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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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:

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    • Free Version
    • Free Trial
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    Free Trial

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    Features

    Total features of Fishbowl: 125

    • 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
    • Chemical Management
    • Commission Management
    • Contact Database
    • Cost Tracking
    • Customizable Reports
    • Customization
    • Data Import/Export
    • Data Synchronization
    • Delivery Management
    • Demand Forecasting
    • Document Management
    • Employee Management
    • Estimating
    • Expiration Date Management
    • Financial Management
    • For Metal Fabrication
    • 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
    • Location Tracking
    • 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)
    • Predictive Analytics
    • 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
    • Resource Management
    • 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

    4.1 /5
    (819)
    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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    • 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.

    Cindy
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    • Industry: Automotive
    • Company size: 11–50 Employees
    • Used Daily for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

    Fast and Easy to Use!

    Reviewed on 11/03/2022

    Pros

    Integration with our accounting software. Able to save documents to the drive for later recall. Multiple users in the system without slow down. Get ship quotes while staying in the sales order. Able to email customer estimates from sales order.

    Cons

    Updates sometimes cause issues with the software and need to be addressed by customer service. Customer service is only open 8-6 mountain time. Our third party forms are easily broken when major updates are needed. This slows our processes down.

    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 13/04/2022

    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)
    Rosa
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    • Industry: Food & Beverages
    • Company size: 11–50 Employees
    • Used Daily for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

    Excellent Customer Service

    Reviewed on 11/03/2022

    The customer service Fishbowl provides has been a great experience. They understand our process and...

    The customer service Fishbowl provides has been a great experience. They understand our process and go out their way to give us the help we need.

    Pros

    It's user friendly and and its ability to grow with the company.

    Cons

    The inability to track types of changes made automaticlly.

    Alternatives Considered

    Aptean Food & Beverage ERP JustFood Edition and NetSuite

    Reasons for Switching to Fishbowl

    We felt Fishbowl could accomplish what we needed just as well as other products and at a reasonable price.
    Miriam
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    • Industry: Shipbuilding
    • Company size: 11–50 Employees
    • Used Daily for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Works great for Small Manufacturer

    Reviewed on 06/11/2019

    I love the ease of analyzing each piece of our manufacturing process.

    I love the ease of analyzing each piece of our manufacturing process.

    Pros

    Ease of Quickbooks Online integration, ease of cost analysis

    Cons

    Reports are not as easy to manipulate as some programs

    Response from Fishbowl

    Thank you for your review, Miriam. We appreciate your business and you taking the time to give us some feedback.

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    Fishbowl FAQs

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    Fishbowl offers the following pricing plans:

    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, 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, authorize.net

    Fishbowl offers the following support options:

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

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