Who Uses Fishbowl?
Fishbowl is an ideal solution for manufacturers, wholesale distributors, retailers, government entities and many other types of companies and organizations in a variety of industries.
What Is Fishbowl?
Fishbowl is the ideal manufacturing and warehouse management solution designed for small to medium size businesses. Key features include inventory management, material requirements planning (MRP), job shop floor control, work order management, manufacturer orders and bills of materials, barcoding and so much more. The solution can either be deployed on-premise or hosted in the cloud.
Fishbowl Details
Fishbowl
https://www.fishbowlinventory.com/
Founded 2001
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Fishbowl deployment and support
Support
- Email/Help Desk
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base
- Phone Support
- Chat
Deployment
- Cloud, SaaS, Web-based
- Mac (Desktop)
- Windows (Desktop)
- Linux (Desktop)
- Windows (On-Premise)
- Linux (On-Premise)
- Android (Mobile)
- iPhone (Mobile)
- iPad (Mobile)
Training
- In Person
- Live Online
- Documentation
- Videos
Fishbowl Features
Auto Body Software
- ACH Payment Processing
- API
- Accounting
- Activity Dashboard
- Appointment Management
- Barcode / Ticket Scanning
- Billing & Invoicing
- CRM
- Client Management
- Contact Database
- Cost Tracking
- Credit Card Processing
- Customer Database
- Customizable Fields
- Customizable Reports
- Electronic Payments
- Estimating
- Gift Card Management
- Inventory Control
- Inventory Management
- Inventory Tracking
- Invoice Management
- Labor Rates
- Maintenance Scheduling
- Multi-Location
- Order Management
- Parts Management
- Payroll Management
- Performance Metrics
- Progress Tracking
- Purchase Order Management
- QuickBooks Integration
- Quotes/Estimates
- Real Time Data
- Real Time Reporting
- Real-time Updates
- Repair Tracking
- Reporting & Statistics
- SMS Messaging
- Sales Tax Management
- Scheduling
- Service History
- Status Tracking
- Task Scheduling
- Third Party Integrations
- Transaction History
- Transaction Monitoring
- VIN Decoder
- Vehicle Tracking
- Work Order Management
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- API
- Activity Tracking
- Asset Tracking
- Audit Management
- Audit Trail
- Barcode / Ticket Scanning
- Barcode Printing
- Barcode Recognition
- Barcoding/RFID
- Billing & Invoicing
- Cost Tracking
- Customizable Branding
- Customizable Fields
- Customizable Reports
- Customizable Templates
- Customization
- Data Import/Export
- Historical Reporting
- Inventory Management
- Inventory Optimization
- Inventory Replenishment
- Inventory Tracking
- Invoice Management
- Label Printing
- Label Templates
- Labeling
- Location Tracking
- Mobile Access
- Multi-Channel Management
- Multi-Location
- Order Management
- Order Processing
- Order Tracking
- Purchase Order Management
- Purchasing & Receiving
- Real Time Data
- Receiving Labels
- Reporting & Statistics
- Returns Management
- Sales Orders
- Serial Number Tracking
- Shipping Labels
- Shipping Management
- Status Tracking
- Stock Management
- Summary Reports
- Supplier Management
- Third Party Integrations
- Warehouse Management
- Workflow Management
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- API
- Accounting
- Accounting Integration
- Activity Dashboard
- Activity Tracking
- Bank Reconciliation
- Buy-Here-Pay-Here
- Cash Flow Management
- Collaboration Tools
- Collections Management
- Communication Management
- Contact Database
- Contact Management
- Customer Database
- Customer History
- Customizable Reports
- Data Import/Export
- Document Management
- Electronic Payments
- Expense Management
- Financial Analysis
- Financial Management
- Financing Management
- General Ledger
- Inventory Management
- Inventory Tracking
- Invoice Management
- Invoice Processing
- Lease-Here-Pay-Here
- Mobile Access
- Multi-Currency
- Multi-Location
- Order Management
- Parts Management
- Payroll Management
- Purchase Order Management
- Purchasing & Receiving
- Quotes/Estimates
- Real Time Data
- Real Time Reporting
- Receipt Management
- Recurring/Subscription Billing
- Reporting & Statistics
- Reporting/Analytics
- Sales Management
- Sales Orders
- Sales Tax Management
- Service Department
- Stock Management
- Third Party Integrations
Distribution Software
- API
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Accounting
- Accounting Integration
- Activity Dashboard
- Activity Tracking
- Barcode / Ticket Scanning
- Barcode Recognition
- Barcoding/RFID
- Bills of Material
- CRM
- Cost Tracking
- Customizable Fields
- Customizable Reports
- Data Import/Export
- Distribution Management
- Document Storage
- Financial Management
- Forecasting
- Import/Export Management
- Inventory Management
- Inventory Optimization
- Inventory Tracking
- Invoice Management
- Multi-Currency
- Multi-Location
- Order Entry
- Order Management
- Order Processing
- Order Tracking
- Project Management
- Purchase Order Management
- Purchasing & Receiving
- Quotes/Estimates
- Real Time Analytics
- Real Time Data
- Real Time Reporting
- Reporting & Statistics
- Returns Management
- Sales Forecasting
- Sales Orders
- Shipping Management
- Status Tracking
- Stock Management
- Supplier Management
- Supply Chain Management
- Third Party Integrations
- Warehouse Management
- Workflow Management
- eCommerce Management
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- Accounting Integration
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- Channel Management
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- Customer Service Management
- Data Import/Export
- Data Synchronization
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- EDI
- Forecasting
- Inventory Management
- Inventory Optimization
