Manhattan Active editions are the packaging levels that Manhattan Associates introduced for its Manhattan Active solutions on 2026-09-22. The company announced the commercial launch of Editions for ActiveWarehouse, ActiveTransportation, ActiveStore and ActiveOrder on ActivePlatform, with three levels: Essentials, Enterprise and Enterprise Premier.[2] Manhattan defines Editions as a packaging and access model for the platform that gives organisations a choice based on current operational scope, capability needs and level of complexity.[1]
Editions are the only part of Manhattan’s commercial model for which the public site publishes an itemised entitlement schedule. For licence managers that makes the four solution pages unusually useful: each has a matrix with one row per capability and three columns, and each cell reads either Included or Add-On, or is blank. A blank cell means the capability is not listed for that edition. This article reads the matrices and records the rules they imply.
Editions
Manhattan describes the three editions in terms of breadth, depth and configuration rather than technical limits.
- Essentials is presented as a right-sized starting scope for organisations that want to address a defined operational focus with room to expand. Manhattan says it is built on the same ActivePlatform as the other editions, calls it a practical starting point on the Manhattan Active foundation and answers the question of whether it is a lite version by saying it is designed to fit a growing operation with a path to additional capability.[3]
- Enterprise is for organisations coordinating work across multiple facilities, channels, markets, products or customer commitments. It adds broader workflows, more complex coordination and deeper configuration than Essentials.[4]
- Enterprise Premier is described as the most comprehensive edition for a given solution, for global organisations that need to govern highly varied operations, with the greatest level of operational complexity, configuration needs and scale.[5]
All three run on the same platform. Manhattan’s overview says each edition is built on the same ActivePlatform foundation, which gives a path to add capability without replacing it.[1] The launch announcement states that, regardless of the edition selected for each solution, customers get the unified platform, AI capabilities and continuous innovation.[2] The edition is therefore chosen per solution, and the announcement adds that customers can combine different editions as needed or add solution families over time.[2] A customer might hold ActiveWarehouse Enterprise Premier and ActiveStore Essentials at the same time, and an entitlement record should be kept at that level.
Moving between editions is described as an upgrade within the same platform. Manhattan answers yes to the question whether an organisation can move from Essentials to Enterprise or Enterprise Premier,[1] and the announcement lists the move as happening without re-implementation, retraining, data migration or operational disruption.[2] The pages do not say whether a move down is possible or what commercial terms govern a move up.
Editions are not available for every product. Manhattan states that Editions is currently available for four solution families.[1] ActivePlanning, the planning family, is presented separately as able to deliver value on its own and to be unified later with the execution solutions, and no matrix is published for it.[10]
Metrics
The edition matrices do not state a unit of measure. The catalog therefore records the edition itself, the solution family, and the Add-On as the scoping constructs, and records the choice factors as guidance. Manhattan says the right edition depends on the workflows to be managed, the breadth of the operation, the number of locations, channels or business processes involved, the level of coordination and configuration the teams need, and the complexity expected next.[1] The pages reviewed do not say that any of those factors is metered.
All four matrices share the same top block, the platform and AI foundation. Cloud-native microservices architecture, data management and enterprise security, evergreen innovation every 90 days, and extensibility with API-first integration are marked Included in all three editions. The line for ActiveAgents and Agent Foundry is marked Add-On in all three.[6][7][8][9] That marking sits beside a statement on the Agent Foundry page that Agent Foundry is included with all Manhattan Active solutions, which is discussed in the platform article.
ActiveWarehouse
ActiveWarehouse covers warehouse management and labor management. Its matrix lists these capabilities, shown here as Essentials / Enterprise / Enterprise Premier, with a dash meaning the cell is blank.[6]
| Capability | Essentials | Enterprise | Enterprise Premier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core receiving, returns, putaway, inventory control | Included | Included | Included |
| Core waving, picking, packing, loading | Included | Included | Included |
| Direct parcel connectivity to major carriers | Included | Included | Included |
| Supply Chain Intelligence; multi-lingual support | Included | Included | Included |
| Advanced core capabilities (Immediate Needs, audits, kitting, inbound sortation) | - | Included | Included |
| Basic yard management and appointment scheduling | - | Included | Included |
| Basic labor management | - | Included | Included |
| Materials handling equipment connectivity | - | Included | Included |
| Third-party carrier compliance system connectivity | - | Included | Included |
| Embedded warehouse execution system | - | - | Included |
| Order streaming | - | - | Included |
| Shipment orchestration and load builder | - | - | Included |
| Advanced pick path, task assignment, cubing optimization | - | - | Included |
| Dynamic replenishment | - | - | Included |
| Rate shopping, zone skipping, advanced shipment creation | - | - | Included |
| Advanced yard management | - | - | Included |
| Q&A and supervisor and associate messaging | - | - | Included |
Eight further items are Add-Ons in all three editions: Network Appointment Scheduling, Supplier Enablement, Honeywell Voice for Manhattan Active, the Manhattan Integration Framework, Labor management, Slotting Optimization, Additional Lower Lifecycle Environments, and Data Stream and Data Save.[6] Two points stand out. Basic labor management is Included from Enterprise, while the fuller Labor management is an Add-On at every level. And lower lifecycle environments are an Add-On here, in contrast to ActiveOrder.
