A curated list of awesome retail software, platforms, and conferences.
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- eCommerce
- Point of Sale
- Order Management
- Warehouse
- Inventory
- Sourcing and Sustainability
- Product Data
- Merchandise Planning
- Supply Chain
- Customer and Loyalty
- Integration
- Marketplaces
- Business Intelligence and Insights
- Ancillary Technologies
- Retail News
- Retail Conferences
- Retail Podcasts
- ElasticPath - Headless eCommerce platform (acquired Moltin eCommerce in Jan 2020).
- commercetools - Headless eCommerce platform.
- Saleor - Headless eCommerce platform built on Django (Python).
- Vue Storefront - eCommerce PWA frontend built in Vue/Nuxt.
- Kibo Commerce - Commerce platform with API-led focus targetting mid-tier companies (eCommerce, order management, Personalisation, POS).
- Shopify - eCommerce SaaS platform with basic POS functionality and broad GraphQL API, different plans/feature sets to suite smaller retailers (Shopify), medium sized (Shopify Advanced), or larger (Shopify Plus).
- Salesforce Commerce Cloud - eCommerce software as a service platform (previously called Demandware).
- Hybris - Enterprise eCommerce solution, owned by SAP.
- Magento - Open source eCommerce platform written in PHP, recently moved to being offered in a software as a service approach (previously owned by eBay, now owned by Adobe).
- Brauz - Reserve In Store, Find in Store, Click + Collect, Appointment Booking, and Video Commerce solution which can integrate with Shopify.
- Evolv - Optimized A/B testing.
- Hero - Virtual shopping app, bring the store experience online.
- bambuser - Live Video Shopping.
- Swym - Enhanced wishlists and back in stock notifications for Shopify Plus, BigCommerce, and Magento.
- Voucherify - API-first promotion and loyalty engine, focussing on coupons and cart-level promotions.
- Talon.One - Loyalty tiering and real-time personalised promotions.
- Uniqodo - Coupon issurance, validation, and redemption as well as content gate for exclusive access.
- Eagle Eye - Real time loyalty and omni-channel promotions.
- Tagalys - Visual product merchandisting for Magento, Shopify, and BigCommerce.
- SearchSpring - Site Search, Merchandising and Personalization Platform.
- Algolia - Site seach with pre-built integrations to many eCommerce platforms.
- Crownpeak - A site search tool previously called FredHopper, used by many medium to large eCommerce companies.
- Cloudinary - Enterprise asset management with advanced video and image processing automation.
- Brand Folder - Platform which aims to help marketers and creatives manage and distribute all of their assets, owned by Smartsheet.
- Avalara - Duty and tax landed cost management with tax advise assistance, plugins for WooCommerce, Shopify Plus, Magento, NetSuite and more.
- Zonos - International duty and tax landed cost calculation and reporting with plugins for BigComemrce, Shopify, and Magento amoung others.
- Retail Directions - Australian POS and inventory system with customers like Cotton On, Body Shop, and MECCA.
- Markinson Shopkeeper - Australian PO solution with customers like JB HiFi.
- Surefire POS - Australian based POS solution focussing on FMCG customers.
- Retail Pro - US based POS solution use by customers like LVMH.
- VendHQ - Cloud based POS for use on tablets, owned by Lightspeed.
- ITVisions - Australian based POS solution.
- Apparel 21 - Australian POS and inventory system specialising in apparel.
- Shopify POS - POS solutions from Shopify.
- Fluent Commerce - Order management with buy online pick up in store capabilities.
- Tecsys Retail Order Management - Order management for retailers, used to be called OrderDynamics pre-acquisition.
- stockinstore - Buy online pick up in store (BOPIS) SaaS solution.
- Doddle - eCommerce Collections and Returns.
- Shipstation - Order management platform with many carrier and platform integrations in addition to workflow tools.
- ShipHero - Great SaaS warehouse management system from a company which also runs over 100,000m2 of its own warehouses.
- Manhattan - Enterprise WMS (purchase of Global Bay Technologies in 2014).
- Koerber - WMS with robotics solutions integrated (Koerber purchased HighHump which purchased Accellos).
- Microlistics - WMS for 3PL's, omnichannel retailers, and cold-storage operators (Purchased by Wisetech).
- Peoplevox - SaaS WMS with many pre-built integrations to eCommerce and ERP platforms, also features a XML based API and the ability to subscribe to WMS events through webhooks.
- Vanderlande - Warehouse Goods to Person automation systems and robotics (Nike/Amazon/Alibaba/Zalando/The Iconic).
- Locus Robotics - Autonomous Mobile Robots for warehouse automation.
- 6 River Systems - Autonomus Mobile Robots for warehouse automation.
- HAI Robotoics - AMR picking totes from fixed racks.
- Unleashed Inventory - New Zealand based cloud inventory system aimed at small to medium sized businesses.
- Cin7 Omni - Inventory system with wide ranging 3PL integrations, API is very rudimentary and not feature complete.
- Cin7 Core - Solid Iventory/ERP for small to medium businesses (was called DEAR Inventory), good core API, API depth isn't great though.
- Trade Gecko - Purchased by Intuit and shut down.
