# Cargoson — Supply Chain & Logistics

Cargoson by Cargoson OÜ holds a panel rating of 2/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 3/5), as of 2026-10-28. Provenance: EU-Made; sovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven.

- Vendor: Cargoson OÜ (https://www.cargoson.com)
- Category: [Supply Chain & Logistics](https://whats-best.ai/software/supply-chain.md)
- Provenance (editorial classification): EU-Made
- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/supply-chain/cargoson
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/supply-chain/cargoson/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/supply-chain/cargoson/alternatives.md))
- Data as of: 2026-10-29 · evaluated 2026-10-28 · oldest source captured 2026-10-26

**AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology

## At a glance

- Vendor: Cargoson OÜ
- Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 26 Oct 2026
- Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 26 Oct 2026
- Free plan: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 26 Oct 2026

## The panel's verdict

Cargoson is a transport management system for manufacturers and wholesalers, and the scores follow that shape. Freight and transport is the strongest area at 7-8: uploaded price lists compared within seconds, spot price requests, tender management, CMR editing, invoice checks against pre-agreed amounts, and CO2 estimates for road, air, sea and rail. Inventory control sits at 0 — we found no public information on stock figures, bin locations, batches or serial numbers. Warehouse operations lands at 2-3, limited to a loading calendar, dock scheduling and packing slips. Shipping and returns splits 4-6: higher scores credit a long carrier list, own carrier contracts and automatic booking; lower ones point to no documented returns portal, customs documents for non-EU destinations or bulk label printing. Pricing is published — Basic from €199 per month, billed annually, with 2 users and 100 shipments, up to Enterprise from €1000 — but a one-time setup fee applies to all tiers without a published amount. The contracting entity is Cargoson OÜ in Estonia; sovereignty scores 4-5, with data processed there on AWS and the region unnamed.

**Speaks for it:**
- Freight and transport scoring 7-8, covering uploaded price-list comparison, spot price requests, tender management, CMR editing, invoice checks against pre-agreed amounts and multi-modal tracking.
- Own carrier contracts with no per-shipment fees, and new carrier integrations built free on request.
- Named connectors to Microsoft Business Central, Odoo, Magento, WooCommerce and Directo, with one API said to cover all present and future carrier connections.
- Published tiers — Basic from €199 per month, billed annually, Standard from €399, Advanced from €599, Enterprise from €1000 — with priced add-ons such as CO₂ reporting at +€50.
- CO2 estimates for road, air, sea and rail with Excel export and a REST API.

**Held against it:**
- Inventory control at 0, with no public information on stock figures, bin locations, batches or serial numbers.
- Warehouse operations at 2-3, documented only to a loading calendar, dock scheduling and packing slips.
- No public information on a returns portal, customs documents for non-EU destinations or bulk label printing, leaving shipping and returns at 4-6.
- A one-time setup fee applies to all tiers with no published amount, and the price of shipments beyond the allowance is not stated.
- No public information on a data processing agreement, subprocessor list or security certification, and the AWS region is not named.

**Best for:**
- You ship on your own carrier contracts and want agreed price lists uploaded, compared and booked automatically.
- Your freight work spans parcel, groupage, LTL, FTL, air, sea and rail, and you need milestone tracking plus invoice checks against pre-agreed amounts.
- You run Microsoft Business Central, Odoo, Magento, WooCommerce or Directo and want shipments created automatically from order data.
- You need per-shipment CO2 estimates across road, air, sea and rail with Excel exports.

**Avoid if:**
- You need the software itself to hold stock — bin locations, batches, serial numbers or stock synchronised to sales channels.
- Your warehouse team needs the receiving-to-pack workflow — goods receipt, putaway, scan-verified picking — in the same tool; what the pages document serves loading and dispatch.
- You run parcel-heavy e-commerce needing returns and customs flows — the label generator is positioned for occasional shipping.
- You must compute the full first-year cost before signing — a setup fee applies to all tiers without a published figure and shipments beyond the allowance are unpriced.

