EMERGE vs Openship

EMERGE is a cloud-based inventory and order management platform for wholesale, distribution, manufacturing and import-export businesses. It brings together sales, purchasing, inventory, production, shipping and customer management. Stock tools include real-time tracking, multiple locations, variants, serial numbers, batches, barcodes and simple production. Import-export capabilities include multiple currencies, multilingual documents, custom packing lists and landed cost calculation. Customers can browse and order through EMERGE Cart, a B2B ecommerce platform. The service integrates with Stripe for invoice export, payment links and invoice-status import, and with Xero for accounting. Its mobile version provides access to product, stock and order information. The Free Forever plan costs nothing for one user and is limited to four quotations, sales and purchases a month. Full-feature plans are listed at $34.90 a month billed annually, $38.90 a month billed every six months, $44.90 a month billed every three months, and $49.90 a month billed month-to-month. The listed Monthly, Quarterly, Half-Yearly and Yearly plans also describe unlimited orders and products, but do not state prices. EMERGE is web-based and sold by user rather than by feature.

Openship is an open-source order management system that connects sales channels with fulfillment locations. It can split order line items and route them according to inventory, shipping costs, and delivery times. Product matching and inventory matching support fulfillment across channels, while configurable shops, channel links, and routing rules let users set up workflows for their operations. Examples of connectable shops include Shopify, WooCommerce, eBay, and Amazon. Described use cases connect marketplace sellers, third-party logistics providers, suppliers, and storefronts for fulfillment. Openship is self-hosted, with source code and documentation linked from its product page; hosted plans add managed infrastructure and automatic updates on Starter. Its free self-deployed plan includes unlimited shops, channels, orders, and users, with community support. Hosted Starter costs $99 a month and allows up to 1,000 orders and three users monthly. Professional costs $249 a month, with limits of 10,000 orders and 10 users. Enterprise costs $499 a month and includes unlimited orders, users, shops, and channels.