The Questions Clients Actually Ask Us.

Because the right platform depends on the business, not on what is easiest for us to build. A straightforward business site — a store, a blog, a portfolio — runs well and cheaply on our own lightweight template. A business that wants the website and its business systems (CRM, invoicing, operations) living in one place runs on ERPNext. A business that wants a fully bespoke, modern front end, and is ready to pay for it, gets a custom Next.js build.

Below is the honest case for each, including what each one gives up.

When the website and the business systems behind it should live in one place, with one login and one database — client records, invoicing, operations and the content you publish, all in the same system, growing together instead of needing separate tools stitched together later.

That also makes AI far more useful, because it can look across your content, your clients and your operations together, rather than seeing one fragment at a time.

Yes, and we would rather you hear them upfront than discover them later.

• Design works within a framework. It is more structured than a completely hand-coded site, though fully custom pages can be built when you want them.
• There is a short learning curve. It is a capable system, which is why handover and a walkthrough are always included.
• Your site shares a foundation with your business systems. That is the main advantage, but it does mean they live together.
• ERPNext is more specialised than mainstream platforms. Everything is documented and handed over to you, so you always retain full ownership and access.

Every one of these is the flip side of a strength: more structure gives you consistency, a bigger system gives you more capability, and one shared foundation gives you a genuinely unified platform.

• Good at: running a complete business site cheaply and fast — a self-service blog and media library, portfolio layouts, team pages, a store with Paystack checkout and shipping zones, admin roles for your staff, and SEO (sitemap, robots.txt, structured data) with analytics and keyword rank tracking. AI-assisted content drafting is available too.
• Gives up: it is a website and content platform, not a business-systems platform. It does not run your invoicing, inventory or operations — those stay in whatever you already use, or move to ERPNext later if you outgrow a standalone site.

Live examples: africfoodstore.uk, kennanlodge.com, borngreathealthcare.com, utopiasuites.ng, ernestukofarms.com and imprexiicdl.com.

• Good at: a fully bespoke, modern front end with no template constraints, built to whatever design and interaction the business needs. disonlog.com and landx.com.ng are live examples.
• Gives up: it costs more and takes longer to build than the lightweight template, and it does not come with a business-systems backend built in — if the business needs CRM, invoicing or operations tied in, that is built or integrated separately, or the business is better served by ERPNext instead.

The lightweight template is the cheaper route. It runs a real business site — a store, a blog, a portfolio — properly, not a stripped-down version of something bigger.

If the business grows into needing invoicing, operations or CRM tied to the same platform, you can move to ERPNext later. Starting on the template does not lock you out of that.

By what the business actually needs, not by what we would prefer to build. A single-location business that needs a solid site, a store and a blog does not need ERPNext underneath it — that would be over-building. A business running more than one company, custom workflows or complex payroll needs more than a website.

We tell you honestly which one fits, including when the cheaper option is the right one.

You publish yourself. Articles, insights, resources, PDFs and media go live from your own dashboard, instantly, with no developer needed. You decide what stays a draft and what goes live.

No. Content created through AI or MCP comes in as a draft first. It lands in your dashboard for you to review, edit and approve, and only goes public when you choose.

Nothing reaches your website without a human signing off. AI helps you produce faster, but you always have the final say.

Yes. Content is organised by categories and topics with search built into the site, so it stays easy to navigate however much you publish over time.

No. Standard pages and blogs work out of the box, and we also build fully custom-designed pages inside ERPNext when you want something distinctive.

The trade-off is honest: everyday content is instant and self-service, while bespoke page designs are proper build work.

A design is the picture of what a page should look like. Getting it live as a standalone file is quick, and we can do that in minutes.

The work is building that design into your platform so it becomes a living part of it: responsive across devices, connected to your content system so you can edit it yourself, and wired into the rest of your business tools. Same look, completely different machine underneath.

Your design is always yours and is never charged for. What you are paying for is turning that design into a living page inside your platform.

It depends on the page.

Simple or standard pages, and small edits and additions to existing ones, are light work handled as part of ongoing support.

Rich, custom-designed pages such as a full sales page or campaign page with its own unique layout are a separate build, quoted on its own.

You will always know which is which before any work starts, so there are never surprises.

A support plan covers applying and testing version updates and security patches, monitoring your backups, fixing anything that stops working, and a set number of hours each month for changes you ask for — a new report, a new salary component, a new form field. Unused hours roll over within the same quarter, so a quiet month is not wasted.

