Morsa publishes this guide. It ranks itself first. Morsa is software with an AI agent that works in your ERP, email and Teams; it enters email, PDF and photo orders, and a person approves what posts.
Quick answer
Conexiom and Esker: quote only. Neither publishes a price, an implementation fee or a contract length, and we found no price reported by buyers.
At 400 orders a day (100,000 a year): about $317,000 a year keyed by hand, against about $64,000 to $72,000 with a tool, our estimate. The worked numbers are under “Cost at 400 orders a day”.
What decides your real cost: how many orders come out needing a person. Each extra minute of checking per order adds about $52,850 a year at 400 a day, more than any published entry price.
What each AI order entry tool costs
Tool | Price | How it bills, and what it matches |
|---|---|---|
Rossum | From $18,000 a year (Starter) [4] | By pages or documents processed, unlimited seats. Matching to your item and customer data starts on Business, which is quote only |
Trelium | From $900 a month (Starter) or $1,800 (Growth), billed yearly [5] | Usage is metered in credits; Starter includes 500,000 a month, and Trelium does not say how many orders that covers |
Business Central sales order agent | About $0.14 to $0.19 an order [7][8] | 14 Copilot Credits (Microsoft’s usage unit, $0.01 each) for a typical order, 19 with a PDF attached; checks item availability. Runs inside Business Central (Business Central pricing) |
Workist | Quote; Core includes 10,000 documents a year and 3 users, Professional 20,000 and 5 [11] | Yearly document allowance; 12-month minimum term |
OrderSync | Quote [6] | One flat monthly fee by order volume and trading partners; no per-order fee; checks every line against your catalog |
Conexiom | Quote [1] | Not published |
Esker | Quote [2] | Flat fees plus per-document charges, as ERP Research describes it [3]; checks price and stock in SAP and Oracle |
Morsa | Not published | Pilot is free if no implementation work is needed; after that, priced as a share of the savings measured in your own numbers |
Conexiom pricing: what is and is not published
Conexiom publishes no price, plan or billing unit [1]. ERP Research says it is “quoted per deployment” [13], and Vendr’s Conexiom listing shows no price [14]. We found no figure reported by buyers.
What Conexiom does publish: integrations with 40+ ERPs, including Epicor, SAP, Infor, Dynamics 365, NetSuite and Sage, and “zero ERP changes” [1]. How it compares with the other order tools is in Conexiom alternatives.
Esker pricing
Esker publishes no price either [2]. ERP Research describes a subscription “combining flat fees with per-document/transaction charges”, priced by modules, volume and ERP complexity [3]. Esker reads EDI, PDF and free-text email orders in one queue, and its built-in SAP and Oracle EBS connectors check price and stock before the order is created [2].
Cost at 400 orders a day
Our estimate for a distributor entering 400 orders a day, 250 days a year (100,000 orders):
Loaded hour, $31.71: the May 2025 median order clerk wage is $46,170 [9], or $22.20 an hour; wages are 70.0% of private-industry pay and benefits [10], so $22.20 / 0.70. If inside-sales reps key the orders, their pay is higher and every figure below rises.
By hand: 6 minutes an order, which is our assumption; put in your own stopwatch number. That is $3.17 an order and 10,000 hours a year, about five full-time people.
With a tool: someone still checks exceptions. We allow 1 minute an order, also our assumption: 1,667 hours, $52,850 a year.
Option | Yearly cost at 100,000 orders | Per order |
|---|---|---|
Keyed by hand | $317,100 | $3.17 |
Business Central agent plus checking | $19,000 (19 credits an order) + $52,850 = $71,850 | $0.72 |
Rossum Starter plus checking | $18,000 + $52,850 = $70,850 | $0.71 |
Trelium Starter plus checking | $10,800 + $52,850 = $63,650 | $0.64 |
Treat the Rossum and Trelium rows as floors. Neither vendor says how many orders its entry plan covers, and Rossum’s Starter has no matching to your item list, so at 100,000 orders a year expect to be quoted Business or Growth. Ask each vendor in writing whether 100,000 orders fit the plan.
