inFlow Inventory Software

Pros

Amount of features included with price of software. Ease of use. Intuitiveness. Would recommend this to others.

Cons

Better integration with scan gun. We have an inventory sheet that we use to transfer products from our warehouse to different locations i.e., service vans, install vans. I would like to use the scan gun to do this procedure instead of manually, as its done now.

Pass all Excel inventories very quickly and manage the products in more than 5+ stores

Pros

The flexibility that gives the user, if I need a report that does not have inFlow I can export / create it to Excel.
I can also simply copy and paste data.
I currently handle 6000+ SKUs in more than 5 stores, more than 100,000+ Sales without slowing down problems, or headaches.
Thanks to this program you move from ordered storage to chaotic storage without problems

Cons

I do not have a clear disadvantage ... mmm ... I see that you can not handle products with expiration date, but that is not my item

Real time information
Great drilling features
Useful reports

Pros

No need to run excel filters, pivots. Customizable reports.
Well thought out dash board
Well thought out business gauges Re-Order
Business reporting with visuals and various slicers
Data integrity, bulk import and export Very stable and robust application

Cons

Quick search for populating could do with improvement when filling sales orders for stores carrying more than 100 items
Inventory movement could benefit with SO or PO replaced by Customer or vendor ( Yes reports can achieve that

Pros

Price, User Experience, Import/Export Product, Overall User Experience, Reports,

Cons

Lack of payment integration (This is a huge disappointment!) Importing products is a slow process. Can't delete products in mass within the system.

Pros

Multiple ways to parse and sort inventory. I also like the feature when transferring stock that it must be received at the new location before the transfer is complete. Great for audits.

Cons

Limited report features. I need to export to excel in order to get the reports that I need. SQL report modification features would be great.

Keeping my inventory up to date and submitting Purchase Orders.

Pros

I like that I can keep all my inventory up to date as well as do Purchase Orders and Sales Quotes all from the same program!!

It is an easy way to keep track of customers and it is good for giving me monthly sales and profit figures. Once I grow in confidence I am sure it will replace many of my spread sheets.

Pros

Most of it is self explanatory so I can figure out most of it on my own. I am not technically minded, so it is important that it is easy to use.
The stock control is excellent. The reports are simple to generate. It is easy to input new sales.

Cons

I am not convinced about how easy it is to change prices of products, and I have not yet figured out how to input freight prices. I had hoped to use the product to keep a check on advertising spend, but this has not been possible.

Ease of use, saved me time, helps me breeze through taxes, calcaultes cost of inventory, this software saved me. Just 2 days before taxes were due. I plugged in all my receipts and calculations from the past 3 years and inflow perfectly gave me back the numbers I needed to finish my taxes. And the calculations even matched the previous years I had filed. So i knew it was perfect.

Pros

The user interface lets you get so much more done with less clicks, I've tried out other inventory solutions and can say InFlow is just the best.

Cons

When creating a purchase order, you cannot enter the subtotal of a product and have inflow automatically calculate the cost per item. You have to calculate it yourself, and when you do inflow only stores the last few digits after the decimal point so if you put $0.0003338 inflow will store maybe $0.0003 which makes the calucations off. And after you mark the purchase order as paid and go back to it later, it'll re-calculate automatically and start asking you to "pay the remainder". This is what breaks inflow.

Having all inventory lists in one location

Pros

easy to use, great to have everything in the same application. Just doing the basics at the present time. Once all lists are complete, will spend more time digging into what else this program can do for us.

Cons

would like to have sub-folders within the categories. Maybe there is a way, I just haven't found how to do it yet.

Pros

The layout is excellent and its really easy to use. The return value is over satisfactory for the amount of money paid

Cons

Custom purchase order or any other custom documents cant be saved directly to different format (eg Pdf) unless opened in word and then saved manually.
The email set up does not really works if the email id is company based and not standard

As a purchaser and parts manager for over 15 years I've used several different systems. All of which were dealer software or subscription software. Inflow presents an intuitive easy to use product in a great package and with a low one time purchase price! As a drilling company we deal with a wide range of products and parts across our spectrum of equipment. Inflow's modular setup and flexible data entry allows me to easily divide and conquer the inventory control war. Quick online support with answers to even the smallest problems is great. Inflow blows the competition away!

Pros

pretty much everything

Cons

haven't found anything yet

Advice to Others

it took a little bit of searching to find you guys in a big pile of other lesser products

inFlow has been a reliable tool in keeping track in our inventory, creating sales orders, invoices. We have decided to go with our own customized data base, but while we were using it, it proved useful.

Pros

Great for keeping track of inventory as you create sales orders and invoices.

Cons

Customer service wasn't always quick to respond.

Quality is tops - innovative.
Took me some time to adapt to the program in general - probably because accounting is not my field of expertise.
Found some limitations to the program e.g. limited usable space inside the remarks box of SQ to keep SQ a one pager.
Customer support superb: always helpful, friendly and gets the job done.
Currently I do not use all the features of the program hence program bit expensive for my needs - however i am excited with the scope the program offers!

Pros

A one time purchase, no recurring expenses unless additional support is required.

Cons

Slight limitations here and there based on personal needs, but I found ways to overcome those

Advice to Others

well thought out software - none at this point thanks

Seems like excellent, but not having rights to edit user access is a major concern, with the regular license.

At lease s/w must have to have pre define few user roles with different access rights.

Pros

User Interface
features
light weight s/w

Cons

User Access control for regular license.

Very good app. Has helped our business a lot.
Without this we had no idea how things were tracking but now all staff members can get detailed info at a glance
Thanks

Pros

easy , online

Cons

cant change sone things i would like to. search could be better

I have used Inflow at a previous job and when I started this job and they asked for my recommendation I suggested it partly because I already knew how to use it but also because I knew that it would be easy to integrate into our already existing business.

Not only is Inflow easy to use, but I find there's just enough customization available that it's essentially plug and play and very little set up involved other than entering basic company information and adding inventory.

Pros

Ease of use and just enough customization that you can make it your own without hours of setup time.

Cons

When initially setting up inventory I was unable to find a way to import new products from excel and simultaneously include the inventory, I found that it needed to be done in two different steps which wasn't ideal.

Advice to Others

I used this product for two years at a previous company and recently implemented it at my new position in another existing company.

Some features you have to look for but it overall is a nice program. Also would be nice to have the option to add more than one store to it. We have a retail and wholesale. We keep them separate.

Pros

Not hard to use

Cons

Can only have one store at a time

This program has all the tools needed to use for a inventory. I love the fact that you can do quotes, sales orders, and pos and invoices.

We as a company have used it for the last 3 years and it's awesome. It has Automated many of our business process and the reports have helped us big league

This software is a great buy for the cost, I have used it for over 8 years. They have added many new features over the years to make even better. Support is Ok but getting better.

Pros

inexpensive, you keep the data base, no monthly fees. For day to day use it is bug free, does not crash.

Cons

do not like the new pay every year maintenance pay system, some bugs with current things effecting the history of the inventory.

Advice to Others

good starting inventory system, still a good buy price wise.