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Merkato 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Merkato
Merkato
4.1
(14)

Pricing

Starting at €750.00 per month

About Merkato

Merkato is a proposal management software that helps businesses configure customer requirements, calculate financial consequences, manage dealers, and document quotations. Key features include sales forecasting, pricing management, guided selling, knowledge recording and user management.

Administrators can create documents such as offers, bids, parts lists, proposals, and purchase and sales orders. Additionally, Merkato lets stakeholders integrate the system with several third-party applications including Salesforce Sales Cloud and SAP Business One.

Merkato Screenshots

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Merkato Pricing and Plans

Starting price: €750.00 per month
Free Trial
Free Version

SaaS

€750.00

per feature, per month

No plan information available

    Basic

    €15,000.00

    per feature, per year

    No plan information available

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      Merkato Features

      • Popular features found in Order Entry
        Customer History
        Data Import/Export
        Inventory Management
        Invoice Creation
        Order Fulfillment
        Order Tracking
        Purchase Order Management
        Real Time Order Entry
        Reporting & Statistics
      • More features of Merkato
        2D Drawing
        3D Digital Asset Management
        3D Imaging
        Access Controls/Permissions
        API
        Approval Process Control
        Approval Workflow
        Audit Trail
        Automated Quoting
        Business Process Control
        Catalog Management
        Client Portal
        Collaboration Tools
        Commercial/Industrial
        Content Library
        Contract/License Management
        Correlation Analysis
        Cost Database
        CRM
        Customizable Branding
        Customizable Reports
        Customizable Templates
        Dashboard
        Data Visualization
        Discount Management
        Document Management
        Document Storage
        Document Templates
        Drag & Drop
        Dynamic Modeling
        eCommerce Management
        Electronic Signature
        ERP integration
        Exception Reporting
        For Customer Use
        Forecasting
        For Internal Use
        Graphical Data Presentation
        Guided Selling
        Knowledge Base Management
        Labor Rates
        Modeling & Simulation
        Multi-Currency
        Multi-Language
        Opportunity Management
        Order Entry
        Order Management
        Order Processing
        Performance Metrics
        Price and Cost Calculations
        Pricing and Cost Calculations
        Pricing Management
        Product Catalog
        Product Configurator
        Product Data Management
        Proposal Generation
        Quotes/Estimates
        Real-time Product Visualizations
        Remote Order Entry
        Renewal Management
        RFP Management
        Rule-based Configuration
        Rules Engine
        Sales Automation
        Sales Order Management
        Sales Tax Management
        Sales Trend Analysis
        Self Service Portal
        Shipping Management
        Special Order Management
        Statistical Analysis
        Template Management
        Templates
        Third-Party Integrations
        Version Control
        Visual Configuration
        Workflow Management

      Merkato Integrations

      SAP Business One
      SAP Business One
      Salesforce Sales Cloud
      Salesforce Sales Cloud
      AFAS Software
      AFAS Software
      Jeeves
      Jeeves
      Infor LN
      Infor LN
      Exact Globe
      Exact Globe

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      Merkato User Reviews

      Overall Rating

      4.1

      Ratings Breakdown

      5

      14%

      4

      86%

      3

      0%

      2

      0%

      1

      0%

      Secondary Ratings

      Ease of Use

      4.2

      Value for money

      4.0

      Customer support

      4.3

      Functionality

      4.1

      Have you used Merkato and would like to share your experience with others?

      HV

      Herm V.

      Verified reviewer

      Management Consulting

      Self-Employed

      Used weekly for more than 2 years

      Review source

      Reviewed September 2020

      versatile and flexible configurator software with high business impact

      4

      Overall Merkato has played a big role in transferring company & product know how from experts heads into business rules within the software. This decreased input errors dramatically and enabled a transfer to a configure to order process while the number of special requests have reduced. The number of dealers and users has tripled during the implementation phase and the output parameters from Merkato are used in sales, engineering, logistics, production and final delivery.

      Ratings Breakdown

      5
      Ease of use
      5
      Value for money
      5
      Customer support
      4
      Functionality
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      Pros:
      The clear structure of pages, sections and fields combined with all available rules and parameters enable the administrator to build an application very fast. The specific application for a business can be simple and straightforward or very complex with multiple components, layers and subprojects, this only depends on the need of the company or business unit. There are a lot of possibilities to generate output formats, set up user groups and authorisations and apply API's to other CRM/ERP/PLM software. Very scalable as well in configurater scope as in the number of users and dealers.
      Cons:
      In some cases it can be challenging for the administrator to achieve the exact layout of the entry screen when a mix of column widths is desired. Also the creation of documents requires some experience when a more complex mix of data filtering, layout components and text formats is used. For the end user the initial order overview interface could be improved by allowing a bit more finetuning.

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      MD

      Marc D.

      Verified reviewer

      Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing

      Self-Employed

      Used weekly for more than 2 years

      Review source

      Reviewed January 2023

      Best value for money in CPQ

      5

      Ratings Breakdown

      5
      Ease of use
      5
      Value for money
      5
      Customer support
      5
      Functionality
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      Pros:
      - Very (!) advanced configurations possible- Easy to deploy- Training ensures you can become completely self-sufficient and do not depend on the Merkato consultants- Very reactive consultants when needing that special trick to get things done- Ease to use the tool in complex sales channels (multiple users with different rights and branding)
      Cons:
      I do not have any negative experiences so far

      Reasons for choosing Merkato

      - delivering on the promise- no hidden costs- no dependency from vendor expertise after training and deployment

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      OW

      Olav W.

