Yes — the trial gives you access to the full SAP Business One application including financials, inventory, purchasing, sales, CRM, production/MRP and reporting. All core modules are accessible from day one. Some enterprise-specific add-ons (our ShopConnect manufacturing execution system, barcode integration, distribution management extensions) are separate products that sit on top of SAP Business One and are not part of the core trial — but we can demonstrate these separately if they are relevant to your evaluation. The trial runs on a cloud instance (SAP Business One Cloud) so there is no installation required and you can access it from any browser. The environment comes pre-loaded with industry-specific sample data — manufacturing sample data for a factory evaluation, distribution data for a wholesale trading business — so you are not starting from a completely empty system.

Yes — our trial is not self-service. A 2iSolutions consultant is assigned to your trial from day one and available to answer questions, walk through specific functionality, explain why something works the way it does and help you test scenarios relevant to your business. The support during trial is not a sales pitch — it is genuine product guidance from someone who has implemented SAP Business One many times and understands both its strengths and its limitations. We also provide access to SAP's own documentation and online resources, and can set up additional walkthroughs of specific modules if your team wants structured guidance on a particular area (for example, a dedicated session on production planning for a manufacturing business).

The most valuable trials we run follow this approach: in week one, involve your key users (finance, operations, sales leads) in module-specific walkthroughs focused on their daily processes. In week two, have those same users attempt to run their actual workflows in SAP Business One — not simulated data, but as close to your real process as possible. Document where the standard product handles things well and where it requires workarounds or customisation. In weeks three and four, bring questions — both the functional ones ("why does the stock valuation work this way?") and the strategic ones ("how complex would our GST setup be in a real implementation?"). The structured review at the end compares your documented requirements against what you experienced and produces an honest picture of fit. Trials that are treated as passive demos rather than active evaluations tend to produce vague conclusions; the more your team actually uses the product for their real tasks, the clearer the outcome.

The end-of-trial review produces two outputs: a fit assessment (what SAP Business One handles natively for your business, what requires configuration and what requires custom development or add-ons) and a scoping proposal (implementation phases, timeline, team involvement required and cost estimate). If you decide to proceed, the next step is a formal scoping session that goes deeper — mapping your processes to SAP Business One in a blueprint document, finalising the license mix (Professional vs Limited users), selecting deployment model (cloud or on-premise) and agreeing a project plan. The trial environment is separate from your production system — data entered during the trial does not carry forward automatically, but your master data structure (chart of accounts, item groups, business partner categories) informed by the trial is used as the starting point for the implementation blueprint.

Then the trial has done exactly what it should — saved you from a misaligned implementation. If the end-of-trial review concludes that SAP Business One's standard product has gaps that would require excessive customisation to close, or that the implementation cost significantly exceeds the business value given your current scale, we will say so directly. 2iSolutions also implements Odoo — a more flexible, lower-cost ERP platform that is a better fit for some business types, particularly service businesses, smaller trading companies and organisations with highly non-standard processes. If the trial reveals that SAP Business One is not right for you but another SAP product (such as SAP S/4HANA for a business that has grown beyond B1's scope) or Odoo would be a better match, we discuss that honestly. A trial is how both parties find out whether there is a fit — and a "no fit" outcome is a better result than proceeding with an implementation that is not right for the business.