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Über Fishbowl
Verwalte dein Inventar in Echtzeit mit der umfassenden Fertigungs-, Bestandsverwaltungs- und Vertriebslösung von Fishbowl.
It makes training for accounting much easier. From a manufacturing perspective, FishBowl is a fairly powerful tool that can track inventory and assist in production planning.
The user interface is difficult to navigate and make sense of.
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Great investment
Kommentare: We have saved quite a bit of time with Fishbowl compared to our previous software.
Vorteile:
Fishbowl is simple to use. Everything is easy to find. Search features work well. All facets integrate well.
Nachteile:
It’s been a bit of a struggle to integrate all aspects of our diverse business.
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Great Experience
Kommentare: Our experience was great, the team walked us through the systems capabilities, and showed us the in's and out's before we committed, and it has worked great for us! Thank Fishbowl!
Vorteile:
Helpful Integration Team, we are using the system primarily for manufacturing inventory management, and were able to find ways to use functions in various ways to give the outcome we were looking for.
Nachteile:
Time: the whole process took about a month, which is about what i had expected, but wish we weren't down without a system for such an extended period, but that is partially because we had some hiccups on our end!
Antwort von Fishbowl
vor 2 Monaten
We're so glad to hear about your positive experience getting started with our software and making use of it in your business. Thank you, too!
QuickBooks Desktop syncing for inventory and payables is smooth (when the connection works)
Vorteile:
Integrates with QuickBooks for inventory and payables
Nachteile:
Sync with QuickBooks (desktop/server) is finnicky and regularly has to be re-established
Antwort von Fishbowl
vor 2 Monaten
Thank you for your review of Fishbowl. Your words have not gone unnoticed, and we are currently working on strengthening the integration with QuickBooks. You'll see dramatic improvements soon. Thank you again.
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Excited for Inventory Management
Kommentare: Looking forward to using Fishbowl, the tools that Fishbowl provides will reduce our tasks and allow us to do more work.
Vorteile:
Having just begun using Fishbowl we are just getting started in appreciating all the functionality that it provides. A major factor is the ability to track lot numbers as well as serial numbers of our products. The implementation process was smooth and the training provided was excellent.
Nachteile:
The addition of items to sales orders and purchase orders is different than previous experiences.
Antwort von Fishbowl
vor 3 Monaten
Welcome, friend! We're excited to grow with you as your business expands. It's wonderful to hear that Fishbowl's tracking methods are coming in so handy for you, and hopefully you'll soon get used to the new process for adding items to sales orders and purchase orders. Our Support team is happy to help you in any way they can, as you've already seen through the implementation and training process. We're glad that it went smoothly for you. It sure is nice to know that there are robust inventory management options that meet your specific requirements better and more affordably than an ERP. We're excited to keep meeting your needs as you grow. Thank you for your kind review!
5 stars Tech
Kommentare: Awesome. The called me fast and troublwshooted quick.
Vorteile:
Tech Knowledge and professionalism. Taylor was great explaining every step.
Nachteile:
Nothing I dislike at all. Service was great.
Antwort von Fishbowl
vor 3 Wochen
Thank you so much for your kind words about Fishbowl! You are wonderful, and it's a pleasure to serve you.
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Fishbowl for Fish Razr
Kommentare: We are very satisfied with the company and eager to explore new possibilities with them as we continue our relationship down the road.
Vorteile:
Pros: the ability to sync multiple points of sale into one single service. It allows you to create inventory items that track quantities of multiple components. Their team is very knowledgeable and helpful.
Nachteile:
Cons: none, which makes it difficult to reach the 40 character minimum!
Antwort von Fishbowl
vor 2 Monaten
You are awesome! Thank you for sharing your glowing review of Fishbowl. We are excited to explore new possibilities with you, too, down the road. You are the best, and we'll keep aiming to meet and exceed your needs.
The real IMS
Kommentare: It was a great experience since our IT tech was very knowledgeable. He always had the right answer to all our questions.
Vorteile:
I liked the data migration from an existing IMS to the new IMS.
Nachteile:
We weren't successful in integrating Airtable and Fishbowl.
Antwort von Fishbowl
vor 2 Monaten
Thank you for your high praise! We're grateful to be at your service for all your inventory management needs.
Fishbowl is Not ready for medium to larger companies
Kommentare: Customer support is pretty good for getting you on your feet if you have a database crash or simple problem, but they are often hard to get a hold of, long wait times, and again there is no flexibility with this program whatsoever. You WILL find many annoying things that they just refuse to address in development.
Vorteile:
As a basic inventory and locationing system, and for simple shipping and sales orders it works okay. Would be great for a small startup.
Nachteile:
Complete lack of flexibility. There are a lot of workarounds that even our Onboarding expert had to use and setup for us. They do not make even the most obvious and simple improvements. You cannot update pricing from Woo to Fishbowl, and the Quickbooks integration is horrible.
