
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
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
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Total features of Fishbowl: 116
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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 2/13/2019
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.
- Industry: Consumer Goods
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Fishbowl for SMBs
Reviewed on 5/17/2022
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
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QuickBooks Desktop EnterpriseReasons for Switching to Fishbowl
QB did not have inventory management at that time- Industry: Food & Beverages
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- Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10
The updates are killing me
Reviewed on 9/27/2016
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.
- Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Fishbowl Works for Us
Reviewed on 3/4/2022
I've implemented about five ERP/MRP systems and this was the easiest of them all. Our team has...
I've implemented about five ERP/MRP systems and this was the easiest of them all. Our team has picked up on it quickly and likes to use it. Very user friendly.
Pros
The software is easy to use and intuitive. Unlike SAP and others, a new person can jump in and start using the software day one. Things are easy to find and the learning curve is days not months. A system the people won't use is worthless.
Cons
Can't think of anything...does what we need it to do.
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NetSuiteReasons for Switching to Fishbowl
One of our senior leadership had implemented it before and liked it at a previous company. The others liked the simplicity of the system, and its ability to work with our already existing Quickbooks.- Industry: Wholesale
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Fishbowl is a very polished product
Reviewed on 5/11/2022
Fishbowl was easy to deploy, easy to use and easy to integrate. Our experiences are very good...
Fishbowl was easy to deploy, easy to use and easy to integrate. Our experiences are very good overall.
Pros
Nice looking interface and very easy to use. The REST API is very easy to work with.
Cons
It would be a great feature to allow 3PL to bill their customers from Fishbowl.
Reasons for Switching to Fishbowl
On-site deployment with API ability build-in.Fishbowl FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Fishbowl.Q. What type of pricing plans does Fishbowl offer?
Fishbowl offers the following pricing plans:
- Free Trial: Available
Please contact Fishbowl for pricing details.
Q. Who are the typical users of Fishbowl?
Fishbowl has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2-10, 11-50, 51-200, 201-500, 501-1,000, 1,001-5,000
Q. What languages does Fishbowl support?
Fishbowl supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Fishbowl support mobile devices?
Fishbowl supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Fishbowl integrate with?
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
Q. What level of support does Fishbowl offer?
Fishbowl offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base Software, Phone Support, Chat
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