Kerno vs Wherefour
Comparison last checked October 10, 2026. Every figure comes from the two product records, each with its own sources and check dates.
The short answer
Pick Kerno if you want published prices and to start today: Solo is $59.99 a month and Teams is $149.99 for five users. Pick Wherefour if you need purchasing, one-click forward and backward traceability and accounting or store integrations now, and are comfortable asking for a quote, because Wherefour publishes no price.
Choose Kerno if
- You need a price before a sales call: Kerno publishes its tiers and Wherefour does not.
- You are a small formula maker; Kerno's record lists one to twenty people as its fit.
- You want batch cost with labor in it and a QA stage on each batch.
Choose Wherefour if
- You raise purchase orders: Wherefour creates them for replenishment, and Kerno has none yet.
- You must be able to run a recall: Wherefour describes full forward and backward traceability in one click.
- You need QuickBooks Online or online orders connected, which Kerno does not offer today.
Key differences
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| Attribute | Kerno | Wherefour |
|---|---|---|
| Useful entry priceWhat you pay to get the manufacturing capability, not the cheapest nominal tier. | $59.99 a monthSource: buildwithkerno.com(opens in a new tab)Checked October 9, 2026 | No paid price publishedSource: wherefour.com › Pricing(opens in a new tab)Checked September 19, 2026 |
| Billing basis | Flat rate | Quote only |
| Free plan or trial | Free plan: YesIncubator is free for one user, and capped tightly: up to 3 product formulas, 10 batches a month, basic batch creation with ingredients, SKUs, lots and packaging, and an essential cost breakdown.Free trial: Unknown | Free plan: NoFree trial: Unknown |
| PurchasingRaising and tracking purchase orders to suppliers from inside the system. | PartialReceiving without ordering.Source: app.buildwithkerno.com › Vendors (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab) | YesPurchase orders can be created in one click for replenishment, and automatically for preferred suppliers.Source: wherefour.com(opens in a new tab) |
| Lot and batch traceabilityWhich incoming material lots went into which finished batch, and where those finished goods went. | YesIncluded from the Teams planBackwards from a batch, yes.Source: app.buildwithkerno.com › Batch view (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab) | Yes"Full forward-and-backward traceability with one click" and "real-time lot-level visibility across every location". The strongest traceability claim we found in this segment.Source: wherefour.com(opens in a new tab) |
| Accounting connectionSends financial data to bookkeeping software, or includes its own general ledger. | NoThere is nothing to connect.Source: app.buildwithkerno.com › Account settings (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab) | YesThe QuickBooks Online integration "handles automatic journal entries for COGS, production, invoices, and receiving inventory", and pulls customer and vendor records across so they are not keyed twice.Source: wherefour.com › Quickbooks(opens in a new tab) |
| Ecommerce connectionPulls orders and pushes stock levels to a storefront or marketplace. | NoNo store connection exists.Source: app.buildwithkerno.com › Account settings (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab) | YesThe vendor states: "Orders import automatically, inventory stays in sync, and pick-and-ship happens without anyone touching a spreadsheet.Source: wherefour.com › Integrations(opens in a new tab) |
| CSV exportYou can get your lists out as spreadsheet files. | NoFour lists import and none exports.Source: app.buildwithkerno.com › Vendors (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab) | Yes"if you need it in a spreadsheet, export to Excel with one click." This is on the traceability page, so it covers traceability records at least.Source: wherefour.com › Traceability(opens in a new tab) |
What it costs at your size
Entry prices leave out users, add-ons, order limits and extra locations. Put in your own numbers and both products are worked out the same way, from each vendor's published prices.
Full comparison
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Unknown means we have not found evidence. It is not the same as No.
