, not a generic feature list. Custom fields and your own terminology close most of the rest, and we say so when they do not.
Questions
Frequently asked.
Is Orbit live yet?
Do I need to install anything?
Can Orbit handle several companies and currencies?
Will Orbit fit my industry?
Is my data mine, and can I get it out?
How much does Orbit cost?
See Orbit on your own numbers.
Bring a real example from your business and we will run it through Orbit with you, on the screens your trade actually uses.