Custom order management software:
features, tech stack, and benefits

Custom order management software: features, tech stack, and benefits

Our scope of custom order management services

Itransition provides a full range of order management software development services, from analyzing your requirements and recommending an optimal feature set to creating and deploying a reliable order management tool to meet your business needs.

Our scope of custom order management services

Our experts can analyze your existing order management workflows and business requirements to help you select the best-fitting features, estimate development costs and timelines, plan the implementation process, and accompany you at every project stage.

We develop custom order management solutions from the ground up and equip them with capabilities for automating order processing tasks, maintaining fulfillment workflows of any complexity, and improving order orchestration practices.

We follow best industry practices when implementing custom order management solutions to ensure quick deployment and minimize adoption challenges. We also perform multiple tests to fix any issues, fine-tune the system, and make sure it functions properly when you start taking orders.

We help retailers, manufacturers, and distributors integrate order management software with corporate or third-party tools to ensure seamless data sharing, reduce manual work, and improve overall business performance.

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Key features for order management software

Depending on your business specifics and requirements, we can equip your order management solution with suitable functionality to help you quickly manage every stage of the order lifecycle, enable omnichannel fulfillment, and keep your customer satisfaction levels high.

Order creation
  • Automated order capture
  • Manual order creation
  • Order editing
  • Order approval and cancellation
  • Pre-order support
Omnichannel fulfillment
  • Multi-channel order aggregation
  • BOPIS (buy online, pick up in-store) operations
  • Ship from store and ship to store options
  • In-store order collection decline by customer
  • Multiple pick-up location management
Customer database
  • Customer contact details collection, storage, and editing
  • Customers’ order history
  • Customer tagging
  • Discount calculation
Order processing
  • Order search and filtering
  • Order routing to fulfillment centers
  • Order tracking
  • Order prioritization
  • Order processing rules creation
  • Partial order fulfillment
  • Bulk order processing
Shipment management
  • Order merging and splitting
  • Picking and packing slip generation
  • Support of different delivery methods
  • Real-time shipped order tracking
  • Shipping carrier management
  • Delivery cost calculation
  • Dropshipping support
Return management
  • Return policy establishment
  • Return order creation with automated sales order detail completion
  • Returned item collection, organizing, and restocking 
  • Return order routing and tracking
  • Refund calculation
  • Exchange management
Payments
  • Offline and online payment tracking
  • Payment status
  • Refund payments
  • Payment upon delivery
Inventory management
  • Centralized stock level information
  • Automated inventory calculation and reservation
  • Low-stock alerts
  • Safety stock configuration
  • Manual stock updates
  • Backorder support
  • Barcode scanning for item tracking
Reporting & analytics
  • Summary dashboards
  • Order reports by location, day, orders processed, processing time, and fulfillment rates
  • Sales reports by channels, products, customers
  • KPI and performance reports
  • Order and demand forecasting
  • Sales trend identification

Order fulfillment process

1

Purchase order placement

A product added to the shopping cart

Checkout

2

Order confirmation

Payment verification

Fraud detection

Checking product availability

Order approval

3

Order processing

Inventory updating

Order routing to a suitable fulfillment center

4

Picking

Order gathering for shipping at the warehouse

5

Packing

Order packaging

Labelling

Packing slip and receipt printing

6

Shipping

Shipping carrier selection

Shipment tracking enablement

7

Delivery

Delivery to the customer or the chosen pickup location

Delivery confirmation

8

Post-sales follow-up

Customer feedback request

Return and exchange handling

Refund payment

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Essential order management software integrations

We can connect your order management system with the disparate digital solutions you use in your sales operations to enable seamless cross-team data exchange and streamline order fulfillment workflows across the company.
Key integrations
ERP
Sales channels
Warehouse management systems
Accounting software
Shipping carriers’ systems

With an OMS-ERP integration, retailers can get a unified 360-degree view of their supply chain operations, streamline their order-to-cash processes, optimize sourcing and logistics, and ensure accurate financial reporting.

Sales channels

We can connect an OMS to your ecommerce website, online marketplace, and in-store PoS system for automatic order generation, quick payment verification, customer details collection, order details updating, and sharing order statuses with customers.

Warehouse management systems

Order and warehouse management software integration allows for real-time inventory visibility, syncing of stock changes, optimization of order routing, acceleration of order picking and packing, and minimization of human error.

Accounting software

By linking an OMS to accounting software, you can track completed and pending purchase/sales orders, automatically update sales ledgers, ensure timely order reconciliation, and calculate taxes more accurately.