| Attribute | KernoKerno · record checked September 23, 2026 | WherefourWherefour, Inc. · record checked October 9, 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Fit | ||
| One-line fit | Built for people who make things from formulas, with batch costing, lots and QA from $59.99 a month. | Built for recall-ready batch producers who need traceability and purchasing in one place. |
| Real cost | ||
| Pricing | Free plan · From $59.99/moSource: buildwithkerno.com(opens in a new tab)Checked October 9, 2026 | Quote onlySource: wherefour.com › Pricing(opens in a new tab)Checked September 19, 2026 |
| Useful entry priceWhat you pay to get the manufacturing capability, not the cheapest nominal tier. | $59.99/mo | Not published |
| Billing basis | flat | quote |
| Free plan | YesIncubator is free for one user, and capped tightly: up to 3 product formulas, 10 batches a month, basic batch creation with ingredients, SKUs, lots and packaging, and an essential cost breakdown. The vendor describes it as for students and hobbyists, and it is joined by applying to the Kerno Incubator Program. The formula cap is the one that bites first, because three formulas is a single small product line, not a business. | No |
| Evidence | ||
| Last checked | 2026-09-23 | 2026-10-09 |
| Planning | ||
| Accepts dated demandYou can tell it what is due and when, sales orders with dates, a forecast, or a production schedule. | PartialA batch can be assigned to a customer, and the Customers module holds companies with addresses. That is the whole demand side in the account: there is no sales order, no quantity due, no due date and no forecast anywhere in the menus, so the only date a batch carries is the one you type on it. The vendor's writing about an order layer with due dates describes something the account does not yet have, and its help-center article on forecasting demand still ends "This is a sample article", so it is not counted here. A customer record was opened on 2026-09-15 to be sure: it is a company with an address and named contacts, and it carries no order, no quantity and no due date. Seen in an account on 2026-08-27, in a test business with one product and one completed batch; the app pages cited need a login, and an account of your own reproduces them.Source: app.buildwithkerno.com › Batch creator (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab); app.buildwithkerno.com › Customers (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab); resources.buildwithkerno.com › Multi batch food order release map(opens in a new tab) | PartialThe vendor says it determines what you need "now and in the future" from "all the activity in your business". Future demand is clearly an input; we have not verified that dated sales orders or a forecast drive it.Source: wherefour.com(opens in a new tab) |
| Nets against stock on handIt subtracts what you already have before telling you to buy more. | YesA batch lists what it needs, and each ingredient line opens a lot picker that shows every lot on hand with its stock and lets you assign a quantity against it; the section reads Needs Attention until the lines are covered, and stock on the lot falls by what was assigned. The dashboard carries an Inventory Stockout panel. That is requirements checked against stock on hand. The prototype's finished-goods view with Total, Reserved and Available columns was not found in the account, where Finished Goods is a list of product definitions, so read the netting as material-side. The vendor's pricing page lists "Inventory reservation and reconciliation" on the Solo tier, which matches the lot assignment seen here. This is the stock-on-hand half of the netting test; the other half, orders already incoming, is the gap, recorded under incoming orders. Seen in an account on 2026-08-27, in a test business with one product and one completed batch; the app pages cited need a login, and an account of your own reproduces them.Source: app.buildwithkerno.com › Batch editor (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab); app.buildwithkerno.com › Inventory (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab); app.buildwithkerno.com › Dashboard shop (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab); buildwithkerno.com(opens in a new tab) | YesThe MRP page says the plan weighs "stock on hand" against demand to show "what you may run out of". One sentence on the vendor's MRP marketing page (read 2026-09-18), with no documentation or screenshot behind it, so it fills the table but does not count toward the Full MRP label.Source: Marketing page, read 2026(opens in a new tab) |
| Counts incoming ordersIt knows about purchase orders and production orders already placed, so it does not tell you to order twice. | NoNothing incoming exists to count. A walk of every menu in the account found no purchase order, no expected receipt and no on-order quantity. The only inbound record is Add Inventory, which books stock that has already arrived with its vendor, lot number, purchase date, expiry date and cost. Kerno does not know what you have ordered until it is on the shelf. Kerno told us on 2026-09-15 that tracking incoming purchase orders is part of the v2 it is building now, which adds purchasing. No date was given, so this stays at no until an open order shows up in an account. Even then, tracking a purchase order is not the same as counting it in the plan: the netting test also needs an open order to reduce what a batch shows as short. Seen in an account on 2026-08-27, in a test