How is this logistics & shipping ranking decided?

Mechanically. The 19 approved logistics & shipping listings on this page are sorted by their published rating, highest first, with the number of ratings behind each score as the tie-break and the product name as a final tie-break so the order is stable. Those ratings are aggregated from public sources, not collected from Softwr readers, this site hosts no reviews, so the order is a summary of what is already published elsewhere, not a verdict of our own. Nothing on this page is paid placement.

Is this list re-ordered for small businesses?

No, and it would be dishonest to imply otherwise. The catalogue records no data about which team sizes or roles each tool suits, so the ranking is the same published-rating order as the unsegmented list. What the small businesses framing changes is which of the figures below matter most. Small businesses are usually replacing spreadsheets rather than another tool, so the deciding factor is how much of the job one purchase covers. Watch for capabilities that only appear in the upper tiers.

How much does logistics & shipping software cost?

Across the 19 logistics & shipping tools listed here, paid plans start between $49.95 and $400 a month, with a median entry price of $99. The most expensive single tier published in the category is $1,500 a month (Logiwa). 3 of 19 also publish a $0 plan.

What is the cheapest logistics & shipping software?

1 of the 19 tools listed here cost nothing at all. Among the ones that charge, ShipStation has the lowest published entry price at $49.95 a month. Cheapest and best value are different questions: check which tier the capability you need actually appears in before you compare starting prices.

Is there free logistics & shipping software?

Yes, 3 of 19 tools in this category publish a plan priced at $0. 1 of them are free outright, with no paid tier above. A tool is only counted as free here when it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence, or a starting price of zero, a free trial does not count.

What features should logistics & shipping software have?

Judging by what vendors put in their own published pricing tiers, the most frequently named capabilities in this category are advanced features (2 of 5 tools that publish plan detail), dedicated support (2) and priority support (2). Treat those as the category baseline. Anything named by only one vendor, such as advanced analytics or basic inventory, is a differentiator rather than a standard, so it is worth deciding whether you need it before it narrows your shortlist to one.

How is logistics & shipping software usually billed?

subscription (10), freemium (3), usage-based (2), quote (1), plus 1 less common arrangements, counted across the 19 listings on this page. The distinction that costs money is per-seat versus flat: a per-user plan at the same headline price scales with your headcount and a flat subscription does not.

What does logistics & shipping software actually cover?

The 19 tools on this page do not describe themselves the same way. The subject tags they carry most often are fulfillment (4), logistics (3), shipping (3), 3pl (2), ecommerce (2). That spread is the honest answer to what the category means in practice: it is not one product shape, and two tools filed under logistics & shipping may overlap on very little.

How many pricing tiers do logistics & shipping tools offer?

5 of 19 tools here publish a plan breakdown, and the median one has 2 tiers. 2 of 19 publish three or more. More tiers is not generosity, it usually means the capability you are buying for sits two rungs above the advertised price, so price your shortlist at the tier that contains it.

How many logistics & shipping tools are listed on Softwr?

19 approved logistics & shipping listings appear on this page, including AfterShip, Cargoson, CWILL Post-Purchase, Deliverr. Each links to a full breakdown with its pricing tiers and plan detail, and the category can be filtered by price and sorted by rating above. You can also read the shortlist view at /best/logistics-shipping, which ranks the same set by published rating.

Logistics & Shipping · ranked shortlist

Best Logistics & Shipping software for Small Businesses in 2026

19 approved logistics & shipping listings, ordered by published rating with the method stated below rather than assumed. Small businesses are usually replacing spreadsheets rather than another tool, so the deciding factor is how much of the job one purchase covers. Watch for capabilities that only appear in the upper tiers.

Tools ranked: 19
Entry price range: $49.95-$400
Publish a $0 plan: 3 of 19

How this ranking is derived

The sort key

Published rating, highest first. Ties break on the number of ratings behind the score, then on product name so the order never depends on what the API happened to return first. That is the whole rule, there is no weighting, no score of our own, and nothing paid: no sponsored slot runs on these pages.

