inFlow Inventory Reviews

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Pros

Hands down, my favorite part of inFlow has been the customer service from their team. From onboarding all the way to small questions later down the road, they have been nothing short of exemplary. My business has a fairly complex special case use for inventory management and they helped me find creative solutions.

Cons

To be fair, this is a typical issue when it comes to any third party integrations or API, but the crosstalk between inFlow and QBO could be better. The linking to charts of accounts, etc could be improved.

Alternatives Considered

Cin7 Core, Fishbowl, Sortly, Zoho Desk, Oracle Cloud CX, monday.com, Katana Cloud Inventory and Unleashed

Reasons for Choosing inFlow Inventory

As my company expanded, needs changed for our inventory management and tracking. Current RMS was not fitting our needs and inFlow became our choice going forward.

Switched From

Current RMS

Reasons for Switching to inFlow Inventory

Features, scalability, ease of integration vs cost

Pros

I can actually add pictures to my inventory which it makes it easy to find

Cons

I think it's great no complaints here not only is it convenient it's easy and manageable.

Pros

The software is user friendly to use & learn, training materials are easily accessible all the time.

Cons

The iCloud product doesn't have some features as per the desktop version.

Alternatives Considered

Odoo and Zoho Inventory

Reasons for Choosing inFlow Inventory

I made the switch, as I needed an internet-based software to manage my inventory whilst out of the office. I also wanted a user-friendly interface

Switched From

Zoho Inventory

Reasons for Switching to inFlow Inventory

I was already familiar with the Premiere version

Pros

Pictorial easy to use cloud interface, app which allows scanning inventory in and out.
Easy to manufacture items and sub components of items

Cons

Still working a few bugs out of the system, but what software isn't. There is some rather crucial information missing on stock adjustments (like who did them), which makes following up a pain for me at the moment - I hope they are going to add this data field in the future. I would also like to be able to make explanations for stock movement mandatory

Alternatives Considered

Fishbowl, Odoo, Trello, NetSuite, Sage 100, Katana Cloud Inventory and Zoho Inventory

Reasons for Choosing inFlow Inventory

MRPeasy was too difficult for my users to understand, and was not user friendly or easy. Sortly was pretty and cheaper, however it doesn't have manufacturing or real inventory control processes

Switched From

MRPeasy and Sortly

Reasons for Switching to inFlow Inventory

We manufacture items and make products with sub components, inflow was by far the easiest and most user friendly package for this. I was also impressed by their ability to support a young business. We had Inflow fully up and running in one with with 3 locations and thousands of lines of stock. People can start using it with confidence with very little training thanks to its easy and logical interface.

Pros

It is a one-stop shop for controlling everything stock related in a business. We could literally not exist without Inflow

Cons

Would love to permanently delete old products and clients

Pros

Its super easy to use, set up to work with other programs and the inventory system is GREAT

Cons

I wish there was an easier way to link Sales Orders and Purchase Orders within those screens

Alternatives Considered

Sage 300cloud, NetSuite and Lightspeed Retail

Reasons for Switching to inFlow Inventory

We had used the non cloud version and during covid lock down I had looked at other options. But for ease of use, price point and customer service we stayed with inflow.

Pros

Easy to use, easy to deploy and configure

Cons

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

Pros

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

Cons

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.

Alternatives Considered

Logiwa WMS

Reasons for Switching to inFlow Inventory

We run both systems for different customer needs.

Pros

I liked that it was affordable, did not require that you pay a monthly subscription (for the offline version) and that it was more intuitive than most I've tried. The new integrated barcode feature of the cloud product brings this to the level of $10,000 systems I have used in the past.

Cons

The biggest con with both versions of this software is the inability to handle multiple warehouses properly. If an item you have is in multiple locations, it treats those locations as different bins on the same shelf, so it will not tell you that you need to order more for warehouse "A" of there is enough in warehouse "B,C,D" to meet the min/max criteria. This requires you to use different part numbers for the same thing in each warehouse, which is doable but annoying when it comes to transferring between warehouses and labelling.

Pros

I really liked the overall layout and looks of inFlow. The design is clean and makes it fairly easy to find what you're looking for. Although it took me a little bit to figure out, I did like the way that parts were able to be "canned" into a finished good. This made overall organization of the inventory easy. I also liked the variety and customization of the labels generated with inFlow. It could fit anyone's needs in that arena. I also appreciated the helpfulness of the person who demo'd the product to me. I can only imagine how helpful the other support members are.

