Striven

The short version

One application, one database, and a general ledger sitting next to inventory instead of behind an integration. That is the Striven pitch. It bundles accounting, inventory, CRM, project management, and HR for small and midsize US companies that would otherwise stitch together an accounting package, a CRM, and separate project or inventory tools. Because both the ledger and inventory management are native to the platform, Striven counts as a genuine ERP for its size class rather than accounting software with bolt-ons. The vendor positions it below NetSuite and Acumatica on price.

Where Striven comes from

The product has an unusual origin: it started as the internal business system of an IT services firm. Miles Technologies was founded in 1997 in Lumberton, New Jersey, and trades today under the Miles IT brand. That internal tool took shape as a SaaS product from around 2014 and reached the general public under the Striven name in April 2019. Ownership has stayed simple. The company is privately held and founder-led, with no private-equity investor and no corporate parent, and development and support sit in the United States.

What it covers

Accounting runs the full path from general ledger through AR/AP, invoicing, and financial reporting. Around it sit inventory and order management, a sales pipeline with CRM, project and task management with time tracking, field service scheduling, and HR functions covering recruiting, onboarding, and employee records. Customer and vendor portals are available, as are dashboards and a report builder. The third-party integration catalog is noticeably smaller than what large suites carry, which follows from the all-in-one philosophy: fewer connectors are needed when the modules already share one database. Companies that depend on a specific niche tool should confirm compatibility before signing anything.

Best-fit companies

Roughly 5 to 250 employees. Professional and field services, distribution and logistics, retail, light assembly. Complex manufacturing is out of scope: there is no deep MRP and no shop-floor control, so make-to-order and multi-level production environments will hit the ceiling.

How it is sold

Delivery is multi-tenant SaaS only, with no on-premises option. Pricing is published on the vendor website, which is rare in this segment (figures as of August 2026): 35 USD per user per month for Standard, 70 USD for Enterprise, plus an additional 25 USD per user for accounts under five users. Customer, vendor, and career portals carry separate monthly plans. Implementation and onboarding are quoted individually, so the list price is only part of the picture.

Where it wins, where it loses

Buy it if you run a service, distribution, or retail business inside that 5-to-250 headcount band, you are tired of paying for four systems that half-talk to each other, and you want a published price you can check before the first sales call. Do not buy it if you manufacture anything more involved than a kit, or if your processes are unusual enough to need heavy customization: reviewers who praise the breadth consistently flag limited depth there. Companies planning to triple in size should also pause. The vendor is far smaller than most in this directory and the partner ecosystem is thin, so the scalability ceiling deserves a hard test rather than a promise. For a like-for-like cost view against the bigger suites, run the numbers through the TCO calculator and work through a structured selection process.

What the Striven website looks like

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• Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)