Where the ratings come from

No listing in this set carries a rating, so the order falls back to name. Those scores are aggregated from public sources rather than collected here, Softwr hosts no reviews of its own, which is also why no rating on this page is marked up as ours in structured data.

What the pool is

Approved logistics & shipping listings, capped at 20 per page; 19 came back for this one. It is not the whole market, and a tool being absent means we hold no record of it rather than that it failed a test. The unranked full set is on the logistics & shipping category page.

The ranking

Each entry lists why it sits where it sits, drawn from its own published rating and pricing.

#1
AfterShip
Highest rated here
Shipment tracking and logistics platform
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $99 a month.
Billing
subscription
Published tiers
2 tiers
Tags
shipping, logistics
AfterShip breakdown Compare with Cargoson
#2
C
Cargoson
Transport management system for manufacturers shipping across road, air, sea and rail
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
Billing
subscription
Cargoson breakdown Compare with CWILL Post-Purchase
#3
C
CWILL Post-Purchase
Order tracking, returns and shipping protection for DTC ecommerce, formerly ParcelPanel
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
Billing
freemium
CWILL Post-Purchase breakdown Compare with Deliverr
#4
Deliverr
Fast and affordable e-commerce fulfillment
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
Billing
usage-based
Published tiers
3 tiers
Tags
fulfillment, 2-day-shipping, marketplace, badges
Deliverr breakdown Compare with Detrack
#5
D
Detrack
Delivery management billed per driver with proof of delivery and route tracking
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
Billing
subscription
Detrack breakdown Compare with EasyPost
#6
E
EasyPost
Shipping API for labels, rate shopping and tracking across 100+ carriers
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
Billing
subscription
EasyPost breakdown Compare with Freightview
#7
F
Freightview
Freight shipping management to compare and book LTL and truckload rates
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
Billing
subscription
Freightview breakdown Compare with Locate2u
#8
L
Locate2u
One platform fee for route optimization, fleet visibility and proof of delivery
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
Billing
subscription
Locate2u breakdown Compare with Logiwa
#9
Logiwa
Cloud fulfillment platform for 3PLs
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $400 a month, with no free plan.
- 3 published tiers, topping out at $1,500.
Billing
subscription
Published tiers
3 tiers
Tags
3pl, fulfillment, wms, cloud
Logiwa breakdown Compare with Onfleet
#10
O
Onfleet
Last-mile delivery management with route optimization and driver dispatch
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
Billing
subscription
Onfleet breakdown Compare with Ordoro
#11
Ordoro
Order and inventory management for online sellers
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $99 a month, with no free plan.
- 2 published tiers, topping out at $249.
Billing
subscription
Published tiers
2 tiers
Tags
order-management, inventory-management
Ordoro breakdown Compare with ShipBob
#12
ShipBob
E-commerce fulfillment and logistics platform
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
Billing
Model not published
Tags
3pl, fulfillment, ecommerce, shipping
ShipBob breakdown Compare with ShipEngine
#13
S
ShipEngine
Shipping API for labels, carrier rates and address validation across 200+ carriers
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
Billing
usage-based
ShipEngine breakdown Compare with ShipHero
#14
ShipHero
Warehouse management for e-commerce
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
Billing
Model not published
Tags
wms, ecommerce, warehouse, fulfillment
ShipHero breakdown Compare with ShipMonk
#15
S
ShipMonk
Third-party logistics fulfillment for direct-to-consumer ecommerce brands
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
Billing
quote
ShipMonk breakdown Compare with Shippo
#16
S
Shippo
Shipping software for comparing rates and printing discounted labels
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
Billing
freemium
Shippo breakdown Compare with ShipStation
#17
ShipStation
Multichannel order fulfillment software
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $49.95 a month.
Billing
subscription
Published tiers
2 tiers
ShipStation breakdown Compare with Uber
#18
U
Uber
We reimagine the way the world moves for the better
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
Billing
transaction
Uber breakdown Compare with Veeqo
#19
V
Veeqo
Multichannel order management and shipping owned by Amazon
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
Billing
freemium
Veeqo breakdown

What logistics & shipping software costs

Counted from the published pricing of the 19 listings on this page. A tool counts as free only where it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence or a starting price of zero.