ActiveTransportation
ActiveTransportation covers transportation management. Its matrix lists a stable core and then steps by edition.[7]
| Capability | Essentials | Enterprise | Enterprise Premier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freight modes: truckload, less-than-truckload, intermodal | Included | Included | Included |
| Order and shipment creation; carrier and rate selection; tendering and tracking | Included | Included | Included |
| Manual planning; carrier and vendor networks; TM Mobile (iOS and Android) | Included | Included | Included |
| Freight modes: parcel and small package | - | Included | Included |
| Static route planning | - | Included | Included |
| Must-ship-together logic; same origin and destination planning | - | Included | Included |
| Claims management | - | Included | Included |
| Freight modes: ocean, air, rail | - | - | Included |
| Dynamic shipment planning | - | - | Included |
| Crossdock and relay planning; network shipment planning and execution | - | - | Included |
| 3PL (buy and sell) | - | - | Included |
| Load builder | - | - | Included |
Add-Ons in every edition are Network Appointment Scheduling, Freight Payment, Transportation Modeling, Transportation Procurement, Dispatch Management, Yard Management, Distance and Time Calculation, and Maps (geospatial insights).[7] For a 3PL, the Enterprise Premier-only line for buy and sell models is the most commercially significant difference.
ActiveOrder
ActiveOrder covers order management and customer service and engagement.[8]
| Capability | Essentials | Enterprise | Enterprise Premier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inventory availability; core order orchestration; omnichannel fulfillment | Included | Included | Included |
| Core customer service | Included | Included | Included |
| Future inventory; advanced order orchestration | - | Included | Included |
| Extended fulfillment (curbside, same-day, reserve pickup) | - | Included | Included |
| Lower-lifecycle environment support | - | Included | Included |
| Enhanced customer service (exchanges, promotions, case management) | - | Included | Included |
| Advanced fulfillment optimization | - | - | Included |
| Recovery and returns | - | - | Included |
Seven items are Add-Ons in every edition: Interactive Inventory, Maven (agentic AI customer service for retail), Digital Self-Service, Fulfillment Optimization Simulation, Store Inventory Management, Customer Engagement, and Store Inventory Management with RFID.[8] Enterprise Promise and Fulfill, a B2B solution that augments an ERP, is not listed in this matrix.
ActiveStore
ActiveStore covers point of sale and store order fulfillment.[9]
| Capability | Essentials | Enterprise | Enterprise Premier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core point of sale; core store order fulfillment | Included | Included | Included |
| Omnichannel selling; mobile point of sale; promotions | - | Included | Included |
| Delivery options; fulfillment productivity | - | Included | Included |
| Customer insights; advanced selling; self-checkout | - | - | Included |
| Fulfillment control; inventory functions | - | - | Included |
Store Inventory Management and Store Inventory Management with RFID are Add-Ons in every edition, and the same two items appear as Add-Ons in ActiveOrder.[9][8] A retailer holding both solutions should confirm whether one Add-On entitlement covers both or each solution needs its own.
Counting / floors
No quantities appear in the matrices. There are no user counts, site counts, transaction volumes or throughput bands, and no minimum number of solutions or locations. The practical audit question is therefore which edition label each solution carries on the order form and whether any capability a team uses is above that label. Examples of cases a review can test are an Essentials ActiveWarehouse customer using kitting or basic yard scheduling, an Enterprise ActiveTransportation customer booking ocean or air freight, and an Enterprise ActiveStore customer enabling self-checkout. In each case the matrix shows the capability in a higher edition.
The difference between Included and Add-On also matters for budgeting. An item marked Add-On in all three editions is not obtained by moving up an edition. It needs to be ordered separately, and the public pages do not say how it is measured.
Virtualization & partitioning
Not applicable. Editions describe a hosted service on a shared platform. The only environment-related line items are lower lifecycle environments, which are Included as support in ActiveOrder from Enterprise and listed as Additional Lower Lifecycle Environments, an Add-On, in ActiveWarehouse.[8][6] The number of environments in any edition is not stated.
Cloud / BYOL
There is no bring-your-own-licence construct. The edition model sits on cloud delivery: Manhattan states that customers build on a cloud-native platform with zero infrastructure to manage and receive continuous delivery and quarterly innovation automatically.[2] The Enterprise page adds that, because the platform is cloud-native, IT teams do not manage the underlying infrastructure, and that AI-assisted configuration, guided configuration tools and deployment automation shorten time to value.[4]
Programs
The Editions program is the commercial wrapper for the four solution families. Its public terms are: three levels per solution, upward movement without re-implementation, combinations across solutions, and scope that varies by solution and edition.[1][2] Because Editions launched on 2026-09-22, a contract signed earlier may not carry an edition label. For such a contract the matrices are a map of the product rather than an entitlement list, and a reviewer should ask Manhattan how the existing scope maps to the new editions.
Out of scope
This article does not cover ActivePlanning, which has no edition matrix, nor the ActivePlatform subscription, extensibility tools, Data Save and Data Stream, which are covered in Manhattan ActivePlatform subscription, extensibility and data. It also does not cover support and services, which are in Manhattan support, services and trust programs, or legacy products, covered in Manhattan legacy products and naming. Prices, discounts and contract durations are not published.