Fishbowl inventory pros and cons
Kommentare: Happy with Fishbowl because it is, reliable, not buggy, and provide many functions and reports.
Vorteile:
I like the way you can have multi layers of Bill of materials, I like the way you can choose to value your inventory between, Average, fifo, and Lifo. The support team is respectful and responsive.
Nachteile:
The link between fishbowl and QB seems to have on going breakdowns. I wish there was a way to mass update the bill of material part costs from the bill of materials report. I wish there was a report to total the bill of material wieght.
Antwort von Fishbowl
vor 2 Monaten
Those are really good ideas for the updating bill of material costs and adding up weights! Thank you. I'll send those to our developers to see if those could be added in a future update of our software. You are great! You might just be able to create a custom report to total the bill of material weight through Fishbowl AI Insights. I recommend contacting your account executive to help you with that. Thank you for your wonderful review.
Fishbowl meets our inventory needs.
Vorteile:
There are two things I like most about Fishbowl: its versatility & customer support. Regarding versatility, it can fit a wide range of different needs specific to different business. Regarding customer service, the reps. are knowledgeable and they will stick with you patiently until your issues are solved & questions are answered.
Nachteile:
The only con for Fishbowl would be that not everything in Fishbowl is intuitive. Staff must get training on how to use the Software. However, it's not difficult to learn, but you must know what you are doing.
Antwort von Fishbowl
letzte Woche
We're delighted to hear that. Thank you for your glowing review of Fishbowl. We aim to provide the best customer support in the business, and we're so glad to hear that you've had nothing but positive experiences with our support team. We strive to provide excellent training resources, including training videos, written documentation, and implementation experts who can explain the software to your staff. We hope to keep being of service to you for the long term. You are great!
Fishbowl is a powerful tool for any business.
Kommentare: Overall, my experience with Fishbowl has been very positive and I'm looking forward to utilizing all of its potential!
Vorteile:
We love the scalability and how the modules are integrated with one another increasing productivity and enhanced reporting functionality.
Nachteile:
I don't like that it does not differentiate a reship purchase order with a drop ship purchase order from an item costing perspective. In other words, if I place an order for material from my supplier, and have them ship it to my customer directly, the cost impacts my AVERAGE cost of the inventory in my warehouse even though it has not been physically received in and mixed in with previously purchased inventory.
Great system that has helped our company thrive
Vorteile:
We can manage all of our inventory efficiently. It is much better than the system we used to use.
Nachteile:
It would be nice if we could void a shipment. It is also a little frustrating that we can't edit a purchase order after the product has moved, eg: been committed to a sales order. Sometimes we get invoices for freight after we receive the product, and there is no way to edit the reconciliation after the product has moved. So we're forced to go in and manually re-enter each product with the new landed cost.
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Fishbowl is a workhorse
Kommentare: Again, Fishbowl does the job. User friendly and detailed. Lot's of options and ability to add different tools as needed, plugins. Customer service has stayed above bar throughout.
Vorteile:
Fishbowl is great inventory management software. We have very large BOMs where we need to be able to track A to Z, inventory to the production line and this does the job. It is as good as you use it and then some. Easy for people to go in and track down information according to their needs, duties and positions. Helpful reports for tracking. Vendor information and history. Customer job tracking. Costing. Great customer service.
Nachteile:
Closing jobs. Once a job or sales is closed, it's pretty much closed. Once it transfers to QB, forget it! It's nice to have the option to be able to go back a little, but Disassembling is not fun. Would like some form of CRM, integration?
Good product
Kommentare: Good so far. We enjoy the customer support.
Vorteile:
Compatibility with Quickbooks and ability to do both Inventory and accounting.
Nachteile:
Weird connection between Parts and Product. Doesn't always correlate. Very confusing.
Antwort von Fishbowl
vor 3 Monaten
That's wonderful to hear that Fishbowl is working great for you thanks in large part to its QuickBooks integration. I'm sorry that parts and products aren't always correlating in your system. I hope that you'll be able to reach out to our Support team for help whenever an issue like that arises. They are definitely amazing at their jobs, and I'm glad that you've enjoyed working with them. You are awesome.
Great Company
Kommentare: Great use for us. Sometimes issues come up that can be easily resolved.
Vorteile:
Great for a small manufacturing company.
Nachteile:
Not as robust for a large manufacture less options
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With the amount of time I've spent trying to get it to work, I might actually have been able to program better.
Kommentare: My experience has been pretty garbage, overall, to be completely honest. As a system, it works okay. Many, many aspects, such as the import/export function, are some of the worst examples of programming/knowledge I have seen in decades.
Vorteile:
It does 85% of what it should. Its functions are organized very well, looking past its archaic functions.
Nachteile:
Bugs, bugs, bugs. But most of all - Never getting resolution to deep technical issues. Surface-level issues of data entry are clearly support's bread and butter, but anything beyond that is guided out to a pasture to die of old age instead of being addressed.
Fishbowl Changed Our Business
Kommentare: The training experience was excellent and once we were fully up and running and felt comfortable, it's been such a game-changer for us.
