Norbits

What Norbits does

Norbits is a Norwegian vertical-software vendor headquartered in Voss that builds and sells industry-specific ERP and workshop management systems to two primary customer groups: Norwegian car and tire workshops, and Nordic retail/wholesale chains. The workshop offering, branded norbits.Verksted and built on the Future platform (Windows client-server, version 6.20.56, with ASP/remote-desktop hosting options), covers appointment booking, customer and order management, inventory, mechanic time tracking, tire hotel (dekkhotell) management, invoicing, and direct parts ordering through deep integrations with Norwegian distributors including Meca, Hellanor/AutoShop, Romnes, Mekonomen, GS Bildeler, and AutoData. The retail offering is a family of ERP modules under the norbits.ERP brand, including norbits.Retail for multi-store retail chains, norbits.Wholesale, norbits.ImportExport, and norbits.WMS, supplemented by norbits.Pay in-store payment software and customer-facing portals such as Webavtalebok (web booking) and Kundeweb. The company is currently developing Athena.Verksted, a browser-native successor to the Windows Future platform.

Norbits operates a direct B2B sales-led motion, selling subscription-based software with annual billing, quote-based pricing, and dedicated support. Customer tenure is unusually long: the Romnes/SjekkPunkt Norge co-development relationship dates to the late 1990s, Humberset Bil- & Mek verksted has been a customer since 2004, and Kid ASA, a publicly listed Nordic home-interior retailer with approximately 300 stores across Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Estonia, runs norbits.Retail enterprise-wide. The firm also serves multi-country specialty retailers such as We Norwegians (Norway, Denmark, USA). The company is privately held, with no disclosed funding rounds, parent company, or institutional investors.

The technology stack is conventional and Windows-centric: a local or Norbits-hosted database with client-server or remote-desktop access, supported by an extensive but undocumented integration layer linking to Norwegian payments (Verifone, Nets, Vipps), accounting (Visma), cash-register compliance (Duell for kassaloven), electronic invoicing (Efacto/EHF), and supplier catalogs. No public or partner-facing API is documented; the next-generation Athena.Verksted will run only on Norbits servers. There is no evidence of AI, ML, or proprietary data-flywheel capabilities.

Name

Norbits

Legal name

Norbits

Website

https://norbits.no

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Norbits is a Voss-based Norwegian vendor of subscription ERP and workshop management software for car/tire workshops and Nordic retail chains, built on the Windows-based Future platform with deep integrations to Norwegian parts distributors, payment terminals, and accounting systems.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Veland

HQ country

Norway

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Software Licensing/Subscription: The company generates revenue through licensing its specialized ERP and workshop management software systems (norbits.Verksted, norbits.Retail, norbits.WMS, norbits.Dekk) to automotive workshops and retail businesses. Software is offered on a subscription or licensing model with options for cloud-hosted (ASP/remote desktop) or on-premise deployment.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Norbits develops and sells specialized, industry-specific business software in two verticals. For car and tire workshops it offers norbits.Verksted™ (Future Verksted/Dec Dekk) with order, appointment, time tracking, tire storage (dekkhotell) and invoicing functions. For retail and specialty trade chains it offers the norbits.ERP family — norbits.Retail™, norbits.Wholesale™, norbits.ImportExport™, and norbits.WMS™ — together with norbits.Pay in-store payment software. Products run on Windows with local or ASP/Remote Desktop hosting and integrate with Norwegian parts suppliers, payment terminals, and accounting systems.

Product overview

Norbits delivers specialized IT systems for workshops (norbits.Verksted™) and retail (norbits.ERP product family). The workshop offering centers on Future (Verksted & Dekk) — a Windows-based industry software for car and tire workshops — plus the web-based appointment booking module Webavtalebok, the tire storage module norbits.Dekk, and norbits.Pay payment software. The retail/ERP product family, branded norbits.ERP, includes norbits.Retail™ (ERP for retail chains), norbits.Wholesale™ (wholesale management), norbits.ImportExport™ (import/export), and norbits.WMS™ (warehouse management), with norbits.Pay providing in-store payment processing. The company also develops Athena.Verksted, an upcoming web-based evolution of the Future platform. All products share a common data architecture with deep third-party integrations for parts catalogs (Meca, Hellanor/AutoShop, Romnes, Mekonomen, NBK, GS Bildeler), payment terminals (Verifone, Nets, Vipps), accounting systems (Visma), cash registers (Duell), and remote access (Microsoft Remote Desktop, TeamViewer).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• norbits.Verksted™: A specialized industry system for car and tire workshops.
• norbits.Retail™
• norbits.Wholesale™
• norbits.ImportExport™
• norbits.WMS™
• norbits.Dekk
• norbits.Pay

