Same platform. Built for your size. Pricing you can plan around.
Harvest and Inecta both run on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Both are built for food and beverage. The difference is who each one is built to fit — and whether you can find out what it costs before you commit.
Pricing you can plan from day one. Most food and beverage ERP shopping starts with one frustration — you can’t get a price. Inecta publishes a $150,000 minimum project budget, and everything per-user is gated behind a paid discovery workshop. We publish per-user pricing on the site ($115.50/user/mo for Food Premium). Implementation is broken out by module — Accounting $9K, Inventory $14.5K, Manufacturing $24.5K, DSD $9.75K — so you can build the project that fits your budget. If your operation doesn’t need a $150K project to get started, Harvest will sell you the modules you need at a price you can plan.
Built for North American food and beverage manufacturers. Inecta serves 20+ food verticals globally. We serve North American food and beverage manufacturers specifically. That focus shows up everywhere — in how we configure Business Central for FDA and USDA workflows, in the support hours we keep, in the implementation team’s familiarity with how NA distributors and retailers actually do business. A tighter market means a sharper fit for the operators in it.
The same Microsoft platform — without the global-product overhead. Both Inecta and Harvest run on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Same platform, same upgrade path, same Microsoft trust signal. The difference is what’s wrapped around it. Inecta wraps Business Central in a global food product. Harvest wraps it in workflows tuned to how NA food and beverage manufacturers actually run their day.
Capability | Harvest | Inecta |
|---|---|---|
Microsoft Business Central platform | ||
Food and beverage industry focus | NA | Global |
Per-user / per-month pricing published | $115.50/mo Food Premium | Gated |
Implementation pricing published | Additive per-module | Gated; $150K min project |
Minimum project budget required | None published | $150K |
DSD as an extension of the food and beverage ERP | ||
Multi-level recipes / BOMs | Up to 50 nested | |
FDA Big 9 allergen tracking | ||
Batch-level cost accounting + landed cost | ||
AI agents | Per-usage add-on | Per-tier and per-agent |
NA-tuned implementation + support | Global by default |
Inecta has been in the food and beverage ERP business longer — 25+ years — and serves more verticals worldwide, with a published 99% customer retention rate. If your operation spans multiple continents, or you need vertical-specific configurations Harvest hasn’t built yet — international vessel management, grower management beyond NA crops — Inecta is a legitimate option. The trade-off is the $150,000 project minimum, the gated pricing, and the global-product overhead. For North American food and beverage manufacturers who want a Business Central food and beverage ERP at a price they can plan from day one, that trade-off doesn’t favor Inecta.
The platform is shared. The food focus is shared. What’s different is who the product is built to fit, and whether you can plan the project before the sales call.
If you’re a North American food and beverage manufacturer who wants a price you can see and a system built for your size, that’s exactly what we built. Compare us in a real demo, side by side.
The platform is shared and the food focus is shared. What’s different is who the product is built to fit — and whether you can see the price before the sales call.
