Fishbowl Inventory
Manufacturing and warehouse inventory built around QuickBooks
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Category
The best Inventory software
Inventory Management software and applications
- Tools listed
- 42
All 42 inventory tools
Every listing shows its published starting price on the same footing, so a shortlist does not take ten tabs.
What inventory software costs
Counted from the published pricing of the 42 listings on this page. A tool counts as free only where it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence or a starting price of zero.
- Cheapest paid plan
- $5Stockpile
- Median entry price
- $94across 36 priced
- Dearest entry price
- $5,000SAP Analytics Cloud
- Publish a $0 plan
- 7of 42
Paid inventory plans in this set start anywhere from $5 a month for Stockpile to $5,000 for SAP Analytics Cloud. The median entry price across the 36 tools that publish one is $94, half of them start below that figure and half above it.
Entry price is not the ceiling. The dearest published tier anywhere in this category is SAP Analytics Cloud's at $20,000 a month, 4× the highest entry price on the page. Read the top of each ladder as well as the bottom, because that is where you land after two years of growth.
7 of 42 publish a $0 plan, and every one of those also sells a paid tier above it. 29 tools have no free tier of any kind.
3 of 42 keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote, which in practice means the number you end up paying at the top end is not on this page or on theirs.
Stockpile pricingSAP Analytics Cloud pricingSAP Analytics Cloud plans
How these vendors bill
The billing model each of the 42 inventory listings publishes, counted. Two tools at the same headline price are not the same purchase if one of them charges per seat.
- subscription
- 24
- freemium
- 4
- Per month by user tier
- 1
- quote
- 1
Separately, 3 of 42 publish at least one tier with no price attached. Those are sold by quote, so the top of the ladder is negotiable, and unknowable, until you talk to sales.
What comes as standard, and what you pay extra for
Every capability named in a published pricing tier by any of the 28 inventory tools here that break their plans down, counted once per vendor. This measures what vendors choose to advertise as a selling point, not everything the software does, an absence below is silence, not a missing feature.
Named by most of the category
- Priority support , 15 of 28
Named by fewer
- Standard support , 9 of 28
- Unlimited users , 9 of 28
- Dedicated support , 8 of 28
- Full features , 8 of 28
- Advanced features , 6 of 28
- API access , 4 of 28
- Core features , 4 of 28
- Email support , 4 of 28
- Advanced reporting , 3 of 28
Named by exactly one vendor: Access to 100M+ product catalog, Barcode and QR labels, Core inventory, Inventory tracking and request workflow, Production scheduling, Studio access. Those are differentiators rather than table stakes.
What “Inventory” covers in practice
The subject tags that recur across these 42 listings, with the number of tools carrying each. A category label is a filing decision; this is the closer read of what is actually filed under it.
- manufacturing7
- cloud5
- ecommerce5
- Enterprise5
- maintenance5
- order-management5
- barcode4
- asset-tracking3
- cmms3
- Free3
- marketplace3
- mobile3
Carried by a single tool: 3pl, cloud erp, erpnext, fulfillment, mobile-first, photo-tracking, research, simple. If one of those is the reason you are here, the category page is the wrong lens, go straight to that product.
How to choose between them
Four things the numbers above should change about your shortlist.
Start with the free tiers if there are enough of them
7 of 42 inventory tools here publish a $0 plan, which is enough to run a real trial without a purchase order. A free tier is worth more than a free trial when you are evaluating: a trial expires on the vendor's schedule, a free plan expires when you outgrow it. The thing to check before you commit is which of the capabilities below sit above the free line, starting with priority support, the single most frequently named capability in this category's published tiers.
Read the spread before you read the features
$5 to $5,000 is a $4,995 spread on entry price alone, and a spread that wide is never about polish, it is about who the vendor built for. Tools at the bottom of this ladder are priced for one person or a small team; tools near $5,000 are priced for a department with a procurement process. Decide which of those you are before you compare capability, or you will shortlist four tools that were never competing for the same buyer.
