If most of what you integrate is orders, shipments, labels, carriers, and trading partner EDI, Orderly Flows has that knowledge built in, with published pricing from $399/mo.
The difference in one line
A generalist enterprise integration platform is built to connect almost anything, so the logistics behavior is what your team designs on top, and much of your effort goes into teaching that generality logistics. Orderly Flows is built on Orderly's own order and shipment model, so logistics is where you start.
Connects almost anything. Logistics is what you build.
Built on orders and shipments. Logistics is the starting point.
Side by side
What each approach gives a logistics team out of the box. The Orderly Flows column lists only what ships today.
| What logistics teams need | Orderly Flows | Typical generalist iPaaS |
|---|---|---|
| Order, shipment, and inventory data | Native records shared with Orderly Hub. Flows act on them directly, with no second copy to keep in sync. | Connector-first: modeled by your team, or read from your OMS or WMS through connectors. |
| Carrier rate shopping | One step, orderly.rate, quotes across your carrier accounts ordered by cheapest, fastest, or best value. | Built by your team as a custom process against each carrier's API. |
| Label purchase | One step, orderly.label.purchase. Funds are held before the carrier is called, retries never buy twice, and it can never be set to skip on error. | Built as a custom process. Spend and duplicate-purchase safeguards are your team's to design and maintain. |
| Pickups and claims | Schedule pickup as a step, held to the same guardrails as a purchase. Claims open as drafts for a person to review. | Built by your team as custom processes. |
| X12 EDI | X12 004010: 850 purchase orders in; 855, 856, and 810 out; 997 acknowledgements tracked per document. Included with Flows Pro and Dedicated. | Often packaged as a separate B2B or EDI module, or as a premium add-on. |
| Partner transports | SFTP, FTPS, and AS2 connections per trading partner. | Usually available through connectors, some of which may be priced as premium. |
| Publishing APIs | Virtual endpoints with seven contracts, a per-consumer fe_ key, idempotency per caller, and a generated OpenAPI 3.1 description. | Often a separate API management product or a higher tier. |
| Connector breadth | HTTP requests with Basic auth or OAuth 2.0 client credentials, Orderly bridges, and trading partner connections. | Usually the core strength: broad prebuilt connector libraries across business applications. |
| The operation itself | Every Flows plan includes a full Orderly Hub plan: orders, shipments, rate shopping, and labels. | Integration only. The OMS or shipping platform is bought and run separately. |
| Pricing | Published: $399/mo, $1,499/mo, or from $3,500/mo, with the overage rate on the page. | Commonly priced per connector, per task or message, or by edition, often quoted through sales. |
An honest fit check
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Price anchor
Generalist iPaaS pricing is commonly assembled from an edition, a set of connectors, and usage such as tasks or messages, and EDI and premium connectors are often extra. Generalist iPaaS contracts commonly reach five to six figures annually once EDI and premium connectors are included.
Orderly Flows plans are published, EDI is included from Flows Pro, and each plan includes a full Orderly Hub plan, so the operation the integrations serve is already in the price.
Flows usage beyond each plan's pool is $0.10 per run and $2 per 1,000 endpoint requests. A run is one execution of a flow, however many steps it has; usage units differ across platforms, so compare against your own volumes. See full Flows pricing ↗
Switching
You do not have to move everything at once, and you should not. Start with the integrations that cost you the most when they break.
Read the trading partner exchange guide ↗ · Read the virtual endpoints docs ↗
Questions
An integration platform as a service built around logistics work rather than general application syncing. In Orderly Flows that means orders, shipments, inventory, carrier rating, label purchase, pickups, claims, and X12 partner documents are built-in steps, and the rules that protect spend are enforced by the platform.
For logistics integrations, it is built to be: orders, shipments, labels, carriers, inventory, claims, and X12 partner documents. It is not a general-purpose replacement for every system a generalist platform can connect. If you also integrate HR, finance, or CRM systems, you may keep a generalist platform for those and run logistics on Flows.
Yes. Any flow can be published as a virtual endpoint that your current platform calls with its own key, and a flow can call any HTTPS service, including endpoints your current platform exposes. You can move one partner or process at a time.
Flows reads and writes X12 004010 over SFTP, FTPS, and AS2: inbound 850 purchase orders become orders with an automatic 855 and 997 when the partner expects them, and flows send 856 ship notices, 810 invoices, and 855 acknowledgements. EDI is included with Flows Pro and Dedicated. Flows does not produce EDIFACT or other standards today, so if you need those, a broader EDI product may suit you better.
Yes. Runs execute on Temporal, a durable workflow engine, so they survive restarts and resume where they stopped. Every query is scoped to your organization, client flows are isolated to their own connections, and secrets are sealed and never returned. Flows Dedicated adds a single-tenant runtime with an SLA, and a private instance gives you your own database, domain, and static egress IPs.
Generalist iPaaS pricing is commonly built from editions, connectors, and usage, and is often quoted through sales. Orderly Flows plans are published: Launch at $399/mo including Orderly Growth, Pro at $1,499/mo including Orderly Scale, and Dedicated from $3,500/mo. Usage beyond each plan's pool is $0.10 per run and $2 per 1,000 endpoint requests. Usage units differ across platforms, so compare against your own volumes.
See it on your integration
Tell us what it connects and where it breaks. We will show you the same integration as a flow, and tell you honestly if a generalist platform is the better home for it.