Comparison
Ettore vs Softland Pedidos IA for orders and quotes
Softland Pedidos IA is the AI order-intake module of Softland ERP: orders arrive by WhatsApp, email or file, a person approves them in a tray, and they go into Softland ERP. Ettore does a wider job on a different ERP. If you run Softland ERP and only need orders captured, the honest answer may be Softland’s own module.
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What actually decides it.
Which ERP you run
Softland Pedidos IA exists to feed Softland ERP and names no other system. Ettore has no Softland ERP connector. If Softland ERP is your system, that one fact settles most of this page.
Whether quotes are part of the job
Distributors receive requests for quotes as well as purchase orders. Softland’s module handles the orders. Ettore drafts both: a priced quote with the customer’s own price list and other brands’ codes matched, or a sales order.
Where the requests come in
Softland reads WhatsApp directly, audio included. Ettore is built around the email inbox; WhatsApp reaches it only when your team forwards a message. If most of your orders are voice notes, that matters.
Both keep a person in charge
In Softland’s tray someone approves every request before it enters the ERP. Ettore’s default is the same. Autopilot is something you switch on for chosen request types, and only clean matches qualify.
Side by side.
Softland’s column comes from its Pedidos IA product page and its June 2025 announcement, as checked on 2 November 2026. We have not used it. Where its pages are silent we say so, which is not the same as the feature being absent. If a row is wrong, tell us and we will correct it.
| Softland Pedidos IA | Ettore | |
|---|---|---|
| What it handles | Incoming orders. We found no quote workflow on its pages | Quote requests and orders: priced quotes and sales orders |
| ERP | Softland ERP only, through its API | Odoo connected today. SAP Business One and Microsoft Dynamics on request: we build the connector. No Softland ERP connector |
| Setup | A module from your ERP vendor; no third-party integration | Connect a mailbox and the ERP, set up together with your team; about a month to go live |
| Where requests come from | WhatsApp, email and purchasing platforms, as free text, audio, PDF, Excel or images | Outlook and Gmail, with PDFs, spreadsheets and images. WhatsApp only as messages your team forwards |
| What it reads from the ERP | Product hierarchy, purchase history, price lists, customers and delivery points | Catalog, customers, each customer’s own price list, and stock read live |
| Codes from other brands | Not described on the pages we checked | Mapped to your SKUs; an unrecognized line is never marked Ready |
| Approval | Every request is viewed, validated, edited if needed and approved in the Central de Pedidos tray before it enters the ERP | A person approves by default. Autopilot only on request types you choose, and only on a clean match |
| Traceability | From the channel it came in on to its entry into the ERP | A status on every line, and every action logged where your admin can see it |
| Where it is offered | Product pages on Softland’s sites for 12 Latin American countries, Mexico included | Website in English, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese; in production at a distributor in Portugal and Spain |
| Pricing | Not published; demo on request | No figure published. Priced by requests handled, not by seat; you can turn it off anytime |
| Who is behind it | Grupo Softland, which states more than 35,000 clients across its products | Adaptto, which builds and runs Ettore |
Which one fits you.
Choose Softland Pedidos IA if
- You run Softland ERP and want order intake from the vendor you already have
- What you need is orders captured, not quotes drafted
- Many orders arrive straight to WhatsApp, as text, audio or photos
- You want no integration project with a third party
Choose Ettore if
- You run Odoo, or SAP Business One or Dynamics and want the connector built for your setup
- Quote requests are a large part of your inbox, not only orders
- Customers write other brands’ codes and each one pays their own price list
- Requests arrive mostly by email, with PDFs and spreadsheets attached
Questions about the comparison.
We use Softland ERP. Should we look at Ettore?
For order entry alone, probably not: Softland’s module is native and needs no connector, and Ettore has none for Softland ERP today. If quoting is your real bottleneck, tell us. Whether a connector can be built depends on what Softland ERP’s API allows, and we would rather look at it than guess.
Does Softland Pedidos IA handle quotes?
Not that we could find. Its product page and its announcement describe order intake into Softland ERP, and we found no quote workflow on them as of 2 November 2026. If that changes, we will update this page.
Can Ettore take orders from WhatsApp the way Softland does?
Only through your team. A rep forwards the customer’s message, PDF, spreadsheet or photo to your company’s number, and Ettore reads it like an email and asks in the chat which customer it is for. Customers do not write to Ettore on WhatsApp directly.
Where do the Softland facts on this page come from?
From Softland’s Pedidos IA product page and its article of 19 June 2025, read on 2 November 2026; the client figure is from Grupo Softland’s own “about us” page. We have not used the product.
Bring an order and a quote request.
Send us one of each from your real inbox. We will show you what Ettore drafts from them, line by line, and tell you plainly if your ERP is not one we connect to.