Cash on delivery, thousands of small sellers, a dozen couriers and sale days that double the floor. Octane is the software that runs marketplace-scale fulfilment on exactly that, across any number of warehouses, with every unit scanned from the seller's box to the courier's van.
Nobody hands out work on an Octane floor. Every task is a one-person scan loop, and the system picks the next batch, the next trolley and the next aisle. The busier the day, the better it gets.
Everything that moves a unit is a setting: slotting, batching, replenishment, routing, service targets. Set them by hand, or flip one switch and the system tunes them from live analytics, all day, every day.
Every decision Intelligent mode makes is logged and reversible. Turn it on per site, per stage, or for everything.
Floor staff work from a scanner. Managers run the building from a desk. Sellers watch their stock arrive, unit by unit.
Every site has its own bins, crew, dashboards and stock ledger. Orders, stock and rules work across all of them.
Most systems take a picker's word that an item is missing. Octane checks each claim against the next physical count, so managers see real stock-outs apart from human error.
| Agent | Skipped | Audited | False | Audit progress | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agent 112 | 212 | 180 | 41 | 22.8% | |
| Agent 087 | 164 | 150 | 9 | 6.0% | |
| Agent 204 | 140 | 96 | 30 | 31.3% | |
| Agent 151 | 98 | 90 | 4 | 4.4% |
Rules run top to bottom. Drag a row to change its priority; the first match wins.
| Product | SKU | Recv | Acpt | Rjct | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lawn 3-piece, Sage | LWN-2231-M | 60 | 60 | 0 | Accepted |
| Lawn 3-piece, Sage | LWN-2231-L | 48 | 46 | 2 | Rejected stock |
| Chiffon dupatta, Ivory | DPT-0420 | 120 | 120 | 0 | Accepted |
| Cambric trousers, Black | TRS-3307-S | 36 | 30 | 6 | Rejected stock |
Every skipped pick is checked by the next count: a real stock-out or a picker error, proven per bin.
Each putaway is checked against later counts and cleared when a real move explains the gap.
Starts from a seller pickup or a courier number, not a purchase order. Blind count if unlabelled.
Dense batches go first for speed, but any order older than 18 hours jumps the queue.
Choose the warehouse, or split a shipment, by country, seller, SKU, weight, price or tag.
Orders split across sites; stock travels between them, scanned out of one and into the other.
COD-verified orders gate picking. Refused parcels return by courier tracking number.
Dynamic slotting, self-tuning batches, predictive replenishment and load-aware routing, driven by the same analytics you see in the console.
In a production audit of more than 25,000 skipped picks, Octane traced each one to the next physical count. The error was not the people. It was the bins.
COD-verified tags gate picking, so orders that have not been confirmed are not picked or shipped. Refused parcels come back through their own receiving flow.
Returns are received by the courier's tracking number and matched to the original shipment, checked against issue types, then restocked or set aside.
Receiving starts from a pickup request or a courier number, often by rider, sometimes without labels. Unlabelled stock goes through a blind count so it is still recorded.
One packing step books the courier and prints the airway bill. Courier failures become plain instructions for the packer.
Domestic and export orders are batched separately. Export orders consolidate into one parcel with a commercial invoice.
Batches build themselves, and any order over 18 hours moves to the front. Order, tote and putaway targets raise alerts before a backlog builds. Every report runs on local time.
| Capability | Octane | ShipHero | Logiwa | Manhattan Active WM |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Built for | Marketplaces, brands and 3PLs in South Asia, one site or many | US brands running their own fulfilment | 3PLs, high-volume DTC | Large retailers and 3PLs |
| Price | Per warehouse, no per-seat fees | From $1,995 a month | Custom quote | Enterprise quote |
| Scan-checked picking and batching | Yes, with an 18-hour age override | Yes, AI path planning | Yes, smart picking | Yes, ML pick paths |
| Every skip checked against a later count | Yes | Not advertised | Not advertised | Not advertised |
| False-putaway audit with fair attribution | Yes | Not advertised | Not advertised | Not advertised |
| Receiving from thousands of small sellers | Pickups, rider handover, blind counts | Assumes purchase orders | Assumes purchase orders | Assumes purchase orders |
| Cash on delivery | Gates picking; own returns flow | Not advertised | Not advertised | Not advertised |
| Couriers | 10 local and export couriers | UPS, USPS, DHL, FedEx | Not advertised | Not advertised |
| Urdu on the floor | Yes, right to left | No | No | No |
| Pick-to-light hardware | Not yet | Yes | Not advertised | Not advertised |
| Multi-client billing portal | Not yet | Yes | Yes | Not advertised |
| Multi-warehouse | Split orders, scanned transfers, per-site rules | Not advertised | Not advertised | Yes |
| Dynamic slotting | Yes, in Intelligent mode | Not advertised | Directed putaway | In putaway and picking |
| Self-running mode from live analytics | One switch, per site or stage | Not advertised | Not advertised | ML pick paths, order streaming |
| Ready-made integrations | Octane storefronts, marketplace order feeds, open API and events | 70+ | 200+ | Enterprise APIs |
"Not advertised" means the feature is not on the product's own page or in the review we read. The product may still have it. Sources: ShipHero and Manhattan product pages; Dupple's 2026 WMS review for prices.
Octane suits marketplaces, brands and 3PLs shipping 1,000 or more units a day from one or more sites. Run it with your own crew, or with an operating partner, on the same software.
Bins by CSV, crew by invite, order feed connected. See the apps running on your own data in a demo site.
Go live on one site or one channel under full service targets, with no long-term commitment.
Add sites one at a time. Routing rules move orders and stock across them from day one.