Renr vs Mekari
Mekari is Indonesia’s largest local business software group, and the comparison is not a like-for-like one. Mekari sells a family of separately-priced products — Jurnal for accounting, Talenta for HR and payroll, Klikpajak for tax, Qontak for CRM and omnichannel chat, Sign for e-signatures, POS for retail and F&B, plus Expense, Flex, Pay and Capital — that you assemble into the stack you need. Renr is one app, billed per branch for the shop floor and per user for a head-office team, covering point of sale, bookings, CRM, tasks, team chat, double-entry accounting with Indonesian tax handling, a unified WhatsApp and social inbox, commerce and a website builder. Mekari is built for a company that needs each of those functions done deeply and is prepared to buy and run several products. Renr is built for a smaller business that needs all of them working together in one place.
When Mekari is the better choice
Choose Mekari if you need HR and payroll, licensed tax filing, or accounting that spans several companies.
- Mekari Jurnal is a dedicated accounting and ERP product, from Rp399.000/month.
- Mekari Talenta is a dedicated HR and payroll system; Renr offers neither.
- Mekari Klikpajak is a licensed tax application, from Rp250.000/month.
- Renr sells no HR or payroll product and no licensed tax application, and its accounting covers one company rather than a group.
- Often the answer is both: Mekari for finance and payroll, Renr for the front of house.
When Renr is the better choice
Choose Renr if covering the basics would otherwise mean buying three or four Mekari products.
- Rp 300.000 per branch a month covers POS, Commerce, Accounting and Tasks for ten users in one plan.
- Mekari POS from Rp299.000 plus Jurnal from Rp399.000 already costs more than that.
- The HQ plan at Rp 500.000 per user, minimum three seats, adds the helpdesk inbox, AI auto-reply on Claude Sonnet and automation.
- Mekari sells no project management, task management, team chat or bookings product.
- One vendor, one login and one bill instead of three or four separate subscriptions.
What each one costs
- Free
- Rp 0
- 2 users, 100 contacts, 1,000 orders/mo, 10 GB — no helpdesk inbox, chatbot or automation
- Branch / toko
- Rp 300.000 /branch/mo
- 10 users included. POS, Commerce, Accounting, Tasks — no helpdesk inbox, chatbot or automation
- Extra branch user
- Rp 50.000 /user/mo
- Each user past the 10 included at a branch
- HQ / head office
- Rp 500.000 /user/mo
- Minimum 3 seats. Every module, plus helpdesk inbox, AI auto-reply and automation
Branches are billed per location, HQ per person, and the two combine — five outlets with an HQ team pay five times Rp 300.000 plus Rp 500.000 per HQ user. The HQ plan carries 15,000 or 45,000 AI credits a month. Billed monthly in Rupiah, cancel any time, via QRIS or bank transfer with a faktur pajak. Accounting is free until Rp 500 million revenue a month.
- Mekari Jurnal
- from Rp399.000 /month
- Dedicated accounting and ERP product
- Mekari Klikpajak
- from Rp250.000 /month
- Licensed Indonesian tax application
- Mekari Qontak
- from Rp750.000 /month
- CRM and omnichannel chat; this figure is the one on mekari.com/harga
- Mekari Sign
- from Rp465.000 /month
- E-signatures
- Mekari POS
- from Rp299.000 /month
- Retail and F&B point of sale, priced on its own page
- Mekari Talenta
- Quote only
- HR and payroll; listed as “Diskusi dengan kami”
- Mekari Flex
- Quote only
- Listed as “Diskusi dengan kami”, no figure published
- Mekari Capital
- Quote only
- Listed as “Diskusi dengan kami”, no figure published
- Mekari Pay
- Quote only
- Listed as “Diskusi dengan kami”, no figure published
- Mekari Expense
- Quote only
- Listed as “Diskusi dengan kami”, no figure published
Mekari is a product group and prices each product separately, all in Indonesian Rupiah. Bundles across products are arranged through their sales team.
Competitor pricing checked on 2026-09-06 — view their pricing page
Side by side
| What you’re comparing | Renr | Mekari |
|---|---|---|
| Point of Sale Mekari POS is a separate product, from Rp299.000/month per outlet. | Yes | Paid add-on |
| Bookings and appointments | Yes | Not offered |
| WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and Telegram inbox Mekari Qontak, separate, from Rp750.000/month on mekari.com/harga. | Yes | Paid add-on |
| CRM and sales pipeline CRM sits inside Mekari Qontak, bought separately. | Yes | Paid add-on |
| Task management | Yes | Not offered |
| Team chat | Yes | Not offered |
| Website builder | Yes | Not offered |
| Double-entry journal and chart of accounts In Mekari Jurnal, bought separately from Rp399.000/month. | Yes | Paid add-on |
| Neraca, laba rugi, arus kas, trial balance Renr: one company’s books, not group consolidation. | Yes | Paid add-on |
| Accounting free below Rp 500 million monthly revenue Mekari Jurnal starts at Rp399.000 a month. | Yes | Not offered |
| Free plan Mekari lists paid plans, trials and demos per product. | Yes | Not offered |
| Priced and billed in Rupiah | Yes | Yes |
| Every plan price published Talenta, Flex, Capital, Pay and Expense are quote-only. | Yes | Partial |
| One vendor, one login, one bill Each Mekari product is bought and billed separately. | Yes | Not offered |
The honest verdict
Mekari is the stronger choice for HR and payroll, for licensed tax filing, and for accounting that has to span several companies — Talenta and Klikpajak are dedicated, mature products and Renr sells nothing equivalent. On the books themselves the two are closer than the category split suggests: Renr runs a double-entry journal on an editable chart of accounts with DJP code migration, produces neraca, laba rugi, arus kas and a trial balance, handles PPN, PPh and e-Faktur, and stays free until Rp 500 million in revenue a month, where Mekari Jurnal starts at Rp399.000 — Jurnal is the deeper ERP, and it is the one that consolidates a group. Renr is the stronger choice when you want selling, customer conversations, bookings and team coordination in a single app rather than as three or four separate subscriptions, and it covers work — tasks, team chat, bookings — that Mekari does not sell a product for. Plenty of businesses will end up running both, and that is a reasonable outcome rather than a compromise.
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- Free plan for 2 users
- Outlets Rp 300.000/mo, HQ Rp 500.000 per user
- Pay in Rupiah — QRIS, transfer, faktur pajak
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