Small, quick things are still handled as goodwill. That has not changed — it is part of how we work.

Anything beyond your included hours, and anything needing real build time — new custom pages or features, new integrations, significant redesigns, new parts of the system — is scoped and quoted before work starts, or billed at our hourly rate of ₦30,000/hour.

You will always know which applies before any work begins, so you are never surprised by a bill for something you assumed was included.

No. A support plan is optional. Your system keeps running without one — hosting, SSL and backups are a separate matter — and any work you need is simply quoted or billed hourly as it comes up.

The exception is our self-serve plans at ejitechlife.xyz, where a monthly allowance of support hours is already included in the price: 1 hour a month on Starter and 2 hours on Business. Faults and anything that stops working are always fixed, with no limit. Changes beyond your included hours are quoted first or billed at ₦30,000/hour.

Clients take a plan when they would rather have updates and small changes handled for them. It is not a requirement.

No — they are two different optional plans. The support plan covers updates, patches, backups and small changes, described above. A separate growth plan (SEO and reporting) covers ongoing technical SEO work, plus proper tracking of how your site is performing, your traffic, and where your keywords rank over time.

You write the content; we handle the technical side and show you what it is achieving. You can take either plan, both, or neither.

Yes, as its own build. That means landing pages and forms, payment and checkout with automatic customer capture and delivery of what they bought, and email automation that fires your written sequences the moment someone signs up or buys.

It is built once as proper infrastructure. Afterwards, launching each new campaign is light, because the engine already exists. You bring the copy, the offer and the design, and it plugs into what is already there.

There are three routes. Most businesses take our managed hosting: your own private ERP site with its own database, on a server we manage and maintain — not shared with other businesses' data — for ₦400,000 a year.

If you want your own isolated machine, we can set you up on a dedicated VPS of your own: a Hetzner Cloud CPX32 (4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 160 GB SSD, with a dedicated IPv4 address) for ₦800,000 a year for the server alone — that does not include setting the system up on it.

Our standard self-serve plans at ejitechlife.xyz include hosting and a monthly allowance of support hours in the monthly price, plus a one-time onboarding fee for setting the system up (see the pricing page for current prices).

No. ERPNext is open-source software — there is no licence fee, and we do not charge per user or per module. Adding staff to your system costs nothing extra, unlike per-seat systems.

What you pay for is the build (setting the system up around how your business actually works), hosting, and optional support. On our self-serve plans, the setup is a one-time onboarding fee, with hosting and a monthly allowance of support hours included in the monthly price. You are welcome to look ERPNext up yourself; we would rather you know exactly what you are running.

The data is yours, always. You can request a full backup at any time. You can host the system yourself, or we can host it for you — your choice, and it can change later.

If you want to move to your own infrastructure or another provider, we help you move it, billed at our hourly support rate (₦30,000/hour) like any other work. Because ERPNext is open source, there is no vendor lock-in at the software level — the system runs anywhere.

Most businesses adopting an ERP need some custom work, because the value comes from the system matching how you actually operate. Our standard plans at ejitechlife.xyz suit a single company running standard processes: ordinary invoicing, stock, CRM, straightforward payroll.

A custom build is for things like more than one company with separate books; workflows specific to your business (for example, invoice → job order → completion → balance payment); payroll beyond monthly salaries, such as daily or per-job workers; subscription or recurring billing; VAT and withholding tax on the same invoice; integrations with other tools; and migrating existing records. We tell you honestly which one you need, including when the cheaper standard plan is enough.

Your system is ready within 5 business days of payment. We set up your company, chart of accounts, VAT and withholding tax, staff records and logins, and run a training session — that is what the one-time onboarding fee covers. We are working towards automated provisioning so that new sites can be live in minutes.

We begin building within 5 business days of the kickoff payment. A typical two-company build with payroll runs about 6 weeks from that start date.

No — most clients start fresh from an agreed date, which is faster and cheaper. Migrating existing records is possible; it is scoped and quoted separately.

Yes. VAT and withholding tax can both be calculated and applied on the same invoice.

Yes. Every staff member can have their own login to view payslips and raise requests, at no extra cost — there is no per-user fee.

Nothing changes in price. Because we do not charge per user, adding staff costs nothing extra on your plan.