business with one product and one completed batch; the app pages cited need a login, and an account of your own reproduces them.Source: app.buildwithkerno.com › Inventory (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab); app.buildwithkerno.com › Account settings (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab) | YesThe MRP page says the plan "considers ... open purchase orders": "A materials requirements plan considers all the data in your account, such as future sales, stock on hand, open purchase orders, production and supplier lead times, and customer orders to determine what you may run out of and when you need to reorder it.". One sentence on the vendor's MRP marketing page (read 2026-09-18), with no documentation or screenshot behind it, so it fills the table but does not count toward the Full MRP label.Source: Marketing page, read 2026(opens in a new tab) |
| Uses lead timesIt works backwards from when you need something to when you must order or start it, using supplier and production lead times. | PartialDates exist without lead times. Batches carry a creation date, a packaged date and an expiration date; lots carry a purchase date and an expiration date; production steps carry a planned duration. No ingredient, vendor or lot record has a lead time field, and nothing works backwards from a date. Every field on the three forms was listed on 2026-09-15: a vendor holds name, contact person, account number, email, phone, two addresses, country, state, city, ZIP, payment terms and website; an ingredient holds name, secret name, unit, notes, CAS number, form, category and hazmat; a stock receipt holds ingredient, SKU, vendor, lot number, purchase date, expiration date, cost, unit and quantity. Not a lead time among them. The dates are recorded, not used: nothing takes a required date and works out when to buy or when to start a batch, and a required-date workflow of that kind would pass this test without a lead time field. Seen in an account on 2026-08-27, in a test business with one product and one completed batch; the app pages cited need a login, and an account of your own reproduces them.Source: app.buildwithkerno.com › Batch view (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab); app.buildwithkerno.com › Inventory (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab); app.buildwithkerno.com › Vendors (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab); resources.buildwithkerno.com › Finished goods order readiness kerno(opens in a new tab) | Yes"Determine what material you need now and in the future quickly and easily, while factoring lead times, reorder points and all the activity in your business." Explicit, first-party, and rare in this market.Source: wherefour.com(opens in a new tab) |
| Produces dated buy/make suggestionsThe output is an actionable list with dates, order this much by this date, start this batch on this date. | PartialIt flags, it does not schedule. The dashboard shows stockouts, batches in draft, batches pending QA, a production rate in batches per day and a Value at Risk figure; a batch section reads Needs Attention until its lines are covered. None of it says buy this much by this date or start this batch on that one, and there is no purchase order for such an instruction to raise. Seen in an account on 2026-08-27, in a test business with one product and one completed batch; the app pages cited need a login, and an account of your own reproduces them.Source: app.buildwithkerno.com › Dashboard shop (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab); app.buildwithkerno.com › Batch editor (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab) | YesThe MRP page says the plan works out "when you need to reorder". One sentence on the vendor's MRP marketing page (read 2026-09-18), with no documentation or screenshot behind it, so it fills the table but does not count toward the Full MRP label.Source: Marketing page, read 2026(opens in a new tab) |
| Capacity planningChecks whether your people and machines can do the work in the time available. | PartialThe dashboard reports Production Efficiency as a percentage, a rate in batches per day and a Workload Distribution by user, and Labor Costs define an operation, a resource such as a pouring station, and an hourly rate. Nothing compares planned work against available hours or refuses a batch the resource cannot do. The vendor's capacity worksheets are spreadsheets and name no Kerno feature. Seen in an account on 2026-08-27, in a test business with one product and one completed batch; the app pages cited need a login, and an account of your own reproduces them.Source: app.buildwithkerno.com › Dashboard shop (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab); app.buildwithkerno.com › Labor cost (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab); resources.buildwithkerno.com › Candle production capacity worksheet seasonal rush(opens in a new tab) | Unknown |
| Production | ||
| Multi-level BOMSub-assemblies inside assemblies, a part that is itself made from other parts, nested as deep as you need. | NoOne level, with no way to nest. A product formula record holds a name, a product type and a SKU; the ingredient list lives on the batch, and the Add Ingredient picker there offers raw ingredients only, the three held in the account, with no product, formula or finished good among them. A base or premix that is itself made in a batch cannot be an ingredient of the next one, so a two-stage product is two unlinked batches. Seen in an account on 2026-09-15, in a test business with two products and four batches; the app pages cited need a login, and an account of your own reproduces them.Source: app.buildwithkerno.com › Batch editor (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab); app.buildwithkerno.com › Stock base formulas (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab) | Unknown |
