inFlow Inventory reviews

Sales & Purchase made simple

Opmerkingen: Software is one of my favorites for companies with no purchase order system.

Pluspunten:

Great for small companies who need sales and purchasing. Sales has records of customer quoted sales and purchases can see what to order. Great way for a company to keep track of purchases and data can be exported to third part software. Purchasing software even has serial column for warranty verification of products. Was great for HVAC and appliance repair company. Great software for company with no purchase order system. Can make everything paperless and user's can view inventory, content and prices with no license. User license is portable.

Minpunten:

Software lacks year end inventory count reset. Reports could be better to show year to date expenses. I had a tough time getting year to date reports.

Practical

Opmerkingen: It has all the we currently need in terms of order management and inventory management, and such basic functions are enough so far. But the SQL engine tends to jam very often... it is annoying yet not a cause to discard the software yet.

Pluspunten:

Easy to use, easy to deploy and configure

Minpunten:

Unstable, tends to lag frequently. Consumes too much resources. Must be restarted once per day

Very intuitive, and such an easy entry into the world of bar-coding.

Opmerkingen: I went to the internet with a need, and that was to get our small business bar-coded, since the old words-only tags were taking so long to process at the point of sale, ie. hand written receipts and all, causing lineups that were too long at times and likely costing us business. I found your book offer "Bar-code Your Business" and ordered a copy. It was well written, very concise, and of course, led me to purchase Inflow. What I REALLY like about Inflow is how intuitive it is. I didn't need to take a course to figure it out, as it feels very Windows-like. I purchased a no-name bar code gun online, devised a model code scheme for our products, and was up and running in no time. Thanks. On the "not so shiny" comments side, I can't say I liked the upgrade from v2 to v3. The original v2 did everything I needed, and required less explanation to my helpers as to it's function. Suddenly with v3, we now had to hit Save, Fulfill and Mark Paid, all of which ended up with me having to fix this by cheating the date on my computer and closing orders after the fact, when the helpers didn't do it the first time. I was also broadsided one day when on the job, Inflow v3 just froze up on me and I didn't know what to do, exactly when I needed it the most. Well, it turns out that I had to be connected to the internet to use it, obviously so Inflow could monitor licensing/usage status. This was not good, although your customer service was quick to help me with this. If you could find another way to police the licensing, that would be nice. And finally, the one thing that drives me nuts (did again yesterday) is the fact that if I fill in the "customer name" field AFTER having filled in the sales order details, any discounts applied off original price get erased. This has on a number of occasions caused me to inadvertently overcharge customers, and is extremely embarrassing when it's they who notice it first and think I'm trying to "pull a fast one" on them. PLEASE fix this! (although I'm outside of my customer support time window, you can spare others the same issue). Once again, I must compliment your customer service (hen it still applied to me) for their very prompt responses to any query I ever had. Peter

Great WMS for a 3PL

Opmerkingen: The ability to invoice, manage inventory and run all the related reports is a great time saver.

Pluspunten:

It’s ease of use and ability for us to train new employees quickly.

Minpunten:

Would like to see the ability to do multiple units if measurement. Knowing how many pallets is great, however knowing pallet and piece counts simultaneously would be even better.

Inflow Inventory is my go to product

Opmerkingen: 10/10 would recommend. Keeps track of orders, customers , and inventory in one stop shop.

Pluspunten:

I like the user friendliness of this software. Being a small business it makes life a lot easier.

Minpunten:

Sometimes I have trouble uploading price sheets.

Great Software,....but

Pluspunten:

The overall learning cueve for the software is not bad at all. Much more user friendly and reliable than quickbooks.

Minpunten:

Seems most the focus is now on the web based version, have not seem many updates for the stand-alone version in the last couple years.

Inflow

Opmerkingen: From installing products and selling those goods using inflow was really a matter of a day to get started. Looking forward to utilizing the inventory features for our first monthend, and the daily sales reports are great

Pluspunten:

Ease of purchase, ease of installation and relatively easy to set up and start using.

Minpunten:

So far we have not seen any downside to using this product

Continuesly improved performance with great helpdesk

Opmerkingen: Overall I'm very positive about Inflow Inventory and so are my colleagues and bookkeeper. We have access from our mobile devices which is great. I also have to mention the help-desk, it is very useful and correct.

Pluspunten:

It's a great way to keep track of stock from purchase to sales. And with the Woocommerce integration it has increased its usefulness.

Minpunten:

There is some discrepancy between theoretical purchases and real world, practical situations with suppliers. But this cannot be helped. I would like to see an option where purchases that are in transit with an ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival) could be included in stock levels. That way clients visiting the online showroom could see when their required products would be available for delivery from our warehouse.