Cons

My bosses really prefer a very very detailed invoice, and they had a difficult time making that happen. They felt like it wasn't easy to make the estimates as similar to our old system as they would've liked which is ultimately the reason we are continuing our software search in another direction.

Alternatives Considered

InventoryCloud, Fishbowl, Sortly, Fullbay and Flowtrac

Reasons for Choosing inFlow Inventory

the inventory system is not efficient for our growing company

Reasons for Switching to inFlow Inventory

Cost effective for what's offered

Pros

Once you get to find your way around some, you come to see that it's going to save lots of time, and redundancies, with regard to invoices, packing slips, inventory control. But what is wonderful is it gives you a trajectory of inventory, so you never have to worry about having enough stock, or the dreaded "too-much-stock" on hand. The tech support has been friendly, and precise, even waiting on the phone as I worked through the things that I needed help with. I used to be asked by my boss, at the worst times I might add, "How much stock do we have right now?" And I'd give a guesstimate, sometimes close, some times I was way off, as I had to answer right away. Those days are gone thankfully, as now at any given moment I can not only give an exact stock count, but I can tell if more is needed to order and how much. The neat part too, is you can put in your own trigger amounts when stock count sinks to a certain it tells you to reorder, and you decide how much. No more guess work!!

Cons

I wish the invoice templates were a little more striking in appearance. Just a little drab. Yes you can make your own but, a few more invoice template choices with invoicing would be nice with more life. That goes for the stock inventory as well. It tells the information, but looks boring. Just a little more lively looking reports would be nice especially when presenting these in company meetings.
Example: "It's like 2 Ferrari's, one with the body just primed, the other with a sleek polished competition race paint job. Both perform the same, but one looks like it means business."

Pros

The programm covers almost everything in 1 program.
from buying, receiving, selling through the web-site build in or external, to delivering and invoicing.
There are a lot of other programs, but only a few with all these functionalyties in 1 programm

Cons

in the beginning we had problems, by picking the goods they forgot to also ship the goods.... in my inventory reports the goods only left after i shipped the orders.
I would love it if there would be a link in the programm to a tutorial page.... if you have questions or doubts...that you can look it up easely.
I think there are to low limits on orders per month and users...the programm will be expensive for us! ( we are not selling, the orders are to deliver what the doctors are in need of..... so no revenue will come out)

Pros

Inflow is very easy to use, clear, easy to understand, and full of functionalities that interconnect smoothly, we can search from multiple fields, and the best is that they have now the cloud version at a fraction of the cost of similar systems, even with less functionalities.

Cons

The lack of integration with ecommerce marketplaces like Amazon, eBay, Walmart, but I think the company is working on this.

Pros

Its user friendly. Very good tutorial videos.

Cons

Not able to format or personalize email.

Pros

The software is great for managing our inventory it has images, adds bar codes, manufacturers SKU and the showroom is a great start.
InFlow has allowed us to become more compliant in managing Hazardous Goods.

Cons

The showroom needs to have more customisation options, the labels only print on Dymo printers however we have a Toshiba Tec industrial label printer a common printer that we use bartender software with.
Why cant Inflow integrate with Bartender to support all label printers?
We are using InFlow to manage a chemical store, this means chemicals and consumables used in a laboratory environment.
Inflow could do with the ability to upload a PDF to an item in the extras field so you can attach a MSDS to the products if they are hazardous materials.

Pros

Capable of working with a large amount of inventory

Cons

Will not work with previous version of inFlow

Pros

inflow cloud, more convenience, faster, no need to thru main computer

Cons

not using frequently so not known, just admin

Pros

I like the ease of use and the ability to run a variety of reports.

Cons

Inventory Item input can be confusing and difficult to change.

Pros

We have found that INFLOW was willing to work with us to set this up to best fit our needs. We find the customer service and support staff to be incredibly helpful. They not only respond in a timely fashion to our requests, but followup with ideas and suggestions to be sure that we are not continually struggling with a project we are trying to set up.

Cons

I do not think the integration with QB fits our needs. There needs to be a 2 way integration with QB for credit card payments. Also, the invoices did not print out correctly without additional work on our end and the statement feature was difficult.

Pros

Inflow has a lot of characteristics and functionality that other inventory systems do not. With the easy access to view numerous pages at the same time is one of my favorite features.

Cons

The only thing that we have had trouble with Inflow Inventory is the fact that they do not offer an open API. The company that I work directly through a CRM and it would be wonderful to be able to connect orders directly to a customer. Currently we are having to manually share orders, which adds unneeded time spent.

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Pros

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

Cons

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.

Pros

Ease of use, customer support

Cons

Changing the invoice look and feel, the online system