iShipTo vs Extensiv
Extensiv's $599 base + $50/client charges punish the thing every SMB 3PL is trying to do — land more clients. iShipTo is flat $59-$349/mo with no per-client fees.
The three numbers SMB 3PLs ask about first
Entry price
iShipTo
$59/mo
Extensiv
$599/mo
Per warehouse, flat. No per-client surcharge ever.
Per-client fee
iShipTo
$0
Extensiv
+$50/mo
Extensiv adds $50 per active client per month. 10 clients = $500/mo of pure overhead.
10-client monthly bill
iShipTo
$179/mo
Extensiv
$1,099/mo
Same client count. iShipTo Growth flat vs Extensiv base + 10 × $50.
Side-by-side
Sourced from Extensiv’s public pricing page as of May 2026. If anything looks wrong, email us — we’ll fix it.
| Feature | iShipTo | Extensiv |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Starting monthly price | $59 | $599 |
| Per-client fee | +$50/client/mo | |
| Per-shipment fee on entry tier | Not published | |
| Paid trial (try before subscribing) | $1.99 / 3 mo | |
| Annual prepay discount | 2 months free | Not published |
| Founding-operator lifetime price lock | ||
| Receiving & inventory | ||
| Multi-tenant data isolation | ||
| Tablet-first receiving UX | ||
| Damage photo capture in receiving | Not published | |
| Inventory damage / quarantine conditions | ||
| Client experience | ||
| White-label client portal | ||
| Closing email with photo evidence | Not published | |
| Onboarding & support | ||
| Setup / onboarding time | Under 5 min, self-serve | Sales-led, 4–8 weeks |
| Support tier at entry plan | Email, 1 biz day | Standard ticketing |
| Fit | ||
| Target customer size | SMB 3PL (1–10 clients) | Mid-market 3PL (50–500 employees) |
Comparison is at the entry tier of each product, sourced from public pricing pages May 2026. Cells marked “Not published” reflect data that Extensiv does not publicly disclose; contact their sales team for current details.
Why operators move
Real conversations with operators evaluating a switch off Extensiv. Same patterns, every time.
Every SMB 3PL is trying to land more clients — and Extensiv charges you $50/mo for the privilege of each one. Land a $1,200/mo retainer, lose $50 to software, your effective margin drops before you ship a box. Operators tell us they delayed onboarding clients waiting for the next billing cycle. Flat pricing flips that — your 11th client costs zero in additional software.
Extensiv is built for 50–500 employee operations with multi-warehouse, multi-currency, deep EDI integration needs. If you are a 4-person 3PL with one warehouse and 8 clients, you are paying for code that never executes against your data. The $599 base is the entry fee to a room you do not need to be in.
Your receiver is on a 10" Android tablet at the dock, not a workstation in an office. iShipTo's receiving flow was designed for that hardware first — large tap targets, photo capture native, variance auto-flag the moment a line closes. Extensiv's UI was designed for desktop and adapted; the difference shows up in dock-floor adoption rates.
Extensiv onboarding runs sales-led for weeks before your first client is live. iShipTo is under 5 minutes — sign up with $1.99, create your first client, scan your first inbound. If you change your mind in week 2, cancel in two clicks. The cost of evaluating us is $1.99 and one afternoon.
Pricing
Both column headers are real. iShipTo publishes three flat tiers — pick one. Extensiv publishes a base, then adds per-client fees on top; higher tiers are quoted by their sales team.
No per-client fees. Annual prepay: 2 months free.
Base price plus a per-client surcharge that grows with you.
+ $50/client/month
Pricing pulled from Extensiv’s public pricing page, May 2026. Annual prepay terms not published.
The math at 10 clients: Extensiv = $599 base + (10 × $50) = $1,099/mo. iShipTo Growth = $179/mo flat. That is $11,040 a year for the same client count — before you even compare features.
Honest take
We’re not the right answer for every warehouse. If any of these describe your operation, Extensiv is probably the better fit today — and we’ll tell you that on a sales call rather than waste your time:
Extensiv is built for the operational complexity of mid-market 3PLs — finance teams, dedicated IT, mature ops processes. iShipTo is tuned for the 1–10 person operator wearing the founder/ops/sales hat. Different problem shape.
If you operate 3+ warehouses and need active inventory load balancing across them, Extensiv's multi-warehouse engine is battle-tested. Multi-warehouse on iShipTo ships in Phase 2 — coming, not here.
If you bill international clients in EUR, GBP, CAD, AUD, you need Extensiv's multi-currency support today. iShipTo invoices in USD only at launch; multi-currency is on the roadmap but not shipped.
For everyone else — 1 to 10 clients, single warehouse, USD invoicing, evaluating WMS for the first time — we built iShipTo for your cost structure specifically.
Common questions
Make the switch
Card on file, single $1.99 charge, 90 days of full feature access. Auto-converts to your chosen plan on day 91 — cancel before then and we never bill you again.
