Fishbowl

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About Fishbowl

Fishbowl is a complete manufacturing and inventory management solution that helps medium and large businesses face demand trends and manage supply issues. Designed to automate the manufacturing process, Fishbowl's features include orders and work planning tools to maximize production efficiency.

Transform and elevate your manufacturing process with Fishbowl’s complete manufacturing and warehouse inventory management software. Fishbowl’s inventory-centric approach improves efficiency through strategic automation that gives your growing business the control it needs to reduce costs and maximize productivity.

Fishbowl’s solution offers real-time insights and data collection to provide business owners total transparency during every operation stage, giving you the power to make precise and timely pricing decisions.

With Fishbowl, your business will experience better automation through integration. Fishbowl’s solution was designed to seamlessly integrate with the most popular CRM systems and business solutions such as QuickBooks, Amazon, Adobe, Salesforce, Shopify and more!

Key benefits of Fishbowl

  • Integration: Fishbowl is designed to integrate with QuickBooks and many other popular business solutions for better automation of business processes.

  • Work planning: Generate work orders for assembly, disassembly, replacement, repair, and other jobs. Save commonly used work orders and bills of materials for use in future projects.

  • Inventory management: Receive real-time inventory updates to understand inventory levels at all times. Set automatic re-order points on all products to avoid stock-outs.

  • Asset tracking: Track items by lot number, serial number, expiry date etc. Monitor asset levels in multiple locations and transfer between locations when necessary.

  • Inventory tracking: Track inventory across every step of your operations from order to delivery.

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    Annette
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    • Industry: Building Materials
    • Company size: 11–50 Employees
    • Used Daily for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Fishbowl Review

    Reviewed on 13/2/2019

    I've been using Fishbowl now for a year, and it has made a big difference in business operation. ...

    I've been using Fishbowl now for a year, and it has made a big difference in business operation. Whenever I run into problems their support team is right on it to help me. Very easy to intergrate with my online store and other selling sites.

    Pros

    Fishbowl is easy to use and affordable. Outstanding customer support.

    Cons

    There really isn't anything I don't like about Fishbowl. It's been a great software for our company.

    Response from Fishbowl

    Thank you so much for leaving this review, Annette. We are glad to hear that Fishbowl has been a useful tool for your business.

    Louis
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    • Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
    • Company size: 11–50 Employees
    • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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    • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

    Fishbowl Manufacturing Software has proven an invaluable inventory management tool for our...

    Reviewed on 18/7/2020

    Fishbowl Management software has offered our team a complete supply chain management and physical...

    Fishbowl Management software has offered our team a complete supply chain management and physical sales tracking system in one convenient system . In this time especially , we understand that organization and efficiency are paramount to surviving let alone prospering and we are thankful to Fishbowl for helping.

    Pros

    Our team found both these ease of use and relative ease of integration to be among the most attractive components of Fishbowl. The variety of modules allow close monitoring of essentially every aspect of
    physical asset tracking . With Fishbowl we can organize warehouse parts inventory , print labels,and
    organize purchase orders which organizes our supply side. Fishbowl's sales side module allows for effective tracking of lead times as well as sales item forecasting so we are never behind on available inventory .

    Cons

    Fishbowl Manufacturing software at this time time requires the use of a server which we had to supply .
    In exchange for all other features , we see this as a nominal and not inconvenient requirement as at the time we were adding new computer assets. This requirement may not suit all smaller companies.

    Alternatives Considered

    kintone and Finale Inventory

    Reasons for Switching to Fishbowl

    We selected Fishbowl Inventory Management software over alternatives for its comprehensive module options which allow for a complete organization of our office and warehouse now optimized with a primary consideration to sales output and production. We could not ask for more in this area of business operations.

    Response from Fishbowl

    Thank you for taking the time to leave this review, Louis. We appreciate your business and are happy to know that your experience has been satisfactory.

