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!

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  • Free Trial
  • Subscription

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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.

    • Typical Customers

    • Freelancers
    • Small Businesses (2-50)
    • Mid-size Companies (51-500)
    • Large enterprises (500 and more)

    Deployment

    • Cloud-based
    • On-premise

    Markets

    Australia, Canada, United States

    Supported Languages

    English

    Pricing starting from:

    Not provided by vendor

    • Free Version
    • Free Trial
    • Subscription

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    Features

    Total features of Fishbowl: 121

    • 3PL Management
    • API
    • Access Controls/Permissions
    • Accounting
    • Accounting Integration
    • Alerts/Escalation
    • Alerts/Notifications
    • Asset Lifecycle Management
    • Asset Tracking
    • Audit Trail
    • Automated Scheduling
    • BOM Creation
    • Backorder Management
    • Barcode Printing
    • Barcode/Ticket Scanning
    • Barcoding/RFID
    • Barrel Management
    • Billing & Invoicing
    • Bills of Material
    • CRM
    • Capacity Planning
    • Cataloging/Categorization
    • Cellar Management
    • Channel Management
    • Check-in/Check-out
    • Commission Management
    • Contact Database
    • Cost Tracking
    • Customizable Reports
    • Customization
    • Cycle Count
    • Data Import/Export
    • Data Synchronization
    • Delivery Management
    • Demand Forecasting
    • Document Management
    • Employee Management
    • Estimating
    • Expiration Date Management
    • Financial Management
    • For Retail
    • For Small Businesses
    • Forecasting
    • Import/Export Management
    • Integrated Business Operations
    • Inventory Auditing
    • Inventory Control
    • Inventory Management
    • Inventory Optimization
    • Inventory Replenishment
    • Inventory Tracking
    • Item Management
    • Kitting
    • Label Templates
    • MES
    • Manufacturing Inventory Management
    • Material Requirements Planning
    • Merchandise Management
    • Mobile Access
    • Monitoring
    • Multi-Channel Management
    • Multi-Currency
    • Multi-Location
    • Order Entry
    • Order Fulfillment
    • Order Management
    • Order Processing
    • Order Tracking
    • Performance Metrics
    • Point of Sale (POS)
    • Product Identification
    • Production Scheduling
    • Production Tracking
    • Projections
    • Purchase Order Management
    • Purchasing & Receiving
    • Quality Management
    • QuickBooks Integration
    • Quotes/Estimates
    • Real Time Data
    • Real Time Monitoring
    • Real Time Reporting
    • Real Time Synchronization
    • Real-time Updates
    • Receiving Labels
    • Receiving/Putaway Management
    • Recurring Orders
    • Reorder Management
    • Reporting & Statistics
    • Reporting/Analytics
    • Retail Inventory Management
    • Returns Management
    • SKU/UPC Codes
    • Safety Management
    • Sales Forecasting
    • Sales Orders
    • Sales Reports
    • Sales Tax Management
    • Sales Trend Analysis
    • Search/Filter
    • Serial Number Tracking
    • Shipping Labels
    • Shipping Management
    • Special Order Management
    • Status Tracking
    • Stock Management
    • Supplier Management
    • Supply Chain Management
    • Supply Management
    • Task Scheduling
    • Third Party Integrations
    • Traceability
    • Transportation Management
    • Usage Tracking/Analytics
    • Vendor Managed Inventory
    • Vendor Management
    • Vineyard Management
    • Warehouse Management
    • Work Order Management
    • Workflow Management
    • eCommerce Management

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    Reviews

    Overall rating

    4.2 /5
    (810)
    Value for Money
    4.1/5
    Features
    4.1/5
    Ease of Use
    4.1/5
    Customer Support
    4.2/5

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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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    • Value for Money
    • Ease of Use
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Fishbowl Review

    Reviewed on 13/02/2019

    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.

    David
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    • Industry: Plastics
    • Company size: 2–10 Employees
    • Used Daily for 2+ years
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    • Value for Money
    • Ease of Use
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    • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

    Good Value and performance

    Reviewed on 22/06/2022

    Fishbowl has been key to our organization. This is where we maintain all inventory and create...

    Fishbowl has been key to our organization. This is where we maintain all inventory and create sales and purchase orders.

    Pros

    Controlling inventory and sales management

    Cons

    Creating customized reports can be cumbersome

    Alternatives Considered

    QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise

    Reasons for Switching to Fishbowl

    The ability to create complex bills of materials and maintenance of all inventory. In addition the ability to talk to Quickbooks for all billing.
    Leilani
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    • Industry: Food & Beverages
    • Review Source

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    • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

    The updates are killing me

    Reviewed on 27/09/2016

    Pros

    The customer support is great. It's just hard to get a hold of them when you need to speak to a live person on the phone. The people who work there are the nicest and most helpful when you do get to talk to them and they do resolve the day to day issues that pop up. ie, inventory getting stuck in committed status is a pretty quick fix, but then again, should it really happen in the first place?. Bigger problems take more time to fix, but they seem to keep working on it until its resolved. The people they have providing training are excellent.
    The wikis are pretty easy to access and are pretty good

    Cons

    This year the updates seem to break something that's had been working. Then it takes hours with customer support to fix and get going again.
    The phone support team could use more staff because it does take hours to get a call back. The reports are difficult to customize, you have to know programming. There is no simple report writer function or a reports that can be customized.
    If you have to pick inventory from two locations for one sales order, it will create two invoices. There is no way around that in Fishbowl. The calendar is pretty basic, could use enhancements. The inventory export CSV file does not use FIFO, but average costing. So if you use FIFO or any other method other than average costing, you have to use a different report instead of getting the data in CSV format.
    The shipping module is frustrating and the way it is set up does not allow us to use carton count efficiently, so we have to change the packing list after it's printed. If you want Fishbowl to count the cartons for you, you have to add each carton manually. And if you do that, it will not total or summarize the number of cartons you have, it will list each one individually. So you could have a packing list that could be several pages long.
    The UPS integration used to be great and then UPS updated, Fishbowl did not support the updated software and we had to change to UPS Worldship. Definitely a step backwards because the old integration worked beautifully. Now it's more manual and cumbersome.

    Rudy
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    • Industry: Consumer Goods
    • Company size: 11–50 Employees
    • Used Daily for 2+ years
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    • Value for Money
    • Ease of Use
    • Customer Support
    • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

    Fishbowl for SMBs

    Reviewed on 17/05/2022

    It is a positive experience.

    It is a positive experience.

    Pros

    It is powerful inventory tracking software that can be built out to your needs

    Cons

    It can be expensive to build out custom reporting and features with fishbowl

    Alternatives Considered

    QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise

    Reasons for Switching to Fishbowl

    QB did not have inventory management at that time
    Jarod
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    • Industry: Retail
    • Company size: 11–50 Employees
    • Used Daily for 2+ years
    • Review Source

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    • Value for Money
    • Ease of Use
    • Customer Support
    • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

    Fishbowl

    Reviewed on 18/06/2022

    Pros

    Ease of use. Seem to make updates from requested ideas.

    Cons

    They don't currently have an online version, only through hosted.

    Alternatives Considered

    Agiliron

    Reasons for Switching to Fishbowl

    Agiliron support is horrible. Worst company I have ever dealt with.
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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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