BinTech vs iPacky: Bin Tracking or Pack Verification?
iPacky and BinTech both help you get orders out the door, but they solve different steps. One checks what goes in the box, the other tells you where to find it. Here is how to tell which one you actually need.
# They Solve Different Steps of Fulfillment
iPacky is a pick-and-pack tool built around verification. Its strength is the packing bench: scan each item as it goes into the box so you catch mispacks before they ship, print packing slips, and run barcode-checked workflows. If your problem is customers getting the wrong item, that is squarely what iPacky is for.
BinTech works one step earlier, at the shelf. It maps where each SKU physically lives across bins and locations, then generates pick lists sorted by walking order so the picker collects everything in one efficient loop. If your problem is staff hunting for stock or walking the warehouse twice per order, that is the gap BinTech fills.
# Where They Overlap
Both tools produce a pick list, which is where the comparison usually starts. The difference is what the list knows and where the scanning happens. iPacky lists what to pick and leans on barcode scanning at the box to confirm the pack. BinTech sorts the list by physical location so the walk is short, handles a SKU that lives in more than one bin, and lets pickers tick lines by camera scan as they collect them. It also prints bin and SKU labels. If products lack usable barcodes, BinTech can copy their SKUs into Shopify's barcode fields from the Products page. iPacky's scan verifies the pack; BinTech's confirms the pick.
Neither replaces Shopify, and neither is a full warehouse management system. They sit on top of your admin and take over a specific chore.
# Which One Fits
If your accuracy problem is at the box, and you want a scanner confirming every line before it ships, iPacky is the closer match. If your problem is spatial, backstock and overstock with nowhere to record both, pickers wandering, counts drifting, then BinTech is built for that. Plenty of larger operations end up wanting both: BinTech to route the pick, a verification step to check the pack.
BinTech has a free tier for a single small warehouse and paid tiers that scale by catalog and location count rather than order volume, so the cost stays predictable as you grow (current limits are on the pricing page ). If bin-level picking is the piece you are missing, the getting started guide covers the setup.
Frequently asked questions
Can I use BinTech and iPacky together?
Yes. They cover different steps, so some teams pick with BinTech's location-sorted lists and then verify the pack with a scanner-based tool. Neither replaces Shopify, so both sit on top of your existing admin.
Does BinTech do barcode pack verification?
No. BinTech scans on the picking side, where a phone camera confirms the right item against a location-sorted list, but it does not check what goes into the box. If your priority is scanning each item into the carton to prevent mispacks, a pack-verification tool like iPacky is the better fit for that step.