Cin7 is a capable multichannel inventory platform with published pricing and a large integration ecosystem. It also sells two different products with different EDI answers, and apparel is one industry among many. This is an honest comparison for apparel brands weighing the two, with every Cin7 claim sourced to cin7.com’s own published pages. As of July 2026.
Credit first, because it is deserved. Cin7 publishes its Core pricing openly, offers a free trial, lists more than 700 app partners, and has genuine scale - its site cites over 8,500 customers and 125 million orders processed a year. Its Shopify, Amazon, Xero and QuickBooks Online connectors are well regarded, POS is included in the family, and its EDI page names prebuilt retailer connections spanning Walmart, Target, Costco, Woolworths and Coles. For an ecommerce-led product business, that is a strong package.
The first thing to understand before comparing anything is that “Cin7” is two products. Cin7 Core carries the published prices - $349, $599 and $999 a month - and Cin7 Omni is quote-only. They have separate logins and separate help centres, and their capability sets differ in ways that matter to a wholesale apparel brand. The clearest example is EDI. Cin7’s own EDI page says Omni customers get built-in connections managed inside the platform, while Core customers must use partner integrations - it names SPS Commerce, Crstl and Surpass Solutions - and its pricing table lists EDI/3PL connections as “Via API & Partner Solution” across all four plans. If a department store mandates EDI, the tier you can price on the website is not the tier that answers the mandate natively.
The second is that Cin7 meters annual order volume. Core plans include 6,000, 24,000 and 120,000 sale orders a year, with more available for purchase. That is a sensible model for many businesses, but apparel wholesale is spiky by construction - pre-books land in bursts, drops and reorders stack in a season - so the ceiling matters more than the average.
The third is apparel itself. Cin7’s Fashion & Apparel page describes multichannel inventory, forecasting, warehousing and billing in fashion language, which is honest marketing for what the platform is: a general inventory and order platform, one of eight industry pages. What it does not describe - because the product is not built around them - are the objects an apparel brand actually works in: seasons and ranges, colourways and size curves, prepacks, tech packs, costed BOMs with per-colourway variant costing, critical path, and size-curve-aware allocation against wholesale pre-books. Sync starts there, because Sync does nothing else.
Every Cin7 claim below comes from cin7.com’s published pricing, EDI, warehouse and industry pages, read July 2026. Plans and packaging change - if anything here is out of date, tell us and we’ll correct it.
Sources: cin7.com/pricing, cin7.com/features/inventory/edi, cin7.com/features/inventory/3pl-connect and cin7.com/industries/fashion-and-apparel, July 2026.
Selling into Nordstrom, Macy’s, Saks - or Myer and David Jones - means EDI compliance. Sync includes full native EDI on every deployment, so the answer doesn’t change depending on which edition you bought or which partner you signed with.
Sync tracks every unit by style, colourway and size across locations - with size-curve-aware allocation against wholesale pre-books, forward availability from inbound POs, and reorder flags that a general SKU model can’t express.
| COLOR | XS | S | M | L | XL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black | 42 | 12 | 3 | 38 | 56 |
| Navy | 30 | 44 | 9 | 51 | 28 |
| Sand | 0 | 22 | 37 | 19 | 7 |
Cin7 publishes its Core pricing, which is more than most vendors do. Here is what those plans include as of July 2026 - and the three lines in the table that tend to decide it for a wholesale apparel brand.
Three things sit outside that headline number for an apparel brand. EDI is the first: on Core it runs through a partner - Cin7 names SPS Commerce, Crstl and Surpass Solutions - so a department-store mandate adds a second contract with its own per-document fees, and native EDI lives on Omni, which is quote-only. The B2B portal is the second: it is listed as an add-on on every plan, Omni included, and additional portal sites are extra. Warehouse depth is the third: Standard WMS supports one warehouse location, and Advanced WMS is unavailable on Standard, an add-on on Pro, included on Advanced and listed N/A on Omni.