      Verified reviewer

      Maritime

      51-200 employees

      Used daily for more than 2 years

      Review source

      Reviewed September 2020

      A program with many possibilities

      4

      Nice program, service/helpdesk is good

      Ratings Breakdown

      2
      Ease of use
      2
      Value for money
      4
      Customer support
      4
      Functionality
      icon
      Pros:
      It is possible to make adjustments yourself without extensive IT knowledge
      Cons:
      When the system has been built up piece by piece and change upon changes has been implemented, it is difficult to find errors. Starting all overagain sometimes seems the best solution, but this takes too much time and outsorsing it is quite expensive

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      JH

      Jeffrey H.

      Verified reviewer

      Medical Devices

      51-200 employees

      Used daily for more than 2 years

      Review source

      Reviewed September 2020

      Great Configurator

      5

      The overall experience is great. The program is in our company used as customer order portal. On a daily basis, about 700 orders are configured and ordered. It is automatically send to our ERP in which a script turns the info to sales and work orders. Merkato is also used inside the company to make work-orders ourselves. With these 2 groups working in Merkato, about 50 users are simultaneously working in the program. This is all going very smoothly. Our proces and products require regular adjustments and therefore the Merkato template has to be adjusted often. This is something that can we can do ourselves. This makes it the perfect configurator for us.

      Ratings Breakdown

      5
      Ease of use
      5
      Value for money
      5
      Customer support
      5
      Functionality
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      Pros:
      - Easy to use - Functionality - Fast processing - Cloud based - Good connections available with other software - Fast & effective support team
      Cons:
      - Look and feel are outdated. This will be improved in de upcoming years. - The search bar in the media or CRM info in the backend is missing. This will be a new feature in the new release, hopefully next year.

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      JS

      Jeroen S.

      Verified reviewer

      Automotive

      51-200 employees

      Used daily for more than 2 years

      Review source

      Reviewed September 2020

      Merkato Configuration management

      4

      We have a good experience, we were able to implement to software in a short time. Within 3 months we have an live operation in our sales and production department.

      Ratings Breakdown

      5
      Ease of use
      5
      Value for money
      4
      Customer support
      4
      Functionality
      icon
      Pros:
      Approximately 4 years ago we have decided to implement a sales / product configurator to have more clear documents, more professional documents and talk as a company about the same options/configurations and sales possibilities. We also use this configurator to generate our production bill of material and prepare production order documents. In this moment we are very satisfied with the product. Within here a summary of Positive software items: - Easy implementation - Easy document generation - Easy to implement a sales configuration level - Working online -cloud based - Good and easy sales configurator - Possibilities to also implement items which are not standard.
      Cons:
      Integration of documents from used or configuration

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      HG

      Harm G.

      Verified reviewer

      Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

      51-200 employees

      Used daily for more than 2 years

      Review source

      Reviewed September 2020

      Think it, build it, use it

      4

      Uniformity in appearance has been achieved, regardless of who the user is. Appearance but also the content of our quotations are more aligned. Knowledge and know-how is upgraded for the entire company by implementing our products in this rule based engine.

      Ratings Breakdown

      4
      Ease of use
      4
      Value for money
      4
      Customer support
      4
      Functionality
      icon
      Pros:
      Flexibility is a big plus. If you can think of it, you can build it in Merkato. Adjustments can be made easily. Created templates are easy to understand, debug and modify if necessary due to the infrastructure.
      Cons:
      Report builder could be more user friendly. Sometimes a bit complex for someone with limited programming background.

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      Fw

      Frank w.

      Verified reviewer

      Machinery

      51-200 employees

      Used daily for more than 2 years

      Review source

      Reviewed October 2020

      Easy and Flexible

      4

      Good

      Ratings Breakdown

      4
      Ease of use
      4
      Value for money
      4
      Customer support
      4
      Functionality
      icon
      Pros:
      Easy to learn and therefore quick to get get going
      Cons:
      Challenge to make sure, you know the scope to avoid drifting since it is really easy to add what can result in a unstructured total. (needs structure and discipline) Debugging can be complicated

      Reasons for choosing Merkato

      Value for Money, simple to use. Does not need high end IT support, The support from Quootz

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      SS

      Stefan S.

      Verified reviewer

      Automotive

      201-500 employees

      Used daily for more than 2 years

      Review source

      Reviewed October 2020

      Easy to use Configurator software

      4

      Our experience with Merkato is good. Setting up a configurator is easy and the generated output can be made however you would like it to be.

      Ratings Breakdown

      4
      Ease of use
      4
      Value for money
      4
      Customer support
      3
      Functionality
      icon
      Pros:
      Software is easy to use and very flexible. Generated reports out of the Configurator can be made exactly how you would like to have these.
      Cons:
      There is a limitation of databases which can be used in Merkato.

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      BF

      Bas F.

      Verified reviewer

      Machinery

      51-200 employees

      Used daily for more than 2 years

      Review source

      Reviewed November 2020

      Merkato software

      4

      support is strong, knowledge is strong during implementation easy to contact support team

      Ratings Breakdown

      5
      Ease of use
      4
      Value for money
      4
      Customer support
      4
      Functionality
      icon
      Pros:
      after implementation quotes are easy to make by just clicking
      Cons:
      Setting up the software takes some time

      Reasons for choosing Merkato

      webbased, ease of use, fast quotations possible

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      JA

      JS A.

      Verified reviewer

      Packaging and Containers

      51-200 employees

      Used daily for more than 2 years

      Review source

      Reviewed September 2020

      experience

      4

      Ratings Breakdown

      4
      Ease of use
      4
      Value for money
      3
      Customer support
      3
      Functionality
      icon
      Pros:
      it works in line with expectations. Can be taylored to appilcations
      Cons:
      stability in connections and updates. Flexibility can be a bottle-neck for efficiency

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