Distribution software pricing: what drives your number

The four drivers behind your number

Pricing is built from your operation rather than from a tier you have to fit into. Four things move it, and nothing else does:

• Driver 1 — which pillars you run. Field, Operations, Finance, and Export are modular. A distributor might start with Field and Operations; an exporter might add the export pipeline; a manufacturer running its own distribution might use all four. You're not buying a factory ERP you'll grow into — you turn on what you use today and add the rest as you grow.
• Driver 2 — how many branches you operate. One branch and one warehouse is a lighter operation to run than stock, transfers, and reorder points across several locations. Every extra location is another set of on-hand numbers, and somebody has to see all of them at once.
• Driver 3 — how many people need a login. Reps in the field, the orders desk, finance, export — each a named user with their own role and permissions. Roles matter as much as headcount: a rep on a route and a finance lead chasing an overdue balance use very different parts of the same system.
• Driver 4 — your order and shipment volume. How many orders, invoices, and export shipments the system carries in a month, and how many buyers and SKUs sit behind them. A single-branch distributor writing domestic orders is not the same load as an exporter moving containers with a document pack behind every one.

What a scoping call covers

The quote comes out of a conversation rather than a form, and it is the same session as the demo — we look at how you actually run, then price what we saw. Half an hour is usually enough.

• Which pillars you need on day one, and which can wait.
• How many branches and warehouses hold stock, and whether trucks carry stock of their own.
• How many people need a login, and in which roles.
• Your monthly order, invoice, and shipment volume, and how many buyers and SKUs sit behind them.
• What you run on today, and what has to come out of it — sheets, an accounting package, a separate van-sales app, or a mix of all three.

What's included at no extra charge

The lines other vendors bill separately are part of the plan here.

• Onboarding — guided setup with your team, not a login and a manual.
• Data migration — we bring your buyers, products, and balances in from your existing sheets or system, so you start with your real operation loaded rather than an empty screen.
• Bilingual support — Arabic and English, from people who know the workflow.
• The mobile apps — iOS and Android, still capturing orders and visits with no coverage and syncing when the signal is back, included with the field pillar rather than priced as an add-on.
• Role-based permissions and the audit trail — what each person can see and do, and a record of who changed what and when. Part of the platform, not a tier you upgrade into.

What Tawrida usually replaces

The licences are rarely the expensive part. The cost is the reconciliation between tools that were never meant to talk to each other, and the people doing that reconciliation by hand every week. Tawrida typically goes in place of some combination of these:

• A factory-grade ERP configured for a business it was never built for.
• A separate van-sales app whose orders get re-keyed into the office system.
• A logistics dashboard that knows where the truck is, but not what it is carrying or who owes for it.
• A trade-finance spreadsheet holding the export documents, the ACID references, and the letter of credit dates.
• The WhatsApp groups holding those four together — and the person whose real job is keeping two systems agreeing with each other.

What the price does not buy

Worth saying before money is discussed, because these lines don't move with the quote. Tawrida runs operational finance, not your statutory books. It prepares the export document pack and the structured invoice data, but the filing stays outside it — with the Tax Authority's own channels, the chamber of commerce, and the importer's broker. And it is not a freight forwarder, a fleet system, payroll, or manufacturing.

Why we quote instead of listing a number

Distribution and export operations differ widely — number of branches, field team size, whether you export, how many buyers and SKUs you carry. A published per-user rate would either overcharge a single-branch distributor or under-scope an exporter running stock across several warehouses. A quick conversation lets us scope the right plan instead of forcing you into a tier that doesn't match how you work, and it means every part of the number maps to something in your operation you can point at.

What happens after you ask

No obligation, no slides — a working session on your own workflow.

• We get back to you within one business day — by phone or WhatsApp if you prefer.
• A thirty-minute walkthrough of Tawrida on your actual operation: your routes, your branches, your export flow.
• You get a scoped plan for your operation. If it's not a fit, we'll say so.