- Inventory Replenishment
- Inventory Tracking
- Monitoring
- Multi-Channel Management
- Multi-Location
- Multiple Data Sources
- Online Catalog
- Order Entry
- Order Management
- Order Tracking
- Price / Margin Management
- Price Optimization
- Product Catalog
- Product Data Management
- Product Information Management
- Purchase Order Management
- Real Time Data
- Real Time Monitoring
- Real-time Updates
- Reporting & Statistics
- Reporting/Analytics
- Retail Inventory Management
- Sales Automation
- Sales Orders
- Sales Reports
- Sales Trend Analysis
- Shipment Tracking
- Shipping Labels
- Shipping Management
- Sourcing Management
- Status Tracking
- Supplier Management
- Third Party Integrations
- Vendor Management
- Warehouse Management
- eCommerce Management
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- API
- Accounting
- Accounting Integration
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- Barcode / Ticket Scanning
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- Client Portal
- Credit Card Processing
- Customer Accounts
- Customer Database
- Customizable Branding
- Delivery Tracking
- Discount Management
- Electronic Payments
- Electronic Signature
- Employee Management
- Gift Card Management
- Inventory Management
- Inventory Tracking
- Loyalty Program
- Multi-Location
- Order Entry
- Order Management
- Order Tracking
- Point of Sale (POS)
- Price / Margin Management
- Product Catalog
- Production Tracking
- Proposal Generation
- Purchase Order Management
- QuickBooks Integration
- Real-Time Chat
- Receipt Management
- Reminders
- Reporting & Statistics
- Retail Inventory Management
- Returns Management
- Routing
- Sales Reports
- Sales Tax Management
- Search/Filter
- Shopping Cart
- Stem Counting
- Third Party Integrations
- Transaction History
- User Management
- Website Integration
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- API
- Accounting Integration
- Activity Dashboard
- Alerts/Notifications
- Barcode / Ticket Scanning
- Barcode Printing
- Barcode Recognition
- Barcoding/RFID
- Billing & Invoicing
- Check-in/Check-out
- Cost Tracking
- Customer Database
- Customizable Fields
- Customizable Reports
- Data Import/Export
- Forecasting
- Inventory Auditing
- Inventory Management
- Inventory Optimization
- Inventory Replenishment
- Inventory Tracking
- Invoice Management
- Item Management
- Multi-Channel Management
- Multi-Currency
- Multi-Location
- Order Management
- Order Processing
- Order Tracking
- Point of Sale (POS)
- Purchase Order Management
- Purchasing & Receiving
- Real Time Data
- Real Time Reporting
- Real-time Updates
- Reorder Management
- Reporting & Statistics
- Reporting/Analytics
- Retail Inventory Management
- Returns Management
- SKU/UPC Codes
- Sales Orders
- Sales Reports
- Search/Filter
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- Shipping Management
- Stock Management
- Supplier Management
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- Customizable Reports
- Data Synchronization
- Forecasting
- Inventory Auditing
- Inventory Control
- Inventory Management
- Inventory Optimization
- Inventory Replenishment
- Inventory Tracking
- Invoice Management
- Kitting
- Manufacturing Inventory Management
- Mobile Access
- Multi-Channel Management
- Multi-Currency
- Multi-Location
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- Order Tracking
- Point of Sale (POS)
- Product Identification
- Purchase Order Management
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- Real Time Reporting
- Real-time Updates
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- Reporting/Analytics
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- Returns Management
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- Warehouse Management
- eCommerce Management
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- Barcode / Ticket Scanning
- Billing & Invoicing
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- Compliance Management
- Cost Tracking
- Distribution Management
- Document Management
- Estimating
- Financial Management
- Forecasting
- Inventory Management
- Inventory Optimization
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- Job Costing
- Maintenance Management
- Monitoring
- Multi-Channel Management
- Multi-Currency
- Multi-Location
- Order Management
- Planning Tools
- Production Management
- Production Scheduling
- Production Tracking
- Project Management
- Purchase Order Management
- Quality Control
- Quality Management
- Quotes/Estimates
- Real Time Analytics
- Real Time Data
- Real Time Reporting
- Reporting & Statistics
- Reporting/Analytics
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- Sales Orders
- Shipping Management
- Status Tracking
- Supplier Management
- Supply Chain Management
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- Warehouse Management
- Work Order Management
- Workflow Management
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- Customizable Reports
- Data Visualization
- Document Management
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- Inventory Tracking
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- Performance Metrics
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- Real Time Analytics
- Real Time Data
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- Safety Management
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- Compliance Management
- Cost Tracking
- Customizable Fields
- Customizable Reports
- Data Import/Export
- Document Storage
- Expiration Date Management
- Historical Reporting
- Inventory Management
- Inventory Optimization
- Inventory Replenishment
- Inventory Tracking
- Invoice Management
- Mobile Access
- Multi-Currency
- Multi-Location
- Order Management
- Order Tracking
- Point of Sale (POS)
- Purchase Order Management
