ERP System for Fashion Retail: Systems Compared 2026

• Budget planning: defines how much purchasing budget is available per season, product group and supplier. The system should check budgets against quantities already ordered so that you do not over-order in the showroom.
• Ordering and pre-orders: Pre-orders are entered months before the season starts, with order quantities and delivery dates per collection. Order management monitors open delivery dates and reports what is missing.
• Goods receipt with EDI: via EDI (electronic data interchange), brand suppliers deliver item master data, EANs and delivery notes digitally. Goods are booked in against the order via barcode scan, and the system prints labels directly.
• Size and colour management: variant management keeps a style as a matrix of sizes and colours instead of dozens of individual items. The size breakdown shows per style which sizes have sold and which are still in stock, and makes reorder decisions data-driven.
• NOS automation: NOS stands for Never out of Stock: permanent items such as basics that should always be available. The system monitors minimum stock levels and automatically suggests replenishment orders, separately from seasonal merchandise.
• Store control: Branch management with a central warehouse, branch replenishment and stock transfers between locations. The stock of all branches must be available in real time, otherwise the sales floor sells past actual demand.
• POS system: an integrated POS posts every sale immediately in the ERP system, supports customer cards, vouchers, exchanges and returns, and meets the TSE requirement.
• Stocktaking: Counting via smartphone or scanner instead of count sheets, either as a fixed-date stocktake or as perpetual inventory with continuous processing.
• Markdowns: Markdowns are the price reductions on seasonal merchandise at the end of the season, from the first reduced price to the clearance sale. The system should document every markdown per item and branch and make it available for analysis.
• Analytics: Reporting with sell-through rates and stock turnover: stock turnover measures how often the average inventory sells per year, one of the most important key figures in fashion retail. This includes a financial accounting interface for the tax advisor.
• Online shop and marketplace integration: Omnichannel means one stock pool for the store, online shop and sales portals such as Zalando, Shopify or Shopware, with automatic stock synchronisation and clean returns handling.

advarics

According to the provider, advarics offers a fully cloud-based ERP system with POS for lifestyle retail: fashion, sports, shoes and accessories. The system runs as a web app in the browser on any device; the core modules are called advarics.retail (ERP) and advarics.cash (POS with offline capability). For electronic data interchange with suppliers, advarics is connected to the BTE Clearing Center and is, according to the provider, a technology partner for Zalando Connected Retail. Billing is via a rental model; specific prices on request (provider information, as of June 2026).

Ariston HIS::WIN

According to the vendor, HIS::WIN from Ariston Informatik specializes in size-based fashion retail and offers industry solutions for shoe retail, textile and fashion retail, sports retail, leather goods, workwear and safety, and orthopedics. According to vendor figures, over 1,000 HIS licenses have been installed since 1986; the POS system HIS::POS counts over 1,400 installations, and the largest user operates more than 160 stores. The core of the system is the size and color matrix; architecturally, you can choose between local installation in a Windows network and the cloud variant HIS::ASP from the data center with automated backups. Also documented are NOS functions with automatic reordering via EDI, connections to clearing centers such as ANWR DCC, ECC, BTE and Sport 2000 Clearing, and marketplace integrations including Amazon, eBay and schuhe.de. Since 2017, Ariston has been part of the Brandt Retail Group. Public prices cannot be found on the website. (Source: aristoninformatik.com, accessed: July 2026)

FashionLager

FashionLager from NBD Systems in Greifswald is aimed, according to the vendor, at small and medium-sized fashion, textile and shoe retailers and cites over 900 registered installations in Germany and Europe. The system is installed locally and runs on Windows; a cloud version is not offered, while distributed local databases for branches are possible. It manages up to 6 branches and up to 5 additional POS workstations; each size key supports up to 56 individual sizes plus 4 freely definable article options, for example for color or length. Prices are public and structured as a one-time license fee: among others, €349 for the base module and €249 each for client and POS, in each case plus VAT; according to the vendor, there are no ongoing fees. The POS uses a hardware TSE; an eShop interface and a Shopify connection are available. The website makes no statement about EDI functions. (Source: fashion-lager.de, Price list, accessed: July 2026)

FEE-Software

FEE-Software from Linz am Rhein offers a complete solution consisting of ERP system, POS and customer information system for textile retail. The owner-managed company, founded in 1986 by textile retailer Hanns-Joachim Heepenstrick, serves by its own account over 1,000 specialist stores in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, from boutiques to retailers with branch networks. The software runs as a Windows program; according to the vendor, a current computer with Windows 10 or 11 is sufficient, and backups are made to hard drive, USB stick or, on request, to the cloud. Documented features include 99 product groups with 30 sizes per product group, EDI via the BTE Clearing-Center with message types such as PRICAT, ORDRSP, DESADV and INVOIC, NOS and order suggestions as well as branch management as add-on modules, and a TSE-compliant POS. The only public price the vendor states is POS rental from €39.90 per month; no prices for the ERP system can be found on the website. (Source: fee-software.de, accessed: July 2026)

hiltes

HILTES Software GmbH from Leer has existed since 1983; HILTES 5000, introduced in 2022, is the latest generation of the ERP system after Fashion 2000, Fashion 3000 and HILTES 4000 and is, according to the vendor, optimized for cloud operation. It is aimed at fashion, sports and shoe retailers, specialists for bedding and home textiles, as well as multi-branch operators and department stores. Customers choose between purchase and rental as well as between local installation and cloud operation. Three variants have public starting rental prices: Express from €59 per month (1 location, 1 user, 1 POS), Basic from €119 and Professional from €249 per month, expandable up to 9,999 branches. Also documented are an in-house EDI converter, NOS ordering, the WinCash 5000 POS, CRM and mobile apps. The vendor cites around 1,400 customers and around 25,000 installations in non-food retail and industry. (Source: hiltes.com, Product and pricing page, accessed: July 2026)