Check which tier you actually land on
22 of 42 tools here publish three or more tiers, and the median vendor in this category ships 3 of them. The advertised price is the first rung, and the things teams tend to need, priority support, standard support, unlimited users, are named in higher plans far more often than in entry ones. Price your shortlist at the tier that contains what you need, not at the tier on the pricing page's left edge.
The billing model matters more than the headline number
This category splits across 4 billing models: subscription on 24 listings, freemium on 4, and 2 other arrangements across the rest. A per-user price and a flat subscription at the same headline figure are not the same purchase, the first one grows with headcount and the second does not. Multiply by your real team size before you compare two numbers side by side.
Compare inventory tools directly
Every pairing below is a full comparison: the same checklist applied to both, so a gap in one is a gap in the other.
- Fishbowl Inventory vs Quartzy
- Quartzy vs Acumatica
- Acumatica vs Asset Panda
- Asset Panda vs BlueCart
- BlueCart vs Brightpearl
- Brightpearl vs ChannelAdvisor
- ChannelAdvisor vs DEAR Inventory
- DEAR Inventory vs ERPNext
Go straight to the numbers
- Fishbowl Inventorypricingalternatives
- Quartzypricingalternatives
- Acumaticapricingalternatives
- Asset Pandapricingalternatives
- BlueCartpricingalternatives
- Brightpearlpricingalternatives
Questions people ask about inventory software
Answered from the listings on this page, and nowhere else.
- How much does inventory software cost?
- Across the 42 inventory tools listed here, paid plans start between $5 and $5,000 a month, with a median entry price of $94. The most expensive single tier published in the category is $20,000 a month (SAP Analytics Cloud). 7 of 42 also publish a $0 plan.
- What is the cheapest inventory software?
- Among the ones that charge, Stockpile has the lowest published entry price at $5 a month. Cheapest and best value are different questions: check which tier the capability you need actually appears in before you compare starting prices.
- Is there free inventory software?
- Yes, 7 of 42 tools in this category publish a plan priced at $0. Each of those also sells paid tiers above the free plan. A tool is only counted as free here when it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence, or a starting price of zero, a free trial does not count.
- What features should inventory software have?
- Judging by what vendors put in their own published pricing tiers, the most frequently named capabilities in this category are priority support (15 of 28 tools that publish plan detail), standard support (9) and unlimited users (9). Treat those as the category baseline. Anything named by only one vendor, such as access to 100m+ product catalog or barcode and qr labels, is a differentiator rather than a standard, so it is worth deciding whether you need it before it narrows your shortlist to one.
- How is inventory software usually billed?
- subscription (24), freemium (4), Per month by user tier (1), quote (1), counted across the 42 listings on this page. The distinction that costs money is per-seat versus flat: a per-user plan at the same headline price scales with your headcount and a flat subscription does not. 3 of 42 tools also keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote.
- What does inventory software actually cover?
- The 42 tools on this page do not describe themselves the same way. The subject tags they carry most often are manufacturing (7), cloud (5), ecommerce (5), enterprise (5), maintenance (5). That spread is the honest answer to what the category means in practice: it is not one product shape, and two tools filed under inventory may overlap on very little.
- How many pricing tiers do inventory tools offer?
- 30 of 42 tools here publish a plan breakdown, and the median one has 3 tiers. 22 of 42 publish three or more. More tiers is not generosity, it usually means the capability you are buying for sits two rungs above the advertised price, so price your shortlist at the tier that contains it.
- How many inventory tools are listed on Softwr?
- 42 approved inventory listings appear on this page, including Fishbowl Inventory, Quartzy, Acumatica, Asset Panda. Each links to a full breakdown with its pricing tiers and plan detail, and the category can be filtered by price and sorted by rating above. You can also read the shortlist view at /best/inventory, which ranks the same set by published rating.
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