Wholesale distribution software that's actually one system.
Accurate stock, fast purchasing and goods receipting, protected margins and a 24/7 B2B online store — with your accounts posting themselves underneath, all on one platform.
What slows wholesalers down — and how Cognit fixes it
Each problem below is solved by a module that's already built into Cognit and shares the same live data as the rest of your business.
Stock you can't quite trust
When stock lives in a spreadsheet — or two systems that don't agree — you oversell, you over-order, and you waste hours counting to be sure.
One live source of truth for stock on hand, with full movement history, bin locations and tablet stocktakes your warehouse team runs from the floor.
Purchasing and goods receipting by hand
Raising POs in one place, receipting in another, and never quite knowing what's on order or what's landed.
Create and send purchase orders from templates, receipt goods against them in a couple of taps, and watch a live dashboard of what's on order, landed and spent by supplier.
Margins leaking through pricing
Customer deals in spreadsheets, prices that drift, and discounts that quietly erode the margin you thought you had.
Set customer and group pricing and price lists once, with margins protected, and have the same price used in staff order entry, the online store and the invoice.
No easy way for trade customers to order
Orders come by phone, email and text — then someone re-keys them, and the errors creep in.
A B2B online store is built in. Trade customers log in, see their own pricing, reorder in one tap and order 24/7 — straight into your system, no re-keying.
Accounting living somewhere else
Sales here, stock there, books in another package — and a month-end spent gluing exports together to guess your numbers.
A real general ledger sits under everything, posting sales, purchasing and stock automatically — so your P&L is right in real time, with a two-way Xero sync if you want it.
Enter an order once. It's everywhere.
On separate tools, a single order gets re-keyed three times and the numbers never quite agree. On Cognit, one order updates your stock, your invoice and your ledger at the same moment — so there's nothing to sync and nothing to reconcile.
The system already running real distribution businesses
Cognit isn't a promise on a slide — it's the platform running wholesale and food distribution businesses across New Zealand and Australia today, taking online orders, holding stock, invoicing and keeping the books. And it's built and supported by a New Zealand team you can pick up the phone to.
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Runs on its own.
Connects to everything.
Cognit is a complete system — you don't need anything else to run your business. But when you want to, it connects: two-way Xero sync is built in, and if a system has an API or a data feed, Cognit can talk to it.
Xero 
QuickBooks 
Sage 
Dynamics 365 
SAP 
Cin7 S Stripe Y Your courier Xero QuickBooks Sage Dynamics 365 SAP Cin7 S Stripe Y Your courier 
MYOB 
Reckon 
Accredo 
NetSuite 
Unleashed S Shopify Y Your bank feed MYOB Reckon Accredo NetSuite Unleashed S Shopify Y Your bank feed Already on Xero or MYOB? Keep it — Cognit syncs to it automatically.
Wholesale distribution, answered
What is the best wholesale distribution software in New Zealand? ＋
Cognit is an all-in-one cloud ERP built for wholesale distributors — it brings stock, purchasing, pricing, a built-in B2B online store, invoicing, accounting and reporting into one system instead of a patchwork of separate tools. It's proven with wholesale and food distributors across New Zealand and Australia, and starts at NZD $499 per month.
Does Cognit replace separate stock, invoicing and accounting tools? ＋
Yes. Cognit is one connected platform: inventory and warehouse, purchasing and goods receipting, sales and pricing, a built-in online store, invoicing and accounts receivable, and a real general ledger all share the same live data. Most wholesalers use it to retire a stack of separate subscriptions that never quite talked to each other.
Can my trade customers order online? ＋
Yes. A complete B2B e-commerce store is built into Cognit. Trade customers log in to a branded storefront, see their own pricing, reorder from saved lists and order 24/7 — and because the store shares Cognit's live stock and pricing, orders flow straight through to picking, invoicing and the ledger with no re-keying.
How does Cognit keep stock accurate? ＋
Stock updates the instant an order is placed — online or by your team — so there's one live figure everyone works from, with full movement history and audit trail. Reorder levels and smart suggestions tell you what to buy, bin and shelf locations speed up picking, and tablet stocktakes let the warehouse count from the floor.
Does Cognit integrate with Xero and other systems? ＋
Yes. Cognit has built-in two-way Xero integration that syncs invoices, credit notes, customers and products automatically, and it has its own full accounting if you'd rather keep everything in one place. It can also connect to other accounting, inventory or e-commerce systems — if a system has an API or data feed, Cognit can integrate with it.