Sync quotes one platform with apparel PLM, native EDI, the B2B portal, the full WMS and 3PL integrations in scope from the start - because an apparel brand needs all of them, usually within the same eighteen months - and there is no volume-based tiering, so a heavy pre-book season doesn’t cost more than a quiet one. If you are comparing seriously, ask both vendors to price the same five years of growth: more seats, a department store, a second warehouse or 3PL, and a wholesale portal your reps actually use.
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Cin7 is a multi-industry inventory and order management platform - apparel is one of eight industries it lists. Sync is built only for apparel and footwear, so styles, colourways, size curves, prepacks, tech packs and costed BOMs are the native data model rather than SKUs with attributes. The second difference is packaging: Cin7 sells two products - Core (published pricing, $349-$999/mo as of July 2026) and Omni (custom quote) - and several capabilities apparel brands care about, EDI especially, behave differently depending on which you buy.
It depends on which product you buy. Cin7's EDI page states that Omni customers get built-in EDI managed in the platform, while Core customers must use partner integrations - it names SPS Commerce, Crstl and Surpass Solutions. Its pricing table lists EDI/3PL connections as “Via API & Partner Solution” on all four plans. So the priced tiers route EDI through a third party with its own contract and per-document fees; the tier with native EDI is quote-only. Sync’s EDI is native on every deployment - no middleware, no per-document metering: a one-time setup per retailer map plus a volume-based base fee, typically 20%+ below middleware totals at equivalent volume.
Cin7 does not publish a PLM product. Its manufacturing modules are Assembly Manufacturing, BOM tracking, MRP and Advanced Production Manufacturing - built for assembly and production planning across product categories rather than apparel development. Advanced Production Manufacturing is an add-on on Core Pro and Advanced, and listed N/A on Omni. Sync includes full apparel PLM in the core platform: style master, tech packs, costed BOMs with per-colourway variant costing, critical path and sample tracking.
Yes, tiered. Cin7’s pricing table shows Standard Warehouse Management - a mobile app for pick, pack, restock, put away and lookup - with one warehouse location supported. Advanced WMS (multiple locations, picking for kitting, time tracking, delivery scheduling, FIFO/FEFO enforcement) is unavailable on Standard, an add-on on Pro, included on Advanced and listed N/A on Omni. Cin7 also sells 3PL Connect for linking to 3PLs. Sync includes a complete WMS in the core platform - Android handhelds, pick waves, directed picking, scan-based packing, SSCC/UCC-128 - and deep 3PL integrations with automated inventory reconciliation. Own warehouse or 3PL is a brand decision, not a software constraint.
Honestly: multichannel product businesses that are ecommerce-led rather than wholesale-led. Cin7 publishes its Core pricing, offers a free trial, lists 700+ app partners with strong Shopify, Amazon, Xero and QuickBooks Online connectors, includes POS, and has real scale - its site cites 8,500+ customers and 125M+ orders processed per year. If your complexity sits in channels and SKUs rather than seasons, size curves, retailer compliance and development calendars, it is a credible platform - and its US, Australian and New Zealand retail coverage is genuine.
Yes - and it is a common path once wholesale becomes material. Styles, colourways and size runs, customers, suppliers, open orders and inventory positions move across in a structured migration; implementations typically run 8-16 weeks including EDI trading-partner setup. The usual triggers: a first department-store EDI mandate, a warehouse team outgrowing single-location scanning, or development work still living in spreadsheets. Book a demo to walk a migration through your actual data.
Yes - Sync is the apparel-only alternative. Everything a growing apparel brand adds over time - PLM with tech packs and costed BOMs, native EDI, a B2B wholesale portal, a full WMS with handheld scanning, and 3PL integrations with automated reconciliation - sits in one platform rather than spread across tiers, add-ons and partner contracts. Cin7 stays a strong choice for ecommerce-led product businesses across categories; Sync fits when the complexity is seasons, size curves, retailer compliance and development calendars.
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