Resources
Resources for learning and evaluating Spark ERP.
A single hub for everything from product research to hands-on learning. Most sections below are still being built — the ERP Glossary is real, written content you can use today.
Blog
Plain-language articles on ERP, HCM, payroll, onboarding and CRM: what the terms mean, how to evaluate software and how to run better processes.
Read the blog →Customer Stories
How real organizations use Spark ERP — challenge, solution, implementation and results. We publish these once we have real customers to feature.
See the Customer Stories page →Guides
Practical checklists and step-by-step guides for evaluating and implementing ERP and HCM software, from requirements to go-live.
Browse the guides →Whitepapers
Longer-form research on ERP architecture, multi-tenancy and AI in enterprise software. None published yet.
Read the Platform pages instead →Webinars
Live and recorded sessions walking through the platform and specific applications. No sessions scheduled yet.
Request a live demo instead →Videos
Short product walkthroughs and feature demonstrations. Not recorded yet.
Try the product instead →Tutorials
Step-by-step, hands-on tutorials for building on the platform. The real developer quick start already exists.
Read the Developer quick start →Product Updates
What shipped and when. See the Release Notes page for our honest current framing.
View Release Notes →Events
Conferences, webinars and community meetups. None scheduled yet — see Company Events for the same honest status.
View Company Events →ERP Glossary
Real, written definitions of common ERP and platform terms — available today.
Browse the glossary →ROI Calculator
An interactive calculator for estimating the return on consolidating systems onto Spark ERP — real math, disclosed assumptions.
Calculate your estimate →ROI Calculator
Estimate the directional cost difference of consolidating onto Spark ERP. Real math, disclosed assumptions — not a lead-gated PDF.
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Assumptions, disclosed: this is a directional planning estimate, not a quote. It uses a simple per-employee-per-app rate by tier (Starter $8, Professional $14, Enterprise $22 per employee/month/app — illustrative list-style rates, not your negotiated price) plus a flat $6,000/year platform base fee. It does not account for implementation cost, data volume, AI usage, storage, or support tier, all of which affect a real quote.See real pricing details →Get an exact quote →
ERP Glossary
Plain-language definitions of common ERP and platform terms — real reference content, not a placeholder.
- ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)
- Software that runs the core operating processes of a business — finance, procurement, sales, inventory, manufacturing, HR and more — on one connected system, instead of separate disconnected tools.
- Multi-Tenancy
- An architecture where one software platform serves many separate customers ("tenants"), with each tenant's data isolated from every other tenant. Spark ERP isolates tenants at the database and schema layer, not just with application-level filters — see the Multi-Tenant Architecture page.
- Tenant
- One customer organization's isolated instance of data and configuration within a multi-tenant platform.
- Metadata-Driven / JSON-First
- An approach where pages, forms, workflows and business rules are stored as structured data (JSON) interpreted at runtime by a shared engine, rather than compiled into per-customer application code. Changing behavior means editing configuration, not forking source code.
- Workflow Engine
- A platform service that runs multi-step business processes — approvals, escalations, SLA-timed tasks — as stateful process instances rather than ad-hoc status fields scattered across screens.
- RBAC (Role-Based Access Control)
- A permission model where access to records, fields, screens, APIs, reports and actions is granted through roles assigned to users, rather than configured per user individually.
- SSO (Single Sign-On)
- A login model where a user authenticates once with an identity provider and gains access to connected applications, rather than maintaining a separate password per system.
- MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication)
- A login flow that requires a second proof of identity beyond a password before issuing an authenticated session.
- Plugin / Plugin Runtime
- A packaged unit of platform extension — an application, a set of pages, a service, or backend logic — installed into the platform rather than merged into its core source code.
- Connector
- A configured integration between the platform and an external system (a bank, a payment gateway, an identity provider, another SaaS product), built once as configuration and reused rather than hand-coded per integration.
- Country Pack
- A pre-built set of tax, payroll, compliance and statutory-reporting configuration for a specific country, so localization is a configuration layer rather than a custom build per country.
- Industry Pack
- A pre-configured set of applications, fields and processes tailored to how a specific industry actually operates, reducing the configuration needed to go live in that sector.
- AI Agent
- An AI component that can take multi-step action within the platform's own workflow and permission model — not just answer questions, but carry out a bounded task under the same access controls a human user would have.
- Integration Flow
- A platform layer that composes calls to internal and external APIs into a single configured flow, used for integration scenarios that span more than one system.
- Data Platform
- The shared data model and services underneath every application on the platform, so applications built on top share one consistent view of core business entities instead of duplicating their own.
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