The checking minute is the number to fight over. If a tool sends half your orders to a person for 3 minutes each, checking costs $79,000 a year, and the tool’s own fee stops mattering. Ask every vendor to run a week of your real POs and count the exceptions.
At 20 orders a day the picture flips: keying costs about $15,900 a year, less than Rossum’s entry price.
What to ask before you sign
What is the unit, and do 100,000 orders fit? A page, a document, an order, a line or a credit. A 6-page PO is one order but six pages.
Does it match customer part numbers to yours, and is that in the plan you are quoted? On Rossum it starts at Business [4].
Does it post into your ERP, or export a file?
What are the setup fee and the minimum term? Workist’s minimum is 12 months [11]; Conexiom and Esker publish neither.
What happens to an order the tool is unsure of, and who sees it.
Getting 400 emailed orders a day into the ERP
When a PO lands in the order inbox, as a PDF, an email list or a phone photo of a handwritten form, Morsa matches each line to your item using that customer’s past orders and your cross-reference. An unknown part number gets a question, not a guess.
It checks price, stock and credit in Prophet 21, Eclipse, Infor CSD, NetSuite, Business Central or whatever you run, and drafts the sales order.
A person approves each kind of order once; after that, clean orders post under that rule, and an off-contract price or a substitution waits with the source document beside it.
It sends the confirmation from the rep’s mailbox and follows backordered lines until they ship.
To see it on a week of your own orders, book a 30-minute walkthrough.
Which one to pick, ranked for a distributor
Morsa. Ranked first because entering orders and following them to shipment is the work it is built for, inside the ERP you already run.
Conexiom. Hundreds of PDF and email orders a day into Epicor, SAP, Infor, Dynamics or NetSuite, with a stated 30-day average go-live [1].
Esker. EDI and email orders in one queue, strongest on SAP or Oracle [2].
Business Central sales order agent. The first thing to try if you run Business Central: about $19,000 a year in credits at 400 orders a day.
Rossum. A published entry price; get the Business quote for matching at your volume [4].
Trelium or OrderSync. One fixed monthly fee, if a set budget matters most [5][6].
Under 20 orders a day, start with Y Meadows’ free tier (50 orders a month; it exports a file rather than posting to the ERP) [12] or the Business Central agent. Canals, Proton and Conexiom are compared head to head in Canals vs Proton vs Conexiom; the full field is in AI order entry for distributors.
Sources
Conexiom, homepage (integrations, implementation time): https://conexiom.com/ (read 8 November 2026)
Esker, Order management automation: https://www.esker.com/business-process-solutions/order-to-cash/customer-service-automation/order-management-automation-system/ (read 8 November 2026)
ERP Research, Esker pricing: https://erpresearch.com/erp-add-ons/ar-collections/esker/pricing (read 8 November 2026)
Rossum, Pricing: https://rossum.ai/pricing/ (read 8 November 2026)
Trelium, Pricing: https://www.trelium.ai/pricing (read 8 November 2026)
OrderSync, Pricing (“One flat monthly subscription, quoted on your volume”; “No per-transaction or per-document fees”): https://www.ordersync.io/pricing (read 8 November 2026)
Microsoft Learn, Manage consumption-based billing, Business Central (Sales Order Agent credits per step, updated 8 July 2026): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/tenant-admin-center-manage-consumption-billing (read 8 November 2026)
Microsoft Learn, AI Builder overview of licensing (“1 Copilot Credit = $0.01” on pay-as-you-go, updated 9 September 2026): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ai-builder/administer-licensing (read 8 November 2026)
US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook, Information Clerks (order clerks median wage, May 2025): https://www.bls.gov/ooh/office-and-administrative-support/information-clerks.htm (read 8 November 2026)
US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, June 2026: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.nr0.htm (read 8 November 2026)
Workist, Pricing: https://workist.com/en/pricing/ (read 8 November 2026)
Y Meadows, homepage (Starter tier): https://www.ymeadows.com/ (read 8 November 2026)
ERP Research, Conexiom pricing: https://erpresearch.com/erp-add-ons/distribution/conexiom/pricing (read 8 November 2026)
Vendr, Conexiom marketplace listing: https://www.vendr.com/marketplace/conexiom (read 8 November 2026)
