Who it is for

The same warehouse, from the first depot to the twelfth

A company with one warehouse shipping its own goods and a logistics provider running twelve for other people use the same CargoNode. What tells them apart is which modules are switched on and the five numbers on your account — warehouses, users, monthly orders, connectors, owners — not a tier you have to fit into.

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.

The physical cycle, and the three ways goods come back inConfirmed put-away is what makes goods pickable: the pick only sees what is genuinely on the shelf, so it never promises a unit still sitting on the dock. Receiving and shipping on the same day works fine.

You sell online

The store sends the order, the warehouse fulfils it, and availability goes back computed rather than copied. The PrestaShop connector is real and has been run end to end, from cart to delivery note.

You import and distribute

Several depots, goods in transit that hold a real balance, lots that lead back to the supplier who brought them, and an inbound load you can receive even when it does not match the order.

You hold other people’s stock

Several owners in the same building, with stock genuinely kept apart and billing for what you actually handled for each of them.

You assemble or pack

Cartons and display units split into single pieces with the cost following the goods, and transformations declared with your own reason codes, approved by whoever answers for stock.

The warehouse does not come in pieces

The full physical cycle is on in every configuration, for everyone: receive, put away, pick, pack, ship, transfer, count. Including the things a warehouse uses daily and that elsewhere end up on a price list — pick waves, pick-face replenishment, splitting cartons into single pieces, carriers, layered valuation, lots and serials, alerts. That is not generosity: it is how a warehouse works, and selling those separately would mean selling a warehouse that does not run. On the same footing sits Italian compliance — the delivery note that must travel with the goods, VAT registers, the valued year-end stock ledger the tax authority expects, lot traceability, invoice issuing — always active, and never switched off by switching something off.

The full physical cycle, from receipt to shipment, in every configuration
Waves, replenishment, carton splitting, carriers, valuation: always on
Lots, expiry dates and serial numbers are not an add-on
Delivery notes, VAT registers and the fiscal stock ledger cannot be turned off
The offline handheld and the nightly reconciliation are there for everybody

On in every configuration

PHYSICAL CYCLEReceive, put away, pick, pack, ship, transfer, countfor everyone
ON THE FLOORPick waves, replenishment, carton splitting, carriers, lots and serialsfor everyone
COMPLIANCEDelivery notes, VAT registers, fiscal stock ledger, lot traceabilitycannot be switched off
ON THE PRICE LISTNone of the abovethe warehouse is the product

The first three rows are identical for a company with one depot and for a provider running twelve of them for other people.

Modules say what, limits say how much

Above the warehouse sit four modules, and there are four. 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 opens the warehouse’s second dimension, the stock owner, with segregated stock and activity-based billing. Alongside them sit five numbers on your account — warehouses, users, monthly orders, connectors, owners — which say how much, not what. A quote is built on those two lists and on your actual case, never on a tier.

Sales: sales orders, customers, payments, online store
Accounting: double-entry bookkeeping, suppliers, purchasing
Analytics: analysis, indicators and dashboards over warehouse and sales figures
Third-party logistics: several owners, segregated stock, activity-based billing
Five per-customer limits: warehouses, users, monthly orders, connectors, owners

Four cases, the same warehouse
Your case	The warehouse	Modules switched on	The numbers that change
You sell online	all of it, always on	Sales	Connectors: at least one
You import and distribute	all of it, always on	Sales, and Accounting if you keep the books in house	Warehouses: more than one
You hold other people’s stock	all of it, always on	Third-party logistics, almost always with Sales	Owners: one per client served
You assemble or pack	all of it, always on	None required	Users: as many as you put on the floor

The four rows differ in the last two columns. The second one is the same for all of them, and it comes first on purpose: the physical cycle, the handheld and Italian compliance are identical in every configuration. Analytics, which brings analysis and dashboards, gets switched on in all four cases the day it is needed.

Growing without starting over

The two dimensions that normally force a change of system — the second warehouse and the first third-party owner — are columns of the data model from day one, even for a company with a single depot working only for itself. The warehouse selector simply stays hidden while there is one. Opening the second means raising a number on your account; starting to hold someone else’s goods means switching Third-party logistics on. Neither case involves an export, a history to reload or downtime to schedule: the stock you had yesterday already carries the right column.

The warehouse is a column on every movement, even when there is only one
The stock owner is the second dimension, present from day one
Opening a depot or switching a module on moves no data
No change of platform when the business changes scale
Movement history stays readable in full, before and after

Your account, the day you open the second depot

WAREHOUSESfrom 1 to 2a number going up
OWNERSstill 1 while the goods are all yoursthe column is there anyway
USERS · ORDERS · CONNECTORSunchangedraised when you need them
MOVEMENTSnone touchedJanuary’s already carry their warehouse

Five numbers, and any of them can be uncapped. Opening a depot is not an export, not a history to reload and not downtime to schedule.

Frequently asked questions

There are three of us and one warehouse. Is this oversized?

The part you would use is the same part a four-site operation uses, and it is the part you need every day: receive, put away, pick, ship, count, with the handheld in the aisle. What you do not switch on does not even appear in the menu — navigation follows the active modules. A small warehouse does not need different software: it needs fewer things turned on.

How do I work out which modules I actually need?

From the question you cannot answer today. If it is “how much did we sell and to whom”, that is Sales. If it is “how much did we make”, that is Accounting. If it is “what is happening to the numbers”, that is Analytics. If it is “how much do I invoice this owner for this month’s work”, that is Third-party logistics. And if it is “how many units are really in A-12-3”, you need nothing extra: that is already the product.

My line of work is not in this list. Do I need a custom version?

Almost never. The four segments above are not four products: they are four ways of combining the same warehouse with different modules, and most companies are a crossbreed — the importer who also sells online, the logistics provider with a brand of its own. Tell us how goods come in and go out at your site: the combination reads itself from there.

If I switch a module on and then stop using it, am I locked in?

No. Modules are the only commercial lever and they are switched on and off per customer. Switching one off does not touch the data it produced: invoices already issued stay issued, movements stay in the ledger, and Italian compliance keeps working because it was never inside a module in the first place.

Let’s start from how you actually work

Tell us how many depots you have, where your orders come from and what costs you the most time today. That is what tells us which modules you need and which you do not — which is half the job.

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