Fishbowl vs Katana Cloud Manufacturing Comparison

One of its greatest pros is its capability of integrating with i stalled QuickBooks and other Accounting software. Easy to produce work orders and task scheduling.

It can result quite expensive for small manufacturing companies.

Easy to use, Wiki page is amazing, customer support is responsive and easy to work with, and the user interface is intuitive for our less computer savvy users.

The manufacturing orders round up to the next integer causing issues with manufacturing too much. Other than that Fishbowl functions as it should for an ERP system.

reliable, efficient and does not require much resources, friendly user window and easy to manages in all needs

need some additional features to be more powerful and cover all aspect of manufacturing process and eventually lead to be # 1

Super Customizable. able to track all the things. Auto triggers other departments to take actions when needed.

User interface feels clucky. No Cloud options. Very Limited LTL integration

Ease of use and the support staff is very helpful.

The manufacturing and completely separate account piece. Works ok, but has some limitations.

It meets our basic needs for manufacturing and sales.

The flow from the creation of a sales order to the fulfillment is flawed. If a customer pre-pays, we have to artificially fulfill the order, export it to QuickBooks, charge the customer through QuickBooks, then manually notify the fulfillment department to release the purchase order to UPS.

Software does the basics for small retail and manufacturing operations

Report generation is rigid and difficult. We ended up extracting all the data we needed to an external tool

Great Support. Easy to learn. Versatile program. Interfaces well with QuickBooks.

Nothing but then I have not had as much experience on manufacturing software as I have in accounting/costing software so my opinion may be somewhat biased towards the accounting for parts and costs vs. the manufacturing order to factory functions.

The Manufacturing option is complete is the best feature of the tool

Forecast not been able to access from the cloud

It is a great software and has many features. It is user friendly and customer support is great. The trial period was very helpful and allowed us to practice on hand.

It is not specific to food manufacturing, so it made it a little difficult to adjust. There are other software systems in the market that are specific to food manufacturing and ability to add recipes and change them, which fishbowl did not have.

This software really delivers for the very specific needs of Manufacturing. Tracking lot codes, FIFO, etc.

I wish I would have talked to a rep for a demo walk-through. It takes time to get your information put in, which would be with any software though.

Lots of features, many different integrations, the inventory control and manufacturing suite are awesome

There's a lot of steps to learn and it takes a long time to set up your parts but once it's done it's smooth sailing.

Ability to access data anywhere Data preservation

Relying on third party insurance Data not 100%secure

Ease of Quickbooks Online integration, ease of cost analysis

Reports are not as easy to manipulate as some programs

Thank you for your review, Miriam. We appreciate your business and you taking the time to give us some feedback.

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Integration with our manufacturing process was easy. Purchases, Receiving, Bill of materials and Work Orders fulfilled our needs.

Reports provided are too basic, no help documentation to create your own reports. If you need a detailed or custom reports you have to purchase them apart.

Fishbowl is easy to use. It is built in a unique business needs. It is a warehouse and manufacturing software that is designed specially for it.

I doesn't have any side comment about fishbowl. Actually fishbowl ease the difficulties we have encountered on the production and manufacturing plans.

Thank you so much for this review, Maia. We appreciate your feedback and are happy to hear that your experience has been satisfactory for you.

Ease of use and ability to control all aspects of our products, from manufacturing to packaging to shipping out.

It can be overwhelming with all the options when beginning use, but support is super helpful and there are tons of tools to help you learn.

Ease of use between modules is good and access to all parts manufacturing process in one software is a plus.

The amount of work it takes to edit items in inventory seems excessive. Would also be nice to delete items and not just deactivated.

The inventory system is great and richly functional. It is good for manufacturing. The plugins are excellent. Support is great!

Upgrading the system is problematic and usually requires support to address problems. The checkout program is slow, cumbersome & not designed for transactional retail stores.

Relatively easy to implement and lots of integration options. We use it for manufacturing and it gets the job done.

The software integrates nicely with Quickbooks but you definitely need someone in your team that is very comfortable with Quickbooks and understand account mapping. Fishbowl uses default accounts which depending on how your Quickbooks is setup may not end up where you expected. So would highly recommend spending a little more up front to make sure the mapping is where you need it. Also ,if you have customs pluggins, make sure you check with Fishbowl Dev team before pushing updates to avoid surprises.

We very much enjoy the manufacturing module that has been added. This has added tremendous value to the Fishbowl Software

Fishbowl lacks upgrades to the system and customization. Also the custom reports needed per company are rather expensive. We should be able to create our own reports and save them.

modules for the different things you need to do, like SO and TO and parts - ease of adding part numbers.

it did not Drop Ship the way we needed it to. I have to review the sales each day and remove the items that the boss does not track. It does crash still on exports, but it is much better than before.

You can run both on macintosh and windows. they have an amazing layout with general cleanliness features.

I was unhappy with with search feature as it was not so sophisticated which is used throughout our manufacturing unit to determine unit values.

The inventory system is very functional. This app makes manufacturing so much easier. Keeping track of my inventory is simple now.

Updating the app is a bit of a pain, but the customer service team are a pleasure to deal with and can walk you right though it.