E2 Shop System (Shoptech)
| Vendor | ECI Software Solutions (formerly Shoptech Systems) |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Fort Worth, Texas, USA (ECI) |
| Ownership | ECI Software Solutions, majority-owned by Leonard Green & Partners since late 2020 |
| Deployment | On-premises client/server (legacy); successor JobBOSS2 is cloud-based |
| Support status | Legacy: Shoptech was acquired by ECI Software Solutions in Q4 2020, and JobBOSS2 launched in May 2021 as the combined successor to E2 Shop and JobBOSS. Legacy E2 still receives support as of mid-2026, but development focus is on JobBOSS2 and no public end-of-life date has been announced. |
| Target market | US job shops and make-to-order machine shops (historical install base) |
| Industries | Precision machining, job shops, contract manufacturing |
| Pricing | Not published; legacy product no longer sold to new customers |
| Website | ecisolutions.com/products/jobboss2 |
The short version
E2 is a legacy product. Shoptech Systems built it into one of the best-known job-shop management packages in the United States, sold for decades to machine shops and make-to-order manufacturers. Its functionality now lives on in JobBOSS2, the cloud successor ECI Software Solutions created by merging E2 Shop with the original JobBOSS. A US shop searching for E2 today is really doing one of two things: evaluating JobBOSS2, or planning a way off an installed legacy system.
Where E2 comes from
Shoptech was a family-founded software company with roots in the 1980s, and E2 became one of the most widely installed shop-management systems among small American machine shops. ECI Software Solutions bought it in the fourth quarter of 2020. ECI is a Fort Worth, Texas consolidator of vertical business software, majority-owned by the private-equity firm Leonard Green & Partners since late that same year.
The follow-up came quickly. ECI launched JobBOSS2 a few months after the acquisition, pairing E2 Shop's cloud-friendly platform with the functional depth of JobBOSS. The Shoptech brand has since disappeared into ECI, and shoptech.com routes visitors to JobBOSS2 material.
What it covers
Legacy E2 runs the classic job-shop cycle end to end: estimating and quoting, job orders and routings, scheduling, purchasing and inventory, shop-floor data collection, job costing, and shipping with invoicing, plus accounting. None of that scope was thrown away. It carried over into JobBOSS2, which adds a cloud-native architecture, a modernized interface, and the ongoing feature development that legacy E2 no longer receives as a priority.
Typical customers
The historical install base is small: US machine shops, job shops, and contract manufacturers, often with well under 100 employees. ECI serves that same profile with JobBOSS2 today, so the audience has not shifted. Only the product generation has.
Licensing, hosting, cost
Legacy E2 is an on-premises client/server installation. JobBOSS2 is sold as cloud software on subscription, which changes both the cost structure and who carries the IT responsibility. ECI publishes no price list for legacy support or for JobBOSS2, so terms come out of a direct conversation with the vendor. Shops about to have that conversation should treat it as a full selection project rather than a renewal; our ERP selection guide lays out the steps.
Where it wins, where it loses
Nobody should put E2 on a new-purchase shortlist. It is not positioned for new sales, and ECI points prospects to JobBOSS2 instead. For the sizeable base still running it, the real questions are support quality, the cost of standing still, and when to move.
JobBOSS2 is the path of least resistance, backed by ECI migration tooling and an incentive structure, and for a shop that is happy with E2's logic it is the lowest-risk landing spot. Shops that resent trading a local server for a subscription, or that have outgrown what a job-shop package does, should use the forced platform change to compare competitors seriously, because switching costs run about the same in any direction. No public end-of-life date exists, so there is no reason to panic. There is also no reason to wait: data migration planning takes months, and negotiating after an end-of-life announcement is the weakest position available.
What the E2 Shop System (Shoptech) website looks like
Current view of the vendor homepage, captured by our editorial team.