Shipping carriers’ systems

Through integration with shipping carriers’ software, businesses can compare shipping rates, track shipments from the chosen carriers in real-time, optimize the delivery for purchase and sales orders, and gain end-to-end supply chain visibility.

Best order management software

Top order management platforms offer basic and advanced features for order fulfillment and can cater to the functional needs of various business types.

SAP Commerce Cloud offers a dedicated order management service module for viewing and managing customer orders, reviewing and editing shipping details, managing returns and refunds, and checking inventory information.
Key features
  • Real-time inventory management across stock locations
    Automated order workflow with advanced configuration and extension flexibility
    Sourcing
    Order splitting
    Two distinct user interfaces for customer support and warehouse teams, Backoffice Customer Support Cockpit and Backoffice Order Fulfillment Cockpit
  • Returns and refunds creation and management
    Fraud reports, payment details, and customer information viewing
    Customer support integration
    Accelerator integration
    Omnichannel sales support
Limitations
  • Requires training
  • No free trial
Pricing
  • Price upon request
Best for
  • Companies of all sizes

OMS development roadmap

1

Planning

Analysis of the client’s workflows and requirements for the future order management solution

2

Design

Architecture design, hands-on prototyping, specification review and technical sketching, UI/UX design

3

Development

Front-end and back-end development, integration with external systems

4

Acceptance testing

End-to-end acceptance testing and expert supervision

5

Deployment

Deploying the final project, post-release testing, and user training

6

Maintenance & support

On-demand ongoing performance monitoring, software upgrades, repairs, and fixes

Custom OMS cost & development timeline

Cost

The cost of order management solutions varies greatly depending on the project’s complexity and business requirements. The total cost can start at $100,000 for an MVP and reach $400,000 for a complicated solution with advanced capabilities and sophisticated workflows. For companies that want to upgrade their existing solution with new functionality, the cost of modifications can start at $50,000.

Custom software cost factors:

  • Development team composition and pay rate
  • Number, type, and complexity of features
  • Software development duration
  • Data migration needs
  • Project complexity
  • Number and complexity of integrations
  • Technology stack
  • Staff training

Order management software benefits

Whether you run a small retail store or a large online marketplace, implementing an order management tool can significantly accelerate and simplify your order fulfillment and improve your business operations.

Improved efficiency

By streamlining order management tasks, an OMS helps merchants reduce order fulfillment time, improve inventory control, optimize the supply chain, and reallocate resources for more complex tasks.

Data transparency

An OMS provides a consolidated, real-time view into each stage of the order management cycle and serves as a single source of truth for your sales, inventory, accounting, and customer data, facilitating informed decisions and more effective strategies.

Centralized customer service

Customer service teams can easily access real-time order or inventory information to help customers. Also, customers can place and track their orders without assistance, which gives them more control and frees customer service staff.

Enhanced accuracy

Order management solutions automate routine tasks, eliminate data silos throughout the sales and fulfillment processes, and minimize manual data entry. This helps prevent mistakes and makes commercial operations more accurate.

Reduced costs

With an OMS, businesses can automate and optimize their back-office order management processes, thus reducing storage, shipping, handling, and labor costs. Moreover, OMS reports provide valuable insights for increasing a business’s cost-effectiveness and profitability.

Enhanced customer experiences

By centralizing order fulfillment in an OMS, merchants can ensure fast and smooth order processing and delivery, offer customer-friendly omnichannel experiences, and increase consumers’ satisfaction with fast, consistent customer service.

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Challenges of OMS implementation

Discovering and addressing possible challenges before adopting an order management system can help prevent operational problems, downtime, and losses.

Choosing the right OMS

With numerous OMS solutions on the market, companies can find it difficult to choose a single platform to meet their business requirements.

You can take the following steps to find the most suitable OMS for your business.

  1. Identify your current business needs and objectives

    Discuss with stakeholders must-have and nice-to-have features in your future OMS, its integration with your corporate systems, and the devices you plan to use for order management. You should also take into account your company’s growth plans to select a solution scalable enough to accommodate increased order volumes.

  2. Choose between on-premise or cloud-based

    You should decide whether to host and manage your OMS in-house or opt for a cloud-based application hosted on the vendor’s servers.

  3. Create a request for proposal

    Submit a request for proposal with your requirements to different order management software providers to help you evaluate their offerings.

  4. Compare proposals

    Once you have several proposals on hand, evaluate whether each system provides sufficient functionality to support your operations and achieve growth goals. Also, consider the pricing of each system to find the one that fits your planned budget.

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