01 · fleet
Fleet & dispatch software.
Dispatch boards with live vehicle status, driver assignment, and proof-of-delivery. One shared screen replaces the phone-and-spreadsheet chaos.
Replace the spreadsheet dispatch board →
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§ · logistics · software
Logistics Software Development Company
We build fleet, warehouse, inventory, and last-mile systems that hold up in real operations. EDI and API-integrated architecture. Barcode and RFID workflows built for the dock floor. ERP sync in minutes, not overnight. Shipped from NY + Delhi on a six-week cadence.
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§ 01 · what we build
What we build for logistics.
Logistics software breaks in predictable places: overnight ERP batches while orders pile up, inventory drifts between warehouse and storefront, dispatch trapped in a spreadsheet and one person's memory.
Eight build shapes cover what most operators and 3PLs bring us. Each solves a specific integration problem, not a one-size template. Looking for store-side systems instead? Our retail software practice handles POS and store software. Everything here is freight, warehouse, and fulfillment.
02 · warehouse
Warehouse management systems.
Receiving, putaway, pick-pack-ship, and cycle counts. Scan-first workflows built for gloves, dust, and dropped scanners. Syncs to your ERP in minutes.
Run the floor from one system →03 · inventory
Inventory management software.
One stock truth across warehouses, storefronts, and ERP. Reorder points, lot and expiry tracking. Drift alerts catch miscounts before they become oversells.
Stop selling stock you don't have →04 · fulfillment
Order fulfillment automation.
Order routing, carrier selection, and label generation fully automated. Every event idempotent and replayable, so failed webhooks retry cleanly instead of losing orders.
Take the humans out of the happy path →05 · last mile
Last-mile tracking apps.
Driver apps with route manifests and proof of delivery. Customer tracking fed by carrier webhooks. Exceptions surface proactively, not as support tickets.
Kill the where-is-my-order ticket →06 · portals
Supplier & dealer portals.
Self-serve ordering with contract pricing and approval workflows. Reorder UX that moves buyers off email and fax. In our B2B industrial archetype, this tripled self-serve order share.
Move buyers off email ordering →07 · freight
Freight quoting engines.
Multi-carrier rate shopping, dimensional-weight math, and accessorial rules. Margin-aware quoting served to sales teams and customer portals from one core.
Quote freight in seconds, not calls →08 · routing
Route optimization dashboards.
Stop sequencing under capacity and time-window constraints. Plan-versus-actual views and cost-per-stop telemetry. Pays for itself in fuel and failed-delivery savings.
Cut miles from every route →§ 02 · standards & integrations
Integration-first by architecture.
Integration-first means your stack speaks the industry's native languages: EDI documents your trading partners require, real-time carrier APIs, barcode standards that mean the same thing in every facility.
One honest note: compliance attestations are statuses your company earns from an auditor. No development partner can hand them to you.
trading partners
EDI & API integrations.
Purchase orders, ship notices, and invoices move as EDI where retailers demand it, as modern APIs everywhere else. Translation layer keeps your core system seeing one format.
identification
Barcode & RFID workflows.
Scan-first receiving, picking, and cycle counts built on GS1 standards: GTINs, SSCC pallet labels, GS1-128. Your labels mean the same thing to every partner in the chain.
carriers
Shipping API integrations.
Multi-carrier rating, labels, and tracking webhooks built against EasyPost and Shippo docs. Primary docs, not folklore. Carrier-outage fallbacks built in.
addresses
Address validation.
Validate and normalize at order entry, not at the depot. An address caught in the form costs nothing. Caught on a truck costs a failed delivery and reattempt fees.
data
GDPR-aware data handling.
Consignee names, addresses, and phone numbers are personal data. Minimization, retention windows, and deletion workflows follow EU data-protection law from day one, not bolted on later.
operations
SOC 2-aware practices.
Audit logs, role-based access control, change management, and incident runbooks from day one. When an enterprise shipper's security questionnaire arrives, answers already exist.
§ 03 · challenges → how we solve them
Logistics breaks in predictable places.
Four failure patterns show up in almost every logistics stack we inherit. Each has a structural fix , not a patch , and each fix is cheaper the earlier it lands.
challenge 01 · batch lag
The overnight ERP batch runs the business.
When inventory syncs once a night, every system lies for 23 hours. We replace batches with event-driven sync via iPaaS or direct webhooks. In our B2B industrial archetype, ERP sync went from overnight to under 15 minutes. Order-to-confirmation fell from 72 hours to 18.
challenge 02 · spreadsheet dispatch
Dispatch lives in one person's head.
A spreadsheet plus one dispatcher's memory scales to a dozen vehicles, then breaks on the first sick day. We build dispatch boards with live status, assignment rules, and exception queues. Tribal knowledge becomes routing logic the whole team can see and improve.
challenge 03 · stock drift
Inventory counts drift between systems.
Warehouse says 40, storefront says 55, ERP says 48. We designate one source of truth, make every movement a scanned event, and run continuous cycle counts with drift alerts. Miscounts become same-day corrections, not quarterly write-offs.
challenge 04 · tracking black hole
Shipments vanish between scans.
