Two products, two markets
Cafca is the Belgian gold standard for installation businesses. 500+ HVAC companies and 1200+ electrotechnical companies run on it. They do that for good reason: Cafca solves the actual problem an installer has, which is a tangle of quoting, ordering, dispatching, time tracking, and invoicing across a warehouse and a fleet.
Jasning solves a smaller problem. Some crews don't have a warehouse. They don't quote with parts lists. They don't run Peppol invoicing. They just need to know who goes where tomorrow morning, and they want to plan that by chatting with Claude or ChatGPT.
If you're an installer, you almost certainly want Cafca. If you're not, an installer ERP is the wrong tool.
Where Cafca wins
The full installer stack. Quoting with parts and labor. Wholesaler integrations (Rexel, Sax Sanitair, Cebeo). Peppol invoicing. Time tracking. Warehouse and inventory. CRM. Mobile app for the field. Years of Belgian-specific compliance baked in.
For a 20-person electrotechnical installer in Antwerp, none of that is optional. Jasning doesn't try to compete there.
Where Jasning wins
Two things, neither subtle.
Weight. Cafca is modular. A typical installer setup pulls 3-4 modules and lands around €150/month. The setup involves a sales call, configuration, and a 1-3 day rollout. That's the right cost for an installer; it's the wrong cost for a 3-person cleaning crew.
AI. Cafca has no MCP server. The product was built before MCP existed and AI integration is not a roadmap priority. If you want your dispatcher to plan by chatting with Claude, that conversation can't happen with Cafca yet.
Jasning's whole product was designed around MCP. The dispatch board and the MCP server share the same data, and connecting Claude or ChatGPT takes five minutes.
When to stay on Cafca
Don't switch to Jasning if you actually need Cafca. We won't fit your business. Specifically:
- You write multi-stage quotes with itemized parts
- You buy from wholesalers and need that integration
- You run a warehouse with stock movements
- You need full accounting inside the dispatch tool
Cafca is much better at all of these. They're not on our roadmap.
When to leave Cafca
If you're paying for Cafca and only using the planning module, you're probably overpaying. The other modules are why Cafca costs what it costs. If your business is small enough that scheduling is the actual work, a lighter tool with native AI will fit better.
Worth a 30-day side-by-side trial. Free during beta. No credit card.