Listed as the inventory and shipping platform for eCommerce Veeqo positions itself as an omnichannel suite of tools to manage inventory across your eCommerce channels. A UK-based company, Veeqo has a sleek UI with all the features necessary to track inventory, make adjustments for orders, allocate inventory, pick, pack, and ship. They currently offer 21 different shipping couriers and have built-in tools for order routing automation to send orders to the right carrier based on conditions. On the purchasing side Veeqo offers tools to create POs and send them to vendors, allows for multiple costs across different vendors, and will enable mobile check-in of inventory. This platform has a mobile application that will allow you to handle picking and packaging, though the mobile warehouse layout and picking are relatively limited with that else you can do. The mobile application will allow for various print jobs to handle shipping labels, bin labels, invoices, packing slips, and a variety of other labels. For those with complicated items Veeqo may lack some of the granular details for storage and retrieval you need, however for simple SKUs it's a good all-around, simple option for starting out. They offer many different integrations with top eCommerce and shipping providers which will make it easy to connect your orders, customers, and inventory. There is again limited functionality when it comes to placing orders directly within Veeqo, or for field sales channels. For any company doing wholesale orders, this may not provide the cross-product relationships needed to manage pallet, case, or single items, though they do offer variations for size, color, texture etc.

The first entry into a larger format Shopify inventory management app solution. SKUVault has many of the features you'd expect within a fully featured warehouse management system. The advantages here come with scalability. Since this product is fully built out, you will expect to utilize at least ten employees to fully make use of the capabilities within the system. The limitation with that is when we look at how much utilization you are making of the software suite. Does it require you to have all those features in there that you are already paying for? If yes, then you know the cost can be justified. SKUvault has been built over a long time and thus has a more early 2000s software feel to it. This may prove over time to be a downside as innovation in the supply chain comes faster with robotics and automation. One cool aspect of SKUVault, that the team at SKUSavvy has also been working on is the network. SKUVault network helps to discover new vendors and retailers but fails to allow payments directly to be exchanged like SKUSavvy. With this system in place, you do have the advantage of many different channel offers which can allow you to get up and running quickly across multiple platforms while handling all your inventory in-house.

For open-source software, Odoo does have quite a range of products. It is regarded as an ERP, so you may find apps for every aspect of your business. Most relevant here is their inventory management app. While it is not a fully-fledged warehouse management system, there is plenty of functionality for small and medium-sized storefronts. This is great but will require a good amount of resources to manage the whole product. Odoo is a slightly complicated product to get used to and so it may well require training which will be purchased from Odoo directly. Another thing we didn't like is that each app is paid for separately, and is charged per user. But, the most significant difference here is that to connect your Shopify store, you will rely on a 3rd party app. This app is $499 to start and the first impression is that it may not provide everything you are looking for within the scope of modern fulfillment capability.

One of the older more established companies in the inventory management space. Still within the small to medium-sized enterprise size. With such a long time in the field, you can find nearly anything you could imagine from inventory to manufacturing, purchasing, and replenishment. That said, it's both a blessing and a curse since much of the negative feedback on Fishbowl is the outdated interface and slow loading time.. For well-established companies that may have legacy system requirements, this might serve you well. Fishbowl is offered as an on-premise solution though they have recently released Fishbowl online to contend with other cloud offerings. We did not like that some of the major components (Fishbowl Go for instance) require a whole separate subscription license. This may make things expensive overall, especially considering the up-front cost is high here. For companies making their own product on-premise, requiring light manufacturing and production tracking, you will be able to make good use of these tools provided within the base version of Fishbowl.