Inflow Makes doing business Seamless

Opmerkingen: We run a very simple, in/out business. Inflow facilitates our business activities extremely well.

Pluspunten:

The integration was seamless and the ability to customize client stores is amazing!

Minpunten:

There are some features that would be great to have but are only available in the larger packages. As a fledgling, small business we would not be able afford those features at this time. #Goals

Fully adaptable, simple Inventory Management System

Pluspunten:

Able to use to suit the amount of information you want to work with. Functioned with bare minimum to allow bare bones set up which can then be added to as you decide to improve with more functions as yoou have time to do.

Minpunten:

Would be good to have a holding goods in location where items automatically store and then have process for putting items into their location.Label integration other than dymo.

A dream to work with

Opmerkingen: Pretty much all the Inventory and work orders, and practical flows of invoicing, sales orders, purchase orders etc.

Pluspunten:

Quite simply, it is easy and allows for most functions we need with work orders and serialized items. The Inflow Cloud is fast enough and easily customizable. Great stuff, quite simply. :) And the customer service is nothing short of stunning.

Minpunten:

There are no cons, per se, more features that would be great to add on, as time passes and you develop the software further; the Android client (being able to do POs, SOs and invoicing would be fantastic). There are some other bugs with the Android client, in terms of cost pricing on the products that can be straightened out; right now we can't really use it for much. Furthermore, it would be great to be able to communicate in our own language with customers that are non-English speakers, by adding European specialty letters instead of ? :) And should you move towards creating shipments directly through API (with tracking updates) towards DHL, TNT, UPS etc, that would be cool (check out the Parcel tracker app for Android). And also of course taking the step out towards an own integrated sales platform to a little bit bigger extent than the inventory showroom (like a webshop of sorts), rather than the one-way integration to Shopify, that could be a really interesting proposition for us (however, we understand that it is an inventory system, and at that it is great stuff.

Made a world of difference for our warehouse team

Opmerkingen: Very positive overall experience. I wouldn't recommend it for a large corporate entity but we are a small company with thousands of items and it works great.

Pluspunten:

Easy data import via CSV UOM conversions Multiple Location/Sub-Locations - track specific quantities by specific buildings/shelves Material pricing tiers Easily track orders Mobile App! Now we know what needs to be ordered for upcoming projects before the project starts depleting our inventory! Online Storefront!

Minpunten:

The windows app works fine but is a bit sluggish. You don't get that polished/refined feel when using it. Fragmentation between mobile apps and windows app. Only one item photo can be uploaded/viewed on windows app, while multiple pics can be uploaded/seen on mobile app. Online storefront a bit confusing because of not having an "Add to cart" button. Simple selecting a quantity puts that quantity in your cart. Only integrates with Dymo label printers.

Almost amazing, but still very solid

Opmerkingen: Very happy with the product, since we are in the food industry lot code tracking is a huge priority. The way we work around not having this feature built in is that we have lot based inventory. So instead of setting it up as 'Widget A', 'Widget B' and 'Widget C' it's setup so that there are 10 lot numbers associated with A, 15 with B, etc.

Pluspunten:

Easy to use Accurate tracking Can setup multiple warehouse locations Customer service is top notch A lot of reports, can build customer reports if needed

Minpunten:

No built in lot code tracking - there are work arounds for this but they aren't perfect and have their own issues which wouldn't be an issue if there was built in lot code tracking.

Great Program For Startup to Well Established Companies

Opmerkingen: They were great to work with when we put the program to use. Beats many of the "higher" end companies out there with their product features and simple to use.

Pluspunten:

InFlow has been one of the easiest inventory programs to work with. Not only is it easy to use, it is always updating with features from skus management, multiple locations inventory control, ordering and third party features and intergration.

Minpunten:

We were an early adopter of InFlow before they had all the bugs worked out and we paid for a full program years ago but since then that program is no longer available for free, we really liked the afforable aspect back when we purchased it as a total package. Not necessarily a con but more or less just times changing and technology changing and us being early on, not ready to pay for another upgrade so to speak.

Inflow Enhanced inventory Management For Free!

Opmerkingen: I love this platform because of its robust set of functions, I do suggest using someone with experience to set up the software if hosting on premise. The cloud version is much easier but also not free.