## Scores by judge and criterion

Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v1). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price, or the judge found no public information on that criterion.

| Criterion | The E-Commerce Operations Lead | The Warehouse Manager | The Transport Planner | The Fulfilment Provider | The IT & Integration Lead | The Skeptic |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Inventory & stock control | 0/5 | 0/5 | 0/5 | 0/5 | 0/5 | 0/5 |
| Warehouse operations: receiving, picking & packing | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1.5/5 | 1/5 |
| Multi-carrier shipping & returns | 3/5 | 3/5 | 2/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 2/5 |
| Freight & transport management | 4/5 | 4/5 | 4/5 | 4/5 | 4/5 | 3.5/5 |
| Integrations, automation & exit | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 |
| European sovereignty | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Pricing transparency | 2.5/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 |
| **Weighted verdict** | **2/5** | **2/5** | **2.5/5** | **2/5** | **2.5/5** | **2/5** |

### The judges

- **The E-Commerce Operations Lead** (v1.0): Ships three hundred parcels a day from a shop, two marketplaces and a wholesale channel. Wants stock that is right on every channel so nothing is oversold, labels for four carriers printed in one batch, customs papers for Switzerland without retyping, and a returns portal that stops the support inbox filling up every January.
- **The Warehouse Manager** (v1.0): Runs two shifts in a four-thousand-square-metre warehouse with temps who start on Monday. Wants goods receipt against the purchase order, bin locations and scanner-guided picks a new hire gets right on day one, batch and best-before dates that are actually tracked, and pick and error rates per shift instead of a feeling.
- **The Transport Planner** (v1.0): Books forty pallets and three part loads a week for a machinery wholesaler, mostly by e-mail and phone. Wants quotes from several forwarders compared in one place, the agreed rates stored so invoices can be checked against them, eCMR instead of paper, and a CO2 figure per shipment the sustainability report can cite.
- **The Fulfilment Provider** (v1.0): Runs a 3PL warehouse with twenty-two client brands, each on a different shop system. Wants one WMS that keeps every client's stock and orders apart, connects to whatever shop the next client brings, ships on the client's own carrier contracts or the house rates, and turns picks, storage and packaging into a client invoice.
- **The IT & Integration Lead** (v1.0): Owns the ERP, the shop and the DATEV export for a mid-sized manufacturer, and gets the call when an order does not arrive in the warehouse. Wants a documented API and webhooks, EDI for the two retail chains, connectors the vendor actually maintains, a processor list for the recipient addresses, and a full export the day the contract ends.
- **The Skeptic** (v1.0): Has seen a "WMS" that was a stock column in a shop plugin and a "free" shipping tool that made its money on every label. Reads "integrates with everything" as a logo wall, asks whether own carrier contracts are allowed on the cheap tier, what the per-order fee is past the allowance, and how the order history leaves with you.

## European sovereignty — proven facts

Built only from facts on the vendor's own pages; a dimension we could not prove is left open, never scored as zero. Headline: 1 of 4 dimensions proven.

| Dimension | Finding | Points | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal entity | Not determined | — | — |
| Ownership | Not determined | — | — |
| Data residency | Not determined | — | — |
| Subprocessors | US CLOUD Act reach | 0/2 | [S3] |

## Key facts

Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources).

**Compliance**
- 2FA: yes [S3]
- Encryption: yes · yes [S3]
- GDPR hosting: AWS · yes [S3]
- Recaptcha: yes [S9]
- Security guarantee: no [S4]

