Acctivate Inventory Management

4.1
Overall rating
Reviews

4.1
Overall rating
Reviews

About Acctivate Inventory Management

Built for growing product-selling businesses using QuickBooks, Acctivate is a premium inventory management & multi-channel order fulfillment add-on that helps you focus on growth without operational limitations. Solve for QuickBooks limitations, including real-time inventory visibility, multi-warehousing, multi-channel orders, ecommerce fulfillment, EDI transaction support, barcoding, landed cost, lot and serial number traceability and more. Acctivate provides seamless integration with QuickBooks for real-time inventory visibility, high-volume order fulfillment, and business analytics. It’s designed for growing companies wishing to stick with QuickBooks, rather than taking on expensive enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. The software provides flexible solutions for many industries, including food and beverage, automotive, electronics, construction, medical equipment and industrial supply. Other features include multi-warehouse inventory, web store (eCommerce), order-picking automation, packing and shipment tracking, kitting (bundling), variable assemblies, barcoding, landed cost, and traceability (lot and/or serial number tracking). Acctivate works with all versions of QuickBooks Desktop and QuickBooks Online.
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Acctivate Inventory Management pricing

Acctivate Inventory Management does not have a free version and does not offer a free trial. Acctivate Inventory Management paid version starts at US$5,995.00/one-time.

Starting Price:
US$5,995.00/one-time
Free Version:
No
Free trial:
No

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Acctivate Inventory Management Reviews

Feature rating

Value for Money
3.8
Functionality
3.9
Ease of Use
4.1
Customer Support
4.2
5 reviews of 112 View all reviews
Rafi
Rafi
  • Industry: Apparel & Fashion
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Monthly for 6-12 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 19/05/2023

Acctivate Inventory Management

well

Pros

Comprehensive Inventory Management: Acctivate offers a wide range of features and functionalities to efficiently manage inventory, including stock control, order management, purchasing, and tracking.Integration with QuickBooks: Acctivate seamlessly integrates with QuickBooks, providing a synchronized and streamlined solution for inventory management and financial operations.Customization Options: Users appreciate the ability to customize Acctivate to fit their specific business needs. It allows for flexible configuration of fields, reports, and workflows to adapt to different industries and workflows.

Cons

Complexity: Some users have found Acctivate to have a steeper learning curve, especially for those who are new to inventory management software. The extensive features and functionalities may require some time and training to fully grasp and utilize effectively.Limited Mobile Access: Acctivate's mobile app or mobile access options may be limited compared to some other inventory management solutions. This can be a drawback for businesses that require remote access or mobile functionality for inventory management tasks.Integration Challenges: While Acctivate integrates well with QuickBooks, some users have reported challenges or difficulties in integrating with other software systems or third-party applications they use, which may require additional customization or development work.

Paul
  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
3
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
3

4
Reviewed on 03/08/2021

Acctivate Review

We have been using it for 6 years now. There was a bit of a learning curve. Once sorted out, we can order receive, pick and sell our product with ease. Database size has been a bit of an issue and Intuit file size management grows quickly. Great product for a mid size business.

Pros

Acctivate brought us up to todays technology in product Inventory and sales control, at a reasonable price.

Cons

The lack of Vendor control, and Vendor Options make things hard.
Doing a Daily Sync with Quickbooks does not come with out issues, and tax rounding is Canada is a large issue.
We do have SOP's in place to administrate these short falls.

Alternatives Considered

Sage Intacct and NetSuite

Reasons for Choosing Acctivate Inventory Management

It was a slow custom developed product with no support.

Reasons for Switching to Acctivate Inventory Management

Price, not needing to upgrade our server, ease of use.
Sepp
  • Industry: Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
3
Features
1
Ease of Use
2
Customer Support
1

2
Reviewed on 26/08/2024

Basic use only. If you manufacture or assemble items, not good.

We have been using Acctivate since 2017 and was so frustrated we ended our maintenance contract. A windows update 'broke' the ability to print, so we signed up again.
Updates in 2023 changed some workflows but we managed.
When the most recent update (12.3) came out in 2024 and we lost prior functionality and new workflows are harder, we have once again ended our maintenance contract.

