Megaventory

Avantages

Easy to use, good search, required functionality was there for small manufacturing company

Inconvénients

I would love to see more planning solutions, AI suggestions

Avantages

Megaventory support is very proactive, the software works

Inconvénients

Its tailored for manufacturing and isn't optimised for retail operations

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Pourquoi passer à Megaventory

Avantages

- User friendly
- Supportive customer support

Inconvénients

- The record sometimes may not be accurate but later on change to correct data
- Hard time solving syncing issues with accounting software - Quickbook

Avantages

The support is very good. We are developing our own "engineering" interface using the powerful API which comes built in. The support team has been very responsive and helpful through this process!

Inconvénients

Honestly, I have nothing bad to say. They are responsive when you have issues and genuinely work hard to help you resolve them in a timely manner. This is all I ask of any supplier we have and Megaventory goes above and beyond. It is clear that they understand that their customer's success directly relates to their own success!

Avantages

I like the overall ease of inventory management that megaventory brings into the field, the customizability and the ways you can integrate with their APIs, they offer ready-to-go solutions for different frameworks, also we've been able to build our own custom integration.

Inconvénients

We had issues with the amount of traffic that our company was dealing with, however the megaventory tech team were absolute champions and quickly reacted to the problem and helped us both improving our integration and making adjustments on their end

Avantages

The easy terminology that exists in combination with the direct support of the company make the program easy to use.

Inconvénients

There's nothing I don't like, I'm very excited

Avantages

I like the accessibility of reports and Customer support. I once had a challenge updating data. A Megaventory team member was available immediately to support check the issue.

Inconvénients

Sometimes, when we have high volume of sales it becomes difficult to extract reports

Avantages

Megaventory technical team provided assistance with our API integration, made necessary adjustments on their side when required, and also supported us in improving our integration.

Inconvénients

Some time ago I would say API response time, however that improved drastically over last 12 months

Avantages

The tools are extensively documented and the team is available to support. All issues raised are addressed quickly and thoroughly.

Inconvénients

Functionality is not always straight forward, may require some support or additional processes to do things

Avantages

The quality of tech support. We were able to accomplish most of what we wanted on our own, but whenever we had tough questions or challenges the Megaventory team was quick to engage and always found a solution.

Inconvénients

Reports were sometimes slow to load or timed out, depending on traffic.

Avantages

Ease of use and great customer service!!

Inconvénients

Searching could be refined - we wish it kept our search info after returning to a page/opening a new page.

Avantages

I like most features of megaventory a lot, because it helps me to create and send, with ease, sales quotes to our customers and also to know at any time how many products and parts do exist in our small business warehouse. I also use it as an archive to write down every warranty demand and the result from our technical staff evaluation.

Inconvénients

Sometimes there are time delays between changing pages . When you need to act fast, this may be crucial , as you spend valuable time from your work.

Avantages

It is very straightforward, so the implementation time is really short. You can pretty much start using it as soon as you buy it, although of course some configuration is necessary. It has a trial version which is amazing because you don't have to sign a contract or pay upfront and only afterwards realize what the software does/doesn't do.
We like that we can manage our procurement, inventory and manufacturing from one solution and that it integrates with SolidWorks. The customer support is also amazing. They answer really fast and help us figure out how to solve our problems. They will also do customizations at request, which we have some times needed, and they delivered to our satisfaction.
In a nutshell, we are getting great value for money.

Inconvénients

We would love it if we could have:
1. A purchase requisition process that includes manager approval (our procurement department still receives emails and spreadsheets to know what to purchase)
2. A more comprehensive AP invoice functionality. We can only record invoices that are linked to a PO/material receipt, so the rest of them (electricity bill, insurance, travel expenses) we cannot record in the system. This means we have two sources of payables and that is not good practice. :(
3. Approval limits for POs for different users. Some of our buyers should not be placing orders of more than a certain amount, but we cannot restrict that.

We have not been too deep into costing or shipping functionalities yet, so I cannot comment on those two topics.

