Overview

Carbon is a manufacturing system: ERP for the office, MES for the floor. These are the technical docs.

Carbon is a manufacturing system with ERP for orders, purchasing, planning, and accounting, and MES for shop-floor , , and tracking. Both applications use one data model.

These technical docs describe system behavior, fields, and operations. For an end-to-end introduction, follow the Guide from sales order through shipment and traceability.

How the docs are organized

Carbon's applications, packages, database, events, jobs, and authentication.

Deploy Carbon to a Docker-based VPS or an AWS account with SST.

Environment variables

Every variable that configures a Carbon instance, grouped by concern.

Definitions and behavior for methods, reordering, routings, and other entities.

Build on Carbon

Read and write data through the service layer over HTTP or MCP.

Access tables directly when the Carbon API does not expose an operation.

Authenticate external systems with scoped secrets.

Receive HTTP callbacks when subscribed records change.