Best CPG Software for Startups
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What is CPG Software for Startups?
CPG software helps consumer packaged goods companies manage product development, supply chains, sales, and retail execution more efficiently. It centralizes data across manufacturing, distribution, and marketing to improve forecasting, inventory planning, and demand management. Many platforms support retailer collaboration, trade promotion optimization, and real-time visibility into market performance. CPG software also streamlines compliance, quality control, and product lifecycle tasks to ensure fast-moving goods reach shelves on time. Overall, it enables CPG brands to operate more efficiently, reduce costs, and stay competitive in a rapidly changing consumer market. Compare and read user reviews of the best CPG software for Startups currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Fishbowl
Fishbowl
Fishbowl is the #1 selling manufacturing and warehouse management software for QuickBooks. Designed for small and medium-sized businesses, including manufacturers, distributors, and service providers, Fishbowl gives businesses the flexibility to stay within the QuickBooks platform for accounting while seamlessly integrating advanced inventory features with it. It also offers multi-location tracking, work orders, bills of materials, barcoding, shipping, auto reorder points, and integrations with EDI, shopping carts, merchant services, and other business solutions. If you are looking for an affordable inventory management solution that can help your business take advantage of the latest technology to streamline operations and save time and money, Fishbowl is a great option.Starting Price: $349/mo -
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SimplyDepo
SimplyDepo
SimplyDepo is a B2B sales and retail execution platform built for CPG brands, distributors, and merchandisers. Designed for field teams, it simplifies order management, retail audits, and route planning in one mobile-first system. Reps can place orders, capture shelf data, and track inventory—even offline. Managers gain real-time insights into performance, sales, and delivery metrics. Key features include: • Centralized product and pricing control • Mobile app for reps with offline support • Smart route planning with map tools • CRM-style customer management • Real-time sales dashboards and reporting No more spreadsheets or disconnected tools—SimplyDepo keeps your wholesale operation aligned, efficient, and ready to grow.Starting Price: Tailored to Your Team’s Needs. -
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LOCATE Inventory
New Tack Inc.
LOCATE is a scalable, cloud-based inventory and order management solution designed to help product-based businesses succeed in the mid-market. From warehouse basics, such as kitting, barcoding, and tracking, to advanced workflows like drop shipping, outsource manufacturing, and wave picking, LOCATE brings the power of an ERP system to the mid-market. LOCATE is the ideal solution for inventory-based companies looking to grow. Designed with the end-user in mind, LOCATE offers powerful features within a flexible, intuitive software. Above all, our superior customer service is what sets LOCATE apart; our customers aren’t just purchasing software, they are partnering with a team who will help them succeed.Starting Price: $100/month/user -
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Nordstar SDX
Nordstar Solutions
Nordstar SDX: The Future of CPG Sales, Distribution, and Logistics Nordstar SDX is a next-generation SaaS solution designed to transform sales, distribution, and logistics operations for the Consumer-Packaged Goods (CPG) industry. It provides an AI-powered, end-to-end integrated platform that automates workflows, enhances operational efficiency, and optimizes inventory management, trade promotions, route planning, and B2B e-commerce. 🚀 Core Functionalities and Features ✔ Sales & Distribution Management Pre-Sales Automation: Enable field sales teams to manage order processing, route optimization, and customer visits efficiently. Direct Sales (XVan): Execute real-time invoicing, order fulfillment, and payment collection with full visibility over mobile sales operations. ✔ AI-Powered Analytics & Reporting Advanced Dashboards: Gain actionable insights with real-time performance tracking and predictive analytics.Starting Price: $24/user/month -
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GrowMAX BI
Elysian Corptech Services
GrowmaxBI is a business optimization platform providing customized solution like Salesforce automation, distribution management system, trade promotion management, business intelligence etc. We primarily serve retail industry companies belonging from sectors like FMCG, CPG, Pharmaceuticals and related ones. GrowMaxBI is a platform that will provide you with the insights you need to make better decisions. Business intelligence is an innovative field in data management, which provides decision makers with timely and relevant information so they can improve business performance in an increasingly competitive environment.Starting Price: $19 per month -
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Agiliron
Agiliron
Sell More in More Places. But Manage in One. Retail POS, Mobile POS, Phone Sales, B2C and B2B websites, eBay, Amazon, FBA, Google Shopping Actions, QuickBooks, EDI, ShipStation, BigCommerce, Magento, Shopify, WooCommerce, Zapier, Avalara, TaxCloud. Agiliron is redefining retail point of sale. With the Agiliron POS you can sell anywhere, at any time. At a tradeshow but don't have an internet connection? No problem, the Agiliron POS does not require an internet connection. Want your retail sales clerks to sell "on the floor?" No problem, the Agiliron POS is mobile enabled so you can sell in any setting. The AGILIRON Business Management Solution Suite encapsulates a variety of business processes as it relates to sales, operations, customers, accounting and other critical business functions. The following sections capture these processes into discrete modules that perform the various business functions.Starting Price: $99 per month -
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Qliktag Platform
Qliktag Software Inc.
