Namasoft: 50 modules, three tax mandates, no published price

Most pages in this guide end on one sentence: get the price in writing, because the vendor does not publish it. Namasoft is the only vendor that writes that about itself: its pricing page states plainly that there is no list price, and that the page will not pretend otherwise, then explains the five drivers that set it.

That honesty is a strength and a weakness at the same time, and this guide separates the two.

Origin and ownership

Namasoft is an Egyptian software company, and its product Nama ERP is a resource planning system built on Java and web-first from day one.

The “Nama Story” page on the site, read on 6 September 2026, tells a detailed history with names and dates that most companies do not publish:

• 2011 — founded by five partners: Ameer Gaafar, Ahmed Qasid, Mohammed Foly, Yasser Gad and Walid Ismail. Entirely self-funded, with a long stretch of no salaries.
• It began in a flat on Ibn Al-Waleed Square in Dokki, Cairo, with three employees and roughly two years spent on infrastructure before the product itself.
• 2012 — the first project with ECPAs, document archiving, which later became the document management module; ECPAs sells it as Capital Solutions ERP.
• 2013 — the contract with Al Shitaa & Al Saif, a Saudi electrical retailer; live on 1 January 2014.
• 2016 — the Saudi branch opened.
• Today — a villa owned in Mohandessin, and more than 200 people across branches and the partner network.

The declared figures: more than 700 customers, 10,000 users, and over 50 modules.

And a leadership change declared on the site itself: Ameer Gaafar left for Google in February 2022; Ahmed Qasid is Managing Director and Development Manager, and Yasser Gad is Chairman.

Who it fits

The practical range: mid-sized and large companies in Egypt and the Gulf that need one system covering multiple entities and a specialised sector, and accept pricing by meeting rather than by page.

Specifically:

• Groups with multiple legal entities — because branches are neither counted nor priced, however many there are; what is priced is the legal entity. That is a large difference for a chain of thirty branches under one registration.
• Anyone operating under more than one tax mandate — Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE in one product.
• The sectors that fall out of general-purpose systems — property and contracting, motor trade, travel, freight and logistics.
• Anyone who wants installation, implementation and training inside the price rather than as a separate line that multiplies.

It does not fit a small company wanting to subscribe today and run tomorrow, nor anyone who needs a price before a meeting, nor anyone operating outside Egypt and the Gulf.

What is in it

The site presents nine solution families — the pricing page counts 46 modules within them, while the top navigation says 54:

• Finance and accounting — the base everything else builds on.
• Manufacturing and quality — bills of materials, production orders and quality control.
• HR and payroll — eleven modules inside this family alone.
• Property and contracting — contracts, progress claims and unit management.
• Motor trade — an entire sector, with chassis records, warranties and aftersales service.
• Travel, logistics and freight — trips, shipments and clearance.
• Reporting, business intelligence and AI.
• Platform, customisation and integration — ten modules, which is what makes customisation part of the product rather than a way around it.
• E-invoicing and tax — the whole of the next section.

E-invoicing: three countries, one engine

This family is four modules, licensed together or separately, and the site describes it as “three mandates, one engine” — meaning the country modules are configurations over a single submission engine rather than three products:

• Saudi Arabia — ZATCA phase two: UBL 2.1, cryptographic stamps, and the QR code. See ZATCA phase two.
• Egypt — the Egyptian Tax Authority system: the electronic invoice with HSM signing and GS1/EGS coding, and the electronic receipt for point of sale.
• The UAE — Peppol in the PINT AE format through an accredited service provider on the five-corner model. The detail is in UAE e-invoicing.

The site declares its listing on ZATCA’s register as Namasoft Saudi Computer Company, a “phase two qualified solution provider” — and adds the correct caveat itself: that ZATCA publishes it as a guiding list rather than an approval. It is rare for a seller to write that about itself, and the general rule holds for every vendor in this guide without exception: check the published list on the date of your own decision.

What it actually costs

No published price, and the site says so outright, then names five drivers:

1. Which systems you licence — every module is a line.
2. How many legal entities — and branches are free and uncounted, however many there are.
3. How many concurrent users — not how many employees you have.
4. How many point-of-sale registers — licensed per machine, each holding a local database and continuing to sell when the connection drops.
5. Which country you buy in.