**Data**
- Personal data collected: email · name · phone · address · cookies · usage data [S4]

**Hosting**
- Data processing location: Estonia · Estonia [S4]

**Integrations**
- Add carriers: Missing carriers can be added via support [S5]
- API: One API integration covers all present and future carrier integrations [S5]
- Cargoson odoo module: Odoo Cargoson Shipping module: create and manage transport orders directly within Odoo [S11]
- Carrier: yes [S8]
- Carrier count: page lists carriers with a 'Load more' control; total count not stated [S2]
- Carrier count: 1000 [S1]
- Carrier names sample: Euroopa Transpordi OÜ · Trans Herbert OÜ · Venipak Eesti OÜ · Eesti Post AS · DHL Express AB · C.H. Robinson · TNT Suomi Oy · Schenker Deutschland AG · InPost Sp. z o.o. · FedEx Express Danmark ApS · FedEx Express Austria GmbH · FedEx Expr… [S2]
- Carrier request: yes [S5]
- Categories: Carriers · E-shops, ERPs & WMSs [S2]
- Categories: Carrier and partner integrations listed, with categories Carriers and E-shops, ERPs & WMSs [S10]
- Co2 API: REST API · yes [S9]
- Co2 API access: support@cargoson.com [S9]
- Co2 API historical bookings: yes [S9]
- Erp: yes [S8]
- Erp ecommerce: Microsoft Business Central · Odoo · Magento · WooCommerce · Directo [S1]
- Load more: yes [S2]
- Load more carriers: Carrier list has a Load more control, indicating more carriers than initially displayed [S10]
- Manual start: yes [S1]
- Odoo modules list: Package reporting module for legal compliance · Estonian Business Register integration · Finbite e-invoice connector · Product configurator for custom manufacturing · Cargoson integration for transport management [S11]
- On demand: yes [S3]
- Partner status: Estonia · yes [S11]
- Printnode: PrintNode [S3]

**Legal**
- Address: Pärnu mnt. 141, 11314 Tallinn, Estonia [S10]
- Cargoson registration: EE102137680 · 14545832 · Pärnu mnt. 141, 11314 Tallinn, Estonia · Cargoson OÜ [S11]
- Entity: EE102137680 · 14545832 · Estonia · Cargoson OÜ [S2]
- Entity: EE102137680 · Cargoson OÜ · 14545832 · Estonia [S1]
- Entity: EE102137680 · Cargoson OÜ · 14545832 · Estonia [S7]
- Entity: EE102137680 · hello@cargoson.com · 14545832 · Pärnu mnt. 141, 11314 Tallinn, Estonia · Estonia [S6]
- Entity: EE102137680 · Cargoson OÜ · 14545832 · Estonia [S8]
- Entity: EE102137680 · Cargoson OÜ · 14545832 · Pärnu mnt. 141, 11314 Tallinn, Estonia · Estonia [S5]
- Entity: EE102137680 · Cargoson OÜ · 14545832 · Estonia [S9]
- Entity: EE102137680 · 14545832 · Cargoson OÜ · Estonia [S10]
- Entity: EE102137680 · Cargoson OÜ · 14545832 · Estonia [S3]
- Entity name: Cargoson OÜ · Estonia [S4]
- Headquarters: Pärnu mnt. 141, 11314 Tallinn, Estonia [S1]
- Headquarters: Pärnu mnt. 141, 11314 Tallinn, Estonia [S8]
- Headquarters: Pärnu mnt. 141, 11314 Tallinn, Estonia [S9]
- Hq address: Pärnu mnt. 141, 11314 Tallinn, Estonia [S2]
- Hq address: Pärnu mnt. 141, 11314 Tallinn, Estonia [S4]
- Hq address: Pärnu mnt. 141, 11314 Tallinn, Estonia [S7]
- Privacy policy effective date: 2018-07-03 [S4]
- Registry number: 14545832 [S4]
- VAT number: EE102137680 [S4]

**Pricing**
- Add carriers fee: 0 [S3]
- Advanced limits: 10 · 3000 [S3]
- Advanced price: Advanced · For system integrations & automation · EUR · 599 [S6]
- Advanced price: 599 · For system integrations & automation [S5]
- Advanced price: Advanced · 599 [S3]
- Annual discount: yes · yes [S3]
- Basic limits: 2 · 100 [S3]
- Basic price: Basic · 199 [S3]
- Carriers free: yes [S3]
- Cloud start price: 199 [S1]
- Co2 addon: 50 [S3]
- Enterprise limits: unlimited · custom [S3]
- Enterprise price: Enterprise · Custom solutions for large organizations · EUR · 1000 [S6]
- Enterprise price: 1000 · Custom solutions for large organizations [S5]
- Enterprise price: Enterprise · 1000 [S3]
- Exceeding shipment limit: upgrade plan · purchase additional shipments · yes [S3]
- Free trial: no · yes [S3]
- Lead time addon: 50 [S3]
- Long term contracts: no [S3]
- Min plan: Advanced [S5]
- Own carrier contracts: no · yes [S3]
- Per shipment fees: no [S3]
- Plan change: yes [S3]
- Plan requirement: Advanced [S6]
- Setup fee: yes · all tiers [S3]
- Standard limits: 5 · 1000 [S3]
- Standard price: Standard · 399 [S3]
- Transport pricing engine addon: 100 [S3]

