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25 reviewers had the following to say about Fishbowl's features:
High praise and sincere thanks to the folks at Fishbowl Inventory Management!
Pros
*Simple install and setup gets you up and running FAST! *Import/Export features allow you to import inventory data from an existing spreadsheet or csv file, or export reports.
Cons
Customizing reports is not easy, but Fishbowl support can do it for you, for a very reasonable fee.
Rating breakdown
It has all the functionality needed to manage our inventory and warehouse (over 1500 bin locations and 5000 sku's in a 25,000sq ft whse) .
Pros
We import and are able to easily hold the product in our inventory for dollar value but as 'in-transit' (not sellable or pickable) once it sails until it actually hits the door.
Cons
Currently, the Activity Report is losing user ids.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Fishbowl
I would recomment Fishbowl as a Warehouse Management System.
Pros
Great Customer Service (via help line), Easy User Interface, Generous Basic Reports, Gets the Basics of Inventory Management Done
Cons
Difficult when the store has thousands of SKUs to manage, some reports aren't as intuitive as they could/should be or able to be adjusted/customized, formatting of exported reports for some do not make sense for Excel use, Integrations are often very "bumpy"
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
I used it to pull information for an audit, but I can see that this could help a growing business to manage incoming inventory and where that inventory is eventually used for a product ultimately sold.
Pros
This application seemed to integrate very well and was fairly simple for a new user in myself.
Cons
Pulling some reports was a bit slow and exporting of data to Excel was not in a very useful format (it required some cleaning up for my purposes)
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Other
Likelihood to recommend
Fishbowl Inventory was a great success in our first year of utilization.
Pros
We really like the data transfer capabilities with an API interface from our website order platform, and the data push into Quick books on the back end.
Cons
We still have challenges with the real time tracking of inventory between locations with using bar-codes, scanners and mobile devices.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
Inventory tracking - lot management, picking and shipping procedure, shipping documents integration with QuickBooks - avoid double working
Cons
The connection with QuickBooks is not steady enough. The exporting procedure sometimes get stuck and we can do nothing.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Inventory Management, tracking systems, and actualizing our COGS.
Pros
It is simple, easy to use, and has everything a inventory management software should have.
Cons
Report features are lacking and Fishbowl's simplicity can come back to bite you.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
inventory tracking is easy
Pros
Modules connect to each other. Reports can be modified easily.
Cons
some reports that are exported need to be set up in columns so its easier to pull and sort data.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Since our business depends on inventory movement of over 4,000 items, it has helped tremendously in time, effort & accuracy.
Pros
Logical progression of activity and inventory movement.
Cons
the reports feature needs work to better assimilate data as I find the need to get outside help to write reports that I like to see but is nice to see that it assimilates in the system
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Good software to boost your inventory management.
Pros
Fully functional, Fishbowl gives you features you would not find in standard inventory management software.
Cons
Pricing is always a bummer for most people. The pricing range is a bit above average for most small businesses. Better of use for Enterprise companies.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
We use it for inventory, product, kitting management, sales orders, purchase orders, BOL's, packlists and invoicing.
It is a very efficient software to track inventory in our manufacturing industry.
Pros
Ability to access data anywhere Data preservation
Cons
Relying on third party insurance Data not 100%secure
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Fishbowl
I recommend this product
It replaced a very old and unreliable product. By integrating with QuickBooks, we greatly expanded the candidate pool for our accounting department.
Pros
It is a great substitute for the Inventory module of QuickBooks if you need to do a lot of kitting and assemblies as well as calculating landed costs for imports.
Cons
We also had to have custom reports created for some very basic inventory management reports - FB's main purpose.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Only integrates with Quickbook if all conditions are perfect.
Pros
Tracking of inventory, reporting, Wiki help, Exporting information to Quickbooks, ability to integrate with our ecommerce site.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Stream lining our pick pack and ship process, keeping track of inventory.
Pros
Easy to use, it is always growing with our company.
Cons
The ability to change how our invoices look and add more information our pick reports from the sales order.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Improvement options always are on the way of every software based on industry practices. Overall performance & benefits are good. Near to Perfect for small & Medium sized Industries.
Pros
An Easy to Use customizable user-friendly inventory management software.
Cons
It cannot forecast purchase of inventory based on historical entries made in it.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
There are a few valuable stock reports. Data module allows you to write your own SQL queries.
Cons
Internal Control a. No audit trail as it relates to changes to SKUs, POs, SOs, changes to inventory valuations b.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Fishbowl
Get an all-in-one type of system with a user-base of at least 100,000. Fishbowl's user base is only 5,000 and rightfully so (if they are lucky). Hold your reseller accountable. Invest time in training. Do not try to extend the inevitable limited life of Quickbooks.
This was the inventory software at my last job.
Pros
Good reporting and integration.
Cons
Some parts of the software in the beginning felt difficult to navigate through, making the learning curve tricky for someone who had not previously used inventory management software.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
It does the basic functions of inventory tracking, sales orders, purchase orders.
Pros
Works for inventory management purposes.
Cons
The plugin was down for over a month after a Shopify update...which means no sales were going into Fishbowl and we couldn't properly manage our inventory. Customer service is prompt but unhelpful.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Use to manage and monitor all sales, shipping, and inventory.
Pros
Ease of use and ability to customize reports.
Cons
Not available for MAC. Must host into Fishbowl server. Could have greater functionality via hosted service.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Fishbowl
Do not have anything to compare to, but can't see ever needing to ... This works great for us.
The software has greatly streamlined and centralized our inventory management and purchasing systems.
Pros
Even with our system where the majority of parts we have are non-sales items, being able to track a system from start to finish is incredibly helpful.
Cons
We don't carry stock of our final products, just our raw materials, and while the program is able to handle this, it's clearly not designed for that scenario.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
So, if you have a wordpress based ecommerce website FB provides automated Real time inventory update and order processing system.
Pros
All the mentioned features makes it very useful. The system is module based and very user friendly and provides unique features at much competitive price then all other vendors. They provide hosting envrironment where in the FB system using a browser.
Cons
I could not find any so far.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Fishbowl
Good to system to use when you have ecommerce website and multiple warehouse locations. All you need is simple computers and you can access this system from anywhere.
