Your new hire’s first order shouldn’t be a real one.
Simetta is a flight simulator for Prophet 21, Business Central and Acumatica. Upload your SOPs and it builds the training: guided lessons and scored tests, done your company’s way. New hires practice until they pass, and you see who’s ready before they touch the live system.
No signup. The lesson runs in your browser on a sample company.
Your first phone order
Maria A. · Customer Service 1 · accuracy 60%
An order was entered for Canadian River Plastics10 pts
Exactly one order was entered5 pts
The order is for UCF20815 pts
Quantity of UCF208 (each)20 pts
Required Date15 pts
Entered 03/02; the customer asked for 03/05. The warehouse picks by required date. A wrong date either rushes an order that could wait or misses the date the customer was promised.
Customer PO number15 pts
Left blank. Many customers’ AP departments reject invoices without their PO number. The invoice sits unpaid until someone chases it.
Unit price comes from the system10 pts
Typed over the system price. Overriding the system price bypasses contract and quantity-break pricing and is the most common source of margin leakage.
Ships from the customer’s usual location (OKC)10 pts
- ready-made modules
- 124ready-made modules
- guided lessons, each with a scored test
- 516guided lessons, each with a scored test
- ERPs: Prophet 21, Business Central and Acumatica
- 3ERPs: Prophet 21, Business Central and Acumatica
- changes to your live system
- 0changes to your live system
Simetta in a minute
A lesson, a scored test and its debrief, the manager’s view, and a lesson changed to match an SOP.
Your SOPs, turned into training people practice
The binder of procedures already says how your company does the work. Simetta reads it and drafts the training for you, so new hires learn your way, not a generic one.
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Upload the procedure
A Word file, a PDF or plain text, a Scribe or Tango guide exported as PDF, or the transcript of a recording of someone doing the job. One procedure can cover several departments.
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Simetta plans the module
It breaks the procedure into skills, each tied to the passage it teaches. Approvals, emails and calls around the ERP work become steps too; only physical work, like signing a driver’s paperwork, is left out.
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It writes and checks the lessons
A guided lesson and a scored test for each skill, on your ERP’s screens and your company’s data. Each test is replayed with realistic mistakes, and any mistake that would still score 100 is caught before you see it.
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You publish, they train
Lessons that pass every check are ready to publish; the rest wait for your edit. Trainees see your procedure beside every lesson built from it.
WH-04 Receiving purchase orders, rev. 3.docx
“Count every line against the packing slip before receiving. Receive only what is on the dock; a short line stays open on the PO. Put stock away to its home bin the same shift…”
- Receive a PO that came in complete5 min
- Receive a short shipment, leave the rest open and email the buyer7 min
- Put received stock away to its home bin5 min
Practiced outside the system: email the buyer about the short line. Left out: sign the driver’s bill of lading.
No binder of SOPs? Start anyway.
You have SOPs
Upload them as they are.
It lives in someone’s head
Record them doing the job on Teams, Zoom or Loom and upload the transcript.
You have neither
Start from the built-in training and Simetta writes the SOP from it, word for word.
How most teams learn the ERP today
Scored the way Simetta scores a trainee: what happened, and what it costs.
Shadowing a coworker
The new hire learns one person’s habits, shortcuts included, and nobody checks what stuck.
Practicing in the live system
Every practice order is a real order someone has to find and cancel, and the real mistakes ship.
A test company
Stale data nobody resets, and no one grades the work, so “practice” means clicking around.
A signed training checklist
It proves they sat through it. It doesn’t prove they can take an order on credit hold.
Teach it, then test it with different data
Every skill runs the same loop. A score only counts when the person can do the task on a customer, item and document they have never seen.
Lesson
A coach panel walks through the real screen one field at a time, says why each one matters, and can do a step while the trainee watches. The lesson only finishes when the work in the sandbox would pass the test.
Scored test
The same skill with a different customer, item and PO. No steps, hints cost points. Every save is checked, field by field, against what the task asked for.
Debrief
Each miss comes back in plain language: what was wrong, what was expected, and what it would have cost the business. Skills return for review after 1, 3, 7 and 21 days.
Module exam
A random draw of the module’s skills, each with fresh data. Passing it is what certifies the module.
See the loop for yourself: lesson, test and debrief take about five minutes.
Try a lessonThe job doesn’t end at Save. Neither does the test.
Real procedures say “get the credit manager’s approval before you release it” and “email the buyer the order number.” Simetta practices those steps beside the ERP screen and scores them like any other.
Request approval
The approver answers in the lesson. Releasing the order before the approval comes back is a miss.
Email
Sent to the right person, with the order number in it. A corrected email replaces the first one.
Log a call or a note
The collection call, the promise to pay, the reason for a credit: written down where the procedure says.
Know who’s ready before they’re on the phones
Managers assign tracks by department with due dates. The overview shows who is behind, what the team keeps getting wrong, and every attempt behind every score.
Needs attention
Overdue people, with a Nudge that sends an alert and an email.
Most missed checks
The mistakes your team makes most, ranked, with the attempts behind them.
Progress by module
Who has certified what, by department and due date.
Every attempt
Score, debrief and each save the trainee made, exportable to CSV.
Team skills checks
Test a whole department on a module, lessons or not, and see who can already do the work.
Change the training by saying what you want
No training department required. Tell Etta, in plain words, what should change: a step your team adds, a module for new hires, a procedure that needs its scope filled in. It reads your training and proposes each change for you to apply.
Nothing changes until you apply it
Each proposal says what it changes and why. New and changed lessons still wait for your review.
SOPs that match the training
Write a procedure from any modules: every step is the lesson’s own wording, and Update from the training keeps it that way.
