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Genius ERP

Genius ERP at a glance
VendorGenius Solutions
HeadquartersSaint-Laurent (Montreal), Quebec, Canada
OwnershipPrivately held Canadian company
DeploymentCloud or on-premises
Target marketSmall to midsize custom and engineer-to-order manufacturers
IndustriesIndustrial machinery, custom equipment, metal fabrication, tool and die, mold making
PricingPricing on request (no vendor-published prices, as of August 2026)
Websitegeniuserp.com

What Genius ERP is

An ERP system for shops where the order lands before the drawing exists. Genius ERP serves small and midsize custom manufacturers: engineer-to-order (ETO), make-to-order, custom-to-order and assemble-to-order operations in which every job starts in engineering, and the bill of materials only comes into being once the design is done. Genius Solutions sells the software together with implementation services and manufacturing field expertise. Its best-known capability is tight CAD integration that turns engineering drawings directly into bills of materials.

Where Genius ERP comes from

Genius Solutions is privately held and Canadian, based in Saint-Laurent on the island of Montreal, with more than 30 years of history among custom manufacturers. Growth has been organic and steady, reported at over 15 percent per year. October 2025 changed the company's size: the acquisition of CDID, the Quebec-based developer of Prextra ERP, took the combined organization from about 125 employees to more than 225. Sales and support address the whole North American market, and documented US customers operate in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Indiana and other states.

What it covers

  • CAD2BOM: bill-of-materials creation directly from CAD systems such as SOLIDWORKS and Autodesk Inventor
  • Estimating and quoting for one-off, engineered products
  • Project management and scheduling for long-running custom jobs
  • Shop floor data collection and job costing
  • Inventory management and purchasing
  • Integrated CRM, accounting, and field service management

Best-fit companies

Industrial machinery and custom equipment builders. Metal fabricators. Tool, die and mold shops. These businesses live from accurate estimates, engineering-driven BOMs and per-project cost control, requirements a generic SMB ERP meets only after heavy customization. Process manufacturing and high-volume repetitive production sit outside the product's design brief.

How it is sold

Cloud or on-premises, whichever the shop prefers. Genius Solutions publishes no prices; each quote is project-specific and normally includes the implementation work. Budget for that inside a structured ERP selection process, and visit comparable ETO shops as references before anything gets signed.

Bottom line for buyers

Few vendors selling into the US market take engineer-to-order this literally: CAD-to-BOM automation built for shops where every job begins as a drawing, not a general manufacturing ERP with an ETO checkbox. Custom equipment builders in the 10-to-250-employee range should shortlist it. High-volume repetitive plants and process manufacturers should skip it. The open questions are vendor scale, support capacity in your region, and how development attention gets divided across two ERP lines after the 2025 CDID acquisition.

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Frequently asked questions

What kind of shop is the ideal Genius ERP customer?

Shops that engineer what they sell: ETO, make-to-order, custom-to-order and assemble-to-order manufacturers roughly between 10 and 250 employees. Machinery builders, metal fabricators, and tool, die and mold shops form the documented base. If production runs on repeatable BOMs at high volume, or on formulas rather than parts, the engineering-first architecture buys you very little.

How does the CAD integration in Genius ERP work?

CAD2BOM reads drawings from systems such as SOLIDWORKS and Autodesk Inventor and builds the bill of materials from them, removing the rekeying step where ETO shops typically lose time and introduce errors. The practical test for a buyer: bring one of your own recent drawings to the demo and count how much manual cleanup the generated BOM still needs.

Is Genius ERP available in the cloud or on-premises?

Both, so infrastructure preference does not decide anything here. Quotes are project-specific, usually wrap in implementation by the vendor's own manufacturing-experienced team, and there is no public price list, which means comparisons against other bids only work on full project figures. A structured ERP selection process keeps those numbers comparable.

How stable is the vendor, and does the Canadian headquarters matter for US buyers?

More than 30 years in business, private ownership, and reported organic growth above 15 percent per year argue for staying power. The October 2025 CDID acquisition roughly doubled headcount, from about 125 to over 225 people, and added the Prextra ERP line, so two due-diligence questions follow: how support is staffed for your US region, and how development attention is balanced between two products. The Montreal headquarters itself has not kept shops in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Indiana from running the system.