Start with the reason for changing
Document the current Linnworks workflows that must be retained, the gaps that must be resolved and the data that must remain accessible. Brightpearl, Veeqo, Cin7, Sellbrite and MaxInvent should be compared against that same requirement set — not against each other's marketing.
In practice three reasons dominate the switching conversations we have: the commercial terms, the marketplaces that are and are not covered, and warehouse work that lives in a separate module or a separate system.
The three differences worth checking first
| Question | MaxInvent | What to ask your incumbent |
|---|---|---|
| Contract term | Monthly rolling, billed in advance. Cancel before renewal. Annual prepay optional, saves 10%. | Minimum term, notice period, renewal uplift as a number |
| Published price | £99.99 / £299.99 / from £499 per month, with 1,000 / 5,000 / up to 15,000 orders included and 5p per order above allowance | Monthly figure, included allowance, pence per order over it |
| Temu labels | For an eligible connected seller and order: request Temu's available services, buy the selected platform label and retrieve it, in bulk from a print queue | Is Temu a live connector, and can labels be bought outside Seller Centre? |
| Warehouse depth | Zones, aisles, bins and a handheld app in the platform, not a separate module | Are bin locations and handheld scanning in this price? |
| Per-user fees | None. Allowances are order-based. | Cost of the ninth user; do pickers need paid seats? |
| Hosting | AWS London eu-west-2 primary; encrypted DR snapshots in AWS Ireland eu-west-1 | Primary region, DR region, subprocessors |
The right-hand column is a question list, not a claim about any named vendor. Fill it in from a written quote and current documentation, dated.
Evidence for the shortlist
- Current connector scope and failure handling.
- Warehouse, parcel and carrier requirements.
- Accounting record types and direction.
- Published pricing or a complete written quote.
- Exportable data, history and cut-over controls.
- Commercial terms: minimum term, notice period and renewal uplift.
What MaxInvent does not claim
Shopify is at foundations and limited-onboarding stage rather than an unconditional live connector. WooCommerce and OnBuy are roadmap items. Xero is a one-way outbound GBP push, not a two-way sync. There is no marketplace wave picking and no multi-bench print station orchestration. If any of those is a hard requirement, we would rather you knew now.
Where to go next
For the cost side, see what Linnworks actually costs and the hidden-cost lines. For the move itself, see migrating without downtime and the commercial detail on switch from Linnworks. Fit still depends on discovery and a controlled migration test.
Competitor capabilities and terms change. Vendor names are descriptive and no affiliation or endorsement is implied. Reviewed 23 August 2026.