You design and sell your own electronic product. You may build it in-house or send it to a contract manufacturer, in low to medium volume. PartsBox keeps one source of truth for your parts and BOMs, prices and sources the product, runs the build, and traces what you shipped.
Parts, prices, and BOMs live in separate spreadsheets and a distributor cart. Stock drifts from what is on the shelf. A BOM costs one number on paper and a different number when you buy it. A part is bought by the meter or the gram but tracked as if it came by the piece. When a part fails in the field, you cannot tell which units used it.
Keep every part — linked, local, meta, and sub-assembly — in one inventory, with stock, storage locations, internal part numbers, datasheets, and stock value. Track parts bought and used in continuous quantities — wire by length, solder paste by weight, coating by volume — with correct stock and pricing in every unit.
Import a BOM from KiCad, Altium, EAGLE, or CSV, then price it from live distributor offers with price breaks, minimum order quantities, and order multiples. Define substitutes once — as a meta-part, on a part, or per BOM line — and PartsBox prices, purchases, and builds across all of them, so one MPN going out of stock does not stop the line. Turn shortages into purchase orders, and receive them by scanning. Run the build, in-house or through a contract manufacturer, and trace each unit back to the lots it used.
Companies across audio, instruments, IoT, robotics, medical, defense, space, energy, and industrial electronics run their product on PartsBox. PartsBox is not an accounting system and not an ERP. It is the parts, BOM, purchasing, and production system behind your hardware.
Start on Essentials for inventory, BOM pricing, and purchasing across a small team. Move to Production when you run builds with attrition and multiple stages, and to Control when you need stock tracked by lot, serial numbers, and role-based access.