    Mitch
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    • Industry: Sporting Goods
    • Company size: 11–50 Employees
    • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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    • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

    Extremely Frustrated and Feel Violated

    Reviewed on 13/4/2022

    We purchased inventory software from Fishbowl and then had an exceptionally difficult time...

    We purchased inventory software from Fishbowl and then had an exceptionally difficult time implementing the software. We paid for a number of items that we have not received months later, went weeks without receiving responses from them during the implementation process, and were verbally promised things that they have walked back or denied entirely. Worst of all, because of their lack of responsiveness, they claim that we are not eligible for a refund on the software because we are past the time limit for the satisfaction guarantee. Integrations, services, implementation support, and custom reports were paid for and never received. The server has been down for long time periods (days at a time), credit card systems won't integrate properly and the software crashes regularly on our machines.

    Rather than try to do what is right and work things through, they have opted to take a hard line on this issue with no flexibility at all. We are now currently pursuing legal action. If you are considering using their products or services I would recommend in the strongest of language possible to not do any business with this company.

    Pros

    It appeared to be a great product before we purchased it

    Cons

    Point of sale software is nearly un-usable. It does not support gift cards or customer accounts in any functional way. Implementation and support from the software company are beyond poor even after paying many thousands of dollars for extra support and help with implementation.

    Alternatives Considered

    NetSuite and SkuVault

    Reasons for Choosing Fishbowl

    To have better inventory control for eCommerce and communication between our systems

    Switched From

    Finale Inventory

    Reasons for Switching to Fishbowl

    Supposed integration with our eCommerce software that was not actually viable (which we found out after the fact)
    Jessi
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    • Industry: Food & Beverages
    • Company size: 11–50 Employees
    • Used Daily for 1+ year
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    • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

    Fishbowl has been great for us as a small food manufacturer

    Reviewed on 31/5/2021

    Overall, good experience - we needed a tool like this and it meets our needs for being SQF and USDA...

    Overall, good experience - we needed a tool like this and it meets our needs for being SQF and USDA Organic.

    Pros

    Fishbowl helps us maintain all lot tracing records, re-order points, and sales and purchase orders. It makes audit time much simpler!

    Cons

    There aren't as many reports as I would like and it isn't very intuitive to setup - we had to hire an outside expert.

    Alternatives Considered

    Wherefour

    Reasons for Choosing Fishbowl

    It was too difficult to prepare for an audit.

    Switched From

    Google Sheets

    Reasons for Switching to Fishbowl

    Customer service and overall capabilities

    Response from Fishbowl

    Thank you for taking the time to review your experience with our company, Jessi. We appreciate your feedback! We are glad to hear your experience has been satisfactory and will look into improvements based on your suggestions as well.

    Bernui
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    • Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    • Company size: 51–200 Employees
    • Used Daily for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Fishbowl Inventory Review

    Reviewed on 25/4/2022

    Pros

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

    Cons

    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.

    Alternatives Considered

    BatchMaster ERP

    Reasons for Choosing Fishbowl

    ERPNext didn't fulfill our needs preparing work orders.

    Switched From

    ERPNext
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    Fishbowl FAQs

    Below are some frequently asked questions for Fishbowl.

    Fishbowl offers the following pricing plans:

    • Free Trial: Available

    Please contact Fishbowl for pricing details.

    Fishbowl has the following typical customers:

    Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

    Fishbowl supports the following languages:

    English

    Fishbowl supports the following devices:

    Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

    Fishbowl integrates with the following applications:

    Adobe Commerce, Authorize.Net, Avalara, BigCommerce, Dropbox Business, FedEx Ship Manager, QuickBooks Online Advanced, Quickbooks Online, SPS Commerce, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Shift4Shop, ShipRush, ShipStation, Shopify, Square Payments, TrueCommerce EDI Solutions, UPS Ready, Volusion, WooCommerce, X-Cart, Xero, Zen Cart, Zoho CRM

    Fishbowl offers the following support options:

    Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat

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