01 / 06 Sydney, Nova Scotia · since 2006 · Canada-wide remote
Everything you want. Nothing you don’t.
Scotia Enterprise Manager, an ERP with integrated POS, plus the implementation, process work and automation to make it fit. Built and run with Nova Scotia businesses for the better part of a decade.
Founded 2006 · SEM in production ~8+ years · direct developer support · quoted per business
Fig. 1 · Receiving, inventory, sales and POS, storage billing and reporting on one spine. One save updates all of it.
In short
Scotia Software is a Sydney, Nova Scotia company founded in 2006 that builds and implements Scotia Enterprise Manager, ERP-class business management software with an integrated point of sale. We work with freight, warehouse, wholesale, retail and food & beverage businesses across Canada, remotely, and the people who wrote the software are the people who implement it.
- Founded
- 2006
- Sydney, Nova Scotia
- SEM in production
- 8+ years
- with Nova Scotia businesses
- Deployment
- On-prem or dedicated host
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Support
- From the developers
- no call centre
- Delivery
- Canada-wide remote
- Nova Scotia based
02 / 06
Software, implementation and automation. One team.
We do not resell someone else’s ERP. We wrote this one, we configure it to your operation, and we answer the phone afterwards.
Scotia Enterprise Manager
ERP with integrated POS on Microsoft SQL Server. One database for inventory, purchasing, sales, customers, vendors and the ledger.
- Receiving, inventory and adjustments
- Quotes, orders, invoices and POS
- Accounting, payroll and reporting
Warehouse & 3PL management
Client-owned stock and your own, by pallet and bin, with manifests, bills of lading and storage billing rules that produce the invoice.
- Own stock versus client stock
- Pallets, bins and transfers
- Storage billing runs
AI, automation & custom software
Agents that read documents, match records and draft replies inside the system you already run, with a person checking before anything posts.
- Readiness assessment inside Discovery
- Agent-in-the-loop workflows
- Integrations and data migration
03 / 06
Built with real operations, not from a brochure.
Freight and trucking companies are our primary focus. The same system runs cold stores, processing plants, retail counters, restaurants, contractor supply houses and pallet warehouses. Each door below is written for that trade.
- FRT
Primary focus
Freight & trucking
Warehouse, storage and related services, sold through relationships you already have, run on one system.
Learn more - SEA
Seafood
Lot and code date on every pallet, weight at the door, accounts with statements, and storage billed for product you hold for others.
Learn more - CSL
Cold storage, warehousing & logistics
Manifests per customer, bins with capacity, bills of lading, and billing rules that turn pallet-days into each customer’s invoice.
Learn more - DST
Wholesale distribution
Food service, beverage and convenience, industrial and janitorial distributors: prices by customer type, orders with backorders, statements on a schedule and purchasing from min and max.
Learn more - BLD
Building supply & contractor yards
Contractor accounts with terms and credit limits, quotes that become orders, short bundles held on the line, supplier catalogues with your markup, site address on every sale.
Learn more - FRN
Furniture & appliance
Big-ticket pieces sold from the floor or on special order: the piece the supplier still owes, the signed order, layaways, dated sale prices, one ledger the accountant reads.
Learn more - RST
Restaurants & pubs
Touchscreen register with kitchen slips and staff logins, recipes that draw down ingredients, gift cards, Canadian payroll and the ledger in one database.
Learn more - TRE
Tire shops & garages
The vehicle and tire size on every quote and invoice. Supplier catalogues imported and priced, fleet customers on account, one system with the books.
Learn more - RTL
Retail
SKU search, layaways, quotes to invoices, receiving from purchase orders and price rules by customer type.
Learn more - Book a fit call
Which fits?
Not sure which door is yours? Book a 30–60 minute fit call.
We will say plainly whether this is a fit, including “not a fit”.
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Scotia Enterprise Manager
ERP-class. Integrated POS. Yours, on your own server or on a dedicated single-tenant host. Features are switched on per business, so a carrier adding storage, a wholesaler and a multi-store retailer each run a different SEM on the same disciplined core.
Nine areas. One database. One save.
A sale, a receipt or a bill is keyed once, where it happens, and everything downstream is written in the same save. If any part fails, nothing is written.
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01
Inventory & catalogue
items, barcodes, vendor items, min/max, locations
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02
Purchasing & receiving
PO Builder, packing slips, one click to the bill
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03
Point of sale
retail counter and touchscreen, one back office
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04
Customers & AR
terms, credit, statements, aging
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05
Vendors & AP
bills, payments, cheques
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06
Warehouse & storage billing
manifests, pallets, bins, billing rules
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07
Accounting & payroll
ledger, statements, bank rec, Canadian payroll
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08
Reporting
dashboards, report designer, Excel and PDF
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09
Users & stations
permissions per screen, activity log, backups
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A short call, a paid Discovery, then monthly implementation.
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Step 01
Fit call
A short form, then a 30–60 minute call. We both decide whether there is a real match. No endless tire-kicking.
30–60 MIN · AFTER A SHORT FORM
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Step 02
Discovery
Two focused days mapping how the work actually runs. You leave with a written blueprint and an honest fit read, including “not a fit”.
$1,200 CAD · 2 DAYS · 100% CREDITED IF A RETAINER STARTS WITHIN 30 DAYS
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Step 03
Build
Monthly implementation days: configure Scotia Enterprise Manager, tighten process, train people, add automation where it removes real work.
~4 DAYS / MO · $3,200 / MO · DEFAULT RECOMMENDATION
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Step 04
Software that stays
SEM remains your system of record, on-premises or on a dedicated host, supported by the people who wrote it.
SEM QUOTED PER BUSINESS · DIRECT DEVELOPER SUPPORT
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Notes from the floor.
ai
Embracing AI
2025-04-11
Dave Connors on why AI adoption is now a competitive necessity for small and mid-sized businesses, and where to start.
Readpos
POS Hardware – Part I
2017-04-12
POS vs cash register, all-in-one terminals vs ordinary PCs, tablets, and installed vs web-based software: an introductory guide.
Readpos
Must-Have Functionality in your Service Desk Management System
2017-03-27
What a retail service desk module needs: serialized items, customer and product history, technician notes, parts, invoicing, reporting.
ReadTalk to someone who has actually run operations on this system.
A short form, then a 30–60 minute fit call. If it makes sense, a paid two-day Discovery. No self-serve cart, no sales queue.