The Qliktag Platform is a one-of-a-kind platform to enable everyday consumer products as IoT Connected Smart Products that can be interacted with digitally. For any item equipped with tags such as ordinary 2d barcodes, NFC tags, RFID, QR Codes, Data Matrix, smart packaging sensors, IoT sensors, watermarks or other triggers, the Qliktag Platform can help assign an internet identifier and a "digital twin" with a unique web link for each batch, product or serial instance. This enables the product to send or receive information over the internet through it's lifecycle. The Qliktag Platform also lets you develop a wide range of smart applications & business processes from traceability, transparency, authentication, trust, customer engagement, re-order and more in a low code environment that is highly scalable across billions of items, secure & flexible.Starting Price: $275/month -
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Settle
Settle
Settle is a unified platform designed to streamline financial and operational workflows for consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands. It offers tools for procurement, inventory management, accounts payable automation, and access to non-dilutive working capital. With features like automated purchase orders, real-time inventory tracking, and seamless integration with platforms such as QuickBooks and NetSuite, Settle enables brands to efficiently manage their supply chain and financial operations. The platform also provides transparent financing options with flexible repayment terms, supporting strategic growth without equity dilution. By consolidating these essential functions, Settle empowers CPG businesses to optimize cash flow, reduce manual tasks, and scale effectively.Starting Price: $149 per month -
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Mox
Esko
For growing brands or small teams within a larger company, Mox is here to help you create content that connects your brand to your consumers. Mox is a cloud-based tool for product content that combines 3 tools into one: project management, digital proofing, and digital asset management. Consumers continue to gravitate towards fit-for-purpose products that meet both their functional needs and social responsibility interests. They tend to look for speciality brands that are considered honest, trustworthy, and transparent. eCommerce and social media have fundamentally transformed how people shop, giving emerging brands more visibility. As consumers buy from a greater variety of brands, across multiple categories, small consumer brands have a unique opportunity to gain greater market share.Starting Price: $95 per user per month -
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Little Stream Software
Little Stream Software
Little Stream Software specializes in developing Shopify applications that assist merchants in enhancing their stores through customer behavior analysis, focusing on customer segmentation, messaging, and loyalty. It provides comprehensive customer analysis for Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Shopify stores, offering metrics and growth advice to optimize loyalty and repeat customer funnels. Measure store-wide metrics and benchmark against the industry and yourself to find your strengths and gaps. Repeat Customer Insights will analyze your entire customer data and equip you with reports on what your most loyal and valuable customers do. More than that, it will give you clear and actionable advice on how to keep your existing customers loyal and how to turn more of your one-off customers into loyal, repeat customers. Run your data though the Insights System to perform deep analyses and comparisons.Starting Price: $59 per month -
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Ibotta Performance Network
Ibotta Performance Network
The Ibotta Performance Network is a leading U.S. promotions network that empowers brands, retailers, and publishers to influence consumer shopping and purchasing behavior. By facilitating large-scale promotion distribution and providing insights into the long-term impact of performance marketing investments, the IPN creates a vibrant and reliable rewards ecosystem benefiting all stakeholders. Brands can reach 91% of American households through the IPN's connections with retailers, publishers, and Ibotta's own digital properties, engaging shoppers across key channels throughout their shopping journey to drive true incremental sales. The IPN offers a pay-per-sale model, ensuring brands only pay for actual units moved, not clicks or impressions. This approach has led advertisers on the IPN to average 42% of conversions being new-to-brand, a 70% shorter purchase cycle, and a 42% incremental sales lift. Retailers and publishers benefit from access to over 900 daily digital offers.Starting Price: Free -
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BluePlanner
UpClear
BluePlanner, complete revenue management software for Consumer Goods Sales, Demand Planning, Finance, and Accounting professionals. Trade Promotion Management supports annual planning, execution, and analysis of accounts, with a full suite of financial and managerial approvals for each activity. CG Manufacturers use these detailed plans to control trade spending and assess the performance of their business. Trade Promotion Optimization augments TPM with additional intelligence, simulations and advanced reporting capabilities to support the promotion effectiveness mission of CG manufacturers. Integrated Business Planning provides capabilities to support annual operating plan definition, target settings, and sales and operation forecasts. More broadly, it facilitates the ongoing collaboration across sales, supply chain, finance and channel partners to optimize volumes and financial forecast and deliver against overall business objectives. -
