Pricing
One plan, and the numbers are yours
The bill has three parts and no others: the warehouse, which always comes whole; the four modules, switched on one at a time; the five numbers written on your own row. This page is how it adds up — what is always in, what you switch on, which numbers move it — so that when you write to us we start from your own configuration.
The same software for a single warehouse and for a third-party logistics operator. What tells them apart are the modules switched on and the numbers on the row, not a tier.
Sales, accounting, analytics, third-party logistics. The warehouse is not among them, because it is the product.
Warehouses, users, monthly orders, connectors, owners. They go up as you grow, with nothing to redo.
Delivery notes, VAT registers, valued statutory inventory, lot traceability and e-invoicing are active in every configuration, down to the smallest one.
The price is made on your configuration, and the useful thing to publish is what it is made of. In CargoNode the bill has three parts and no others: the product, which is the warehouse and always comes whole; the modules, which are four and go on one at a time; the limits, which are five numbers written on your own row. There are no tiers, no upper band you have to climb into for one feature, and Italian compliance is in from the smallest setup upwards.
The warehouse comes whole, not in slices
Pick waves, pick-face replenishment, splitting cartons into single pieces, carriers, labels, layered valuation, lots and serials, an offline handheld, alerts: these are not options, they are how a warehouse works. Selling them piece by piece means selling a WMS that cannot do the job of a WMS, and forcing the buyer to study a price list instead of looking at a product. That is why the warehouse left the price list: it is what you are buying, and it has no cut-down version.
- The full physical cycle: receive, put away, pick, pack, ship, transfer, count
- Pick waves and automatic min/max replenishment from day one
- Lots, serials, expiry dates and FEFO picking, with no switch to buy
- Carriers, waybills, tracking and barcode labels
- FIFO layered valuation and a valued statutory inventory
- A handheld that works without a network, on as many devices as you need
- ReceiveRECEIVINGGoods arrive and are counted against the order, or blind.
- Put awayA-12-3Put-away takes them to the shelf, with a double scan.
- PickPACK-2The pick moves them from the shelf to the bench.
- PackPACK-2Parcels are built at the bench, item by item.
- ShipDISPATCHThe outbound movement produces the delivery note.
And goods come back in three ways
- ReturnsA return is an inbound movement: it lands in receiving and goes back to the shelf from there.
- TransfersBetween two warehouses goods sit in a transit location with a real balance.
- AdjustmentsA count variance becomes a movement only once it has been approved.
Italian compliance is in, in every configuration
Statutory obligations are active in every configuration and cannot be lost by switching something off: that is a product invariant, not a commercial promise. The delivery note (DDT, the transport document Italian law requires with the goods) is generated from the shipping movement, VAT registers and periodic settlement are there, the year-end inventory comes out valued at cost, lot and serial traceability is always on, and e-invoicing produces a valid FatturaPA XML — the format the Italian tax authority accepts — with the official checks applied before it leaves.
- Delivery notes generated from the real movement, numbered without gaps per warehouse and year
- VAT registers and periodic settlement, till receipts included
- Valued statutory inventory, consistent with the movement ledger
- Lot traceability from receipt to delivery: it is compliance, so it is not a module
- FatturaPA XML with the official checks applied before it is sent
- MODULESNone switched onsales, accounting, analytics, third-party logistics: all off
- WAREHOUSEWhole, as alwaysnot a module: it is the product
- DDT · VATDelivery notes, registers and settlementon
- INVENTORYStatutory inventory valued at coston
- LOTS · XMLTraceability and the checked e-invoiceon
Switching off everything that can be switched off removes no statutory obligation: compliance is not on the price list, so there is nothing it can be taken out of.
Electronic invoicing: what CargoNode does and what the provider brings
CargoNode produces the invoice XML and runs the official checks on it before it goes anywhere, so a document that would be rejected is caught here rather than two days later. From there you pick the route. Connect a transmission provider with your own credentials and filing goes on its own: outcomes and receipts come back onto the document, and the provider brings ten-year archiving with it. Or download the already-checked XML and send it through the route you already have. The only thing to carry into the quote is this: the provider contract is yours, as your carrier contracts are.
- Provider connected: automatic sending, outcomes and receipts back on the document
- No provider: you download the checked XML and send it your own way
- The transmitted XML is frozen with its fingerprint: you can prove which bytes went out
- With a provider you get ten-year archiving: the provider brings it, for the documents that go through it. The digital signature stays off: it is never required and would cost per invoice
| What changes | With a provider connected | With no provider |
|---|---|---|
| The invoice XML | produced by CargoNode | produced by CargoNode |
| The official checks | applied before sending | applied before you download it |
| Who transmits | CargoNode, on its own | you, your own way |
| Outcomes and receipts | come back onto the document | stay where you transmit |
| The provider relationship | yours, with your credentials | not needed |
| Long-term legal archiving | done by the provider | stays with you, as it does today |
The four modules: the only thing you buy
Above the warehouse sit four different trades, and each goes on only if it is yours. Sales brings sales orders, customer records, payments and the link to your online store. Accounting brings double-entry bookkeeping, suppliers and purchasing. Analytics brings analysis, indicators and dashboards. Third-party logistics brings several owners into the same warehouse, with segregated stock and activity-based billing. A module switched off takes nothing away from the others: the rest keeps working.
