inFlow vs. Zoho Inventory

Which should you use for inventory management?

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We make inFlow Inventory so we know it can be tough to shop for inventory software. So here’s a one-pager on why you might use inFlow over QuickBooks Commerce, or vice versa.

inFlow vs. QuickBooks Commerce

Before we dig into details, here’s one of those handy tables to show you the basics

inFlow vs Katana MRP
Features
Inventory management
Asset tracking
Barcoding
Order management
Manufacturing
B2B Portal
Integrations and API
Platforms
Windows
Web
Android
iPhone
Support
Guided onboarding
Email
Chat
Remote troubleshooting Phone
Learning Center Help center (articles)
Trials
Free 14-day trial
(no credit card required)		 No trials after June 9, 2021
Price and users
Starts at 149 USD/month for 2 users, paid annually.
Some plans require an onboarding package.		 No longer available.

What’s the short version of how inFlow compares to QuickBooks Commerce?

As we just showed, inFlow and QuickBooks Commerce can both handle inventory and ecommerce orders.

If you’re looking into these products, you probably care about:

  • Cloud-based apps you can use anywhere
  • Inventory and order management
  • Integrations with ecommerce sites and an API
  • Pushing data to QuickBooks Online
  • Manufacturing and bill of materials features

One difference you should know about

QuickBooks Commerce (a.k.a. TradeGecko) will no longer be available as a standalone product as of June 10, 2022.

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Why would I use inFlow over QuickBooks Commerce?

inFlow offers a full-fledged inventory system on both desktop and mobile devices, letting you get real work done from anywhere

Complete inventory tracking

inFlow has always had an inventory-first approach, so it’s great at tracking purchases, sales, and products. You can also used more advanced features like serial number support and barcode generation to track products from first purchase to final sale.

inFlow’s customizable units of measure provide a lot of flexibility for different businesses. You can purchase by the pallet, store product by the box, and sell in individual units. Furthermore, you can create a product category called sweaters, a sub-category for wool sweaters, and custom fields to capture details like size and color. However you choose to slice up your product catalog, inFlow has a way to capture that data.

Manufacturing and kitting features

If your work involves manufacturing or kitting products for sale, inFlow supports multi-level builds. Do you need to make chair arms and chair legs before you can assemble the entire chair? inFlow’s flexible manufacturing features help you handle all of that in a single work order. If you stock components or raw materials that are used across multiple assemblies, inFlow shows you exactly which BOMs a component belongs to. This approach simplifies your manufacturing records and makes it easier to make sense of them when you have to generate reports.

A full mobile workflow

There are some tasks that are better done away from your desk, and when it comes to mobile apps, inFlow’s mobile workflow is the solution to beat. inFlow’s mobile apps handle sales, purchasing, stock adjustments and transfers, and help you email invoices to customers or send RFQs to vendors. And you can do all of this across iPhones and Android devices with regular updates that bring new features and fixes.

If you’d like to work even smarter, you can also purchase an inFlow Smart Scanner—a rugged Android device with a built-in laser scanner. The dedicated laser offers a big speed increase for scanning barcodes, and it works even in dimly-lit back rooms or warehouses where a regular smartphone camera can’t see a thing.

What did QuickBooks Commerce do well over inFlow?

Best for  US-based businesses that use QuickBooks Online and need to fulfill ecommerce orders

A QuickBooks Online add-on

QuickBooks Commerce requires a QuickBooks Online subscription, so it works well as a feature add-on for existing QuickBooks Online customers. This could be an advantage for your company if you prefer to use QuickBooks products, but QuickBooks Commerce may not be the right fit you if you use a different accounting service like Xero.

Focused on ecommerce workflows

The QuickBooks Commerce inventory caters to managing ecommerce inventory specifically. You can create purchase orders to add more stock, specify where stock is held, and sell that stock on sales orders.

Another helpful feature in QuickBooks Commerce is Variants, which is how you can track product characteristics like size, color, or material. This works well for items like shirts that have the same style, but are differentiated by size and color.

Finally, while both inFlow and QuickBooks Commerce offer
ecommerce and accounting integrations, QuickBooks Commerce does have more of them. This can help if you only run certain parts of your inventory workflow and need to connect with a third party logistics company for fulfillment.

How should you make the decision between inFlow and QuickBooks Commerce?

There are caveats to choosing QuickBooks Commerce because your business must be based in the US and you’ll have to pay for a QuickBooks Online subscription.

If your business is all in on doing business through QuickBooks, it makes a lot of sense to give their QuickBooks Commerce add-on a try.

inFlow offers many of the same features as QuickBooks Commerce, but inFlow is available worldwide. You can still integrate with QuickBooks Online, but you don’t have to.

If you want an all-in-one system to improve inventory and order tracking, manufacturing, and your mobile workflow, you won’t go wrong with inFlow.

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