Manhattan legacy products are the Manhattan Associates software families that predate the Manhattan Active solutions, together with older names for products that have since been renamed. They matter to licence managers because a customer may hold contracts, installed software or maintenance renewals under names that no longer appear on the current price-less product pages. Manhattan says it has over 1,200 customers among manufacturers, distributors and retailers,[1] and its history spans more than three decades, so legacy estates are common.
Editions
Legacy products were not sold as Essentials, Enterprise and Enterprise Premier. Editions are a 2026 packaging model for four Manhattan Active solution families.[9] The older products were sold as named portfolios, and the public site does not describe their editions or modules. The only statements about legacy deployment forms come from marketing and case study pages. The ActiveTransportation page carries a customer reference that describes Manhattan’s WMS and TMS as providing capabilities in both cloud and on-premise solutions.[6]
Metrics
Manhattan does not publish a legacy licence metric. The conventions that were typical for installed warehouse and transportation software (named or concurrent users, sites or facilities, or modules) are not documented on the public site, so the catalog records no legacy metric. Where a customer’s contract names a metric, the contract controls.
The metric that survives into the current model is the solution family. The company’s timeline and the current site show the family names changing over time, as the table below sets out.
| Older name or era | Current name or relationship | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Pick Ticket Management System (PkMS), 1990 | Precursor to Manhattan’s warehouse management technology | Timeline[1] |
| First Manhattan TMS, 2000 | Transportation management, now ActiveTransportation | Timeline[1] |
| Demand planning and forecasting replenishment, 2005 (Evant) | Demand forecasting, replenishment and allocation, now ActivePlanning | Timeline[1][8] |
| Manhattan SCOPE, 2007 | First full-range supply chain solution on a single platform | Timeline[1] |
| Manhattan SCALE, 2009 | Ready-to-run, platform-based logistics solution; ActiveSCALE appears in SOC scope | Timeline,[1] Trust Center[4] |
| Point of Sale (GlobalBay Technologies acquisition), 2014 | Point of sale, now part of ActiveStore | Timeline[1] |
| Manhattan Active Solutions and Manhattan Active Omni, 2017 | Manhattan Active Omni combined point of sale, order management, customer engagement and service, and store inventory and fulfillment; the current site shows these as ActiveOrder and ActiveStore | Timeline,[1] Journey[2] |
| Manhattan Active Warehouse Management, 2020 | ActiveWarehouse | Timeline[1] |
| Manhattan Active Transportation Management, 2021 | ActiveTransportation | Timeline[1] |
| Manhattan Active Allocation, 2020 | Allocation, now part of ActivePlanning | Timeline[1] |
The mapping is an aid to reading older documents, not a statement that a legacy contract automatically covers a successor product. Where the timeline lists an acquisition, the public pages do not say what contractual rights passed to customers of the acquired product.
Counting / floors
No legacy counting rules or floors are published. A manager reconciling an on-premises estate should therefore work from the licence agreement, order forms, proofs of entitlement and the installed environment, and treat the website as a naming reference only.
Virtualization & partitioning
The one public technical description of a legacy portfolio concerns Manhattan SCALE. A customer case study says SCALE is a portfolio of distribution management solutions built on the Microsoft .NET development platform and the Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server family of products.[3] The case study also describes the warehouse management system as available on-premises or in a cloud environment.[3] For an on-premises SCALE deployment this has a licensing consequence beyond Manhattan: the Windows Server and SQL Server layers carry Microsoft licence requirements that follow Microsoft’s rules for the host, edition and virtualisation, and the Manhattan pages do not say whether those licences are bundled or must be supplied by the customer. The Manhattan contract should answer that.
Manhattan Active, by contrast, has no customer-managed host. The platform is hosted on Google Cloud and managed by Manhattan’s cloud operations team, which is why host-level virtualisation rules do not apply to it.[10]
Cloud / BYOL
Manhattan describes the transition from older software to Manhattan Active as a ground-up rebuild rather than a hosted version of the old products. Its journey page says that when the company began its innovation strategy about a decade ago it set rules for a new platform: no upgrades allowed, continuous access to new capabilities, automatic performance scaling and seamless customisation.[2] The same page says warehouse, labor and transportation systems “would have to be reconstructed from the ground up”.[2]
For a customer this means that moving from an on-premises product (SCALE, SCOPE or older Manhattan WMS or TMS software) to Manhattan Active is a new subscription, not an upgrade under an existing maintenance entitlement. The public pages do not describe any trade-in, conversion credit or migration offer. A customer that wants to move should ask whether existing perpetual licences, maintenance commitments or support reinstatement terms are credited, retired or run in parallel, and should model both the on-premises and the subscription cost during the migration period. See Software maintenance and support for the general pattern.
Programs
The one program that spans the old and new models is the evergreen release cycle, which applies to Manhattan Active only. Manhattan states that all Manhattan Active solutions receive new features and enhancements every 90 days,[5] which replaces the customer-scheduled upgrade projects associated with installed software. The public pages describe no equivalent for legacy products, and they publish no end-of-support or end-of-life dates for them.
Planning software shows the clearest example of repackaging. ActivePlanning is presented as delivering planning value on its own while connecting to an existing execution landscape, with unification added later,[8] and Enterprise Promise and Fulfill is presented as a solution that augments an existing ERP or legacy order management system.[7] In both cases a customer can adopt a Manhattan Active product beside a third-party or legacy system, so a single organisation can hold current Manhattan subscriptions and an older Manhattan product at once.
Audits and compliance
Nothing public describes licence audits of legacy Manhattan products. The lifecycle consequences are mainly practical. Installed Manhattan software is audited, if at all, under the original agreement, and the Microsoft components beneath SCALE are subject to Microsoft’s own verification rights. For hosted products, the Trust Center lists ActivePlatform and ActiveSCALE in SOC 1, SOC 2 and SOC 3 scope,[4] which indicates that a hosted SCALE form exists, although the page gives no commercial detail about it.
Out of scope
This article does not cover current edition entitlements, ActivePlatform subscription terms or support programs, which are covered in the sibling articles. It does not cover acquired companies’ own licences before acquisition, nor the terms of any migration program. Prices, maintenance percentages and legacy end-of-support dates are not published.