Products and services

• norbits.Verksted™ (Future Verksted) Specialized industry system (workshop management software) for car and tire workshops in Norway. Manages orders, appointments, time tracking, tire storage (dekkhotell), inventory, invoicing, and customer recall messaging, with native integrations to Norwegian parts supplier catalogs (Meca, Hellanor/AutoShop, Romnes, Mekonomen, AutoData, NBK, GS Bildeler, Valvoline) and payment terminals (Verifone, Nets, Vipps). Runs on local PC/server or via Norbits-hosted ASP/Remote Desktop.
• norbits.Retail™ Specialized industry ERP system for chains in goods and specialty retail in Norway and the Nordics. Provides inventory management, multi-store support, sales processing, and integration capabilities for retail chain operators. Used by customers including We Norwegians and Kid ASA (~300 stores).
• norbits.Wholesale™ Wholesale management software within the norbits.ERP family, supporting wholesale-specific workflows, pricing, and operations for trade and retail businesses.
• norbits.ImportExport™ Import/export management software within the norbits.ERP family, designed for companies engaged in international trade and cross-border wholesale operations.
• norbits.WMS™ Warehouse Management System (WMS) software within the norbits.ERP family, providing multi-location inventory and warehouse operations management, with Datalogic Memor X3 handheld terminal support for inventory counting.
• norbits.Pay In-store payment software that integrates with norbits.Retail ERP and point-of-sale terminals, supporting payment processing alongside cash register (Duell) and payment terminal (Verifone, Nets, Vipps) integrations for compliance with Norwegian cash register law (kassaloven).
• norbits.Dekk (Dekkhotell) Tire hotel management software for tire workshops. Manages customer tire sets, storage locations, seasonal tire switches, and customer recall/SMS invitations. Runs only on Norbits servers.

Named customers6 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration21 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• MecacoreTechnology or IntegrationLong-standing partnership with Meca for parts catalog integration. Norbits has long history with Meca such that their catalog and services work seamlessly with norbits.Verksted, enabling direct parts ordering from within the workshop software.
• Hellanor (AutoShop)coreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration with Hellanor/AutoShop for parts catalog access. Hellanor provides electronic price files that are converted to Future format and imported directly into the software.
• RomnescoreTechnology or IntegrationPartnership with Romnes for parts catalog integration. Romnes and SjekkPunkt Norge have collaborated with Norbits since the end of the 1990s, creating the best data program for their member workshops.
• SjekkPunkt NorgecoreTechnology or IntegrationLong-term partnership with SjekkPunkt Norge workshop network since late 1990s, developing specialized data programs for member workshops.
• MekonomencoreTechnology or IntegrationParts catalog integration with Mekonomen enabling workshop ordering directly from the workshop management software.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Visma: Dominant Nordic ERP, accounting and business-software incumbent serving hundreds of thousands of SMBs. Already integrated with Norbits via Visma accounting export, and broad enough to expand into workshop and specialty-retail verticals.
• Vitec Software Group: Swedish vertical-SaaS company acquiring and developing software businesses across multiple Nordic niches. A potential acquirer or competitor archetype for a small Norwegian vertical-SaaS player.
• Cegid: European retail and ERP software provider with strong presence in fashion, specialty retail and wholesale. Comparable in serving the retail-chain ERP niche (overlapping with norbits.Retail) but focused on larger European markets.
• EG A/S: Major Nordic vertical-software group serving multiple industries including automotive, retail and wholesale. Comparable as a regional vertical-SaaS consolidator with the scale to encroach on Norbits' niches.
• Fortnox: Swedish cloud accounting and ERP platform dominating the Swedish SMB market. Comparable in serving SMB back-office software needs, though less vertically specialized for workshops and tire hotels.

Emerging players

• Shop-Ware: US-based cloud workshop management platform for independent auto repair shops. Comparable as a cloud-native direct competitor in the workshop-software category, with modern SaaS delivery that contrasts with Norbits' legacy install model.
• Tjek: Danish receipt-data and retail-engagement platform used by Nordic retailers for digital receipts, loyalty and product data. Adjacent to Norbits' retail ERP and payments (norbits.Pay) business, with potential overlap in serving Nordic specialty retail chains.
• Workshop Software: Cloud-based workshop management software for mechanical and auto-service businesses, primarily in Australia. Comparable in core functionality to norbits.Verksted and represents the modern cloud-native archetype Norbits is migrating toward.

Direct peers

• Evatic: Finnish/Nordic provider of workshop and field-service management software with strong presence among equipment dealers and service workshops. Comparable to Norbits in the workshop-management software category, with broader international reach.
• Pyramid Computer Systems: Swedish software vendor specializing in ERP and business systems for the automotive aftermarket, including workshops and parts dealers. Direct peer to Norbits in automotive workshop vertical SaaS across the Nordic region.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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