Pluspunten:

Inflow desktop is free and incredibly robust packed with features to accommodate all business types. With the ability to customize naming conventions (functions) this inventory and finance platform is beyond adequate for every kind of business. This platform can be expanded with paid modules to add functions such as barcode scanning and automatic updates to inventory. A paid cloud option is available with enhanced support and functions

Minpunten:

The free version has very limited support and the setup is very complicated if you do not have experience in the platform. No clear path to API integrations Some functions are not available in free mode you must buy the enhanced modules

Head of Warehouses with more than 4 years of experience

Opmerkingen: Pass all Excel inventories very quickly and manage the products in more than 5+ stores

Pluspunten:

The flexibility that gives the user, if I need a report that does not have inFlow I can export / create it to Excel. I can also simply copy and paste data. I currently handle 6000+ SKUs in more than 5 stores, more than 100,000+ Sales without slowing down problems, or headaches. Thanks to this program you move from ordered storage to chaotic storage without problems

Minpunten:

I do not have a clear disadvantage ... mmm ... I see that you can not handle products with expiration date, but that is not my item

A+ For Manufacturing

Opmerkingen: We have tied inFlow into our whole order workflow. Data entered into sales orders is pulled into custom reports and with on-site data access, we are also able to use it to make very customized labels with heavy automation from the data already in inFlow.

Pluspunten:

Searching is great and user interface is easy to use. Very easy to find what I am looking for quickly.

Minpunten:

inFlow Premise feature updates seem to be on hold. Would love to use new features from inFlow Cloud but our data policy requires us to keep data under our control.

Great for my small business

Opmerkingen: I have a small business with several products. I find the inventory control easy and useful. The input of data is simple, so I have all my customer information. The reporting is excellent, so I can find out stock, costs, sales etc at the touch of a button.

Pluspunten:

The system is very user friendly. I am not much good at technical stuff, but I find inflow easy to use.

Minpunten:

There is nothing that springs to mind that I would change.

It does what it needs to do

Opmerkingen: thumbs up

Pluspunten:

Reporting can give tons of great data it keeps everything saved and organised well, I enjoy this inv entory management system

Minpunten:

Can be a bit buggy, im unable to print reports properly but that could be an issue on my end?

A leap forward in stock control suitable for small manufactures

Opmerkingen: We needed a system that could be easily worked with by multiple functions in our small organisation. We needed it to be able to handle multiple currencies for sales and purchases in a simple and intuitive way. Finally we needed it to be able to give us clear oversight of our stock levels and give us the ability to manufacture products for our customers quickly without holding excessive stock levels.

Pluspunten:

The software is easy to use and intuitive. The You get a real sense that they are learning about their customers needs and are trying to build the functionality you need into the product. customer support is excellent and very interactive. I believe it has the ability to scale with us.

Minpunten:

There are some niggly ways that the current systems works but these have been reported back to customer support.

Very Good

Opmerkingen: inFlow has a great pricing structure with no gotchas. The software is powerful with room to grow. The customer service is excellent. Highly recommended. With no long term contracts or dishonest sales tactics you have nothing to lose.

Pluspunten:

inFlow has a great feature set and many access options like app, web app, desktop, ect. Our inventory management is much improved with the software and there are many more features that we are not yet using but know we can use the product for years to come. The pricing structure incentivizes inflow to make sure you love the product so you keep using it so they take good care of you to get you going. Great product.

Minpunten:

A little confusing the differences between the different versions of the product. The web app is a little bit limited.

County Government Using Inflow in Several Departments

Opmerkingen: I am currently using inflow to manage my warehouse of 650 products. I have decided to use Inflow for my archive records department with over 25,000 records and I'm so confident in Inflow I actually looking forward to changing my records over to a system that really works.

Pluspunten:

The software is very user friendly and the more detailed your initial setup the better your experience. I converted from an access database to inflow via an excel.csv and in 15 minutes I was ready to start taking orders.

Minpunten:

The thing i liked least about Inflow is that i did not find it FIRST. I vetted 8 different software packages and none of them really met my needs and most were double or more the cost of Inflow.

Great Inventory Software, Timesaver :)

Pluspunten:

InFlow has completely organized our inventory, we can easily see what we need to reorder and when we need to order it. It has saved our bacon so many times! People may forget what's been sold, but the software remembers everything! InFlow has saved us so much time, and has saved us money since now we order only what we need. We love inFlow!

Minpunten:

I do wish for a few more reports, but the inFlow software is so good, that I would highly recommend it regardless. I really don't have any major issues with inFlow. It works really well. A couple of times per year I'm asked to find numbers that I haven't before, and it takes me a little while to figure out what to do, but I could always watch an online tutorial.

Have our company's entire stock in it and makes my life so easy

Opmerkingen: Life is easier with it

Pluspunten:

I love how you can sort the the products in different categories and locations. Printing and inputting is so easy.

Minpunten:

There is not much I do not like about this program. Importing and exporting I would have liked to work better. But all in all I love it.

Good but not great

Pluspunten:

This product is easy to use. The manual is easy to follow. There are multiple options for your specific needs

Minpunten:

When subtracting inventory everyday, the numbers didn't seem to be being taken out correctly and our numbers were always wrong.