**Product**
- Addon auto booking: Automated Carrier Booking · optional add-on [S3]
- Addon container visibility: Container visibility · upcoming [S3]
- Addon delayed shipments: Delayed Shipments Report · optional add-on [S3]
- Addon loading calendar: Loading Calendar · optional add-on [S3]
- Addon modules: CargoPriceList · optional add-on [S3]
- Addon projects module: Projects Module · optional add-on [S3]
- Addon tailorcmr: TailorCMR · optional add-on [S3]
- Addon third party ordering: Third-Party Ordering · optional add-on [S3]
- Automated booking rules: Predefined rules automate carrier selection and booking [S6]
- Booking rules: yes [S5]
- Branded notifications: yes [S1]
- Carrier adding free: yes [S6]
- Carrier integration: Carrier Integration Software [S8]
- Co2 calculator modes: road · air · sea · rail [S9]
- Co2 estimation: yes [S1]
- Co2 estimation: yes [S5]
- Co2 input parameters: addresses · goods details [S9]
- Co2 methodology report pdf: support@cargoson.com [S9]
- Co2 reports excel export: yes [S9]
- Co2 tms dashboard estimates: yes [S9]
- Cookie types: Session Cookies · Preference Cookies · Security Cookies [S4]
- Delay reports: yes [S5]
- Delayed shipment reports: Daily email reports about delayed shipments [S6]
- Dock scheduling: Dock Scheduling Software [S1]
- Dock scheduling: Dock Scheduling Software [S8]
- Enterprise SSO audit: yes · 7 [S3]
- Extra modules list: add-on on all plans · Tender management and analytics [S3]
- Free label generator: free · yes [S7]
- Freight rate management: Freight Rate Management Software [S8]
- Freight surcharge management: Freight Surcharge Management Software [S8]
- Industries: Electronics Manufacturers · Chemical Manufacturers · Metal & Machinery Manufacturers · Printing & Packaging [S1]
- Integration overview: Connects transportation management software with Smarten Logistics warehouse automatically, no code required [S6]
- Integration purpose: Transport module connecting software with Via 3L warehouse; calculate prices, ETD, ETA, CO2; create shipments, labels, tracking links, branded notifications automatically [S5]
- International reach: Europe and beyond [S3]
- Invoice comparison: Compare transport invoices with pre-calculated or pre-agreed amounts [S6]
- Invoice comparison: yes [S5]
- Label fields: shipper · reference · phone · dep_date · to · transport_instructions · consignment_id · packages · weight · barcode [S7]
- Label format: Printable on A6 / 4x6 inch / 10x15cm paper [S7]
- Languages: 26 [S3]
- Mobile app: yes [S1]
- Modules: Transportation Management System · Freight Rate Management Software · Freight Surcharge Management Software · Carrier Integration Software · Freight Management Software · Multi-Carrier Shipping Software · Multi-Carrier Freight Shipping API… [S10]
- Multi carrier API: Multi-Carrier Freight Shipping API [S1]
- Multi carrier API: Multi-Carrier Freight Shipping API [S8]
- Multi carrier shipping: Multi-Carrier Shipping Software [S1]
- No code: yes [S5]
- Not forwarder: Cargoson positions itself as TMS, not middleman or forwarder [S6]
- Not forwarder: Cargoson is not a middleman or forwarder [S5]
- Not middleman: Your rates. Your carriers. Not a middleman. [S1]
- Notifications: Branded email transport notifications with labels, ETA, modifications, cancellations, licence plates, documents [S5]
- Occasional use: Positioned for occasional shipping needs [S7]
- Odoo v17 estonian accounting: Odoo v17 offers Estonian chart of accounts, pre-configured VAT rates and KMD reports with attachments, SEPA payment exports, Intrastat reporting [S11]
- Onboarding: Onboarding via demo: select carriers, upload price agreements, invite users [S5]
- Onboarding setup: yes [S1]
- Onboarding time: 1-2 [S3]
- Over shipment documents: POD · invoice · packing list [S3]
- Own carriers: yes [S1]
- Packing slips: Generates custom packing slips from a professional shipping label template [S7]
- Parcel lockers: yes [S5]
- Post shipment capabilities: Branded email transport notifications with labels, ETA, modifications, cancellations, licence plate numbers, documents [S6]
- Pre shipment capabilities: Automatically create shipments from ERP/online store/WMS order data; display shipping options; list parcel lockers [S6]
- Preshipment automation: Create shipments automatically from ERP/online store/WMS order data [S5]
- Price comparison: Automatic price calculation from price lists, spot price requests, lead time and CO2 estimates, carrier comparison [S6]
- Price comparison: Automatic price calculation from own price lists [S5]
- Rate comparison: upload pricelists · compare lead-times · request ad-hoc prices · booking · tracking · collection monitoring · arrivals monitoring [S1]
- Rate management: Freight Rate Management Software [S1]
- Saas platform: web · mobile · cloud-based SaaS [S1]
- Services offered: Full Odoo implementation with business process mapping and customization · Client-side project management for Odoo procurement · Training programs · Custom module development · Consultation on optimizing existing Odoo installations [S11]