Cheapest paid plan: $49.95ShipStation
Median entry price: $99across 4 priced
Dearest entry price: $400Logiwa
Publish a $0 plan: 3of 19

Paid logistics & shipping plans in this set start anywhere from $49.95 a month for ShipStation to $400 for Logiwa. The median entry price across the 4 tools that publish one is $99, half of them start below that figure and half above it.

Entry price is not the ceiling. The dearest published tier anywhere in this category is Logiwa's at $1,500 a month, 3.8× the highest entry price on the page. Read the top of each ladder as well as the bottom, because that is where you land after two years of growth.

3 of 19 publish a $0 plan, and 1 of those charge nothing at all. 2 tools have no free tier of any kind.

ShipStation pricing Logiwa pricing Logiwa plans

How these vendors bill

The billing model each of the 19 logistics & shipping listings publishes, counted. Two tools at the same headline price are not the same purchase if one of them charges per seat.

subscription: 10
freemium: 3
usage-based: 2
quote: 1
transaction: 1

What comes as standard, and what you pay extra for

Every capability named in a published pricing tier by any of the 5 logistics & shipping tools here that break their plans down, counted once per vendor. This measures what vendors choose to advertise as a selling point, not everything the software does, an absence below is silence, not a missing feature.

Named most often

Advanced features , 2 of 5
Dedicated support , 2 of 5
Priority support , 2 of 5
Unlimited shipments , 2 of 5

Named by fewer

Nothing else is named by more than one vendor, beyond the list on the left, no two of these tools describe their tiers the same way.

Named by exactly one vendor: Advanced analytics, Basic inventory, Basic tracking, Full features, Pay per order, Standard support. Those are differentiators rather than table stakes.

What “Logistics & Shipping” covers in practice

The subject tags that recur across these 19 listings, with the number of tools carrying each. A category label is a filing decision; this is the closer read of what is actually filed under it.

fulfillment4
logistics3
shipping3
3pl2
ecommerce2
wms2

Carried by a single tool: 2-day-shipping, badges, cloud, dtc, inventory-management, marketplace, order-management, warehouse. If one of those is the reason you are here, the category page is the wrong lens, go straight to that product.

How to choose between them

Four things the numbers above should change about your shortlist.

Start with the free tiers if there are enough of them

3 of 19 logistics & shipping tools here publish a $0 plan, which is enough to run a real trial without a purchase order. A free tier is worth more than a free trial when you are evaluating: a trial expires on the vendor's schedule, a free plan expires when you outgrow it. The thing to check before you commit is which of the capabilities below sit above the free line, starting with advanced features, the single most frequently named capability in this category's published tiers.

Read the spread before you read the features

$49.95 to $400 is a $350.05 spread on entry price alone, and a spread that wide is never about polish, it is about who the vendor built for. Tools at the bottom of this ladder are priced for one person or a small team; tools near $400 are priced for a department with a procurement process. Decide which of those you are before you compare capability, or you will shortlist four tools that were never competing for the same buyer.

Check which tier you actually land on

2 of 19 tools here publish three or more tiers, and the median vendor in this category ships 2 of them. The advertised price is the first rung, and the things teams tend to need, advanced features, dedicated support, priority support, are named in higher plans far more often than in entry ones. Price your shortlist at the tier that contains what you need, not at the tier on the pricing page's left edge.

The billing model matters more than the headline number

This category splits across 5 billing models: subscription on 10 listings, freemium on 3, and 3 other arrangements across the rest. A per-user price and a flat subscription at the same headline figure are not the same purchase, the first one grows with headcount and the second does not. Multiply by your real team size before you compare two numbers side by side.

Compare logistics & shipping tools directly

Every pairing below is a full comparison: the same checklist applied to both, so a gap in one is a gap in the other.