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Tastewise
Tastewise
AI-driven insights for innovative food and beverage brands, delivering real-time value to marketing, sales, and NPD teams. Using AI to turn billions of data points into solutions that grow your brand. From market research to foodservice sales and marketing, Tastewise has you covered. Tastewise collects billions of data points across social media, recipes, and menus to provide a complete view of how consumer needs drive food & beverage trends and give actionable answers to your questions. Discover new ingredients and dishes, understand consumer needs, and validate your ideas, all with beautiful, exportable data. Produce the recipes that increase consumption frequency and find the actual words your consumers are looking for. What used to take 3 days of research now takes 3 hours with Tastewise. Cut down prospecting time by identifying and prioritizing restaurants by cuisine, location, prices and more. Arm your sales team with the trend data they need to make the sale. -
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Smarter Sorting
Smarter Sorting
Our database identifies how to best handle regulated consumer products following all safety, health, transportation, disposal and sustainability regulations across the supply chain. We help retailers and brands remain compliant, avoid fines and reduce their environmental impact. Retailers can be confident in how they describe the products they sell, using exact product classifications and verified product claims. This allows merchandising teams to give consumers what they want. Retailers can increase the number of products they carry. They know what's eligible to ship directly to customers from a store or distribution center, or be drop-shipped by a third-party supplier. Furthermore, they can be confident in how to handle returns and remain compliant. Brands receive valuable insights on their products to help them make, market and move them better.Starting Price: $325 per UPC -
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Vividly
Vividly
Vividly is the ultimate solution for food and beverage brands looking to improve their trade promotion. By adding clarity and insight into your trade metrics, Vividly empowers you to focus more on growth, and less on busy work. Simple interfaces and workflow allow your team to easily create, track, and manage their promotions, freeing up time to get out and sell. Seamlessly connect your promotions to your sales plan in real-time, integrating any data source, and handling the complexity of direct and indirect hierarchy with ease. By utilizing our patent pending features deductions scanning & matching, centrally house all deduction back-up and perform full-cycle reconciliation on any transaction housed within an ERP. Stop treating trade as the cost of doing business, but rather as thoughtful, purposeful investments. Clean datasets for revenue and trade increase visibility on where to take action and how to achieve your goals.Starting Price: $1,500 per month -
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beCPG PLM
beCPG
beCPG is an open source Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software that manages the entire lifecycle of a product from its conception, through design and manufacture, to service and disposal. beCPG permits you to work on products and projects with customers and suppliers. beCPG is ready to use for the CPG industries such as Food & Beverage and Cosmetics. We differentiate ourselves from the competitors with a comprehensive and user-friendly software offered at a competitive price. In a few words, beCPG offers the following features: - Product repository to manage finished products, recipes, raw materials and packaging with their technical and regulatory data - Formulation to calculate automatically allergens, ingredients, nutrient facts, costs, labeling, ... - Product specification generator for clients, R&D and production - Project management to manage new product development from ideas until market launch - Customer complaints -
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Nulogy
Nulogy
Nulogy enables CPG brands and their external supply chain partners to bring products to market faster, with AI-driven, real-time visibility and collaboration capabilities. Work more effectively together with their external supply chain partners to get products to market faster. Unlock agility and profitability by digitally enabling their primary and secondary packaging operations. Leverage their contract packaging value-added services as a competitive differentiator to become a full-service supplier for their brand customers. Digitally transform their operations to manage the complexity of short-order runs, reduced lead times, and rising labor costs. -
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Bedrock Analytics
Bedrock Analytics
The premier CPG data analytics platform for stronger, faster sales growth. Conveniently compare and contrast different products and markets in a library of easy-to-understand visualizations. Analytics like Trend, Share, Rank and Gap are no longer difficult concepts to understand and communicate value around. Our cloud-based data analytics platform that transforms complex data into simple visuals for branded sales presentations to retail buyers. Consultation services you can add on to the Core platform. They include custom analysis, competitive intelligence, category insights and more. A subscription-based content platform within Core that auto-creates personalized sales decks, videos and more from your data. -