- Fulfil.io - Modern Product inventory and finance sytems with great 3PL APIs.
- TradeBeyond - SaaS sourcing software for supplier management, product lifecycle management, sourcing and procurement, order management, quality control, and shipment tracking.
- Pivot88 - Supply chain resilience, transparency & sustainability PaaS.
- SpecRight - Product lifecycle management with new product development and supplier, sustainability, quality, annd packaging management.
- amfori - Business association for sustainable trade, supporting companies across the globe to operate successful and responsible businesses.
- WRAP - Climate action NGO working around the globe to tackle the causes of the climate crisis and give the planet a sustainable future.
- Higg Index - Higgs Material Sustainability Index, how to assess materials used in production.
- Wordly - Consumer goods supply chain and product social and environmental impact.
- Pimcore - Product master data and asset management.
- Arkeneo PIM - Product Information Management and Product Experience Management.
- TXT Retail - Forecasting solution, acquired by Aptos in 2018.
- RELEX - Inventory forecasting solution.
- BlueYonder - Merchandise forecasting, was previously named JDA Demand and Fulfil.
- Infor Demand Management - Merchandise forecasting solution previously known as Predictix, used by Whole Foods and Home Depot.
- 7thonline
- JustEnough - Merchandise forecasting and replenishment system, acquired by Mi9 Retail.
- Logility
- Anaplan
- Shipwire - 3PL as an API.
- project44 - Delivery API's.
- Flexport - Supply chain softare based in the US, Shopify sold their fulfilment platform to them.
- Wisetech Global - Enterprise supply chain software, most know for the platform called CargoWise.
- IPT Systems - Australian based EDI solution.
- True Commerce - Global EDI solution with many pre-build ERP integrations.
- Crossfire - Global supply chain and EDI software provider.
- SPS Commerce - Global EDI solutions.
- Cheetah Digital - Customer Engagement Suite, loyalty, personalisation, messaging, and experiences (API-first approach).
- bLoyal
- Kognitiv - Previously know as AIMIA Loyalty.
- Arkade Loyalty - Creator of the loyalty and clientelling platform called Omneo.
- Givex Loyalty - Loyalty, gift cards, ticketing, POS.
- Lexer - Customer data collect, analyse, segment, and integrate audiences to external platforms.
- Segment - Purchase by Twilio, customer data platform with many prebuild integrations and a customer profile management tool.
- Simon Data - First party data collection, 60+ integrations with existing platforms, audience generation, email marketing.
- Hull
- Rudderstack
- Twilio - IVR, SMS, Voice, Video, SIP, Email (Sendgrid).
- Freshdesk - Customer service ticketing (+ voice, chat).
- Moengage - Customer engagement plaform for apps and websites, handling analytics, app push, SMS, and email.
- Dot Digital - Email, SMS, Social.
- Klaviyo - Email marketing.
- Emarsys - Email marketing.
- Dash Hudson - Social media management platform.
- Gorgias - Customer service for online stores.
- Zendesk - Customer service ticketing (+ voice, chat).
- Hearsay - Platform to facilitate qualitative customer conversations.
- CrazyEgg - User interface heatmaps and recordings.
- data zoo - Identity verification and digital onboarding (100+ countries).
- RapidID - Identity verification and anti-fraud prevention.
- Apigee - API management platform (owned by Google).
- Mashery - API management platform (owned by TIBCO).
- Mulesoft - API management platform (owned by Salesforce).
- Apiary - API management platform (owned by Oracle).
- Kong - API, service discovery and mesh management platform.
- Celigo - iPaaS, integration platform.
- FarApp - Integration between Netsuite and many eCommerce/3PL platforms.
- Glew - SaaS integration platform more than 150 pre-built integrations.
- Mirakl - French marketplace software.
- Tradebyte
- IZBERG
- Marketplacer - Austalian marketplace software.
- Amazon Web Services - Composable cloud analytics tools (AWS RedShift, AWS Glue, QuickSight).
- Prefect - Dataflow automation.
- Tableau - Dashboard and reporting writing solution owned by Salesforce.
- Metabase - Dashboard and analytics tool allowing users to explore their retail data.
- Superset - Open-source modern data exploration and visualization platform.
- Redash - Open source dashboard creation tool with integrations to many data storage solutions.
- Yext - Search for customer queries, listings, pages, reviews, and more.
- Purple Wifi - Guests and social Wifi solutions.
- Queue It - Ensure bursty, high traffic eComm sites stay up.
- FittingBox - The mirror reinvented.
- Clerk - Sophisticated user authentication.
- Vusion - IoT, in-store digital campaigns, electronic shelf labelling, and retail store data platforms.
- RetailWeek - London based retail news.
- RetailWire - US based retail news.
- Inside Retail - Australian retail news.
- Power Retail - Australian retail news.
- Retail Info Systems News - US based retail news.
- Inside Retail Live - Australian retail conference in Sydney.
- IMedia Retail Summit - Australian retail conference on Gold Coast.
- Seamless Expo - Australian retail conference in Melbourne.
- Shop Talk - Las Vegas based retail conference.
- Retail Leaders Forum - Australian retail conference in Sydney.
- Online Retailer - Australian retail conference rain in Melbourne, Sydney, and New Zealand.