Indigo Fashion Software

Indigo Fashion Software by trendwaerts GmbH from Hamburg is a fully browser-based ERP system for the fashion industry that, according to the vendor, runs in the browser without installation; the servers are located in two separate data centers in Hamburg and Berlin. As its target group, the vendor names companies of all sizes from fashion, apparel, lifestyle and textile trade, from manufacturers and brands through wholesale to retail; the industry page for shoes primarily highlights shoe wholesale. Documented features include a pre-order module, EDI in EDIFACT/EANCOM format, returns management, sales representative settlements as well as online shop and portal connections; a POS module and branch management are not mentioned on the product pages we reviewed. Prices are public: rental at €159 per user per month with annual billing and a minimum of 3 users, alternatively purchase for a one-time €3,900 per user plus a 17.5 percent annual development fee; Enterprise prices on request. (Source: indigo-fashion-software.de, Pricing models, accessed: July 2026)

prodress

prodress was founded, by its own account, in 1983 in Bielefeld, is today headquartered in Rottach-Egern and counts over 150 customers with around 1,000 daily active users. The modular ERP system for the fashion industry is aimed, according to the vendor, at textile manufacturers, textile wholesalers as well as retail, B2B and B2C companies, with a specialization in managing colors and sizes. The software is available either as a web-based cloud version or on-premise, for Windows and macOS. Documented features include automated reordering based on minimum stock levels, the in-house EDI converter proEDI, the directly connected proPOS POS system with stock queries of other branches and transfers between locations, as well as a Shopify integration with an iPad app for order entry. Public prices cannot be found on the website. (Source: prodress.de, accessed: July 2026)

prohandel

prohandel from Bielefeld has been developing software for fashion retail since 1998 and describes its ERP system as built exclusively for fashion retail. Since 2017, the company has been part of the software group Total Specific Solutions (TSS). According to the provider, the offering includes POS systems, a mobile app for stocktaking, goods receipt and branch transfers, as well as EDI and NOS features; the provider names boutiques, multi-store retailers and large retail houses as target groups. A public price list could not be found, terms on request (provider information, as of June 2026).

SYLOG WAWI 6.0

WAWI 6.0 is developed by Limmer Soft GmbH from Kreuzau and distributed via the website mode-wawi.de by SYSTEMLOGIK mbH & Co. SYLOG KG. The vendor describes the system as a proven solution for textile retail since 1983, addresses everyone from boutiques to branch chains, and cites more than 300 users. EDI processing is integrated as standard and runs via the BTE Clearing-Center; supported transaction types include PRICAT, ORDERS, ORDRSP, DESADV, SLSRPT and eINVOIC, and an optional NOS program sends daily sales reports to suppliers. The system includes the LS-600T touch POS, mobile data capture, GoBD/DSFinV-K compliance and a web shop connection in which the ERP system takes over central control. The website makes no statement about the architecture (local installation or cloud operation) or about prices. (Source: mode-wawi.de, limmersoft.de, accessed: July 2026)

• Season logic instead of a permanent range: Collection changes, seasonal merchandise and markdowns set the calendar. A generalist merchandise management system or a generic ERP does not have these cycles as built-in processes.
• EDI and clearing center: in fashion retail, item master data, orders and delivery notes flow electronically between supplier and retailer, often bundled via a clearing center. Without this connection, you type in every collection by hand.
• Consignment: with consignment goods, the merchandise remains the supplier's property until it is sold and is only billed afterwards. A fashion ERP system maps this consignment settlement, standard systems usually do not.
• Space management: Space management means aligning range and stock with the productivity of the sales floor, in other words revenue per square metre. This requires analytics that look at product groups, floor space and branches together.
• POS as part of the system: in fashion retail, the POS system belongs to the ERP system so that markdowns, exchanges and customer cards flow directly into stock and analytics.

• Business size: a boutique with one POS terminal has different requirements than a multi-store retailer with a central warehouse. Check whether the system grows with your structure without you having to switch to a different product.
• Cloud or local: Cloud means access from anywhere, automatic updates and no server of your own; local data storage means full control on your own premises, but also your own maintenance and backups. Some providers combine both.
• Data migration: before deciding, clarify how item master data, stock levels, customer data and open vouchers will be migrated from the old system and who will do this work. Parallel operation alongside the existing system significantly reduces the stress of switching.
• Support and contract: look for reachable support in your time zone, transparent terms and the contract duration. Models that can be cancelled monthly keep the provider permanently accountable.