Warehouse management system cost

This is a warehouse management system cost worksheet that prices a WMS the way a small operator pays for it rather than the way a vendor quotes it. The platform's monthly fee plus extra users at their fee is the monthly software cost; scanners times their price is the hardware; monthly software times the contract months plus hardware plus implementation is the first-year total; over the months it is the monthly all-in; and over the orders the year will ship it is the cost per order. Every figure is yours, taken from the quotes in front of you; the worksheet publishes no vendor price of its own and no benchmark. Free, on the page, no account; the paid plan keeps every quote and the cost you decided on against the client it serves.

Software: the fee, the users and the ones the tier does not include

A $79 monthly fee with five users included and two more at $20 each is $119 a month of software, which is the figure the tier's headline hides. Enter the fee and the user counts from the quote in front of you; the worksheet works the monthly figure and publishes no vendor's price of its own.

Hardware and implementation: the costs that arrive once

Four scanners at $350 is $1,400 of hardware, and a $1,500 implementation is the one-off work of loading locations, items and clients. Both land in the first year and never again, and a monthly comparison that leaves them out compares the wrong thing. The worksheet adds them into the first-year total.

The first year, the monthly all-in and the cost per order

$119 a month for 12 months plus $1,400 of hardware plus $1,500 of implementation is $4,328 in the first year, $360.67 a month all-in, and over 2,000 orders a month it is 18 cents an order. The last figure is the one to set against the handling rate a client pays; the paid plan keeps the quotes and the decision against the client.