Wholesale Handler
Cin7 Core's published prices start at $349 a month
Cin7 publishes three Core tiers and quotes the fourth. Figures are from Cin7's pricing page, in USD and excluding taxes.
Extra users, extra integrations and extra order volume are all purchasable on every tier, and none of those rates is published. Several pricing directories still show Core Advanced at $999 and describe the ladder as a per-user rate; Cin7's own pricing page and Capterra both show $1,199, and the tiers include a user count rather than charging by seat.
The entry point is the number that matters to a small producer. $349 a month buys five user accounts and six thousand orders a year, which is a sensible floor for a business syncing stock across several sales channels and a poor fit for one that sends thirty cases of bread to twelve cafes a week.
Cin7 Core and Cin7 Omni are still two separate products
The split is live. Cin7 Core is the former DEAR Systems, rebranded in 2022, and is the line with published prices. Cin7 Omni is the enterprise product, absorbed Orderhive after the 2021 acquisition, and is quote-gated. Core is where a small producer lands.
Cin7's own positioning reverses the usual assumption about which is bigger: Core carries the deeper manufacturing support, including multi-level bills of materials and production jobs, while Omni handles a simplified manufacturing process. Omni is not Core with more of everything.
The B2B portal is an add-on module, licensed per portal
Cin7's B2B online store FAQ states that both Core and Omni offer B2B portal functionality and that "it is an add-on module". Cin7's pricing page lists it beside Point of Sale, RMA, MRP, advanced warehouse management, forecasting, the API and premium support, and every item in that list is quote-only. A licence is required per portal, so a second portal for a different customer group is a second licence.
The trade ordering page sits outside the $349 and has no published price. Onboarding is bought separately too, in group, one-to-one or partner-led packages, also unpriced, and non-refundable once the work starts.
Several things in the portal land squarely on wholesale. A minimum and maximum order amount can be set per order, shown to the customer as a notice at the top of the screen, and a minimum and maximum order quantity can be set per listed product. Up to ten price tiers exist, with per-customer custom prices overriding them. Sales reps invited into the portal do not count against the Core user licences, so a field team does not inflate the seat count.
What is not documented as a portal setting is a time-based ordering cutoff. Cin7's delivery scheduling is a per-location calendar of days and timeslots for scheduling delivery tasks, which is internal dispatch capacity rather than a rule that closes Friday's orders at noon on Thursday. For a producer whose whole week turns on that rule, how to stop wholesale customers ordering after the cutoff covers what the rule has to do.
The inventory platform is what the price is for
Cin7 earns its cost on the half an order desk leaves untouched. Stock synced across Amazon, Shopify, eBay, Walmart and TikTok Shop from one record. Purchase orders and the supplier side. Bills of materials, assembly and MRP. Warehouse management and barcode scanning. Live accounting sync to Xero and QuickBooks. Unlimited inventory locations on every tier.
A business with stock moving through retail, a marketplace and a warehouse at once has a real problem that only a platform of that size solves, and swapping it for an ordering portal would be a downgrade. The question is only whether that describes the business, or whether the platform was bought to produce an order form.
Wholesale Handler does not track inventory across channels
The gaps are the reason it costs less. Wholesale Handler has no multi-channel inventory sync, no marketplace or e-commerce integrations, no purchase orders or supplier records, no bills of materials, assembly or MRP, no warehouse management or barcode scanning, and no point of sale. Accounting is a CSV export of invoice line items with customisable columns and date ranges, not a live sync. Stock tracking exists only as an optional per-product quantity with restock notifications.
If any line in that list is load-bearing, Cin7 is the right answer.
A flat monthly fee covers the ordering side
What Wholesale Handler does is the order desk, sold as one product with nothing gated behind a quote. Customers sign in and order 24/7. Standing orders repeat on a weekly, two-weekly, three-weekly or four-weekly cadence and can be paused, skipped or updated. Order profiles bundle delivery days, an ordering cutoff that can vary per delivery day, a maximum lead time, delivery charges and a minimum spend, then get assigned per customer. Named price lists give each account its own prices. Orders roll up into a consolidated production schedule, PDF packing slips and invoices, and a payment tracking timeline.
The price is a flat monthly fee. No per-user charge, no per-order fee, no commission on order value, and no separately licensed portal module - the ordering portal is the product. Flat-fee wholesale ordering software explains why the flat shape matters once order volume grows. It is free up to 3 customers, and there is a working demo, with no signup and no card.
Where the answer to "what is Cin7 doing for us" is "customers place their own orders", the platform is being paid to produce a form. Wholesale ordering software without ERP integration covers running that order desk as its own system.