And three observations that change your estimate:

The first — “concurrent user” is not “user”. A company of a hundred employees may have twenty working at the same moment. The difference on your invoice is large and in your favour, but it makes the figure impossible to estimate before someone measures how you actually work.

The second — branches are free and entities are not. So your group’s legal structure sets the price, not its geographic map. Re-read your commercial registrations before you ask for a quotation.

The third — installation, implementation and training are inside the price. That runs against the pattern of the whole market, where the services line exceeds the licence line several times over — and the reason is set out in why ERP projects fail. So compare offers on the total, not on the licence row.

What it does well

1. Three countries on one engine. No other vendor in this guide covers Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE with its own product. Anyone with entities in all three buys one system rather than three — compare against the e-invoicing readiness table.

2. Branches are not priced. The cost line that kills chain budgets at Rewaa and Wafeq does not exist here at all.

3. Specialised sectors ready-built. Property, contracting, motor trade and freight are not customisation you pay for; they are existing modules. And those are precisely the sectors where general-purpose systems lose.

4. Customisation is part of the product. Ten modules in the platform and integration family mean modification is a defined path rather than a workaround.

5. Point of sale works offline. A local database on every machine, and selling continues through an outage. That is a real operational difference for a retail chain.

6. Unusual transparency. A founding story with names and dates, a pricing page that admits it does not price, and a self-imposed caveat on what a ZATCA register listing means. Three signals to be read together.

7. Fifteen years and a partner network. Including Exceed ERP in Kuwait, SoftVision, and offices in more than one Egyptian governorate — so implementation does not rest on a single office.

Where it breaks

1. At the absence of a price — the first thing you meet. No figure, no range, no floor. So comparing it against Odoo or Daftra is impossible before a meeting, and that excludes it from any fast selection process however well it fits.

2. At licensing everything by the module. E-invoicing is its own line, not an included feature — which is why it appears in this guide’s tables as a vendor add-on rather than in the core product. That is its licensing model throughout rather than a compliance-specific upsell; but the effect on your bill is the same.

3. At estimating concurrent users. You do not know your number before go-live, and the vendor knows it after. Get a ceiling and an overage price written into the contract before you sign.

4. At small scale. A fifty-module product with an implementation project is not what a five-person company buys. Anyone wanting to subscribe today starts at Qoyod or Wafeq.

5. At “more than 50 modules”. The top navigation says 54 and the pricing page counts 46. Ask for the modules licensed to you by name in the quotation, not the headline count.

6. At partner dependence. Part of the implementation runs through the partner network. Ask who specifically implements your project, how many projects in your sector they have finished, and for a reference you can call.

7. At the exit. A closed system with a large database. Ask before you enter, not after: how do I get the entries, the balances, the attachments and the full e-invoice archive out, and in what format? See ERP data migration.

Learning it

No declared self-service trial — the path is a demonstration and then a meeting.

The order that works:

1. Start with the cycles, not the screens — the finance cycle, the procurement cycle, and order to cash.
2. Then ask for a live demonstration on your own sector — not on a generic trading company. If you are a contractor, ask for a progress claim.
3. Then ask for a real electronic invoice in front of you in your country, issued, deliberately rejected, and corrected by credit note.
4. Then ask them to delete an approved invoice in front of you. If it works, the evaluation is over — the reason is in ZATCA phase two.

The full list is in the ERP demo.

Certification and the job market

There is no declared public technical certification, and qualification runs through the company and its partners.

The hiring market here is real if narrow: two hundred people and seven hundred customers mean steady demand for implementers and consultants in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, with far less competition for the role than for an SAP one.

But the portable value stays in the content rather than the tool: anyone who has mastered the contracting cycle, or manufacturing costing, or Egyptian and Saudi payroll, carries it to Odoo or Business Central. The order is in the ERP learning path and from accountant to ERP consultant.

When to choose something else

• If you want a published price today — Daftra, Qoyod or Wafeq.
• If you are a small company going live this month — mazeed, or Rewaa for retail.
• If you want open source and a wider partner network — Odoo or ERPNext.
• If you are a multi-currency group closing consolidated books globally — NetSuite or Oracle Fusion.

Every system is compared in the systems table, and tax readiness in the e-invoicing table.