- Sales — sales orders, customers, payments, online store
- Accounting — double-entry bookkeeping, suppliers, purchasing
- Analytics — analysis, indicators and dashboards over real figures
- Third-party logistics — several owners, segregated stock, metered activity to bill
- Switching on or off is a row in the control plane: no data migration
The five limits: how many, not which features
Limits answer a different question from modules: not “which features” but “how many things”. They are five numbers on your own row and they are negotiated one by one, instead of arriving in a block with a tier. When capacity runs out the system says so at the moment of creation, naming the limit: you raise the number and carry on, with no downtime and nothing to redo. And a ceiling cannot retroactively outlaw what you already have: lowering it below current usage is refused.
- Warehouses — how many depots, stores or physical sites you actually run
- Users — the people who work inside the product; active ones count, not the ones never deleted
- Monthly orders — the volume you move, measured on real data instead of guessed
- Connectors — how many channels you link: the online store, a second store, an upstream system
- Owners — how many clients served in the same warehouse, if you work for third parties
- WarehousesThe depots, stores or physical sites you actually runraised the day you open another one
- UsersThe people who work inside the productactive ones count, not the ones never deleted
- Monthly ordersThe volume that goes through the warehousemeasured on real data, not guessed
- ConnectorsThe channels you link: the online store, a second store, an upstream systemone per channel
- OwnersThe clients served in the same warehouseonly if you hold goods on behalf of others
A limit can also be absent: where no ceiling is needed, none is set.
What moves a quote up and down
It is always the same questions, and we ask them before giving a figure because two warehouses of the same floor area can cost very differently. Floor area is not what makes the price: the people working inside the product, the volume going through it, how many channels and owners sit around it, and how many of the four trades above the warehouse you actually need.
- How many warehouses, and how many people work in them at the same time
- What order volume you move and how heavy the seasonal peaks are
- Which channels have to be connected: online store, marketplace, a system already in house
- Whether you work for third parties, and so how many owners must stay separate
- Which modules you need now and which will come later
- How much history has to come across: customer records, stock, past documents
| The question we ask | The first warehouse | The second |
|---|---|---|
| Square metres | a thousand | a thousand |
| Orders shipped in a day | three hundred | forty |
| People working inside the product | six | fewer, but across several owners |
| Owners to keep separate | none | four |
| Modules switched on | sales, for the online store | third-party logistics and analytics |
You buy nothing to get started
To get started you buy nothing: no server, no database licence, no version to upgrade by hand, and the handhelds are the phones your people already carry. The contracts that were already yours stay yours — the carriers, the online store, a transmission provider if you use one — and knowing that up front is what lets you compare two offers on the same row, instead of finding an uncounted line halfway through the year.
- The e-invoice transmission provider, if you choose automatic sending: your contract
- Carrier contracts: the rates are yours, we produce the documents and the tracking
- The online store: it stays where it is, CargoNode connects to it
- Devices: the handheld app runs in a phone browser, no hardware of ours to buy
- USSoftware, upgrades, infrastructure and backupsthere is nothing for you to install
- YOUThe transmission provider, the carriers, the online storethey are contracts of yours, and they stay yours
- NOBODYServers, database licences, handhelds to buythe handheld is the app on the phone of whoever is working
Knowing which of the three columns pays for a line is the only way to compare two offers on the same row.
How we get to a figure
First we look at how you work, then we write the configuration, then we price it — in that order, because a quote made before understanding the flow is a figure the first real month of work will contradict. The configuration is a short sheet: the modules switched on and the five numbers. The quote is made on that, and we come back to it when the numbers change.
- A conversationHow you receive, where you pick, where the orders come from.
- A written configurationWhich modules and which five numbers: it is a short sheet.
- The quote on thatOn the configuration, with no lines you did not ask for.
- Then you growWhen the numbers change it is the numbers that are revised, not the software.
Frequently asked questions
Why do you not publish a price list?
Because there is not one that would be true. The same software serves the merchant shipping in-house and the logistics operator with six owners: a single figure would be right for one of them and wrong for the other, and “from X” is only a way of postponing the conversation. We would rather tell you what the bill is made of and then work it out on your numbers.
If I need a module in six months, do I have to redo anything?
No. The tables and the dimensions are there from day one — warehouse and owner are columns of the data model even for those who only have one — so switching a module on involves no data migration and no downtime. It is a row in the control plane and it takes effect within a minute: next time you sign in, the screens are there.
And if a module stops being useful?
You switch it off. Its screens disappear, the rest of the product carries on exactly as before, and the data you produced stays where it is: switching a module off removes access to part of the product, it does not delete anything. If you switch it back on one day, you find what you had.
What happens when I hit a limit?
The system tells you at the moment you try to create the extra thing — the warehouse, the user, the connector, the owner — with a message naming the limit and the current count. You raise the ceiling and carry on, without stopping work. Order volume, on the other hand, is measured against real data as the month goes: it is there to size the plan, not to block tonight’s shipment.
My accountant already has their own software. Do I have to take Accounting?
No. Accounting is for those who want double-entry bookkeeping, suppliers and purchasing in the same place as the warehouse. E-invoicing, VAT registers, delivery notes and the valued statutory inventory are there anyway, in every configuration, because they are compliance and compliance is never sold separately.
Do I have to buy handhelds or special scanners?
No. The handheld is a web app you install on a phone and it reads codes with the camera; it keeps working when coverage disappears at the end of the aisle, because it queues operations and realigns them on the way back. If you already have terminals with a laser reader that behave like a keyboard, you use them as before: no hardware of ours to buy.
Let us work it out on your numbers
Tell us how many warehouses, how many people, how many orders and where they come from. We come back with a written configuration — modules and limits — and a quote on that, with no lines you did not ask for.
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