A track for every desk
23 Prophet 21 modules, 44 Business Central modules and 57 Acumatica modules across the departments that live in the ERP all day, before any you build from your own SOPs. Each department has a sample lesson you can play right now.
| Department | Modules | Sample lesson | Actions |
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| Customer Service and Sales CSR · Inside Sales · Pricing | P21: 9 modules, 38 skills BC: 19 modules, 76 skills Acumatica: 22 modules, 93 skills Order entry, Tricky orders, Receiving for the front counter… | Take a phone order: the right customer, item, quantity, date and PO. | Play it |
| Purchasing Purchasing | P21: 3 modules, 11 skills BC: 5 modules, 20 skills Acumatica: 7 modules, 30 skills Vendors, suppliers and items, Buying, Inventory control… | Raise a PO to the right supplier, at the right cost, for the right branch. | Play it |
| Warehouse Warehouse | P21: 3 modules, 11 skills BC: 6 modules, 29 skills Acumatica: 8 modules, 35 skills Bins and adjustments, Transfers, Receiving and shipping… | Move stock off the receiving dock into the bins it belongs in. | Play it |
| Accounting AR · AP · GL | P21: 8 modules, 35 skills BC: 11 modules, 49 skills Acumatica: 15 modules, 66 skills Applying cash, Credit and billing, The three-way match… | Post a customer’s check to the invoices it pays. | Play it |
Your ERP’s screens. Your company’s data. None of your risk.
The screens follow your ERP’s labels, tabs and grids, so what people learn transfers on day one. Underneath is one business-rules engine: credit holds, contract and quantity-break pricing, allocation, terms discounts and the three-way match all behave the way they do in real life.
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Prophet 21 screens
Order Entry to month-end: the P21 windows your people use most, rebuilt as a training simulation.
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Business Central pages
Sales orders to bank reconciliation on Dynamics 365 Business Central pages, reached through Tell Me the way your people do.
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Acumatica screens
Sales orders, scanner receiving and picking, production, CRM, service and finance, built screen by screen from a live Acumatica system, prompts and messages included.
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Your own procedures
Upload an SOP, or a recording of someone doing the job, and Simetta builds a module from it on your ERP’s screens, approvals and emails included.
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Your own data
Load your customers, items, vendors and stock from a spreadsheet or your ERP’s report exports. If the export has no stock or bins, Simetta fills in practice data around it.
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Live system untouched
The sandbox is its own copy with its own engine. It resets for every attempt.
Pay per person you train, or yearly for everyone
Hiring two people this year? Pay for two. Training a whole department, or building training from your own SOPs? A yearly plan covers everyone. Every built-in track is included either way.
Questions
What is Simetta?
Simetta is a training simulator for ERP work at distributors and manufacturers. Employees practice real tasks, such as entering a sales order, receiving a PO or posting a customer payment, on screens that look and behave like their ERP. Each attempt is scored, and a debrief explains what went wrong and what it would have cost.
Can Simetta build training from our own SOPs?
Yes. An admin uploads a procedure as a Word file, PDF or text, or pastes it in. Guides from Scribe or Tango work when exported as PDF or Markdown, and a job nobody has written down can start from the transcript of a Teams, Zoom or Loom recording of someone doing it. Simetta plans a training module from it and writes a guided lesson and a scored test for each skill, on your ERP’s screens and your company’s data, including the approvals, emails and calls the procedure asks for around the ERP. Each test is checked by replaying it with realistic mistakes; lessons that pass every check are ready to publish, and you edit or approve the rest. Trainees read your procedure beside each lesson.
We don’t have SOPs. Can Simetta write them?
Yes. Pick one or more modules and Simetta writes the procedure from the training: every step is the lesson’s own wording, so the SOP never says something the training doesn’t. You fill in the purpose, scope and who does what, and add the steps that happen outside the ERP. When a lesson changes, the procedure offers to update from it.
Who keeps the training up to date?
An admin, in a sentence. The training assistant takes requests in plain words, such as “add a step to email the customer the order number”, reads your modules, lessons and procedures, and proposes each change. Nothing changes until the admin applies a proposal, and new or changed lessons still wait for review.
Does Simetta connect to our live ERP?
No. Trainees work in a sandbox with its own business-rules engine. Nothing they do reaches your live system, so a mistake in training costs nothing.
How is this different from training videos or a test company?
Videos show the task but can’t check the work. A test company lets people practice but nobody resets it, the data goes stale, and nobody scores the result. Simetta resets itself, gives each attempt different data, and checks the work against the task, field by field. The comparison pages go through each alternative in detail.
Can the practice data look like our business?
Yes. Simetta ships with a demo company, and you can import your own customers, items, vendors and stock from a spreadsheet so trainees practice on names they will see on day one.
Which ERPs does Simetta support?
Epicor Prophet 21 (P21), Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (BC) and Acumatica. Each ERP is its own set of screens over the same business-rules engine, so a new ERP gets the same scoring, debriefs and manager reports.
What do managers see?
A team overview with who is behind and a one-click reminder, team skills checks that test a whole department on a module, progress by department and module, scores and debriefs for every attempt, the checks people miss most, time to competency, and CSV export.
How is Simetta priced?
Two ways. Per person, for companies that hire occasionally: each person trained gets 90 days of every built-in track. Or yearly, for unlimited training, team skills checks and modules built from your own SOPs, priced by how many people use your ERP. We can also build SOP modules for you, per module. There is a one-time setup fee to load your data. See the pricing page for the numbers.
How long does a lesson take?
Most skills take five to ten minutes: a guided lesson, then a scored test on the same skill with different data. Each module ends with an exam that draws several skills at random.
Five minutes on the demo will tell you more than this page can.
Play a real lesson, take the scored test, then see what your manager would see.