Clarus WMS connects directly to OneAdvanced so warehouse, finance and payroll teams can work from one shared set of data, from receiving through to despatch.

Cómo nos conectamos

Clarus and OneAdvanced sit on OneAdvanced’s IQ Intelligent Platform, the data and integration layer that routes operational events straight into back-office workflows. When something happens in Clarus, a shipment received, an order picked, a value-added service completed, that event moves into OneAdvanced IQ Logistics as it happens. There’s no spreadsheet, no export, and no batch job holding it up.

Dan Walsh, CEO at Clarus, described the thinking behind the partnership: “We looked for a long time for a business systems partner that runs the way we do and puts customers first, and in OneAdvanced we found it.”

What problem does this solve?

Research from OneAdvanced and the Road Haulage Association found that businesses across UK logistics struggle to get sustained operational impact from their technology, even after investing in it. Fragmented systems and siloed data are the usual reason, not a shortage of tools.

That plays out differently depending on where you sit in the business.

3PLs lose revenue to billing leakage: fees calculated by hand, invoices raised late, charges that never make it onto an invoice at all. Distributors and wholesalers make finance decisions on stock data that’s already stale by the time it reaches an accounting system, because it had to be exported, reformatted and re-keyed first. Warehouse managers spend hours on administrative reconciliation between systems that don’t talk to each other, time that should go into running the floor.

Anwen Robinson, Senior Vice President at OneAdvanced, put the wider point simply: “Logistics is a sector where the right technology, applied well, can deliver a significant impact on efficiency and resilience.”

How is the integration built?

The connection between Clarus and OneAdvanced is built across three layers, rather than a single point-to-point link that breaks the moment either system changes.

IQ Intelligent Platform

This is the data and integration layer underneath everything. It routes operational events from Clarus into OneAdvanced’s back-office workflows immediately, so there’s no manual rework and no batch delay between something happening in the warehouse and it showing up in finance or payroll.

IQ Intelligent Experience

A single, consistent interface that runs from the warehouse floor through to compliance officers and finance directors. Everyone involved, from an operative on the floor to someone signing off month-end accounts, is looking at the same underlying data rather than a version of it that’s been exported and reshaped along the way.

IQ Intelligent Services

The implementation, governance and ongoing support wrapped around the technology. This partnership isn’t a one-off integration project with nothing behind it once it’s live: it comes with the services layer to support governance and change over time.

What data moves between the two systems?

From Clarus into OneAdvanced: billable events as they’re generated. Receiving a shipment, completing a pick, finishing a value-added service, each of these is captured through Clarus’s order management and passed through without anyone re-entering it on the other side. Stock levels and workforce activity move the same way, so finance and operations are working from the same numbers rather than two versions that drift apart over the course of a day.

Within OneAdvanced: those events land directly in IQ Logistics workflows covering finance, compliance and payroll, ready to be actioned rather than sitting in an inbox waiting to be typed up.

Governed throughout: all of this happens on OneAdvanced’s sovereign platform. Data doesn’t leave your corporate guardrails or compliance policies to get from the warehouse to the back office, which matters as much for an auditor as it does for an operations manager.

What can teams do once Clarus and OneAdvanced are connected?

Automated billing and accounting. Billable events from Clarus’s client billing module, receiving, storage, picking and dispatch, flow directly into OneAdvanced finance workflows. That removes the month-end spreadsheet exercise most 3PLs run today, and closes the gap where revenue leaks out because a charge was never raised.

Agentic AI without losing control of your data. Clarus’s AI assistant and automated decision-making run on the warehouse floor, covering things like cartografía de almacenes y procesamiento de recepción de mercancías. The data behind that AI stays governed inside OneAdvanced’s sovereign infrastructure the whole time, so adopting AI on the floor doesn’t mean loosening control of the data that underpins your compliance position.

Operational visibility that includes people, not just stock. Workforce management and payroll connect directly to warehouse throughput, so you can see labour cost per unit and compare efficiency across shifts, rather than reconciling timesheets against pick rates after the fact.

One source of truth. Warehouse stock control and corporate governance stop being two separate pictures that someone has to reconcile manually. When they’re built on the same platform, the blind spots that build up between the two disappear.

A stack built for UK logistics specifically. This is a pre-built, pre-integrated ecosystem designed around the demands of the UK logistics sector, rather than a general-purpose integration assembled after the fact.

Who is this integration for?

The partnership is aimed at UK third-party logistics providers, wholesalers and distributors, manufacturers, e-commerce operators and any high-volume operation that wants a best-of-breed WMS connected properly to its back office. If you run a Tercerista logístico or a wholesale or distribution business and are currently exporting data between systems by hand, this is built for exactly that gap.

It’s not a concept still being tested either. The integration already runs across a growing footprint of joint Clarus and OneAdvanced customers, and this partnership formalises the roadmap the two companies are building together.

Why this matters for UK logistics

The UK logistics sector accounts for £170 billion of the UK economy and employs more than 8% of the workforce. At that scale, fragmented systems aren’t a minor operational annoyance for individual businesses, they’re a drag on an entire sector. You can read more on the scale of the problem in the OneAdvanced and RHA research, and more on OneAdvanced’s own platform on their IQ Logistics page.

Want to see it in action?

If you’re a UK 3PL, wholesaler or distributor looking at how to connect warehouse operations to your back office, whether that’s modernising older infrastructure or scaling up fulfilment, get in touch to talk through how Clarus and OneAdvanced work for your setup. Read historias de clientes from businesses already running Clarus, rated on Capterra y G2, o book a call with our team.

Preguntas frecuentes

What is OneAdvanced IQ Logistics? It’s OneAdvanced’s platform for back-office logistics operations, covering finance, compliance and payroll. You can read more about IQ on OneAdvanced’s site.

Does this replace our finance or ERP system? No. Clarus handles the warehouse floor and OneAdvanced handles the back office. The integration connects the two so data passes between them automatically, rather than one system replacing the other.

What data actually moves between the systems? Billable events such as receiving, storage, picking and dispatch, along with the stock and workforce data behind them, flow from Clarus into OneAdvanced IQ Logistics workflows as they happen.

Is our data secure once agentic AI is switched on? Yes. Clarus’s AI assistant operates on the warehouse floor, but the data itself stays on OneAdvanced’s sovereign platform, governed by your existing corporate and compliance policies.

Which businesses is this built for? 3PLs, wholesalers, distributors, manufacturers and e-commerce operators who need a specialist WMS that connects properly to finance, payroll and compliance systems, rather than a generic system trying to do everything.

Is this a new, untested integration? No. It already runs across a growing number of joint Clarus and OneAdvanced customers. This partnership formalises the roadmap the two companies are continuing to build together.