I will sum up my experience with Acctivate, both using the program and interacting with the company, with this simple-to-understand issue:
As a customer, as a user of the 'internets', (And as a person with common sense)
I use support ticket interfaces almost daily. While Acctivate has a support ticket system, once support has answered my ticket, MY INITIAL post as a customer is hidden from view.
Think about that - The company removes (hides) my initial request for support and all the effort that goes into asking for help from me, so that when I read the answer the support ticket, I can't read what I first wrote! Fast forward a few days and I get a helpful email that says [sensitive content hidden]' has not been updated in several days, should we close it?
UMMM - what is that ticket for?

I have posted well over 120 support tickets, few of which have ever been addressed. And they are closed without a resolution and no answer from the company.

I WANT to be an advocate for Acctivate. I WANT to be able to recommend them.
We have invested 7+ years in developing a system that works, but they don't seem to be able to design a GUI that leverages the power of the info in the system. They have not receptive to detailed requests for improvements that would make thing less confusing and easier to use.
I don't think it would take much to make it better, but when each new update changes our workflow and requires more work to do so, with less clarity while doing it?

Sadly, I don't know what system out there is better.
The two stars are because it does do SOMETHING - it just takes quite a bit of work to get there.

Pros

Powerful database
Smooth Sync with Quickbooks

Cons

Total frustration with recent updates adding more steps to basic functions and changing the design to make core functions multiple button clicks, while obsuring what the user should do.

Alternatives Considered

Fishbowl and JobBOSS²

Reasons for Switching to Acctivate Inventory Management

Seemed like the most powerful. We actually started with Fishbowl, but serious workflow issues - like deleting a field and not being able to undo it.
Bruce
  • Industry: Biotechnology
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 13/04/2021

Acctivate Inventory Management works well suits our needs

Very please with our choice

Pros

The setup and learning curve were very reasonable, daily use and upkeep is easy

Cons

The dashboard needs to be more user friendly to setup and use (sizing and placing the report boxes is awkward) Some dropdown menus are not intuitive, but once learned easy to navigate

Alternatives Considered

Fishbowl and NetSuite

Reasons for Switching to Acctivate Inventory Management

the setup and prep where much easier compared to the other two products
Gabriel
  • Industry: Apparel & Fashion
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
5

4
Reviewed on 18/07/2017

Excellent for the Price!

We were able to greatly improve visibility of our performance allowing us to focus resources in the areas that needed help. The quality and consistency of our output also improve dramatically. Probably the one area that had the most drastic improvement has been our warehouse. The ACCTivate our inventory is the most accurate it has ever been and order processing accuracy has also improve dramatically with the use of the mobile scanners.

Pros

Software is filled with many intuitive features that cover a wide variety of of business uses in everything from order processing to inventory management.

Inventory management includes ability to manage using bins and multiple physical or virtual warehouses. This is a strong feature for an application in this price range.

The ability to create custom fields in virtually every section of the software helps resolve many challenges, and the fields are, in most cases, can be made to appear in reports.

Has a great order management module that can be customized for specific views and allow for both visibility and batch management of open sales order.

Mobile/handheld support allowed our warehouse to switch from manual to scanned picking, which greatly improved accuracy and accountability.

Software supports ODBC connectivity which provide a solid work around for the software's lack of strong out-of-the-box reports (see below)

In conclusion, if you are a small to mid-size business that has outgrown Quickbooks, you really cant go wrong with ACCTivate. So long as your Quickbooks data is clean and organized, migration is quick and painless.

Cons

Out of the box reporting is a bit limited depending on your needs. Very basic reports are fine and they are accurate, but if your business has complex or custom logics by which you evaluate performance, you will need to hire a report writer (Crystal Reports) to build your report templates.

No real audit trail tracking/reporting so seeing who did what can be a challenge.

Lacks ability to restrict certain permissions that can lead to accidental or deliberate manipulation of data resulting in order processing errors.

Response from Acctivate

Gabriel, your feedback is greatly appreciated. We are happy to hear about the improvements across your business after implementing Acctivate, especially the visibility & productivity gains that have allowed you all to focus on the work at hand. We also continually strive to learn what businesses need and how we can enhance our software, so it is also good to know about reporting and permission based needs. - Dakota

Replied 19/07/2017

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