Create a user account and set up as many companies as you want for nothing. Each paid feature is billed per company, month by month, and can be canceled at any time — and each one lets you use it for real before you pay for it. There is no plan to pick, no annual commitment and no card required to get started.
This is not a time-limited trial that expires while you are still loading your parts. Each feature carries its own allowance you can use at your own pace: 5 orders, 5 purchase orders, 5 quotes, 5 inventory counts, 5 invoice exports. Enter your parts, your customers and your vendors, run real work through it, and subscribe when the allowance runs out.
A factory cannot evaluate an MRP system in a fortnight — getting your own data in front of it is most of the work, and a clock running during that is a clock that makes you rush the part you should not rush.
Selling, buying and quoting are independent and none requires the others. A shop that sells through Backbone and buys on paper takes the first; one that buys through Backbone and invoices from its accounting package takes the second; one that prices work here and books the resulting orders elsewhere takes the third.
These extend order entry rather than replacing anything, and each is its own month-to-month line you can drop without touching the rest.
/portal/your-name instead of a number.Every company includes one internal user and one company location. Customers you invite to view their own orders, shipments and invoices cost nothing and never count as users — so putting your whole customer base on the portal never becomes a reason not to.
Every company may send 100 order confirmations, shipping notices and invoices a month for free from a shared Backbone MRP address, and gets 50 MB of file storage for drawings, specifications, signed purchase orders and photographs. Most companies never pass either.
A factory should not be paying for a purchasing module it does not use, and it should not be re-negotiating a contract because it hired two people. Pricing each capability on its own line, per company, month to month, means what you spend tracks what you actually run — and giving every feature a real free allowance rather than a countdown means the decision to pay is made after you have seen it work on your own parts and your own orders.
Running it on your own servers? An internally hosted deployment has no per-seat metering at all — users, locations, orders, document email and the QuickBooks integrations are unlimited, with nothing to activate per company. How internal deployment works ›