5Chain runs the whole floor - inventory, multi-client operations, picks and packs. And at its core sits the one thing every other WMS treats as an afterthought: a billing engine that turns a month of operations into clean, GST-compliant invoices for every brand client, in one click.
Most warehouse software stops at operations and leaves billing to a spreadsheet. 5Chain is built the other way round: every scan and storage-day feeds a billing core, so the system that runs your floor is the same system that gets you paid.
Real-time stock by SKU, batch and location across every brand you store.
Receiving, putaway, picks, packs and returns - captured as they happen.
One warehouse, many brands - each isolated, each with its own rules and views.
Every event becomes a charge. One click turns the month into per-client invoices.
Storage by volume, charges per pick and pack, returns to inspect, rate cards that change mid-month - reconciled by hand in Excel, the night before invoices go out. Mistakes cost the relationship. Missed charges cost the margin. No WMS on the market solves this cleanly - so we made it the heart of ours.
A few tabs in a sheet. One person keeps it in their head. It works - barely.
Rate cards drift. Storage math gets fuzzy. Month-end starts eating whole days.
Charges go uncaptured. Disputes pile up. The 3PL is financing its own clients without knowing it.
Because billing lives inside the WMS, there is no second system and no double entry. The floor feeds the invoice automatically.
Storage snapshots daily; picks, packs, receipts and returns as they happen. Sent twice? Counted once - idempotency is enforced at the database.
Per-brand pricing with effective dates and minimum monthly commitments. Last month's rates stay frozen on last month's invoice.
Draft per brand, drill into any line down to its source events, approve, finalize. GST split and IRN generated through a licensed GSP.
Each client logs into a portal showing only their charges and invoices - accrued in real time, downloadable, disputable against the line.
The capabilities that make 5Chain's billing core impossible to replicate with a spreadsheet bolted onto a generic WMS.
Charge storage by pallet, bin, cubic-foot or square-foot per day, and activity by pick, pack, receipt, order or return. Mix and match per client.
pallet-dayscubic-ftper-pickRTO + QCCorrect CGST/SGST/IGST from place of supply, HSN/SAC per charge, IRN through a licensed GSP. Finalized invoices never change - corrections are credit notes, as the law requires.
IRN + QRcredit notesgap-less numberingClick any charge and see the exact events that produced it. When a brand disputes an invoice, the answer is on the screen, not in a week of email.
line → sourceaudit trailToggle a client's rate card, packaging rules and COD handling without a developer or a consultant. New brand signed Monday, billing Wednesday.
no-code rate cardsno setup feeThe brand says "we never shipped that many." You open the line. There are the 9,140 picks, each with a timestamp and a source reference, reconciling to the rupee. The conversation ends in seconds - and you keep the charge.
We're running pilots with mid-market 3PLs serving D2C brands. Bring a month of your real events - we'll show you invoices that reconcile to the rupee.