Go straight to the numbers

Build your own comparison See the shortlist instead

Questions people ask about logistics & shipping software

Answered from the listings on this page, and nowhere else.

How is this logistics & shipping ranking decided?: Mechanically. The 19 approved logistics & shipping listings on this page are sorted by their published rating, highest first, with the number of ratings behind each score as the tie-break and the product name as a final tie-break so the order is stable. Those ratings are aggregated from public sources, not collected from Softwr readers, this site hosts no reviews, so the order is a summary of what is already published elsewhere, not a verdict of our own. Nothing on this page is paid placement.
Is this list re-ordered for small businesses?: No, and it would be dishonest to imply otherwise. The catalogue records no data about which team sizes or roles each tool suits, so the ranking is the same published-rating order as the unsegmented list. What the small businesses framing changes is which of the figures below matter most. Small businesses are usually replacing spreadsheets rather than another tool, so the deciding factor is how much of the job one purchase covers. Watch for capabilities that only appear in the upper tiers.
How much does logistics & shipping software cost?: Across the 19 logistics & shipping tools listed here, paid plans start between $49.95 and $400 a month, with a median entry price of $99. The most expensive single tier published in the category is $1,500 a month (Logiwa). 3 of 19 also publish a $0 plan.
What is the cheapest logistics & shipping software?: 1 of the 19 tools listed here cost nothing at all. Among the ones that charge, ShipStation has the lowest published entry price at $49.95 a month. Cheapest and best value are different questions: check which tier the capability you need actually appears in before you compare starting prices.
Is there free logistics & shipping software?: Yes, 3 of 19 tools in this category publish a plan priced at $0. 1 of them are free outright, with no paid tier above. A tool is only counted as free here when it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence, or a starting price of zero, a free trial does not count.
What features should logistics & shipping software have?: Judging by what vendors put in their own published pricing tiers, the most frequently named capabilities in this category are advanced features (2 of 5 tools that publish plan detail), dedicated support (2) and priority support (2). Treat those as the category baseline. Anything named by only one vendor, such as advanced analytics or basic inventory, is a differentiator rather than a standard, so it is worth deciding whether you need it before it narrows your shortlist to one.
How is logistics & shipping software usually billed?: subscription (10), freemium (3), usage-based (2), quote (1), plus 1 less common arrangements, counted across the 19 listings on this page. The distinction that costs money is per-seat versus flat: a per-user plan at the same headline price scales with your headcount and a flat subscription does not.
What does logistics & shipping software actually cover?: The 19 tools on this page do not describe themselves the same way. The subject tags they carry most often are fulfillment (4), logistics (3), shipping (3), 3pl (2), ecommerce (2). That spread is the honest answer to what the category means in practice: it is not one product shape, and two tools filed under logistics & shipping may overlap on very little.
How many pricing tiers do logistics & shipping tools offer?: 5 of 19 tools here publish a plan breakdown, and the median one has 2 tiers. 2 of 19 publish three or more. More tiers is not generosity, it usually means the capability you are buying for sits two rungs above the advertised price, so price your shortlist at the tier that contains it.
How many logistics & shipping tools are listed on Softwr?: 19 approved logistics & shipping listings appear on this page, including AfterShip, Cargoson, CWILL Post-Purchase, Deliverr. Each links to a full breakdown with its pricing tiers and plan detail, and the category can be filtered by price and sorted by rating above. You can also read the shortlist view at /best/logistics-shipping, which ranks the same set by published rating.

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Neighbouring categories

Adjacent in the same taxonomy, not a ranking.

How this ranking is derived

The sort key

Where the ratings come from

What the pool is

The ranking

AfterShip

Cargoson

CWILL Post-Purchase

Deliverr

Detrack

EasyPost

Freightview

Locate2u

Logiwa

Onfleet

Ordoro

ShipBob

ShipEngine

ShipHero

ShipMonk

Shippo

ShipStation

Uber

Veeqo