Vorteile:
It's extremely helpful to track our inventory at multiple warehouses and for planning our future inventory needs. The wide array of reports is super helpful for a growing business such as ours. It's extremely helpful for us to be able to track what's been ordered by a customer, what is left in stock, and if we have anymore stock coming in. It's truly changed the way we do our business.
Nachteile:
It was definitely a learning curve for a lot of people on our team and some processes can be a little tricky until you fully understand exactly how it works.
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New to Fishbowl - Love it
Kommentare: So far, so good. We have only been "active" for a few weeks but Fishbowl is already helping us track our inventory and sales orders.
Vorteile:
The training was thorough and we felt well prepared to start using Fishbowl. The interface is very intuitive and easy to work with.
Nachteile:
I would love to be able to have more customization features....like reporting; customizing the packing slips/invoices
Positive experience
Kommentare: Positive and we are happy with the connection between quickbooks and fishbowl. Allowed us to integrate a better warehouse management while keeping our accounting with quickbooks.
Vorteile:
Inventory management and ease of usez it also integrates with Quickbooks accounting.
Nachteile:
Reporting, hard to find the reports you want
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Good ERP for a small to low medium sized company
Kommentare: There is a lot of support provided and a lot of good training videos.
Vorteile:
Simplicity and straightforward way to manage stock and shipments. The mobile app is great.
Nachteile:
Lack of data collection. There is only one date I can put on a Sales Order. I want to be able to put PO received date, PO request date, commit dates, etc. to help me keep track of on time delivery and know where we can improve using KPIs.
Food Production Fishbowl Success!
Vorteile:
The ease of learning, understanding, and putting into action all the necessary options it has. We needed to use it for a variety of different areas within the plant and it has proven beneficial in every department.
Nachteile:
The remote desktop can be frustrating at times
Excelent option
Kommentare: Everithing good so far, and the tech support support us a lot to solve all the issues
Vorteile:
It is a very new concept as a data base manager with many options to grow up
Nachteile:
Sometimes we found limitations and they have to find the way to have options for all the companies
Antwort von Fishbowl
vor 3 Monaten
Thank you! You're quite right that there are plenty of ways to improve. One way is our new Fishbowl AI Insights plugin. That makes it possible to generate custom reports, create dashboards, and forecast inventory needs. This might just provide a lot of the flexibility you've been seeking. Feel free to reach out to your account manager about it. Or learn more on this page on our website: https://www.fishbowlinventory.com/fishbowl-ai-insights Thanks again for your great review. Merry Christmas!
Fishbowl Review
Vorteile:
Fishbowl has sped up our process from ordering to sending out invoices to our customers. We used to do it by hand, and now Fishbowl automatically does it for me. It then sends it over to Quickbooks with a push of a button. It saves us so much time.
Nachteile:
When Fishbowl goes down (doesn't happen often) it takes a long time to get help to get everything back up and running. I was recently on a phone call for 3 hours to get Fishbowl back up and running. I also wish Fishbowl could take the tracking numbers and push them over to QuickBooks. I also wish Fishbowl could use 2 or 3 email addresses instead of just 1 email. You can log more than 1 email address but not use it when sending emails or pushing over to QuickBooks. They still haven't figured out why one of my license's won't work on one of my computers. They told me after a long time I have to look into it on my end.
Will Fishbowl Survive in the coming years?
Kommentare: Like many ERP systems, it has been overhyped and falls short of expectations. We initially implemented it alongside QuickBooks 2022. Interestingly, QuickBooks 2023 and subsequently QuickBooks 2024 have incorporated nearly all the features and functionalities that initially prompted us to integrate FishBowl. With the enhanced capabilities of QuickBooks 2024 and the shift towards cloud-based solutions, it's doubtful that FishBowl will sustain its business for more than a few years.
Vorteile:
Onboarding was smooth and responsive. The team was responsive and helpful, although be prepared to do all the work yourself. while it seems crazy at some point its worth starting from scratch on your inventory and negating Quickbooks inventory all together.
Nachteile:
Once your system is operational, support becomes a distant concern. Seeking assistance entails potentially shelling out thousands for even the most straightforward requests, if and when you manage to get a response. The scheduling for a simple fix or question may drag on for up to two weeks.
My use of FishBowl Online
Kommentare: My trainer, [sensitive content hidden], is excellent. However, his hands are often tied by limitations in the software's functionality and configurability. Many features can not be configured to my business' needs. Also, the integration with LilyPad is completely broken.
Vorteile:
The user interface of FishBowl online is reasonably intuitive.
Nachteile:
Our warehouse business is not a typical fulfillment type setup. We're a receiving, storage, and delivery warehouse of furniture for interior designers. There are many ways in which the FishBowl functionality is not geared toward my business and not flexible enough to configure to my needs. Also, the LilyPad integration with FishBowl Online is completely broken and I've spent hours having to help both companies with the development fixes.
