iShipTo vs ShipHero
ShipHero starts at $2,145/month, designed for warehouses with enterprise budgets. iShipTo starts at $59/month and skips the per-client fee math. Built for SMB 3PLs and FBA prep centers.
The three numbers SMB 3PLs ask about first
Entry price
iShipTo
$59/mo
ShipHero
$2,145/mo
Per warehouse, no per-client surcharge.
Per-client fee
iShipTo
$0
ShipHero
$0
ShipHero rolls clients into the base — but the base assumes enterprise volume.
Founding lifetime price lock
iShipTo
Yes
ShipHero
No
First 50 operators lock in today's monthly price through Phase 2 features.
Side-by-side
Sourced from ShipHero’s public pricing page as of May 2026. If anything looks wrong, email us — we’ll fix it.
| Feature | iShipTo | ShipHero |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Starting monthly price | $59 | $2,145 |
| Per-client fee | ||
| Per-shipment fee on entry tier | ||
| 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 | ||
| Inventory damage / quarantine conditions | ||
| Client experience | ||
| White-label client portal | Extra fee | |
| Closing email with photo evidence | ||
| Onboarding & support | ||
| Setup / onboarding time | Under 5 min, self-serve | Sales-led, 2–4 weeks |
| Support tier at entry plan | Email, 1 biz day | Standard ticketing |
| Fit | ||
| Target customer size | SMB 3PL (1–10 clients) | Enterprise (500K+ units/mo) |
Comparison is at the entry tier of each product, sourced from public pricing pages May 2026. Cells marked “Not published” reflect data that ShipHero does not publicly disclose; contact their sales team for current details.
Why operators move
Real conversations with operators evaluating a switch off enterprise WMS. Same patterns, every time.
When the entry tier is $2,145/mo, every new client has to clear a much higher hurdle before it pays for itself. We watched operators turn down $1,500/mo retainers because they couldn't justify the cost-per-client on their software bill. Flat pricing flips that — your 9th client costs you zero in extra software.
Multi-warehouse load balancing, deep cross-dock orchestration, 20-carrier rate shopping — ShipHero ships these because their target customer is a 500K-unit-per-month operation. If you are running one warehouse with 30K units a month, you are paying for code that never runs against your data.
Your receiver is on a 10" Android tablet at the dock, not a $2,000 workstation. iShipTo's receiving flow was designed for that hardware first — large tap targets, photo capture native, variance auto-flag on line close. ShipHero's UI was designed for desktop, then adapted; the difference shows up in dock-floor adoption rates.
Your clients want to log in, see live inventory, and request shipments. On iShipTo, the white-label portal is on by default — your logo, your subdomain, your clients never see iShipTo branding. On ShipHero, that capability is paid extra.
Pricing
Both column headers are real. iShipTo publishes three flat tiers — pick one. ShipHero publishes one entry price; any higher tiers are quoted by their sales team.
No per-client fees. Annual prepay: 2 months free.
Higher tiers are not published publicly — talk to sales.
Pricing pulled from ShipHero’s public pricing page, May 2026. Annual prepay terms not published.
The trial mechanic, side-by-side: iShipTo charges $1.99 to verify your card and gives you 90 days of full feature access. ShipHero requires a sales call before you can touch the product.
Honest take
We’re not the right answer for every warehouse. If any of these describe your operation, ShipHero is probably the better fit today — and we’ll tell you that on a sales call rather than waste your time:
Our pricing and feature roadmap are tuned for 5K–100K units/mo per warehouse. Past that, ShipHero's infrastructure and load balancing are battle-tested at scale we haven't reached yet.
Auto-sync of FBA shipment plans and live FBA inventory ships in our Phase 2. If you can't wait — and your business depends on it now — ShipHero has the deeper Amazon integration today.
Our compliance program is on the roadmap, not on the wall. If your enterprise customers require a current SOC 2 Type 2 report to onboard you as a 3PL, ShipHero will pass procurement faster than we will.
For everyone else — 1 to 10 clients, 5K to 100K units per month, running one warehouse, 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.
