ERP Sync SafeMode + Replay for Commerce
10/10
Demand Score
ERP sync failures halt fulfillment and accounting; merchants need a way to stop the bleeding, reconcile, and safely resume within hours, not days.
7/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$2k-6k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
10 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Hard
The Problem
A fault-tolerant ERP integration layer with event-sourced queues, schema-typed mappers, SafeMode write pausing, and click-to-replay. It ships a lightweight on-prem/VM agent near the ERP (NetSuite, SAP
🔗 Validated by Real User Complaints
This problem has been verified through 3 real user complaints:
Competitor Landscape
- Celigo
- Dell Boomi
- MuleSoft
- Patchworks
- Pipe17
- Jitterbit
Must-Have Features for MVP
Event-sourced bus with idempotency and DLQ
SafeMode to pause risky writes on anomaly detection
Replay UI with field-level diffs and partial reprocess
Discrepancy ledger for bi-directional reconciliation
Sandbox-to-prod promotion with synthetic order packs
Backfill spooler with rate-aware throttling
Prebuilt flows for top ERPs and Shopify/BigCommerce
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- On-prem connectivity and security reviews
- ERP idiosyncrasies and throttling
- Complex mapping for taxes, kits, and returns
- Change management across IT and ops
Risk Level: High
🎯 Keys to Success
- Near-zero data loss with provable idempotency
- Fast time-to-recovery with guided replay
- Clear reconciliation outcomes trusted by finance/ops
- Security posture acceptable to IT (agent + least-privilege)
- Measurable reduction in incident minutes and chargebacks
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