Sortly

Avantages

I like how user friendly the interface is.

Inconvénients

The only search option for the PO system is by PO number. I would like to be able to sort and search by vendor as well. Searching for a specific item would be extremely helpful as well.

Avantages

Very clean and super easy to navigate user interface. Easy navigation. Perfect search function. Browser based.

Inconvénients

It does what it is supposed to flawlessly, so nothing i didn't like about it. I wish there was a invoicing feature where it is integrated with Shopify directly and able to invoice things on Sortly. Also no integration with Shopify is what i least liked about Sortly.

Avantages

I love having the the ability to quickly support my technicans in the field. Having the pulse on your inventory with a click of a button makes this seemless.

Inconvénients

Often times the item is being compltely removed as they team is trying to reduce quanitites. Additionally tools like sortly are only as good as the information you give it. If youre moving around inventory and not documenting in sortly it gets very difficult, requires commitment.

Avantages

I'm an interior designer, and we use this to keep track of our client's inventory of furniture, artwork, and objects located in their houses, storage spaces, and at different vendors. I know that it's not what Sortly was designed for, but it works perfectly for it. It's very easy and convenient to be able to pull up the inventory and see what we've placed in different rooms, what needs to be pulled from storage, and what they actually own. It's very easy to add new items as needed. Sortly is indispensable in our day to day workflow and has literally transformed how we're able to interface with clients and manage their items.

Inconvénients

I wish that the option to crop and edit photos was consistent across platforms. I also wish that when there are multiples of an item that are located in different albums that the edits made to one apply to the other. But honestly, it is otherwise pretty close to perfect for our needs.

Avantages

Pretty easy to learn and use. I like that the phone and online version are pretty much synced up every time I go from one to the other.

Inconvénients

Too many restrictions on what I can change or do. For example want to make multiple custom roles.

Alternatives envisagées 

QuickBooks Enterprise

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We've looked into many inventory managers outside of those listed above. Right now, sortly is a cheaper alternative until we find something comparable that meets all our needs.. Sortly does not provide all the functions we need.

Avantages

Ease of use, app-based capabilities, seamless integration between online version and app version.

Inconvénients

Always having to log back in on my app and the scanner at times is too touchy... would pick up other bar codes if they were in area. It should be more pointed. Also, not happy that price increased drastically after our initial offer. We were forced to have a 400% price increase... seemed like a bait and switch sales mentality.

Avantages

Ease of use (intuitive) is at the top of the list.
Access from anywhere.

Inconvénients

For an "Inventory Management" system, some reports are not created in the box that normally would go with this function..
We had the system for a year before there was a report that would indicate items that were actually BELOW indicated quantity level set. (previous reports showed AT or BELOW).
The report still does not indicate the difference between minimum level to actual level. I add a column to the outputted excel report to indicate that difference.
It is these types of items that are surprising to me that are not built in to an inventory system from the start.

Avantages

How easy it was to set up and get going, being able to add photos and prices.

Inconvénients

it's an off the shelf product so wont hit all your buisness needs. quite basic but that is also what is so great about it.

Avantages

Sortly is very easy to use and can easily manage fairly large inventories. There is a mobile app available for phones and tablets that allows you to manage inventory without bar scanners.

Inconvénients

There is no differentiation within Sortly between items of the same type that were received at different times or with different lot numbers, so if you have separate lot numbers, you cannot use their low inventory notification system.

Avantages

Reasonable price (especially during our first year), compact, bar code scanning, reporting. Sortly regularly updates and is open to adding features suggested by customers.

Inconvénients

Inability to report on some custom fields.

Avantages

Adding folders and subfolders and items with in the folders is easy enough. Then we can add relevant information to help us track the data. The search option on folders work great.

Inconvénients

importing asset from a spreadsheet or csv puts everything in forced folders and its a nightmare to move out and fix.

Avantages

Sortly is easy to use and is constantly improving. It is refreshing to have excellent customer service who listens to the users.

Inconvénients

Not really a con, but I would like to continue to see Sortly evolve to incorporate an ordering system for the customer.

Avantages

Easy to track inventory. Easy and fast to look up information. The multiple folders option is very organized.

Inconvénients

Giant jump in cost after using for a year or two.

Alternatives envisagées 

Square for Retail, QuickBooks Online et Zoho Inventory

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The cost initially made sense compared to the other products. However, after the latest cost increase, I'm not sure if I would have chosen Sortly.

Avantages

Ease of implementation and user orientation

Inconvénients

No complaints so far. I was skeptical initially, but this has been a good product for us.

Avantages

I love the functionality of being able to make multiple folders and sub folders and create so many inventory items and being able to group them/separate them. As well as the bulk import / barcode functions which are daily functions that me and my colleagues use every day.

Inconvénients

The lack of features that facilitate the life of users like me. For example a great feature that i would love for Sortly to implement would be the option to click and drag items or folders into other folders or sub-folders. That would be one of the greatest additions i could think of.