| Recipes & formulasBatch-style production by weight, volume, or percentage, including scaling a batch up or down. | PartialBy weight and volume, yes; scaled, not that we saw. Ingredient lines carry a quantity and a unit (6.00 lb, 6.00 oz) and packaging a piece count, and the Product Formula record itself holds only a name, a product type and a SKU, with the ingredient, packaging, step and QA lists living on the batch and copied into the next batch of that product. Entering a different batch size did not change the quantities, and the definition here includes scaling a batch up or down, so this stays short of yes until scaling is shown. Retested on 2026-09-15: typing 12 into Batch Size on a draft built at size 1 left the lines at 6.00 lb and 6.00 oz, so a quantity is what the last batch of that product used, not a function of the size you enter. Retested again on 2026-09-23 in a new test business: a Soy Wax line entered as 5.00 lb stayed at 5.00 lb when Batch Size went from 10 to 20. Seen in an account on 2026-08-27, in a test business with one product and one completed batch; the app pages cited need a login, and an account of your own reproduces them.Source: app.buildwithkerno.com › Stock base formulas (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab); app.buildwithkerno.com › Batch editor (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab); buildwithkerno.com(opens in a new tab) | Yes"Build production runs, manage formulas, and trace every ingredient from intake to delivery."Source: wherefour.com(opens in a new tab) |
| Routings & operationsThe ordered steps a product goes through, and which machine or station does each one. | YesNumbered production steps with an operation, a planned duration, an hourly rate, a description, an operator and a status, copied from the product into each batch. The Labor Costs page defines each operation against a resource, for example Pour on the pouring station at $20 an hour, so a step does name the station that does it. No capacity or calendar sits behind the station. Seen in an account on 2026-08-27, in a test business with one product and one completed batch; the app pages cited need a login, and an account of your own reproduces them.Source: app.buildwithkerno.com › Batch view (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab); app.buildwithkerno.com › Labor cost (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab) | Unknown |
| Shop-floor trackingOperators report progress, time, and completions as the work happens. | YesSteps are assigned to a named operator, who gets a task notification and a Tasks list with Waiting, In Progress, Blocked and Done states, and the dashboard shows workload by user. The time on a step is the planned duration, not clocked time, so this is progress and completion reporting rather than time capture. Seen in an account on 2026-08-27, in a test business with one product and one completed batch; the app pages cited need a login, and an account of your own reproduces them.Source: app.buildwithkerno.com › Tasks (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab); app.buildwithkerno.com › Batch view (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab); app.buildwithkerno.com › Dashboard shop (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab) | Unknown |
| Inventory & traceability | ||
| Expiry & shelf lifeBest-before dates on materials and finished goods, with warnings before they lapse. | PartialDates are recorded and nothing acts on them. Every lot receipt takes an expiration date and every batch carries one (the completed batch shows Aug 2027), and the lot picker displays a lot's expiry beside its stock while you assign it. No warning fires before a date lapses and nothing blocks an expired lot from being assigned. The vendor's soap guide confirms the shape: Kerno keeps the dates and "the soap maker remains responsible for deciding". Seen in an account on 2026-08-27, in a test business with one product and one completed batch; the app pages cited need a login, and an account of your own reproduces them.Source: app.buildwithkerno.com › Inventory (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab); app.buildwithkerno.com › Batch editor (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab); resources.buildwithkerno.com › How kerno helps soap makers formulas materials cure time …(opens in a new tab) | Yes"Automatic alerts for low stock, expiry, and reorders."Source: wherefour.com(opens in a new tab) |
| Serial numbersUnique identifiers on individual units, for warranty or field service. | NoNo serial number field exists on ingredients, lots, packaging, batches or finished goods, and Batch Finder offers batch number, lot number, status and customer as its only search fields. Traceability is at the lot and batch, not the unit. Kerno told us on 2026-09-15 that serial numbers are not on its current roadmap, though it has noted the request. Seen in an account on 2026-08-27, in a test business with one product and one completed batch; the app pages cited need a login, and an account of your own reproduces them.Source: app.buildwithkerno.com › Batch lookup (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab); app.buildwithkerno.com › Inventory (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab) | Partial"Auto-generate lot codes, barcodes and serial numbers for new inventory." The public API also has a serial_number field on stock lots. Serials sit at stock-lot level; tracking each unit by its own serial is not documented.Source: wherefour.com › Purchasing(opens in a new tab); wherefour-api-docs.herokuapp.com(opens in a new tab) |
