# ShipHero review (2026): is it worth $15,000 a year? > Warehouse management for ecommerce brands and 3PLs Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. ShipHero is a warehouse management system for ecommerce brands and third-party logistics companies. It covers receiving and putaway, inventory, picking and packing, carrier rate shopping and returns. Pricing follows shipment and order volume rather than seats, SKUs or warehouses, and plans start at $15,000 a year. - **Category:** Inventory Management - **Made by:** ShipHero - **Website:** https://www.shiphero.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you are small: $15,000 a year is where Core starts, before onboarding. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, ShipHero is a paid product, starting at $15,000 per year (Core plan). - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Core | $15,000 per year | Includes 25,000 DTC shipments a year and 10 store connections; extra shipments $0.24 pay-as-you-go. Onboarding fee from about $5,000. | | Growth | Custom | For high-volume DTC and wholesale operations, with a custom shipment and wholesale order allotment. Sold through sales. | | Enterprise | Custom | For multi-site 3PLs with complex integrations: increased API capacity, SSO and location-aware warehousing included. | Read from https://www.shiphero.com/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with ShipHero before buying. ## Key features - **Receiving and putaway:** Receive stock against purchase orders and put it away to bin locations, with barcode-driven workflows. - **Picking and packing:** Batch picking, pack stations, Tap-to-Pack and light-directed Pick-to-Light and Pack-to-Light hardware. - **Shipping and rate shopping:** Creates labels and compares live carrier rates, with direct integrations for UPS, USPS and FedEx. - **3PL tools:** A client portal and work orders for third-party logistics companies, with 3PL clients never metered. - **Returns management:** Handles returns and works with Loop Returns for customer-facing return flows. - **AI Toolkit with MCP:** Included free on every plan on its own API bucket, alongside the standard API. ## Good for - Brands outgrowing spreadsheets and a basic order tool - 3PLs that want unlimited clients, users and warehouses - Shopify or Magento merchants with a growing shipment volume ## Worth knowing - Plans start at $15,000 a year, plus a one-time onboarding fee typically starting around $5,000. - Shipments over the allotment cost $0.24 each pay-as-you-go; wholesale orders over it cost $2.10 each. - SSO is a $500 a month add-on on Core; EDI, label library, light-directed hardware and NetSuite are paid extras. - Renewal increases are capped at 10% across every charge on the agreement. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. ShipHero is warehouse software for receiving, picking, shipping, returns and 3PL clients, with users and SKUs not metered. Plans start at $15,000 a year plus onboarding, and shipments over the allotment cost extra. - **Value for money: D.** Core is $15,000 a year, about $1,250 a month, above the $900 where the dearest tenth of inventory tools starts, plus an onboarding fee from about $5,000. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial; the pricing page leads to a conversation with the sales team. - **Features: B.** Receiving, putaway, picking, packing, rate shopping, 3PL tools and returns are all listed, and no gap in the core job is named. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating is on record, and a warehouse system comes with onboarding and hardware to set up. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with Shopify, Magento, BigCommerce, Walmart, NetSuite and carrier links. No phone or computer app is on record. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from ShipHero's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among inventory management tools - ShipHero's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 11 of the 72 other inventory management tools we grade, and level with 16. - It stands best on features (B, above 41 of 72) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $1,250 a month when paid by the year, against a middle price of $91 for the category: 41 of the 42 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 3 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/inventory ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace ShipHero you would be making discounted carrier rates and labels, which take an agreement with each carrier. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 45 of the 72 other inventory management tools grade higher. It costs $15,000 a year. - You could make: Inventory: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Discounted carrier rates and labels, which take an agreement with each carrier. - You could not: Checkout, card payments and sales tax handled for you. - You could not: Scanning barcodes with a phone camera or a scanner. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Shopify, Magento 2 and BigCommerce among them, and has an API. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Shopify, Magento 2, BigCommerce, Walmart, NetSuite, Brightpearl, UPS, FedEx **Tags:** Inventory, Barcode scanning, Shipping labels, Public API, Online store ## Alternatives - [Extensiv](https://toolgpa.com/tools/extensiv): Warehouse management software for third-party logistics. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/extensiv-vs-shiphero) - [Deposco](https://toolgpa.com/tools/deposco): Cloud warehouse, order and shipping management platform. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/deposco-vs-shiphero) - [SkuVault Core](https://toolgpa.com/tools/skuvault): Warehouse and inventory control for ecommerce sellers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/shiphero-vs-skuvault) - [Linnworks](https://toolgpa.com/tools/linnworks): Inventory and order management for high-volume multichannel sellers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/linnworks-vs-shiphero) - [Logiwa](https://toolgpa.com/tools/logiwa): Cloud warehouse and fulfillment software for 3PLs and brands. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/logiwa-vs-shiphero) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.shiphero.com/pricing - https://www.shiphero.com/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/shiphero Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).