Similar in some ways to Odoo the Zoho suite of tools can cover every part of your business from accounting to finance, collaboration and messaging, invoicing, and time tracking. Their Zoho inventory platform is specifically what we are comparing here. Zoho offers all the base features you might expect to store products, connect order channels, and fulfill orders. There is a drawback in that we didn't find specific location information for the warehouse bins. It does appear to allow multiple connections to different channels, and allow you to fulfill those orders across your various warehouses. Zoho will give you the option to automate some of your workflows. Shipping service selection and reorder levels are automated but there are still many manual tasks you will have to assign. For a small and growing company that doesn't have a complicated product set, and who has the right team size to support the Zoho suite, it is a good entry-level system. We did find their mobile app seems modern, but it does not allow you to control the entirety of your warehouse capability. Instead focusing on the orders themselves and packaging of the orders for fulfillment. Select companies might find this platform useful for their needs.

The go-to solution for 3rd party logistics providers who have not graduated to a tier-one system. You can expect everything you'd need to handle the warehouse and/or 3rd party logistics services to be included here. If you are not providing 3rd party logistics, it's unlikely you will need to use the whole suite of products. However, 3pl Central has recently bought Skubana which is an enhanced WMS. It's not clear how the two will integrate, but you can be sure if you are not using the 3pl services, you will likely be using the Skubana platform under the hood. One thing to be cautious about using 3PL Central is they have multiple different products, and they charge separately for each of these systems. To handle eCommerce fulfillment for a fast-growing storefront, you will need each of these services aside from the billing portal for 3pl services. In the case you are doing 1,000+ orders a day, this platform may be a solid solution for you, and it should be considered.

One of the longest-standing inventory, warehouse, and purchase order management platforms. Cin7 is a cloud-based platform that like Brightpearl offers the full spectrum of retail, wholesale, and D2C tools to facilitate each of your channels and mediums. The system is designed to work with one of three different types of hardware scanners. The full scope of this platform covers inventory/warehouse/order management, B2B online stores, EDI, integrations, reports & forecasting, POS, payment portal, production management, sales quoting, and 3PL. This is a significant amount of capability covered and again here you need to confirm that in fact you will have enough people to properly run this system. With the integrations and integrated approach to each core component, an omnichannel company might need you will most likely find your challenge covered here. The cautions come when looking at the complexity of the product, the support time necessary to get answers, and the pricing of both software and hardware to cover your team. It is an investment and a big one at that. This type of platform is really meant for 2000+ orders daily across a network of retail stores and distribution centers.

Labelled as the omnichannel retail operating system, this is one of the most robust systems for the retail operations category. You have the ability to connect multiple channels and deal with them independently if needed. One of the unique advantages here is the enterprise resource planning tools as well as their customer relationship management system built it. While many companies may already be using another system it is nice to have everything placed into one dynamic solution. One of the biggest challenges users face is that A) they cannot use the product because it is too big and B) they are not getting sufficient support in a timely manner C) the dashboards are not very customizable and leave out information. All that said, there are other integrations you can connect to Brightpearl to get this desired functionality. Another area Brightpearl lacks in is the warehouse for mobile pick-pack-ship and it's where we suggest you connect with a true WMS enabled inventory management app like SKUSavvy. if cost is a major factor and you will not be using much of Brightpearl's functionality, it's best to step down to a system that gives you nearly as much without the same cost.

Perhaps the most cost-competitive of the plus-sized Shopify inventory apps. Finale Inventory is more than just a Shopify inventory management app in that they will handle light manufacturing, inventory control and multi-warehouse management, serial and lot tracking, order management, purchasing &replenishment, barcode scanning, order pick-pack-ship, and kitting/bundling. We did not find much of a mobile application, and the one we did find will still require expensive hardware from Zebra that looks outdated, it seems to do the job for now. Unlike many of the other platforms, Finale seems to provide good customer service. Like many of the other systems, this is a large platform and demands that you have a big enough business to justify the large feature set. One thing with their pricing is that with the functionality they offer and the number of accounts it's likely you'll need extra seats to support your whole team and the usage of the system. On this note some users found the user permissions lacking which meant team members had more permissions than they should have. Splitting inventory and maintaining multiple warehouses was not easily accomplished some users complained about. Overall one of the most cost-competitive solutions compared to the other systems in this tier.