**Subprocessors**
- Google analytics: Google Analytics · web analytics / website traffic tracking [S4]

**Support**
- Consultation: yes [S1]
- Demo consultation: Free consultation/demo booking offered [S6]
- Tiers: email · SLA · priority line [S3]

24 more facts on the canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/supply-chain/cargoson

## Questions

### Is Cargoson European?

Yes. whats-best.ai classifies Cargoson as EU-Made.

### Where does Cargoson store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 26 Oct 2026.

### Does Cargoson have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 26 Oct 2026.

### What are the best alternatives to Cargoson?

As of 29 Oct 2026, the panel rates [Ongoing WMS (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/supply-chain/ongoing-wms), [Shippingbo (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/supply-chain/shippingbo) and [Mintsoft (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/supply-chain/mintsoft) highest among the other 14 Supply Chain & Logistics products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [Ongoing WMS](https://whats-best.ai/software/supply-chain/ongoing-wms) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [Cargoson alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/supply-chain/cargoson/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- 2 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 integrations fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 pricing fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 support fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 2 sovereignty dimensions could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and are shown as unknown.

## Sources

- [S1] Vendor homepage: https://www.cargoson.com/en (checked 2026-10-26)
- [S2] Integrations page: https://www.cargoson.com/en/integrations (checked 2026-10-26)
- [S3] Pricing page: https://www.cargoson.com/en/pricing (checked 2026-10-26)
- [S4] Privacy policy naming the legal entity: https://www.cargoson.com/en/privacy (checked 2026-10-26)
- [S5] Warehouse operations: receiving, picking & packing — found from sitemap: https://www.cargoson.com/en/integrations/partners/via3l-warehouse (checked 2026-10-26)
- [S6] Warehouse operations: receiving, picking & packing — found from sitemap: https://www.cargoson.com/en/integrations/partners/smarten-warehouse (checked 2026-10-26)
- [S7] Multi-carrier shipping & returns — found from sitemap: https://www.cargoson.com/en/tools/shipping-label-generator (checked 2026-10-26)
- [S8] Multi-carrier shipping & returns — found from sitemap: https://www.cargoson.com/en/tracking (checked 2026-10-26)
- [S9] Freight & transport management — found from sitemap: https://www.cargoson.com/en/tools/co2-calculator (checked 2026-10-26)
- [S10] Integrations, automation & exit — found from sitemap: https://www.cargoson.com/integrations (checked 2026-10-26)
- [S11] Integrations, automation & exit — found from sitemap: https://www.cargoson.com/en/partners/erp-partner (checked 2026-10-26)

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