Wholesale Handler
SAAVI publishes its figures on a separate subdomain
The pricing page on saavi.com.au lists four tiers: Starter, Standard, Professional and Enterprise. Starter is free. The other three show a Get Quote button and no figure, and no per-order fee table appears anywhere on the page.
A second page, headed "New Pricing Model and Plans" and served from newpricing.saavi.com.au, carries a different set of tiers and actual numbers.
Only the word Enterprise appears on both pages, and the two versions of it are not the same product. Enterprise is also the cheaper monthly figure of the two upper tiers while carrying twice Scale Up's setup fee, which is the kind of inversion that suggests the table is indicative rather than a rate card.
Growth includes 100 orders a month and charges for everything above it
Growth's inclusions read "100 Orders per month". Past that, each order carries a fee set by a four-band table headed "Orders per Week".
The allowance is counted monthly and the discount bands are counted weekly, so the two do not line up. A wholesaler taking 40 orders a week is in the first band, paying the highest rate in the table, and has used the monthly allowance by the middle of the second week.
The same page's FAQ answers "Are there any extra charges or costs?" with "No there are no hidden costs or license fees", and says the monthly licence fee "includes unlimited orders". That is SAAVI's FAQ contradicting SAAVI's own table on the same page. The table is the specific claim, and it is the one to price against.
Growth passes AUD $1,000 a month at about sixty orders a week
Taking the base fee, the 100-order monthly allowance and the weekly band that matches each volume, at 4.33 weeks a month:
The subscription stops being the main number early. At $4.50 an order it takes 65 billable orders to match the $290 base, which is 165 orders a month, or about 38 a week. Past that point the subscription is the smaller half of the bill and stays flat while the other half grows with the business.
The bands are not marginal as printed, which produces a step in the wrong direction. One hundred orders a week is 433 a month, 333 of them billable at $4.50. One hundred and one orders a week is 437 a month, 337 billable at $2.75, which is around $570 a month less for more orders.
Setup is AUD $5,000 before the first order
Growth carries a AUD $5,000 setup fee, Scale Up AUD $10,000 and Enterprise AUD $20,000. SAAVI's FAQ treats the number as variable: "Set up costs vary based on how complex your accounting system or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System." So the published figures are an anchor, not a quote.
At Growth, AUD $5,000 is about 17 months of the base subscription, payable before a single order goes through the system. Why is wholesale software so expensive covers where a fee of that size comes from and what it is buying.
SAAVI is an Australian product quoted in Australian dollars
SAAVI is based in Melbourne and describes itself as the largest white-label ordering automation in Australia. Nothing on its site names a US, Canadian, UK or European operation. Every figure above is in Australian dollars, and neither pricing page states whether GST is included or excluded. Converted at 1 AUD to 0.70 USD on 24 September 2026, Growth's base is about USD $203 a month and its setup fee about USD $3,500.
The fit gap runs both ways, and SAAVI's side of it is real. It has native iOS and Android apps, ERP and accounting integration, a warehouse picking app with barcode scanning, driver tracking with proof of delivery and route optimisation, and a sales rep ordering module. Several of those are separately priced add-ons rather than tier inclusions, at up to AUD $10,000 setup each. Wholesale Handler has none of them. It installs to a phone home screen as a web app instead of shipping native apps, and exports invoice lines to CSV for an accounts package instead of integrating with an ERP.
What Wholesale Handler charges
A flat monthly fee, no setup fee, no per-user charge, no per-order fee and no commission on order value. The bill at 25 orders a week and the bill at 600 orders a week are the same number.
For fresh produce it holds catch-weight pricing that bills on the weight measured at pick, recurring seasonal availability that repeats every year, per-customer price lists, order profiles carrying delivery days, cutoffs and minimum spend, standing orders, and a production schedule built from incoming orders. Affordable software for fresh produce wholesalers sets that surface against the other produce-specific options, and Features is the full inventory.
It is free up to 3 customers with every feature on it, and there is a working demo that needs no signup and no card.