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Singular Intelligence
Singular Intelligence
The Singular Intelligence AI platform is a Complete, End-to-End Software that will let you reach real Insights from your Data. Designed for direct use by business decision makers, integration with business processes or automated decisions, in any device, the Singular Intelligence solution offers are modular and scalable. Singular Intelligence offers an applied AI product in SaaS model. Forward looking decisions augmented with AI simulations using all causal factors. Use AI as an intelligent assistant that suppress all the limits and constraints you are currently facing with standard systems. Provide the best actionable recommendations to the teams you support. Optimize production, replenishment, product availability along the whole chain. Avoid unnecessary product and food waste, reduce opportunity costs, limit unnecessary promotions and firesales. -
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Vincle CRM
VINCLE
Monitor your business and its operational costs in order to optimize the sales process. Improve your current processes by automating tasks that consume the time of your sales representatives, in order to increase their productivity. Use segmentation, scoring or customer profile to define your sales teams and your business strategies. Analyze the best way to interact with each client to obtain better results and more income. Identify actions to get better results. Vincle is an open platform with the ability to integrate with third parties through APIs. The specific module can be integrated with other systems (SAP, JDE, Dynamics, external data) in a simple way. Manage all your commercial strategies in just one platform. The solution that goes beyond your needs by exceeding expectations and uncovering opportunities. Speed up your Go-to-market strategy, whether it targets physical stores, virtual stores, or B2B e-commerce. -
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4Pack
4 Flying
Digitally transform your product management and packaging process from end-to-end in a single integrated solution. 4Pack is an end-to-end solution for managing the complete product information and packaging process from ideation through to artwork production and product launch, including multi-channel distribution of product content and assets. The 4Pack solution encompasses industry leading Product Lifecycle Management, Product Information Management, Digital Asset Management and Labelling and Artwork Management functionality within one fully integrated, cloud-based platform. By integrating key content and information flows, 4Pack delivers considerable time, cost and resource efficiencies throughout the product and packaging development process, makes regulatory compliance easier, and minimises the risk of error or inconsistencies by providing a “single source of truth”. -
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CPGvision
CPGvision
A front-runner in trade promotion management, optimization, and revenue growth management, CPGvision by PSignite is a solution designed for the modern CPG industry. Built on the Salesforce platform, it offers a potent mix of cutting-edge features and an intuitive interface, backed by experts who understand the nuances and demands of the industry. With an unwavering commitment to client success, a dedicated team ensures that each CPGvision user gets the best of both technology and industry expertise. Regardless of where you are in your RGM journey, CPGvision by PSignite equips you with the solutions you need to achieve profitable revenue growth. -
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TABS Analytics
TABS Analytics
See how you can use TABS Total Insights™ to transform all of your CPG analytics data into more sales and profit. No more silos. No more hunting down data across departments. TABS Analytics empowers you by having all of your CPG analytics in one place: harmonized. You have an advantage over your competitors, and it’s hiding in your data. Spend less and compete more effectively using data-driven insights. Conquer new territory and expand your reach. Our metrics-driven category analysis reports mean you’ll always be prepared for your accounts presentations. The CPG industry’s largest organizations are significantly lagging behind their smaller, more agile counterparts. See how TABS Analytics has evolved with the CPG industry over 20 years, driving change and helping companies use their data to grow sales and market share. TABS Analytics gives you a competitive advantage by simplifying the way you deal with your CPG data and giving you the power to easily extract competitive insights. -
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PwC Performance Analyzer transforms consumer packaged goods companies’ revenue management capabilities. One unified analytics platform can help you set a course toward increased revenue, ROI and efficiency. Once you define what matters to you, Performance Analyzer provides personalized, up-to-date reports about your organization’s performance and performance drivers. With one platform driven by one powerful engine, you’ll get consistent data you can trust to make your most important decisions. Instead of flipping between several one-off point solutions, Performance Analyzer lets you move across the different domains of revenue management all in one place. From Strategic Pricing to Price-Pack-Architecture to Assortment and Mix Management to Promotions. Glean insights about profit drivers, test “what if” scenarios, and share insights to drive action with executives, sales, and marketing.
