Your data stays yours
Your prices, costs and margins stay yours.
A price list is a negotiating position. A cost sheet is a margin a competitor would pay to see. Apex keeps both in a database that belongs to your company alone, records every change to them, and never hands a key or a secret to a model.
- 09:14M. Ortiz changed HB-4410 on Southeast distributors, 1,230.00 to 1,215.00
- 09:02Pricing key entered by the Owner, encrypted, never shown to a model
What stays private
The numbers that make your margin.
Price lists
The default list, every customer list and every ZIP price.
Costs
Supplier quotes, last purchase cost, packaging, overhead and freight.
Margins and floors
Unit margin on every line and the floor that routes a quote for approval.
Rebates and payouts
Every rebate, its stacking rule, and what each salesperson or referrer earns.
How it is kept
One company, one database, one record of every change.
- One database per company
- Your company's data sits in its own database, behind its own login. That login cannot open any other company's database.
- Append-only audit
- Every change is recorded with who made it and when, in the same transaction as the change itself.
- Keys never shown to a model
- Keys your Owner enters are encrypted in your database. Models never see them.
- Scoped access
- People see what their role and record scope allow. Tokens for outside tools are scoped, read only and rotatable.
- Ferrata staff
- Ferrata's admin console runs on counts, never on your records, and cannot open your database.
Shared or yours
Shared software, private records.
| A shared multi-tenant table | Apex | |
|---|---|---|
| Where your rows live | Beside every other customer's, filtered by an ID | In your own database |
| Who can open it | Any query that forgets the filter | Only your company's login |
| What changed | An activity feed, if kept | An append-only audit, per record |
| Secrets | Often stored beside settings | Encrypted, and never in a model's view |
FAQ
Your data stays yours, run end to end.
Where are our prices and costs stored?
In your company's own database, behind its own login. Price lists, customer lists, ZIP prices, costs, margins, rebates and payouts all live there, and that login cannot open any other company's database.
Who can see our margins?
The people your roles and record scope allow, and no one else. Ferrata's admin console works from counts, never from your records, and cannot open your database.
How is a change to a price recorded?
In an append-only audit, written in the same transaction as the change: what changed, from what to what, who made it and when. Nothing in the audit is edited or deleted afterwards.
What happens to keys we enter?
A key your Owner enters is encrypted in your database, checked when it is entered, and never shown to a model. Ferrata's staff see only whether it is entered, active or failing.
Can outside tools read our data?
Only through tokens your company creates. Each token is scoped to what it may read, follows the same roles and record scope as a person, and can be rotated or revoked at any time.
Related in Apex
- Deployment optionsHosted, your VPC, on-prem or air-gapped.View
- PlatformYour ERP's customers, items, prices and stock in one foundation, with quote to cash on top.View
- Price listsOne default list, customer lists, and ZIP prices only where needed.View
- PricingPlans from a free start to Enterprise: credits that reset every month, unlimited users, never priced per seat.View
See Apex work on your own quote to cash.
Thirty minutes on one workflow, with your own quotes, orders or invoices. You leave with a view of where Apex fits, and an honest answer if the sequencing is wrong and you should fix something else first.
Your pricing, approval and billing rules are your advantage, and they stay yours. Apex is configured to the way you sell, make and bill. You are not handing over a playbook or fitting into a template.