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Erplain

Erplain FR

Erplain is a French stock and B2B order tool that bills in euros, from 59 EUR a month on an annual commitment with one user and a thousand orders included. It suits a small wholesaler or distributor that quotes, invoices and tracks stock across sites, and it is not a picking floor system.

From
€59
Free plan
No
Trial
14 days
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Erplain website, captured on 2026-11-11
Screenshot of Erplain, captured 2026-11-11. Source: https://www.erplain.com/

Best for

A small European wholesaler that wants euro billing, quotes, B2B orders and multi-site stock in one tool

Strengths / Weaknesses

Strengths

  • Prices are published in euros, so there is no exchange rate surprise and no USD invoice to reconcile
  • Quote to order to invoice to stock movement runs as one chain, which is the actual daily job of a distributor
  • Multi-site stock, barcodes and the Erplain GO mobile app are in the product
  • Pennylane and QuickBooks Online connectors, and Pennylane matters if your accountant is French speaking
  • 14 day trial with no card, so you can test with real data

Weaknesses

  • No carrier integrations are named at all, so labels and tracking stay a separate job
  • The vendor publishes no EU data region, only general wording about secure hosting
  • The entry tier is one user, and extra seats are 14 EUR each per month
  • A twelve month commitment is required to get the published prices
  • No manufacturing or bill of materials depth, so a maker should look at Katana

Pricing

Plan Price Unit Note
Essential Price on request per month, annual commitment 1 user, 1,000 orders per month, extra users 14 EUR each
Growth Price on request per month, annual commitment extra orders billed at 0.03 EUR
Professional Price on request per month, annual commitment the EUR price list shows this as the top published tier

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Verdict

Erplain is the quiet, correct answer for a small European distributor: euro pricing, a clean quote to invoice chain, multi-site stock, and a French vendor whose support speaks the same language as your accountant. The two gaps are real. There is no shipping layer, so you will pair it with something like Sendcloud for labels, and the vendor does not say where your data physically sits, which is a fair question to put to them before signing a twelve month commitment.

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Where we write about it

Where these numbers come from

  1. [1] Erplain tarifs, EUR price list accessed 2026-11-11
  2. [2] Erplain pricing, USD price list accessed 2026-11-11
  3. [3] Erplain, about us accessed 2026-11-11

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