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IRI
IRI
This discussion among some IRI leaders shares what sets IRI apart, including innovation being in our DNA, bringing the best of our firm to our clients’ challenges, and collaborating closely with clients to help their businesses transform and grow. IRI provides integrated big data, predictive analytics and forward-looking insights, all on a single leading technology platform, IRI Liquid Data®, to help CPG, over-the-counter health care, retail and media companies personalize their marketing and grow their businesses. Perry talks about navigating IRI at the intersection of CPG and technology, leading authentically and inclusively and finding the sweet spot between fundamentals and innovation. A new report shares how, as consumers return to stores, front-end merchandising can help create a more positive experience for consumers while also giving retailers a driver for impulse sales growth. -
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EYE2
eQuality
Measure the performance of your brand on the shelf against other brands. Track your top performing subcategories, brands, and customers. Identify shelf share opportunities and monitor your shelf share against set targets. View pictures of your brands on shelf across all of your customers. Keep tabs on the availability of your SKUs across your sales channels. Identify recurrent out-of-stock SKUs and customers with low shelf stock availability. Monitor your availability by subcategory, brand, SKUs, and customers. Track your overall on and off-target SKU pricing shares in the market. Compare pricing to market average, set targets, and monthly trends. Identify pricing issues at customer sites and act on pricing compliance accordingly. Track the freshness of your stock in the market and actively resolve freshness issues identified at your customer sites. Identify freshness issues patterns in your channel to pre-empt overstock. -
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Samya.ai
Samya.ai
We are an enterprise AI SaaS product company helping organizations unlock revenue growth at the intersection of demand & supply. Our founding team brings C-level experience from category-defining enterprise companies, with an extensive background in CPG. We unlock opportunity loss at the intersection of sales/distribution, pricing/promotions and inventory. We bring a 10X improvement over traditional approaches by enabling AI at scale tailored for the CPG industry. We incorporate aspects beyond transactional data that impact the business on an ongoing basis. Samya.ai is the only revenue growth AI company in the CPG space operating at the intersection of demand and supply operations. Samya.ai brings the power of deep learning, probabilistic machine learning and reinforcement learning approaches together with deep domain expertise to help CPG companies recapture revenue growth potential. -
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SymphonyAI Retail/CPG
SymphonyAI
SymphonyAI Retail/CPG is a cutting-edge platform designed to transform the retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) industries through AI-driven insights and advanced analytics. It empowers businesses to optimize supply chain operations, enhance demand forecasting, and improve customer experiences by leveraging real-time data and machine learning models. The platform enables retailers and manufacturers to make informed decisions, from pricing and promotions to inventory management and product assortment. SymphonyAI Retail/CPG focuses on driving measurable outcomes, such as increased sales, reduced waste, and improved operational efficiency, while fostering a customer-centric approach. With its scalable, flexible, and integrative capabilities, it is an ideal solution for businesses aiming to stay competitive in a rapidly evolving market. -
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Turing
Turing
Turing optimizes, streamlines, and intelligently guides CPG product development. Eliminate manual and physical analysis. Go from idea to production in one place, and faster than ever before. Organizations spend millions endlessly collecting and aggregating data to build accurate models. Turing best-in-class algorithms require significantly less data than generic ML/AI. No more months spent on data aggregation. Turing empowers R&D and product development to combine typically disparate, incompatible data from varying systems into a single platform. Leverage Turing’s AI to discover unique insights and combinations previously buried in siloed data. Develop better prototypes faster. With Turing, you can collaborate and co-create across all stages of product development, from concept to commercialization, within a single platform. Make data-driven product, packaging, or process decisions in real-time, and skip the physical trial-and-error roundabout. -
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Pensa
Pensa Systems
Pensa flags and reports on stockouts and predicts low stock. Real-time actionable data is collected faster, more frequently, with greater accuracy and at a lower cost. It can compare shelf performance of a major brand against a competitorfor stockouts, share of shelf and other shelf conditions impacting revenue. Understanding how consumers (or third-party pickers) are replacing your products in out-of-stock situations is critical to your incremental growth. Pensa’s continuous shelf signal provides you a view at scale of how real shoppers are making real choices about your brands and those of your competitors. Inaccuracies in POS and perpetual inventory data feeding your demand forecast models can lead to big problems downstream. Pensa’s real-time shelf signal shows true demand when combined with trailing indicators like POS data and will help correct inventory drift and errors to drastically improve the accuracy of your demand forecast.
