BatchMaster Software
“Can a 40-year-old process-manufacturing ERP stay indispensable to formula-based manufacturers by layering AI on top of their existing QuickBooks/SAP/Sage financials?”
Founded1983
HQIrvine, California, United States
FoundersRandy Peck
Latest roundDebt - PPP
IndustryVertical SaaS / Process Manufacturing ERP
The story
Founded in 1983 as an early process-manufacturing software vendor, BatchMaster was acquired by eWorkplace Solutions in 2000 and pivoted to Windows and later to a cloud-first ERP tailored to formula-based manufacturers (food, chemical, nutraceutical, pharma). The company sits alongside — not against — general ledgers like QuickBooks, SAP Business One, Sage 100/300, and Microsoft Dynamics, positioning itself as the process-manufacturing overlay to those financials. In 2026 it launched an AI layer (BatchMaster Web 9.0) rather than any push into embedded finance.
Product timeline
1983
Founded as Pacific Micro Software Engineering, later renamed BatchMaster DOS.· founding
2000
Acquired by eWorkplace Solutions and reincorporated as BatchMaster Software.· acquisition
2001
Infocus Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (ISPL) formed in Indore, India to build Windows-based application.· product
2026
Released BatchMaster Web 9.0 with AI-powered intelligence (Ask BME assistant, AI product development, AI sales forecasting).· product
The stack
3 layers disclosed in BatchMaster Software’s embedded-finance stack
Payments / PSP
EBizCharge (Century Business Solutions)
Money movement
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Accounting
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Accounting gap: none
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