Every question about PORTWARE

PORTWARE is a Productive Business Management System: a web-based platform that runs all of a company's systems — CRM and sales, purchasing, inventory, manufacturing, PLM, quality, maintenance, projects, accounting and finance, HR, documents, office and AI — fully integrated in one database. Managing the product's and the company's assets, the work and the relationships on one record base, it builds the company's corporate memory. Built on the world's most widely used open-source business-management core, backed by CapitalG, the growth fund of Google's parent Alphabet — and taken far beyond it with manufacturing, engineering, AI and office layers. It is used from the browser.

The core is the world's most widely used open-source business-management foundation; PORTWARE is a system built on it, localised for Türkiye and extended with 120 modules of its own. The office suite (PORTWARE Office), the AI assistant (Cowork AI), Gantt and agile project boards, durable notification history, a CAD viewer and a dealer portal are not part of the standard core.

CRM and sales, quotations and orders, purchasing, inventory, manufacturing (MRP), PLM, quality, projects and tasks, timesheets, field service and maintenance, accounting and e-invoicing, budgets and KPIs, HR and payroll, document management, a knowledge base, e-commerce and a B2B dealer portal, and an AI assistant.

It was designed for small and midsize companies whose processes are scattered across separate programs and spreadsheets, that manufacture or run projects, and that issue Turkish e-invoices. It can be installed for a single department or for the whole company. Associations, foundations, federations and other non-profits run their members, dues, donations, events and projects in the same system.

Yes. Members and donors are contact records; dues and donations are posted to accounting; a donation form and event registration pages run on the website; each project and grant is tracked on its own analytic account; members are reached by mass e-mail, SMS and surveys. Fields and reports specific to your organisation are tailored.

PORTWARE. The system already runs in production: SMB Technics and Akım Metal run their own business on it, so the screens were built for daily use rather than for a demo.

Yes. There is a demo environment filled with a fictional company called PORTWARE and no real customer data, where you can try your own processes before going live. Ask for it on the contact page.

The database runs on your own server or on one PORTWARE manages; you decide. Either way the schema is open and the whole dataset can be exported whenever you want.

The whole database is backed up automatically every day and the backups are kept on a separate server, so the data survives the loss of the server itself.

Permissions are group-based: a user only opens the screens and records their role sees. Record-level limits can be set per company, department, project or dealer, and external users (dealers, customers) only see documents shared with them.

Yes. Every record carries a message thread, attachments and a change trail; office documents and HTML documents are versioned on top of that, with the differences between two versions shown cell by cell.

The data stays in a database under your control rather than being handed to an overseas SaaS provider. Screens holding personal data can use permission limits, an audit trail and archiving.

The layer that lets you open and edit Word, Excel and presentation files in the browser, on the record itself, without downloading them; it is built on ONLYOFFICE. Several people can work in the same file at once and every save leaves a version.

For editing documents, co-authoring and version history, yes — and because the file lives on the record, which quotation, project or product it belongs to is never lost. For mail and calendar PORTWARE has its own tools and also works with your existing mail server.

Yes. The CAD viewer opens DWG/DXF-type files in the browser; SODRAW draws diagrams, SOTION holds knowledge-base pages, and HTML documents produce designed, versioned internal documents.

Yes. Office files and HTML documents are versioned; differences between two versions show cell by cell, and restoring an old version does not delete the newer one — it is written as a new version.

PORTWARE's core is the world's most widely used open-source (LGPL-3) business-management core; PORTWARE's modules are licensed LGPL-3. No closed-source per-user licence fee is required.

Scope: which processes are set up, how much data is migrated, which custom development is needed, how many people are trained and who hosts the system. Those items are quoted.

Yes. The core is open source, the schema is open and the data is on your server; the code and the database are handed over. There is no locking proprietary format.

The system ships a handbook, application guides and per-screen help. On top of that PORTWARE provides go-live training, upgrades and fault support.

With a discovery call: we talk through which processes are scattered, show the equivalent in the demo environment and write the scope together. Leave a request on the contact page.