- Purchasing & Receiving
- RFID Scanning
- Real Time Data
- Real Time Monitoring
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- Reporting & Statistics
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- Sales Orders
- Search/Filter
- Serial Number Tracking
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- Customizable Templates
- Data Import/Export
- Data Synchronization
- Discount Management
- Forecasting
- Inventory Management
- Inventory Optimization
- Inventory Replenishment
- Inventory Tracking
- Invoice Management
- Labeling
- Multi-Channel Management
- Multi-Currency
- Multi-Location
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- Order Tracking
- Product Catalog
- Purchase Order Management
- Purchasing & Receiving
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- Real Time Analytics
- Real Time Data
- Real Time Reporting
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- Reporting & Statistics
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Fishbowl Reviews
Read all reviewsOverall rating
Average score
Hilary C.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use5 /5
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Features & Functionality5 /5
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Customer Support5 /5
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Value for Money5 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 2020/12/01
"Asset to Our Company"
Comments: They have done a wonderful job in taking care of us from learning to use it to just small mistakes here and there. The support is outstanding.
Pros: Fishbowl is a great asset to our company. It has been wonderful in helping us manage inventory for our warehouse and tracking errors. The customer support is always amazing. [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] our representative is one of the most helpful people. He goes above and beyond to make sure we are satisfied with the product.
Cons: Some reports cost extra, but I understand that it takes them time to write it. The turn around is usually fast.
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 2020/12/01
Louis C.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use4 /5
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Features & Functionality4 /5
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Customer Support4 /5
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Value for Money4 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Source: SoftwareAdvice
- Reviewed on 2020/07/18
"Fishbowl Manufacturing Software has proven an invaluable inventory management tool for our team."
Comments: Fishbowl Management software has offered our team a complete supply chain management and physical sales tracking system in one convenient system . In this time especially , we understand that organization and efficiency are paramount to surviving let alone prospering and we are thankful to Fishbowl for helping.
Pros:
Our team found both these ease of use and relative ease of integration to be among the most attractive components of Fishbowl. The variety of modules allow close monitoring of essentially every aspect of
physical asset tracking . With Fishbowl we can organize warehouse parts inventory , print labels,and
organize purchase orders which organizes our supply side. Fishbowl's sales side module allows for effective tracking of lead times as well as sales item forecasting so we are never behind on available inventory .
Cons:
Fishbowl Manufacturing software at this time time requires the use of a server which we had to supply .
In exchange for all other features , we see this as a nominal and not inconvenient requirement as at the time we were adding new computer assets. This requirement may not suit all smaller companies.
- Reviewer Source
- Source: SoftwareAdvice
- Reviewed on 2020/07/18
Leilani T.
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Overall Rating3,5 /5
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Ease of Use3,5 /5
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Features & Functionality2,5 /5
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Customer Support5 /5
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Value for Money2,5 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Source: SoftwareAdvice
- Reviewed on 2016/09/27
"The updates are killing me"
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.
- Reviewer Source
- Source: SoftwareAdvice
- Reviewed on 2016/09/27
Miriam F.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use5 /5
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Features & Functionality5 /5
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Customer Support5 /5
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Value for Money5 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 2019/11/06
"Works great for Small Manufacturer"
Comments: I love the ease of analyzing each piece of our manufacturing process.
Pros: Ease of Quickbooks Online integration, ease of cost analysis
Cons: Reports are not as easy to manipulate as some programs
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 2019/11/06
Jennifer C.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use5 /5
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Features & Functionality5 /5
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Customer Support5 /5
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Value for Money5 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 2019/11/25
"Excellent Manufacturing and Inventory Management Software Solution!"
Pros: The versatility of viewing and tracking inventory the way we wanted to.
Cons: It lacked accounting software that we needed.
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 2019/11/25
