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What Is Fishbowl?
With Fishbowl Manufacturing and Inventory Management, you can automate your processes and reduce costs while maximizing profitability. Our solution includes advanced work orders, material requirements planning (MRP), bills of materials, barcode scanning and can be easily deployed on-premise and hosted in the cloud.
Who Uses Fishbowl?
Fishbowl is a manufacturing and warehouse management software that seamlessly integrates with QuickBooks and offers secure & cost-effective inventory management to manufacturers and so much more.
Where can Fishbowl be deployed?
About the vendor
- Fishbowl
- Located in Orem, US
- Founded in 2001
Fishbowl support
- Phone Support
- Chat
Languages
English
Fishbowl pricing
Starting Price:
- Yes, has free trial
- No free version
Fishbowl does not have a free version but does offer a free trial.
Pricing plans get a free trialAbout the vendor
- Fishbowl
- Located in Orem, US
- Founded in 2001
Fishbowl support
- Phone Support
- Chat
Languages
English
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Features of Fishbowl
Fishbowl Alternatives - Capterra New Zealand 2021
Reviews of Fishbowl
Great investment
Comments: We have saved quite a bit of time with Fishbowl compared to our previous software.
Pros:
Fishbowl is simple to use. Everything is easy to find. Search features work well. All facets integrate well.
Cons:
It’s been a bit of a struggle to integrate all aspects of our diverse business.
Decent software with room for growth
Comments: So far I would give it about a seven and a half out of 10
Pros:
I like the convenience of moving inventory from the main screen. I was a former box storm customer and I was pleased with the easiness of transferring our information over as well. It was quick and efficient.
Cons:
Coming from boxstorm, there were a few features that I really appreciate having that Fishbowl does not yet have. One feature is not being able to see reorder points on the mobile app. I wish also that the pictures of the items I transferred over would have been implemented as well.
Alternatives Considered: Odoo and Zoho Inventory
Reasons for Choosing Fishbowl: Because we were sort of forced to. They were Sun setting the software
Switched From: Boxstorm
Reasons for Switching to Fishbowl: Mainly price and ease of transfer from box storm
Fishbowl Response
last month
Thank you for your feedback on how we can improve our software and make it more like what you're used to with Boxstorm. Those are excellent ideas, and I'll make sure our developers hear about them. You are great!
Review of Software
Comments: When not battling updates works as we need it to be.
Pros:
Gets the job done and the compacity we use it for.
Cons:
Updates and Communication from the Fishbowl about updates
Fishbowl Response
2 months ago
Thank you for sharing your thoughtful words. We strive to extensively test our updates before launching them to make sure they work as expected, and we apologize if they're not communicated well enough beforehand. If you'd like, you can check out our road map and release notes on our documentation site to see what's on the horizon and what changes have recently been added, respectively. You are great, and we appreciate your feedback. Road map: https://help.fishbowlinventory.com/advanced/s/article/Road-Map Release notes: https://help.fishbowlinventory.com/advanced/s/article/Release-Notes
Excited for Inventory Management
Comments: Looking forward to using Fishbowl, the tools that Fishbowl provides will reduce our tasks and allow us to do more work.
Pros:
Having just begun using Fishbowl we are just getting started in appreciating all the functionality that it provides. A major factor is the ability to track lot numbers as well as serial numbers of our products. The implementation process was smooth and the training provided was excellent.
Cons:
The addition of items to sales orders and purchase orders is different than previous experiences.
Alternatives Considered: NetSuite
Reasons for Choosing Fishbowl: To meet a request of our accountants, Fishbowl integrates with QuickBooks Online which was essential
Switched From: Odoo
Reasons for Switching to Fishbowl: Fishbowl was more affordable and met our needs, where the other products had more features than we would use.
Fishbowl Response
3 months ago
Welcome, friend! We're excited to grow with you as your business expands. It's wonderful to hear that Fishbowl's tracking methods are coming in so handy for you, and hopefully you'll soon get used to the new process for adding items to sales orders and purchase orders. Our Support team is happy to help you in any way they can, as you've already seen through the implementation and training process. We're glad that it went smoothly for you. It sure is nice to know that there are robust inventory management options that meet your specific requirements better and more affordably than an ERP. We're excited to keep meeting your needs as you grow. Thank you for your kind review!
Great Experience
Comments: Our experience was great, the team walked us through the systems capabilities, and showed us the in's and out's before we committed, and it has worked great for us! Thank Fishbowl!
Pros:
Helpful Integration Team, we are using the system primarily for manufacturing inventory management, and were able to find ways to use functions in various ways to give the outcome we were looking for.
Cons:
Time: the whole process took about a month, which is about what i had expected, but wish we weren't down without a system for such an extended period, but that is partially because we had some hiccups on our end!
Alternatives Considered: Zoho Inventory
Reasons for Choosing Fishbowl: System was not designed for inventory for manufacturing
Switched From: Snipe-IT
Reasons for Switching to Fishbowl: Functionality, cost, and reviews/quality
Fishbowl Response
2 months ago
We're so glad to hear about your positive experience getting started with our software and making use of it in your business. Thank you, too!
