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Tessera ERP for NGO
Connect finance, inventory, purchasing, and approvals with workflows designed for ngo teams.
Key metrics
Program visibilityBudget complianceProcurement transparencyAudit readinessReporting speed
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Overview
What Tessera ERP helps you achieve
A connected operating system for ngo organizations: inventory, purchasing, approvals, reporting, and controls in one place.
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Program-based budgeting and reporting.
Connects inventory, purchasing, and approval workflows for end-to-end operational visibility.
02
Grant and donor tracking with audit trails.
Connects inventory, purchasing, and approval workflows for end-to-end operational visibility.
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Centralized procurement and approvals.
Connects inventory, purchasing, and approval workflows for end-to-end operational visibility.
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Multi-project visibility and accountability.
Connects inventory, purchasing, and approval workflows for end-to-end operational visibility.
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Audit-ready exports for boards and funders.
Connects inventory, purchasing, and approval workflows for end-to-end operational visibility.
Integrations
Email/SMS notificationsAccounting exports
Challenges
Common pain points we solve
Most ngo teams struggle with visibility, controls, and reporting. Tessera brings those workflows together.
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Donor and program reporting is time-consuming.
Tessera ERP addresses this with structured workflows, multi-location controls, and real-time reporting.
02
Procurement and approvals lack transparency.
Tessera ERP addresses this with structured workflows, multi-location controls, and real-time reporting.
03
Budget tracking is manual.
Tessera ERP addresses this with structured workflows, multi-location controls, and real-time reporting.
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Multi-project visibility is limited.
Tessera ERP addresses this with structured workflows, multi-location controls, and real-time reporting.
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Audit readiness is hard to maintain.
Tessera ERP addresses this with structured workflows, multi-location controls, and real-time reporting.
Workflows
Key workflows for NGO
These are the most common workflows ngo organizations implement first for fast ROI.
Budget controls
Standardized across branches and sites with approval controls and audit-ready reporting.
Approvals
Standardized across branches and sites with approval controls and audit-ready reporting.
Procurement
Standardized across branches and sites with approval controls and audit-ready reporting.
Multi-project reporting
Standardized across branches and sites with approval controls and audit-ready reporting.
Audit trails
Standardized across branches and sites with approval controls and audit-ready reporting.
Dashboards
Standardized across branches and sites with approval controls and audit-ready reporting.
Common use cases
Funding utilization dashboards.
Multi-project expense allocation.
Compliance and impact reporting.
Budget vs actual reporting by program/project.
Procurement approvals and audit trail controls.
Donor-ready reporting and controlled exports.
Capabilities
What you get with Tessera ERP
A practical feature set designed for ngo teams, with controls and reporting built in.
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Sales to invoicing workflow
Handle quotations, orders, deliveries, invoicing, and credit notes with clear controls and drill-down reporting.
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Inventory + warehouse visibility
Multi-warehouse stock, transfers, reorder levels, negative stock controls, and stock movement history.
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Procurement management
Requisitions, supplier comparisons, POs, GRNs, supplier invoices, and returns with approvals and traceability.
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Financial controls + audit trail
Budgets, approvals, VAT/statutory reporting, and audit trails that keep governance consistent across teams.
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Item master built for reality
Units of measure, batches/serials, BOM/recipes, warranties, weights, and barcode labeling where needed.
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Dashboards + alerts
Operational dashboards and event-based notifications (email/SMS) so teams act faster on exceptions.
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Integrations + extensibility
Connect POS, HR, and third-party systems using APIs/files so data flows end-to-end.
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Cloud or on-premise
Deploy on your own servers or the cloud, with multi-location central management.
Reporting
Dashboards and insights
Get visibility that helps teams act faster: drill-down reporting, analysis views, and exportable outputs.
Common dashboards & reports
Drill-down dashboards (summary to transaction)
Stock valuation (latest/weighted average/standard cost)
Stock movement, ageing, and reorder alerts
Sales profitability and slow/fast moving items
Customer ageing/outstanding and credit limit exceptions
Supplier performance and purchasing variance
VAT/statutory reports and audit-ready exports
Pivot-style analysis across branches/cost centers
Built for teams
Secure reporting and controlled exports
Share the right view with the right people using role-based access. Export and schedule reports for finance, operations, and leadership.
Role-based visibilityDrill-down viewsExports (PDF/Excel)Scheduled sharing
Modules
Recommended Tessera modules
Start with the core ERP foundation, then add modules that match your ngo workflows.
Tessera ERP
Core workflows: purchasing, inventory, approvals, reporting.
Learn moreAccounting & Finance
Reporting, controls, and financial visibility across teams.
Learn moreHR & Payroll
People operations, payroll workflows, and compliance support.
Learn morePoint Of Sale
Sales, stock updates, and branch performance visibility.
Learn moreWorkflow example
See how the work moves through Tessera
A practical example of how ngo teams can connect requests, approvals, operations, and reporting.
Approve and process
Role-based controls route the transaction to the right people and retain its approval history.
Report
Operations and finance see the completed transaction in shared dashboards and exports.
FAQ
Questions we hear from NGO teams
If you want, we can walk through your exact workflows in a short demo.
Yes. Dashboards and audit trails help you compile donor-ready insights faster.
Yes. Workflows can require approvals for procurement and spending.
Yes. Reporting can be segmented by program.
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Get a ngo demo
We will map your workflows, recommend a rollout plan, and show the dashboards your team will use day-to-day.
In the demo
- Inventory, purchasing, and operations workflows
- Approval controls and reporting dashboards
- Implementation timeline + support plan
- Module recommendations for your team