What inventory management software costs

The key facts

• Licence models: per-user (penalises team size), per-order or per-SKU (penalises growth), and flat tiers (predictable). Read which one you are being quoted.
• The lines around the licence: implementation, integrations, and the workarounds your team performs daily — usually bigger than the subscription.
• The status quo is not free: oversells, re-keying, stocktake surprises and month-end reconstruction are costs with a schedule.
• BSimple's prices, plainly: $180/$250/$399 per month AUD, flat tiers, every feature in the core plans — no module paywall.
• The wider system: inventory management end to end maps the whole record this page sits in.

The licence, and how to read the model

Three subscription shapes dominate. Per-user pricing is fine for a small team and quietly punitive for a warehouse — every picker counts, and the cost scales with exactly the people who benefit least from their own licence. Usage-based pricing (per order, per SKU, per location) starts cheap and taxes your growth; the moment you succeed, the invoice does too. Flat tiers are the most predictable: a monthly number that covers the plan, with features rather than volume deciding the tier. None is a scam — but you should know which model a quote uses before comparing it to another, because they are not the same currency.

What the buy decision looks like in full covers the comparison process; this page sticks to the numbers.

The lines around the licence

• Implementation. Migration, configuration, training — sometimes included, sometimes a project priced in months. Ask what "setup" includes before comparing headline prices.
• Integrations. The accounting handoff, the store connection, scanners: each is either included or an ongoing maintenance item, and the gap between those two is where "cheap" tools earn their margin back.
• Workarounds. The hours your team spends on what the tool does not cover — re-keying, reconciling, spreadsheeting around it. At any real volume this is the largest line in the comparison, and it appears on no invoice.
• The module paywall. Some vendors hold the features you actually need (batches, portals, reporting) behind tiers you must reach. Price the tier you would need at your next stage, not the one you buy today.

The status quo has the same lines. Staying on a spreadsheet costs the oversell that lost a customer, the stocktake that surprised everyone, the month-end reconstruction, and the re-keying into accounting — real money with a schedule, just no invoice to show for it. What the free end of the ladder includes totals that side honestly.

BSimple's pricing, stated plainly

We build BSimple, so weigh that. Three flat tiers in AUD: Starter $180/month, Professional $250/month, Organisation $399/month. Every feature sits in the core plans — recipes, batches, mass balance, the customer portal, reporting — so the tier question is scale, not access. SMS sends via SendGrid at $0.20 per segment; emails are included. There is no implementation project: products import from your spreadsheet, the system runs in the browser, and the trial is the full product — the same software you would pay for, on your own products, before any decision.

The comparison we would run if we were you: that price against the hours your team currently spends working around whatever you use today. If the hours win, buy. If they do not, stay free with our blessing — the free end of the ladder and price comparisons for specific tools are here for that stage too.