First system
What a small 3PL really needs on day one.
Small and new 3PLs
Starting a 3PL? Start with the right-sized software
A new or small 3PL has few staff, a handful of clients and little patience for a six-month rollout. Here is how to think about software at that size.
Written for small operations
- What to buy first and what can wait
- How software pricing models differ
- When a spreadsheet stops being enough
- Disclosure: we make Cargohold
We make Cargohold, so we are not neutral. Facts about other products come from their public pages and are dated.
Small is a real category
Software for a ten-person 3PL is not a shrunk-down version of what a national network buys. The choices differ: you need fast setup, clear pricing, and room to grow, but you cannot spend months on rollout.
These pages look at software through that lens. We say plainly that we make Cargohold, and where a page recommends anything it tells you why and when we looked.
Starting out
Pricing models
Subscriptions, licences and one-time builds side by side.
Growing
What changes as clients and volume increase.
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