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Themes Pro

Make ERPNext look like your brand — safely, via CSS variables, no core edits.

Platform
ERPNext / Frappe v15
Built for
Any ERPNext deployment
Compliance
Standard ERPNext controls
The problem

What Themes Pro removes

Making ERPNext look like your brand usually means risky core edits that break on upgrade. Themes Pro makes ERPNext look like your brand — safely.

Capabilities

What it does

1

CSS-variable theming

Recolours navbar, workspaces, sidebar and list views via CSS variables — no core edits.

2

Upgrade-safe

A custom app, so upgrades stay clean; the 'Kayes Professional' palette is the reference.

3

Dogfooded

The same palette the 540Systems marketing site uses.

Module map

The depth, at a glance

4 modules — every one of them a first-class part of the same system, not an integration.

Navbar themingWorkspace themingSidebar themingList-view theming
The foundation

Written against the core — not copied from it.

It themes the Desk through supported CSS variables — the cleanest extension point.

Themes Pro treats the ERP not as an external system to integrate with, but as its own runtime. It stores its data in the same model, posts to the same ledger, runs on the same workflow engine, obeys the same permissions and shows up in the same reports. On that foundation it adds what the platform lacks: the domain's objects, rules, language and screens.

The two-gap dilemma

Buyers are usually made to choose which gap to live with

Every business runs on a few hard things: a ledger that must balance, inventory that must be right, approvals that hold up to audit, and a permission model that keeps the wrong people out. Most of the market asks you to give up one side or the other.

Generic ERP

Broad core, shallow domain

Very good at the universal hard things — a ledger that balances, approvals that survive an audit. Not good at the specific way your operation actually runs, and that last mile of domain fit is where the value is felt.

Vertical app, beside the ERP

Deep domain, integration tax

Models the domain beautifully, then reaches back into the ERP through connectors that drift, duplicate data and quietly disagree. You pay a standing tax: engineering, reconciliation, latency, and doubt about which number is right.

Themes Pro

Deep domain + native core

Uses the platform's data model, ledger, workflow and permissions as its foundation, and adds the domain depth on top. One system. Nothing to sync, because there is only one copy.

A custom point solution can do both, but only by re-implementing the accounting, workflow, security and reporting a mature platform already ships — most of the budget goes to rebuilding the floor before anyone reaches the product.

The integration tax, made visible

The clearest way to see the value is what disappears

Beside the platform

Two copies of the data · drift between syncs · reconciliation that never ends · every new feature re-plumbed back to the core · connectors that break whenever either side changes.

Integration is not a line item. It's a standing liability.

On the platform

One source of truth · nothing to reconcile · auditability that comes from the platform rather than a fragile mapping · saved engineering moved to the domain — the only place a product actually wins.

The product and the core cannot disagree, because they share the same records.

How we build it

Five principles, and the path a deployment follows

The same rules apply to every product we ship — they are what keep an upgrade routine instead of a migration project.

  • 1
    Build on the core, not beside it. The ERP platform is the runtime. If a capability exists in the core, we reach for it before building our own.
  • 2
    Inherit, don't rebuild. Accounting, permissions, workflow, audit and reporting are solved. Every hour re-implementing them is an hour not spent on your domain.
  • 3
    Speak the platform's data model. The domain is modelled in the core's own terms, so the product contributes to one ontology rather than a private schema — and is ready for agents.
  • 4
    Design for composability. Each product is a clean building block that others can extend and combine.
  • 5
    Ride the roadmap. Every platform upgrade, connector and ecosystem tool arrives at no extra cost.

How a Themes Pro deployment lands

  1. 1Discovery
  2. 2Feasibility & estimate
  3. 3Design
  4. 4Staged build on staging
  5. 5UAT
  6. 6Launch
  7. 7Support

We migrate through staging before production and script every schema change, so each stage has a tested path back.

The full thesis — the six advantages, the integration tax in detail and the five-level maturity model we build against — is set out on the ERP-based development page.

Make ERPNext look like your brand — safely.

Themes Pro · Platform tools
How an engagement is priced

Licence and implementation are quoted per deployment — we estimate in ranges, not points, and every figure carries its assumptions, method and risks. Ask for a feasibility and you get a decision-ready go / no-go before anyone signs anything.

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Book a 30-minute demo and we'll show it running against a realistic version of your operation — not a canned dataset.