| Commerce & accounting | ||
| Product costing & COGSWhat it costs you to make one, and the cost of the goods you sold. | YesA completed batch shows raw material, labour and packaging cost and a total, here $21.30, $15.00 and $10.20 for $46.50, with a cost per finished unit and retail and dealer prices set as a percentage over cost. Labour comes from the step's duration times the operation's hourly rate. Account Settings choose average cost or a specific vendor's cost for ingredients, average or per-SKU cost for packaging, and whether an electricity rate enters batch cost. The vendor's guide states the method: "Recorded cost per acceptable unit = recorded batch input cost ÷ acceptable finished units". Overhead beyond electricity is not allocated and there is no cost of goods sold report. Seen in an account on 2026-08-27, in a test business with one product and one completed batch; the app pages cited need a login, and an account of your own reproduces them.Source: app.buildwithkerno.com › Batch view (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab); app.buildwithkerno.com › Account settings (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab); app.buildwithkerno.com › Labor cost (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab); resources.buildwithkerno.com › Know product costs kerno materials production cost visibi…(opens in a new tab) | Yes"COGS tracking means that your true production costs are just a click away."Source: wherefour.com(opens in a new tab) |
| PurchasingRaising and tracking purchase orders to suppliers from inside the system. | PartialReceiving without ordering. Vendors hold contact details, an account number, a contact person and payment terms, and Add Inventory books a receipt against a vendor with lot number, purchase date, expiry, cost and quantity. There is no purchase order to raise, send or track, so what you have ordered is not in the system until it arrives. Kerno told us on 2026-09-15 that the v2 it is building now adds purchasing, including tracking orders before the stock arrives. There is no release date yet, so this stays partial until it can be seen working. Seen in an account on 2026-08-27, in a test business with one product and one completed batch; the app pages cited need a login, and an account of your own reproduces them.Source: app.buildwithkerno.com › Vendors (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab); app.buildwithkerno.com › Inventory (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab) | YesPurchase orders can be created in one click for replenishment, and automatically for preferred suppliers.Source: wherefour.com(opens in a new tab) |
| Accounting connectionSends financial data to bookkeeping software, or includes its own general ledger. | NoThere is nothing to connect. Every settings surface was opened on 2026-09-15, the business Account Settings page and the owner's Businesses, Teams and Security, Roles, Billing and Profile pages, and none of them offers an integration, a connected app or an accounting export. Batch cost is worked out in Kerno and stays there, so the journal entry is yours to make. Seen in an account on 2026-09-15; the app pages cited need a login, and an account of your own reproduces them.Source: app.buildwithkerno.com › Account settings (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab); app.buildwithkerno.com › Profile (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab) | YesThe QuickBooks Online integration "handles automatic journal entries for COGS, production, invoices, and receiving inventory", and pulls customer and vendor records across so they are not keyed twice. QuickBooks Desktop is supported too: "Still running QB Desktop? No migration required. Wherefour syncs directly with Pro, Premier, and Enterprise editions."Source: wherefour.com › Quickbooks(opens in a new tab); wherefour.com › Integrations(opens in a new tab) |
| Ecommerce connectionPulls orders and pushes stock levels to a storefront or marketplace. | NoNo store connection exists. The same walk of every settings surface on 2026-09-15 found nothing for Shopify, WooCommerce, Etsy or any other channel, and Finished Goods is a list of product definitions rather than listings, stock or orders. Seen in an account on 2026-09-15; the app pages cited need a login, and an account of your own reproduces them.Source: app.buildwithkerno.com › Account settings (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab); app.buildwithkerno.com › Finished goods (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab) | YesThe vendor states: "Orders import automatically, inventory stays in sync, and pick-and-ship happens without anyone touching a spreadsheet." The integrations page follows this with Shopify order import and stock sync. Checked 2026-09-14.Source: wherefour.com › Integrations(opens in a new tab) |
| Openness & your data | ||