Avantages

Sortly has allowed me to set up an inventory system that my company has been needing to help track different pieces in different locations. The folder option helps keep everything organized, and the ability to add photos is a great way for us to easily reference inventory as well as file any condition notes for the team.

Inconvénients

Sometimes the search bar feels a little bit finicky and difficult to navigate. As our inventory uses a numerical system, it sometimes does not "read" this as an identifier.

Avantages

We could customise sortly, exactly to our needs, and make changes without having to hire a company to do it.

Inconvénients

I cant find any negatives about it. Ideally we would love an integration into our job management system. So as stock is sold in the job management system, items are deducted in sortly automatically.

Avantages

Easy to use UI. It's simple to move between items, folders, and folders of folders, to find, adjust, and move items as needed.

Inconvénients

This could be somewhere in the settings that I haven't found yet, but prolonged exposure to white screens causes me eye pain, and a dark mode option would be helpful for extended uses.

Avantages

Ease of entry and organization . I was creating a structure in a matter of minutes . I have over 2 million dollars of Audio and Video gear to keep track of and this was a perfect fit for our team. Easy is good !

Inconvénients

At first, we needed to have a pick list function which was not available....UNTIL we asked for it and it was created within a 6 month period of time. I was floored.

Alternatives envisagées 

Cheqroom

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the price for cheqroom was ridiculous and the need for the featureset was not really necessary for me.

Avantages

The ability to export our full inventory, and the ability to pull images of kitted items to send to techs in the field.

Inconvénients

Awaiting the ability to create pick lists.

Avantages

The flexibility to set it up in the manner that best suited our needs.

Inconvénients

Nothing really since the last update you put out.

Alternatives envisagées 

NetSuite

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The cost, versatility, customization and reviews from the research sold us on Sortly.

Avantages

Having it be a visual format is great. It’s easy to use and fast to add new products or move products.

Inconvénients

Price especially the jump between the tiers. I’d love to see a price for like 5,000 more items rather than jumping from 20,000 to unlimited.

Alternatives envisagées 

QuickBooks Online

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Visual inventory, ease of use and low quantity reports.

Avantages

very clean interface, easy to use and understand

Inconvénients

the system was not live - if several users tried to update the same thing at once, the numbers would almost always be wrong. this seemed like an issue with the fundamental structure of the program being based on the user's device and not a server which would be updated.

Avantages

We know all the items we haven on stock, we add and remove according to our needs. The app is wonderful and all our team collaborates efficiently.

Inconvénients

It is still hard to get reports in pdf, with pictures.
I would like to be able to.semd to my supplier in bulk. At this point we have mainly xls with links for pictures

Avantages

Very very intuitive software that takes very little time to bring people up to speed on the every day use. All of the basic features and functions you need to help in Inventory Management and Control are there, as well as the reporting features that you need.

Inconvénients

Could use more customizability in terms of what fields are the primary fields, as well as additional customizability for the formats of the actual labels. Would be great to have additional size options, and ability to add and manipulate the actual layout of labels. As well as having other options for barcode labels.

Avantages

That we can search through several folders at the same time. Creating barcodes and QR codes and the notes that we can attach to it.

Inconvénients

Moving items when scanning and having it go into the wrong location

Avantages

Affordability & accessibility is great. Categories are perfect for small retailers & have useful reports.

Inconvénients

The software lags with the tablets & mobile phones.

Avantages

It is fairly easy to use and our crew has a pretty quick time making it work for us

Inconvénients

It is very costly and we have the need to set up more permission options and do not see a way to make that happen. We will be contacting Sortly for some needed help on our end and hope it keeps working for us.

Avantages

Easy to setup and has a friendly UI. Can be used for general inventory management and tracking. Quite customisable.

Inconvénients

Inventory tracking starts to become untangled when moving quantities of stock across various sites, items don't automatically combine when you might expect them to. There is no incoming inventory system or any hold for items on order but not booked in.

Avantages

Categorization, variation, camera features, barcode use.

Inconvénients

The add and minus feature. It automatically add 1 or minus 1. So you have to edit them according to how much you need to add but sometimes you will forget that it already add or took 1.

Avantages

Easy to set up and use, easy to train others to use, and the amount of features included met our requirements to a high level of quality.

Inconvénients

It is relatively costly for us as a not for profit, but the utility and ease of use definitely made this a worthwhile expense.

Avantages

Sortly makes it easy to add Tags and other locators to easily find items within the system

Inconvénients

Adding permissions of new folders has to be done for each person individually.

Avantages

I absolutely love the integration of Amazon and eBay and barcode scanning. I like the ease of creating folders and the ability to search by barcode. The reporting is extremely helpful and the ability to download as PDF or Excel make shortly an awesome product

Inconvénients

It's a little pricey for a small startup like myself.

Alternatives envisagées 

QuickBooks Enterprise

Pourquoi passer à Sortly

Sortly had better reviews. I believe the price point was better also

Avantages

Being able to see and or print Transaction reports

Inconvénients

When other users want to "check out" chemicals it can throw off the inventory when scanning.

It does not update in real-time.

