A single trade record
Each purchase order, order confirmation, shipment and invoice belongs to one trade, so there is nothing to cross-reference between spreadsheets and inboxes.
Trading ERP · Commodity & refractory minerals
Run your trading desk on one connected system
Comet manages the complete lifecycle of a physical trade in one place: inquiry, pricing, contracts, procurement, warehousing, shipping, invoicing and accounting. Every figure appears in both USD and EUR, and documents are produced in English or German for each trading entity.
- One record for each trade
- USD and EUR on every figure
- Documents in English and German
Built for Swiss and German trading houses that buy and sell refractory and commodity minerals.
One desk for 40+ materials — from Aluminium Fluoride and Bauxite to Silicon Carbide and Zircon Sand.
Why Comet
The whole trade in one place, not across ten tools
Most desks run a trade across spreadsheets, inboxes and a separate accounting system. Comet keeps it in a single record, from the first calculation to the closing entry.
Net cost you can rely on
The calculation desk builds the landed cost from every real component, so the margin you approve is the margin you book.
Compliance inside the workflow
VAT registrations, counterparty approval and document requirements are checked as the trade moves, not weeks after it.
Accounting posted for you
Every trade posts its own sale, purchase, stock and invoice entries to a full double-entry ledger.
The platform
Everything the desk needs to run a trade
Ten modules that read and write the same trade record.
Calculation desk
Build net cost price from raw material, freight, customs, handling, financing, conditioning and delivery, then read net, gross and annualised margin.
Orders Book
See every trade as one row, with its purchase order and order-confirmation numbers, both logistics legs, vessel and ETA, and current profit and loss.
Commercial documents
Generate offers, order confirmations, purchase orders, invoices and packing lists, each numbered by a fixed scheme and drawn from the trade record.
Warehousing
Track purchase lots on a moving-average cost ledger, with stock reserved against each order confirmation.
VAT & customs
Hold per-country VAT registrations with validity dates, and stop DDP or DAP deals without a valid registration in the clearing country.
Finance & treasury
Post every trade to a double-entry ledger on SKR03 and Swiss charts, with AP reminders, AR ageing and cash-flow planning.
Counterparty & KYC
Keep one verified record per counterparty, and hold back a purchase or sale order until it is approved for transaction.
Market intelligence
Build bid and ask curves per material and grade from your own executed trades, normalised to a common incoterm.
Logistics & tracking
Follow multi-modal transport legs with live vessel positions and automatic cargo-readiness alerts.
Client portal
Give invited clients a view of their own orders, shipments and invoices, labelled with their order-confirmation number.
The lifecycle of a trade
Eight stages, one record the whole way
Each contract carries a visible progress bar. Nothing is re-keyed between stages: the offer becomes the order confirmation, and the order confirmation becomes the invoice.
- 01Inquiry
- 02Calculation
- 03Offer
- 04Purchase order
- 05Order confirmation
- 06Contract
- 07Call-off
- 08Shipment
How it is built
Built like a system of record
Comet is a white-labelled Odoo 18 platform, extended for commodity trading and presented as a dedicated desk.
Odoo 18
A real ERP underneath
Full double-entry accounting, native documents and real stock moves, not a front-end over spreadsheets.
16+
Automated test suites
Cover the trade flow from the calculation desk through to the accounting entries.
0
Client data at rest
Comet ships empty; a tenant is reconstituted in full from a sealed data pack.
EN · DE
Bilingual, dual-currency
English documents for the Swiss entity, German for the German entity, with USD and EUR on every figure.
Frequently asked questions
Is Comet a marketplace?
No. Comet is a trading ERP that you run as your own system. It manages your trades, documents and accounting; it does not place you on a shared marketplace or expose your positions to anyone else.
What is Comet built on?
Comet is a white-labelled Odoo 18 platform, extended for commodity and refractory-minerals trading and presented as a dedicated trading desk. The full double-entry accounting, documents and stock moves are native to the platform.
Which languages and currencies does it support?
Documents are produced in English or German depending on the entity, and every figure is shown in both USD and EUR.
Can the compliance engine be added later?
Yes. The trade compliance engine is a separate add-on. It can be installed or removed at any time without affecting the rest of the system.
How is a new tenant set up?
Comet ships with no client data and is reconstituted from a sealed data pack, so your desk starts with your own entities, materials and counterparties.
See Comet on your own trades
Book a walkthrough and we will run it against your deal flow, from the first inquiry to the accounting entry.