The gap between "shipped" and "delivered" generates most support volume. We ingest carrier webhooks into one tracking timeline and surface exceptions: stalled, misrouted, refused. Customers know before they call. Support uses one screen, not five carrier portals.
§ 04 · the money question
How much does logistics software cost?
Logistics platforms follow SaaS pricing by stage. Costs climb with feature density, not whim.
An MVP (one warehouse, one carrier, one core workflow) runs $30K-$80K over 10-16 weeks. Post-PMF with multi-tenancy: $80K-$200K over 16-26 weeks. Scale-stage with SSO, advanced billing, RBAC, audit logs: $200K-$500K over 24-40 weeks. Enterprise multi-region builds: $500K-$1M+.
SOC 2 Type II readiness adds $40K-$120K of engineering plus $15K-$40K/year for the audit. Full stage-by-stage math and a build-vs-buy table (saves $150K+ on most scale builds) lives in our SaaS development cost guide.
| stage | timeline | market range |
|---|---|---|
| MVP / pre-PMF | 10-16 weeks | $30K-$80K |
| Post-PMF | 16-26 weeks | $80K-$200K |
| Scale | 24-40 weeks | $200K-$500K |
| Enterprise | 32-52 weeks | $500K-$1M+ |
Scope drives price, not the conversation. Every quote arrives in writing within 48 hours of your first call. Itemized by build shape, integrations priced per trading partner and carrier.
§ 05 · featured case study
A B2B industrial supplier, self-serve tripled.
Industry archetype · drawn from patterns across multiple B2B and wholesale brands we have migrated · brand identity composite
self-serve share
55%
Orders placed without a rep, up from 18%.
order cycle
18h
Order-to-confirmation, down from 72 hours.
reorder engine
4.2x
Reorder GMV vs first-order GMV, trailing 12 months.
ERP sync
<15m
NetSuite inventory and pricing sync lag.
The pattern: an industrial distributor with a proper NetSuite ERP that lagged by a day due to overnight batch syncs. Buyers defaulted to reps because self-serve was slower than a phone call.
Twenty weeks, phased: 847 companies and 2,100 users migrated to company accounts. Tier and contract pricing rebuilt. NetSuite connected through Celigo with sync lag tuned under 15 minutes. Threshold-driven approvals. Reorder UX with par-level reminders, scheduled POs, and quick-order-by-SKU paste became the growth engine.
One operator said it plainly: "We cut two developer seats and added 240 new accounts in the first year." Read the full B2B industrial archetype, or see the same supply-side discipline in the Chicago B2B industrial archetype.
§ 06 · how we ship
Five steps, six-week cycles.
The cadence is the contract. Every build runs in six-week cycles with a demo every Friday , and because logistics software touches live operations, cutovers are phased by facility or buyer segment, never big-bang.
- 01
Discover.
A 30-minute call on your operation: integration surface, ERP, carriers, trading partners, and your stage. Written scope with build shapes, timeline, and fixed fee arrives within 48 hours.
- 02
Design.
Weeks one to two: integration map first. Every system, document, and webhook named. Then data model, exception flows, and a clickable prototype of dispatch and receiving screens before any production code.
- 03
Build.
Weeks two to five: senior engineers on staging. You can click it from day three. Carrier and ERP sandboxes wired early. Sync jobs tested against edge cases: duplicate webhooks, partial shipments, out-of-order events.
- 04
Launch.
Week six: phased cutover by facility, carrier, or top accounts first. Monitoring and alerting live. Incident runbooks handed over. Go-live checklist signed by your ops lead.
- 05
Optimize.
The next six-week cycle scopes from live telemetry: sync lag, pick error rates, on-time delivery, cost per stop. Not from a backlog written before the system met a real truck.
§ 07 · the logistics stack
Boring where it counts, sharp where it differentiates.
Logistics rewards proven primitives. We use typed languages, relational databases, and integration platforms with real documentation. Novelty budget goes to your workflows, not the plumbing.
Next.js
React
React Native
Flutter
TypeScript
Node.js
PostgreSQL
Supabase
EasyPost
Shippo
Celigo
NetSuite
Klaviyo
Looker Studio
AWS
Vercel
§ 08 · why Digital Heroes
Why logistics teams pick us.
01 · senior teams
NY + Delhi, honestly remote-first.
115 people across two HQs and three satellites. No fake local offices. No bait-and-switch juniors. The engineers on your call are the engineers on your build.
02 · overlap
Coverage shaped like your operation.
Warehouses and fleets don't keep office hours. US mornings overlap Delhi evenings. A sync failure at your standup is often fixed before your next one.
03 · cadence
Six weeks, demoed every Friday.
The cadence is public and non-negotiable. You see working software weekly; a slipping build has nowhere to hide by week two.
04 · pricing
Transparent numbers, published.