Avantages

We are now using Megaventory for over a year and we are extremely happy with the way it has organized our processes across our two companies. First of all, we could not find another software able to support multiple companies at this price tag. Second and most important: the technical support behind Megaventory is excellent! We wanted to set up some complex inventory views on the system and [sensitive content hidden] from the support team arranged a quick call with us and set it up all by himself at not extra cost. The guys are always available when help is needed.

Inconvénients

Not much to say, I don't have any complaints.

Avantages

The ability to track and modify quantities in all scenarios. Whether its an adjustment, returned item by a customer, a sale, or new stock arrivals.

You can add relationships between each product and supplier. You have the freedom to add multiple suppliers and set costs for each SKU. There are also other features such as, quantity availability for each supplier and many many many more.

Also, there are reports for literally everything you can imagine. From stock aging, to product movement, to purchase reports, sales reports, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Inconvénients

There are no ongoing things I dislike. The only thing is the entry barrier which requires integration (Doesn't take too long, especially that the Megaventory team are more than helpful). Also, getting used to the entire interface. It's extremely user friendly once you understand the concept of how things work.

Avantages

One of the most easy to run software that can manage inventory and create work orders for manufacturing.

Inconvénients

The manufacturing administration of the program is not all well developed, but it works out good one e you get familiar with it.

Avantages

It appears to have a lot of flexibility with displays on the screen, customisable headings and templates.

Inconvénients

I wish it were possible to drill down into products within BoMs and purchase orders etc. If you notice some information is wrong /missing at this point, you have to separately go to the Products list and find it. This seems illogical to me.

I find the different types of "price" and "cost" rather confusing, but that might be my lack of training at this point.

Avantages

Megaventory's ease of use, seamless location wise reporting and great customer support makes it one of the best inventory management tool in its category. Additionally its integration with financial softwares such as QBO makes it a complete cost effective ERP system for SME's.

Inconvénients

More flexibility is required in the manufacturing module to analyse budget vs actual costs. Processes that have continuously variable inputs are difficult to tackle in Megaventory especially when it is integrated with the financial modules.

Avantages

The administrator can easily adjust the permissions of the users

Inconvénients

given that is a cloud software, certain activities are quite slow (6-8 sec).

Avantages

I like the fact that the program is suitable for the production process of our product. The way it keeps track of the materials that go into the products we build, the way how purchase orders are made and received.

Inconvénients

What I really miss about in this program:

- A planning feature: It would be really really nice to have a clear overview of all the sales orders with deadlines in a agenda like view.
- A feature to make a work order from a sales order. or to connect them and to make a work order for multiple different products

Avantages

Excellent technical support, helpful all the time you need. Cloud based system and multi-currency is critical for multi-national operation.

Inconvénients

Not really phone or tablet user friendly interface.
Lack of different level of access

Avantages

The web based interface is very convenient and easy to set up. We were able to get our customer up and running within a day.

Inconvénients

A dedicated mobile interface would be a big plus. It works as is, but can be a struggle to use on the phone at times.

Avantages

- great customer support from free trial to full implementation
- easy to learn
- lots of integrations

Inconvénients

So far I haven't found a dashboard functionality to combine different bits of information from all over the software.

Avantages

Lots of functionality for a small business. Really responsive customer support (when we encountered a bug we got a workaround in a day and fix in a few weeks). For a company on a very tight budget it doesn't break the bank. Each month more features appear.

Inconvénients

The UI can be a bit confusing at times, especially for some of the advanced features. For example, applying serial numbers to finished goods and taking finished goods out of inventory by serial number can be complicated (of course, it's great that they support serial numbers).

Avantages

Easy to set up. Affordable price for what we get.
Users don't need extended training to be able tu use it, same for admin.

Inconvénients

Missing ability to break down units (purchasing a package of 10 and counting units in inventory).
Possibility to set up different authorisations depending on the fields of a PO.
Possibility that different users can edit at different stages of PO:
- Pending: User A is editing, User B is Viewing.
- Verified: User A can only view, B can edit.
Double approval on specific criteria is missing.