| APIA documented programming interface so other software can read and write your data. | UnknownStill unknown after three account walks, so treat it as absent until Kerno says otherwise. No page in the account offers API keys, a developer section or an integrations screen: business Account Settings covers batch and lot numbering, lot and SKU assignment, an electricity rate, cost methods, the secret formula switch and the QA PIN, and the five owner pages hold nothing of the kind. Loading /api/ while signed in lands on the owner dashboard. The public help center has an "Integrations & AI" category with no articles in it, and the homepage names no integration. None of that proves there is no API, which is why the field stays unknown. Checked in an account on 2026-09-23, on the site owner's login, including a new test business set up from scratch; the app pages cited need a login, and an account of your own reproduces them. | Yes"API documentation for the Wherefour ERP/traceability platform." The public OpenAPI docs include write endpoints such as Create Order, Add stock lot, Create Invoice and Update Customer. Access terms, such as which plans include the API, are not stated.Source: wherefour-api-docs.herokuapp.com(opens in a new tab); wherefour.com(opens in a new tab) |
| WebhooksThe system can notify other software the moment something changes. | UnknownStill unknown, and nothing points to them. No settings page in the account, business or owner level, has a webhook, notification endpoint or event subscription, and no public page describes one. Kerno has not been asked directly. Checked in an account on 2026-09-23, on the site owner's login, including a new test business set up from scratch; the app pages cited need a login, and an account of your own reproduces them. | YesThe integrations page lists "Webhook support for real-time event triggers on inventory, orders, and production". That is a feature-list line rather than developer documentation.Source: wherefour.com › Integrations(opens in a new tab) |
| CSV exportYou can get your lists out as spreadsheet files. | NoFour lists import and none exports. Vendors, Customers, Finished Goods and Labor Costs each offer Import CSV with a downloadable template, which is a real convenience for loading a shop. No list in the account has an export control, the Export button seen in the prototype's reporting area was not found, and the vendor's own guide for new users tells them to ask whether "the business export items, formulas, inventory, and production history in a usable format". Kerno confirmed on 2026-09-15 that CSV export does not exist yet and said it will add it to the roadmap, with no date. Until it ships, assume your data leaves by hand. Seen in an account on 2026-08-27, in a test business with one product and one completed batch; the app pages cited need a login, and an account of your own reproduces them.Source: app.buildwithkerno.com › Vendors (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab); app.buildwithkerno.com › Finished goods (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab); resources.buildwithkerno.com › Kerno beta join the future of product management(opens in a new tab) | Yes"if you need it in a spreadsheet, export to Excel with one click." This is on the traceability page, so it covers traceability records at least.Source: wherefour.com › Traceability(opens in a new tab) |
| Full data exportYou can take everything, including history and relationships, not just a few screens' worth of rows. | NoNothing in the account exports anything, and the Profile page's only bulk action is Delete Account, which the page says will "permanently remove all your shops and data". We asked Kerno on 2026-09-15 and it is checking internally, with an answer to follow. Until then, ask the vendor before you load real history. Seen in an account on 2026-08-27, in a test business with one product and one completed batch; the app pages cited need a login, and an account of your own reproduces them.Source: app.buildwithkerno.com › Profile (hands-on, signed in, September 2026)(opens in a new tab); resources.buildwithkerno.com › Kerno beta join the future of product management(opens in a new tab) | Unknown |
Common questions
- Is Kerno cheaper than Wherefour?
- Kerno starts at $59.99 a month for the plan that covers manufacturing (flat rate billing), and also has a free plan. Wherefour publishes no paid price, so you have to ask for a quote. Put your own users, orders and locations into the cost calculator to see what each comes to.
- Does Kerno or Wherefour have a free plan or a free trial?
- Kerno has a free plan and we have no trial length on record. Wherefour has no free plan and we have no trial length on record.
- Which has lot traceability, Kerno or Wherefour?
- Kerno has batch and lot tracking, from the Teams plan. Wherefour has batch and lot tracking.
- Does Kerno or Wherefour tell you what to order and when?
- That is the test for material requirements planning: a dated recommendation to buy or make. Kerno partly does. Wherefour does.
- Do Kerno and Wherefour work with QuickBooks, Xero or Shopify?
- Kerno: no accounting integration and no e-commerce integration. Wherefour: an accounting integration and an e-commerce integration.
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How this comparison was made
The short answer and the two lists were written by an editor for this pair. Every other row and answer is read from the two product records, which cite the vendor pages behind each claim. Nobody paid to appear here or to be placed first; the order is alphabetical. How we classify and verify.
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