When you invest in NetSuite, you’re not just getting a powerful ERP system—you’re opening the door to a flexible platform that can adapt to nearly any business process. Yet even with all its capabilities, most organizations discover opportunities where a small automation or targeted enhancement can make day-to-day work faster, easier, and more accurate. That’s where Smartes’ NetSuite add-ons can help.
At Smartes, we’ve developed a suite of lightweight, affordable NetSuite solutions designed to fill those common operational gaps—helping businesses save time, reduce errors, and increase productivity without the cost or complexity of full-scale development. Below are nine of our most popular NetSuite add-ons that streamline everything from finance and manufacturing to customer communication and inventory management.
1. Capture and Control Labor Time from the Shop Floor
Tracking labor hours accurately can be one of the biggest challenges for manufacturing teams. Our NetSuite Mobile Manufacturing Add-on enables production workers to log time directly from mobile devices while syncing all data instantly with NetSuite. Supervisors gain visibility into efficiency and production performance in real-time, while the system eliminates manual time entry errors. This add-on helps manufacturers close the gap between shop floor activity and ERP data integrity.
2. Take the Chaos Out of Year-End Close
Closing the books is often a high-pressure, error-prone process. The NetSuite Financial Closure Checklist Add-on gives your finance team a structured, repeatable process to complete every step with confidence. It creates a standardized checklist inside NetSuite—ensuring reconciliations, journal entries, and approvals are tracked, documented, and completed in sequence. With built-in accountability, you can reduce bottlenecks, improve accuracy, and close faster than ever.
4. Bridge Project Management and ERP with Asana Integration
Managing projects in Asana while tracking budgets and deliverables in NetSuite can create silos. The Asana–NetSuite Integration Add-on eliminates those barriers by automatically syncing tasks, statuses, and project updates between both systems. This ensures your operations, finance, and project teams stay aligned, reducing administrative work and giving everyone access to the same real-time data.
5. Keep Procurement Compliant with an Approved Vendor List
Maintaining vendor compliance is essential for controlling spend and ensuring quality. The Approved Vendor List Add-on for NetSuite enforces purchasing rules directly within your procurement process.
Buyers can only select approved suppliers, while managers can easily audit and maintain vendor lists. This ensures that purchasing activity stays within corporate policy—no exceptions, no missed approvals, no off-contract spend.
6. Connect with Customers Instantly Using SMS from NetSuite
Customers expect quick and clear communication. Our NetSuite SMS Add-on allows your team to send messages directly from NetSuite—covering updates like order status, delivery confirmation, and appointment reminders all with text messaging services.
All messages are logged automatically within the corresponding record, ensuring full visibility and consistency across teams. It’s a simple way to boost engagement and responsiveness without adding another platform to your tech stack.
7. Get Instant Visibility on Inventory and Incoming Shipments
For fulfillment and operations teams, knowing what’s in stock and what’s inbound is critical. The Inventory Availability and Inbound Shipping Popup Add-on delivers that information right where users need it—inside NetSuite transaction screens. This real-time popup shows item availability and shipment details without requiring users to leave the page or search manually. The result: faster fulfillment, fewer errors, and happier customers.
8. Simplify Multi-Location Transfers with Automated Workflows
Transferring stock between warehouses can get complicated fast. The Advanced Inventory Transfer Add-on makes it easy by automating the creation and processing of transfer records while maintaining accurate costing and audit trails. This tool ensures that inter-location transfers are quick, accurate, and fully traceable—saving time for logistics teams and reducing the risk of inventory discrepancies.
9. Speed Up Bin Management with Automated CSV Imports
Managing bin assignments manually can eat up hours of administrative time. The CSV Bin Import Add-on for NetSuite automates this task by allowing bulk import and validation of bin data using simple CSV files. This is especially useful during warehouse reorganizations or initial setup. With accurate bin-to-item mapping and no need for scripting, your warehouse team can focus on fulfillment instead of data entry.
10. Unlock Real Profit Margins with Accurate COGS Reporting
Financial clarity is crucial for strategic decision-making, yet many NetSuite users rely on estimates or delayed data to calculate profitability. The Actual COGS and Transaction GP Reporting Add-on solves this by linking actual cost of goods sold (COGS) directly to transaction records, providing an accurate, real-time view of gross profit. With this NetSuite add-on, your finance team can:
- See true profit margins at the item, transaction, and customer level
- Eliminate reliance on estimated costs
- Improve pricing and purchasing strategies with more reliable data
This solution gives leadership the insights they need to make faster, more informed financial decisions—all from inside NetSuite, without complex reporting add-ons or external tools.
Enhance Your NetSuite with Smartes Add-ons
Each of these Smartes-developed NetSuite add-ons is designed to solve a focused operational challenge with minimal disruption to your existing system. They’re lightweight, quick to install, and require little to no customization—making them ideal for organizations that want to enhance efficiency without embarking on a full development project. Small improvements like these can have an outsized impact: reducing manual work, improving visibility, and tightening control across business units. The beauty of NetSuite add-ons lies in their ability to extend your ERP’s capabilities in a modular, scalable way.
If your team is looking to improve workflow efficiency, increase data accuracy, or streamline communications, Smartes offers a wide range of NetSuite add-ons built to deliver value quickly. Each add-on integrates seamlessly with NetSuite and is designed for rapid deployment—helping your business realize immediate benefits without complex setup or heavy support. Explore the solutions linked above to see how our NetSuite enhancements can help your business run smarter. Or, reach out to Smartes to discuss which add-ons would have the biggest impact for your operations.