“Can a legacy UK stock-and-order ERP transform into a cloud-native platform for midmarket wholesale and distribution under Forterro's pan-European roll-up strategy?”
Orderwise is a UK ERP/WMS/stock-control software vendor for wholesalers, distributors and retailers, founded in 1991 in Lincoln. Acquired by pan-European industrial-software group Forterro in July 2022, it has since been rolled into Forterro's UK cluster and rebranded from 'Wise Software (UK) Ltd / OrderWise' to Orderwise. The strategic direction is a shift from on-premise deployments to Orderwise Cloud, hosted on AWS, with a growing emphasis on AI-assisted customer support. Embedded finance is limited to payment gateway integrations inside the ERP (Stripe, GoCardless, SagePay, Braintree, Worldpay, SecurePay) rather than a first-party fintech offering.
Orderwise processes payments through Stripe, GoCardless, SagePay, Braintree, Worldpay and SecurePay.
Orderwise integrates with Sage 50, Sage 200, Sage 200c 2018, Sage Instant, QuickBooks, Access Dimensions and Xero.
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 2 layers in Orderwise's stack: Payments / PSP (Stripe, GoCardless, SagePay, Braintree and 2 others); Accounting (Sage 50, Sage 200, Sage 200c 2018, Sage Instant and 3 others).
Orderwise is founded in 1991 and headquartered in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.
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