Avantages

how easy it is to add and move supplies around the system

Inconvénients

the ability to archive items (to remove costs to better track yearly/quarterly spending)

Avantages

Sortly has made inventory assessments significantly easier to manage & process. Instead of writing everything down on paper & transferring the inventory to an excel sheet, I can simply export it from Sortly straight to the Excel sheet, saving me a lot of time & hassle.

Inconvénients

I found that the camera could use some tweaking & have some more features when it comes to listing data.
I found that, in my particular case, the file name to each photo has a default name that does not compute with a program that I use. It would save me a lot of time & hassle if I could change the "rule" of what each photo is named before exporting into storage.

Avantages

By far, the customer service. I haven't had any issues, but when I do have a question it is answered quickly.

Inconvénients

So far I haven't found an issue that we aren't happy with.

Avantages

This is our first inventory management software for our construction and design firm. It was easy to set up. Now we know where each and every item/part is located, in storage, in route or on the job-site. It's really helped make our work more efficient.

Inconvénients

The cost is a little high. We like the software, but it is a large expense for smaller firms.

Avantages

Simple to use. Can have multiple users. Can track inventory history.

Inconvénients

It is very expensive! We use it for basic inventory (we are not a retail company), so the cost is quite high! The ability to scan a product barcode to get it entered into inventory is nice, however it rarely works to identify the product so we end up having to manually enter most items. Time consuming.

Alternatives envisagées 

QuickBooks Online

Pourquoi passer à Sortly

ability to add multiple users without having to provide access to the bookkeeping software to multiple users.

Avantages

The scanning feature is nice; QR codes are easy to scan and print. Data is downloadable to Excel files.

Inconvénients

QR code labels are deleted when the quantity reaches zero; these must be recreated and reprinted each time. The basic version does not allow the administrator to prevent users from deleting inventory items. This occurs a lot, which causes me to add the item and amount back and recreate and print the QR code.

Avantages

Initial annual plan pricing.

However, 11 days before our annual renewal we received this message, "Sortly plans are being reconfigured based on your number of entries and usage patterns. On your renewal date, your account will be adjusted to the Sortly Enterprise plan, billed at $2,760 USD per year..." from $1,080 we paid for our first year.

We have 3,098 numbers of entries and the plan we have allows for 10,000 numbers of entires. We will not be receiving feature upgrades and after requesting further explanation for the significant rate increase we were told, "We are in the process of reconfiguring our plans." There is no way we could have known we would not qualify for our current plan.

If you are a home staging business Stageforce and StrangeDNA have comparable pricing and many more features in Sorty.

Inconvénients

CAUTION the annual renewal rate is not as advertised!! After one year of use, we received an email stating that our price would increase to $2,750 for the next renewal (we initially paid $1,080 for the first year) for the exact same plan we have now.

The "Ultra Plan" with 10,000 units is currently being advertised as $708 per year. Be careful investing your time and money into this software. Once you have configured your business or needs around this company they could increase your subscription by 250% like they have with us.

Avantages

Sortly is great and easy to setup. It does the basics very well and non trained users can use the platform straight away. QR code scanning makes everything a breeze.

Inconvénients

It is lacking some more advance features and it is really for smaller operations. The highest tier is too expensive

Avantages

low cost
easy to implement and sustain
user friendly
folder structure
multiple pictures for each product

Inconvénients

no order ticketing
no track of expendables
not to many features
integrations with 3rd party are only for enterprise level

Avantages

Easy to use and keep track of our remnant inventory.

Inconvénients

As I don't use all the options on a daily basis, it takes a minute or two to remember how to use the download and/or reporting options. However, the HELP information always gets me the information I need.

Avantages

Its pretty easy to use and search various parts of our inventory

Inconvénients

I wish it interfaced with a POS system to integrate it more to our overall systems

Avantages

It is a very cost effective way to manage inventory for a small business, that doesn't quite need the large inventory software that is out there.

Inconvénients

Some of the features are hard to understand for people that aren't savvy with computers.

Alternatives envisagées 

NetSuite

Pourquoi passer à Sortly

The other products were very costly and really we needed something more than a spreadsheet to track out inventory.

Avantages

Easy to use, heaps of storage, reasonable price

Inconvénients

I think it could use a library that you can give a teacher a login to where they can view all the costumes in a slideshow

Avantages

Ease of use, it's very user friendly and easy to set up.

Inconvénients

That there are some restrictions on the amount of users. For instance, the difference in price for me to be able to have 3 users is way to high. I would require at least 3 access to the program, I only have 2, but if I wanted 3 the price has a desproportional increase, in my opinion.

Avantages

The construct of Sortly is very simplified which makes it easy to use for novice level users.

Inconvénients

Hard to separate demand projections from transferrable item, needs to be able to interact better with different platforms as well as matching data against different facilities at the same time in a singe mode view.

Avantages

As our company continued to grow, we needed an actual program to maintain accuracy. Our inventory control is critical. We rely on Sortly daily when scheduling large orders and manufacturing.

Inconvénients

Overall, we are satisfied. It was easy to use and train other employees to use.