Our cost guides print the real ranges before you ever book a call, and every scope arrives itemized in writing within 48 hours. Clutch 4.9, Upwork Top Rated Plus.
05 · operators
We run our own platforms.
Our ERP and client portals run our 115-person business daily. Orders, roles, audit trails included. We carry a pager for our software. That instinct ships with yours.
§ 09 · three ways to work with us
Pick the shape your roadmap needs.
project
Fixed-scope build
6-14 weeks
One build shape: a carrier integration, a driver app, a dealer portal. Scoped, priced, and shipped on the six-week cadence. Best when the outcome is concrete.
most picked
retainer
Product retainer
monthly cycles
A standing senior pod runs successive six-week cycles. New trading partners, facilities, and workflows scoped from live operational data each cycle.
extension
Team extension
3-12 months
Senior engineers embedded in your standup, your repo, your review process. You direct; we ship at your bar or above it.
Not sure which shape? Start with the stage math in the SaaS development cost guide. The ranges there map one-to-one onto these engagement shapes.
§ 10 · from the journal
Field notes for operations builders.
carriers
Multi-carrier shipping software
The rating, labeling, and tracking platforms worth building on , and where a custom integration beats an off-the-shelf connector.
inventory
Inventory & accounting software
How the inventory stack fits together , and the sync boundaries that decide whether your counts stay honest.
self-serve
Optimizing B2B ordering sites
The self-serve ordering patterns , contract pricing, reorder UX, approval flows , that move buyers off email and phone.
Eight answers.
How much does logistics software development cost?
Logistics platforms follow SaaS cost stages. MVP (one warehouse, one carrier, one core workflow): $30K-$80K over 10-16 weeks. Post-PMF with multi-tenancy: $80K-$200K. Scale-stage with SSO, RBAC, audit logs: $200K-$500K. Enterprise multi-region: $500K-$1M+. Integrations are priced per trading partner and carrier, itemized in quotes. Every engagement starts with a 30-minute call and a written scope within 48 hours.
How long does a logistics software build take?
One carrier integration or a driver app fits in one six-week cycle. A logistics MVP (order intake, one warehouse workflow, carrier labels, admin panel) runs 10-16 weeks, typically two cycles. Multi-facility platforms with ERP and EDI integration run 16-40 weeks depending on trading partner count. The constant: a demo every Friday and phased cutovers by facility, never big-bang.
Can you integrate with our ERP and EDI trading partners?
Yes. That integration surface is usually the entire project. We connect ERPs like NetSuite directly or through iPaaS platforms like Celigo. EDI documents move where retailers and 3PLs require them. A translation layer keeps your core system seeing one canonical format. In our B2B industrial archetype, NetSuite changes reached the ordering rail in under 15 minutes, down from overnight batches. Order-to-confirmation fell from 72 hours to 18.
Should we build a custom WMS or configure an off-the-shelf one?
Configure first, build where you differentiate. Standard receive-putaway-pick-ship workflows win with a well-configured off-the-shelf WMS. Custom wins when your workflow is the business: unusual kitting, lot and expiry rules, mixed-client 3PL billing, or an ERP relationship no connector handles. Most of our engagements are hybrid: buy the commodity core, custom-build the two or three workflows that make you faster than competitors.
Do you build driver and warehouse-floor mobile apps?
Yes, designed for where they live. Driver apps get offline-first architecture: route manifests that survive dead zones, proof-of-delivery photos that queue and sync, exception reporting. Floor apps get scan-first interaction: big targets, barcode and RFID capture, flows that work with gloves on. We build in React Native or Flutter so one codebase covers both Android scanners in the warehouse and phones in trucks.
Are you SOC 2 certified?
Attestation is a status your company earns from a qualified auditor. No development agency can transfer it, and we won't pretend otherwise. What we deliver is SOC 2-aware architecture: audit logs, role-based access control, encryption at rest and in transit, incident runbooks from day one. Enterprise shippers send security questionnaires before they send freight. Teams that build this way answer them from existing documentation instead of a six-month scramble.
Do you support the system after launch?
Yes. For logistics we insist on a defined handover either way because this software runs live operations. Launch includes monitoring, alerting, and incident runbooks tied to operational metrics: sync lag, label failure rates, tracking-webhook gaps. Most teams continue on a product retainer with successive six-week cycles adding trading partners and facilities. Teams taking it in-house get documented architecture, seeded test suites for integration edge cases, and a transition window where our engineers pair with yours.
Build or buy for shipping rates and route optimization?
Buy the rails, build the rules. Carrier connectivity, rating, labels, and tracking is a solved problem. EasyPost or Shippo gives you dozens of carriers behind one documented API. Rebuilding that wastes budget. What's worth building is the layer on top: your margin rules, accessorial logic, carrier-selection policy, routing constraints. The build-vs-buy table in our SaaS development cost guide saves $150K+ on most scale builds by drawing this line clearly.
Start with a logistics build audit.
A 30-minute call on your operation: integration surface, stage, and readiness. You leave knowing which build shape fits and what it costs. Written scope follows within 48 hours.
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