The best logistics software of 2026

ShipStation pulls orders from your stores and marketplaces into one queue, compares carrier rates and prints labels in batches. Automation rules take care of the repeat decisions, such as sending every light parcel by one service or routing orders to the right warehouse, so nobody has to pick a carrier order by order. It also makes return labels and quotes and books LTL freight. ShipStation says it connects to more than 200 parcel carriers and 50 LTL freight carriers, and it belongs to Auctane.

The price depends on the plan and on how many shipments you send each month. Prices below are for monthly billing; paying yearly saves 20%. Starter costs $14.99 for 50 shipments, $39.99 for 500 and $174.99 for 5,000, with 3 users and email support. Standard starts at $29.99 for 50 shipments ($149.99 for 1,000) and adds unlimited automations, order splitting and combining, exchanges, basic warehouse management, the shipping API, phone support and 10 users. Premium starts at $349.99 and adds inventory forecasting, purchase orders and pick-to-tote warehouse tools. The 30-day trial needs no card.

Choose it if you ship a few hundred parcels a month or more from several stores and marketplaces at once, and you want rules to sort them.

Skip it if you print a handful of labels a week. Shippo's free plan covers that.

Shippo is the cheaper way in. The free Starter plan gives one login up to 30 labels a month at Shippo's discounted USPS, UPS, FedEx and DHL Express rates, along with store connections, international shipping, return labels, tracking and basic automations. You pay postage, and if you connect your own carrier account on the free plan, Shippo charges 5 cents a label.

Pro costs $19 a month for up to 200 labels, or $205 a year. It adds up to 5 logins, pick lists, scan-to-print, branded tracking pages and emails, packing slips, and chat and phone support, and it lets you connect your own carrier accounts at no extra charge. The price steps up with volume: $29 a month for up to 500 labels, $54 for up to 1,000 and $199 for up to 10,000. Premier, for unlimited shipments and 15 or more logins, is quote only.

Shippo also sells a shipping API that developers use to add rates and labels to their own apps. API calls that aren't tied to Shippo labels are billed separately.

Choose it if you run a small store shipping under a few hundred parcels a month, or you're a developer adding labels to your own app.

Skip it if you need inventory or warehouse tools. Shippo's plans don't list them, and ShipStation's Premium plan does.

Magaya is built for the companies that move other people's freight: forwarders, NVOCCs, 3PLs, couriers, warehouses and customs brokers. Its main product, Magaya Supply Chain, runs freight forwarding and the warehouse in one system, so a booking, its warehouse receipt and its invoice share the same record.

The add-ons fill in the rest of a forwarder's day. Magaya Customs Compliance is an ACE-certified ABI product for filing US customs entries. Rate Management handles rate searches, quotes and tariff filing. The Digital Freight Portal gives your customers a branded place to book and track shipments, and Magaya Connect links other apps and data sources. Magaya says more than 2,300 customers in over 100 countries use it.

Magaya doesn't publish prices. You book a demo or a discovery call and get a quote, so ask for the cost of each add-on separately, since you may not need all of them.

Choose it if you're a forwarder or customs broker who files US entries and wants freight, warehouse and customs work from one vendor.

Skip it if you mainly ship your own products. A shipping tool such as ShipStation fits that job, and you can start it the same day without a sales call.

CargoWise, from WiseTech Global, is the system many of the world's largest forwarders run on. Its site names Aramex, CEVA, Geodis and Yusen as customers and says more than 17,000 organizations in 193 countries use it.

The platform covers international forwarding, customs and compliance, ecommerce logistics, warehousing, container landside operations, transport, carrier connectivity and the back-office tools that tie them together. For a forwarder with offices in several countries, the appeal is running every branch, customs filing and warehouse from one system instead of a different local package in each market.

WiseTech sells CargoWise by quote. It has introduced what it calls CargoWise Value Packs, which it describes as simpler and more predictable pricing, but it doesn't publish the figures.

Choose it if you're a forwarder, customs broker or warehouse operator working across many countries, or you're growing into new markets and need customs coverage in each.

Skip it if you're a small forwarder working mostly in one country. Magaya covers that with less to set up, and an ecommerce brand needs a shipping tool rather than either of them.

TruckingOffice is a trucking management system for owner-operators and small fleets. You enter a load when you book it, and the system sends loading instructions to the driver and fills in the driver's settlement, your reports and the address book from that one entry. It also creates and sends invoices and tracks payments, records expenses against a truck, driver or trip, and shows per-mile figures for each truck.

TruckingOffice sells an ELD as well: a plug-in reader that talks to a phone app over Bluetooth, with a dispatcher dashboard that shows where drivers are and their hours-of-service timers. Its pricing page doesn't list the ELD, so ask for that cost before you sign up.

Prices are monthly and based on trucks, with no per-user fees. Basic handles full truckloads only and costs $25 a month for 1 to 2 trucks, $55 for 3 to 7 and $90 for 8 or more. Pro adds LTL loads and a load planner for $35, $75 and $130 a month. Brokers pay $45 a month for unlimited dispatches. PC*MILER routing and mileage costs from $5 a month extra. The trial lasts 30 days and needs no card.

Choose it if you run one to a dozen trucks and still do dispatch, invoices and driver pay in spreadsheets.

Skip it if you need IFTA fuel-tax reports handled for you. The site mentions IFTA, but the plans don't list it, so test it during the trial first.

Routific plans same-day routes for local delivery businesses, from a few drivers to more than 100. You load the day's orders, it builds routes for your drivers, and you can still adjust them by dragging stops between routes, lassoing a group of stops on the map or adding a late order before dispatch. Drivers get the routes in a free driver app, and customers get a tracking link to watch their delivery arrive, with notifications in your own logo and colors. Proof of delivery is time-stamped, and the analytics compare planned and actual times for each driver.

Orders can come in through a two-way Shopify sync, no-code connectors to more than 9,000 apps including WooCommerce, Magento and Squarespace, or your own systems.

The free plan covers up to 100 orders a month with every feature except SMS notifications. After that you pay $150 a month for up to 1,000 orders, then a falling per-order rate: 15 cents each from 1,001 to 2,000 orders, down to 3 cents each between 20,001 and 50,000. An order counts once, when it's scheduled to a route. SMS notifications are an add-on priced by country.

Choose it if you run a few delivery vans or cars from one base and plan routes by hand today.

Skip it if you run long-haul freight. Routific is built for same-day local routes, and a trucking TMS such as TruckingOffice fits freight better.

Onfleet covers the same last-mile ground as Routific but is priced for bigger operations, with 2,500 deliveries a month on its entry plan. Every plan includes the driver app, route optimization and proof of delivery. Launch gives you basic route optimization with photo and signature proof. Scale adds advanced optimization with API access, barcode scanning and ID scans for age-restricted deliveries. Enterprise adds recipient PIN checks.

Onfleet prices by completed deliveries, which it calls tasks. Launch starts at $619 a month with 2,500 tasks, Scale at $1,349 with 5,000, and Enterprise is a custom quote that Onfleet says typically starts at $3,099 for 10,000 or more. Deliveries beyond the limit keep running and are billed per task, though the page doesn't list the rate. Courier and logistics providers can add the Courier Suite from $299 a month. Launch has a free trial, and Scale has a 14-day one.

Choose it if you run a delivery operation with dozens of drivers and need ID checks, barcode scans or an API for your own systems.

Skip it if you have a few drivers. Routific's free plan and $150 tier cost far less for that.