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Fishbowl is an ideal software solution for manufacturers, wholesale distributors, e-commerce companies, and other businesses and organizations with large or complex inventory requirements. It also extends QuickBooks by reducing the size of QB files and eliminating limitations on customers, vendors and items.
Fishbowl Manufacturing provides complete manufacturing inventory, advanced work orders, bills of materials, barcode scanning, production stages, multi-location, labor and job tracking, MRP, eCommerce integration, shipping, EDI integration, landed costs, CRM integrations, business intelligence and seamless integration with QuickBooks.
Fishbowl Warehouse offers complete warehouse inventory management, including stock alerts, reordering, shipping, receiving, barcode support, multi-location support, serial/lot-tracking, ecommerce, CRM and EDI integrations, true-cost calculations, employee time tracking, business intelligence and seamless QuickBooks integration.
Fishbowl Online offers robust, scalable cloud-based inventory management for QuickBooks with complete inventory management, seamless QuickBooks integration, and no special hardware requirements since you can access the software from any device using the internet and can scan barcodes using your smartphone.
While these three versions are somewhat distinct, they share numerous identical features. This is because Fishbowl has just selected the most common "modular features" its clients have used for the various environments and bundled them together to offer each configuration as a starting point for customers. (Not all features are standard, some features discussed herein are optional and are available only at an extra price within any/each of the standard packages.)
Order management is a critical process that can make or break your business. With Fishbowl, you can manage everything from proposals and quotations to order fulfillment and shipping/delivery—all in one powerful, user-friendly system.
Quickly jump between quotes/estimates and sales orders to stay on top of your business. Streamline your order management with pick, pack and ship.
Fishbowl has the ability to offer different prices to different types of customers. It is crucial to update prices, as the price of raw materials may change from month to month or day to day. It allows businesses to create price books based upon customer, customer group, a specific product or product group.
Its Purchase Order function lets you create and issue purchase orders for parts, miscellaneous items, out-sourced items and credit returns items. And its Auto PO wizard provides an easy way to generate purchase orders for items with low quantities.
Fishbowl makes the task of finding parts and products easier. Just type in a product number or scan its barcode and Fishbowl will show you where to find it, how many you have on hand and when you should reorder. This helps you organize your warehouse(s) to maximize efficiency by storing parts and products for specific jobs close together.
If you have multiple warehouses, you can track sales trends and adjust the number of products stored at each warehouse accordingly.
With Fishbowl, you can create scan and track barcodes to speed up your inventory management using scanners. In addition, you can perform inventory counts using Fishbowl mobile.
Many companies struggle to find a healthy balance between being overstocked and out of stock in their inventory. Fishbowl Warehouse helps you find the right balance in your inventory levels.
The Average Cost and First In First Out (FIFO) costing methods used in QuickBooks are not always the best ones for a business. Distributors often prefer Last In First Out (LIFO) or Standard Costing accounting methods to better understand the dynamics of their operations.
Make sure your software solution can use LIFO, FIFO, Average Cost or Standard Cost methods. Your inventory solution should keep track of the costs and push the correct values to the corresponding accounts in QuickBooks.
Fishbowl's manufacturing features are designed to simplify the complex tasks of organizing work, materials and processes. Its manufacturing orders, work orders and bills of materials give users the ability to streamline manufacturing processes and optimize custom jobs.
As businesses grow, Fishbowl Warehouse provides tools to help you face the challenge of managing inventory in multiple locations. If you are set up with bins, the Fishbowl location feature can mimic those. With Fishbowl Warehouse, you can closely monitor product levels in each of your locations.
Fishbowl Mobile dramatically increases your workers' productivity. Instead of printing a ticket, they can use a mobile device to find and pick products anywhere in a warehouse. In addition, Fishbowl allows for cluster picking, which lets you pick products for up to 10 orders simultaneously.
You also can set up single-batch picks where you pick all single-line item sales orders simultaneously. With all these features in the palm of your hand, you are no longer tied to computer terminals to update your inventory.
Besides offering built-in shipping features, Fishbowl offers multiple shipping integrations like ShipStation and StarShip. This allows you to compare rates for all carriers, and select the lowest and best service available that still gets orders to your customers on time.
Fishbowl is ideal for brick-and-mortar shops or e-commerce businesses. It works even if you do not have a warehouse and you are a drop shipper since it monitors all of your suppliers.
If you notice a shipment is late, or if your customers are not getting the right quantities or types of products they order, you can trace those problems back to the source and resolve them promptly.
Fishbowl can create a customized dashboard for each user account so that every user sees the most relevant information. These individualized dashboards show an overview of pending orders in the system, and display reports and links to everyday tasks each specific user will routinely perform.
Fishbowl can be customized to meet most assembly, job shop and manufacturing needs. Fishbowl Manufacturing Orders provide powerful functionality allowing users to create and track assembly, disassembly, or repair orders.
It also keeps track of customer information, including sales order data, scheduling data and costs.
Manufacturers can use advanced inventory features to automatically create work orders for handling multi-level assemblies, tracking stages, tracking locations for work orders, and providing detailed instructions and travelers where "shop floor control" is an essential element of the manufacturing process.
Being able to analyze the data stored in a business software system is mandatory. Custom reports can be created through Fishbowl and its reporting partners.
Fishbowl is a time-saver for QuickBooks (Desktop or Online) users when you order a new product or fill a customer's order because your accounting and inventory software gets updated with the same information.
Fishbowl does not use standard QuickBooks items. Instead, it creates a limited number of "Fishbowl only" items as placeholders.
The QuickBooks description is posted as the Fishbowl Description for each Fishbowl item posted in QuickBooks. Simultaneously, the Debits and Credits are posted to the applicable accounts.
While your QuickBooks Item list never displays the actual quantities on hand in Fishbowl, your inventory counts within Fishbowl are accurate and your inventory valuations in QuickBooks are accurate as well.
Fishbowl has built its reputation on meeting the needs of inventory sensitive clients who want to keep their QuickBooks for their accounting. If that’s you or one or your clients, head over to the Fishbowl booth in the exhibit hall to find out more. You also can point your browser to the Fishbowl website for more details.
Finale Inventory (Finale) is inventory management for applications involving high volume, multichannel ecommerce and warehouse-centric requirements. It is trusted by leading businesses, large and small, around the world.
The cloud-based software platform helps with inventory and warehouse management. As a result, it offers a range of benefits for organizations of any size.
While its cloud-based architecture is just one of its many features, it is one of the most important, as its flexibility, security and convenience are key to driving your success. Businesses of all sizes use cloud inventory management software because it boosts productivity, and allows them to maintain better control over inventory, stock and orders.
Finale provides advanced order management capabilities that help maintain your stock from purchase to sale. You will prevent costly stock-outs with Finale's dynamic reordering, consolidate your sales and understand your gross margins by knowing your landed costs.
In fact, you always will know exactly what your inventory is worth using Finale's landed costs capability. Finale’s inventory accounting functions and reports provide a full picture of each financial transaction to ensure accurate financial reports, tax related information or regulatory compliance records.
Finale’s centralized inventory takes the guesswork and busywork out of tracking your inventory levels. Instead, quickly get an up-to-date count for all your products in one place and easily control your inventory in multiple warehouses.
The advanced multi-warehouse inventory management capabilities built-in to Finale allow you to coordinate your inventory across all of your warehouses, locations and online sales channels. This helps ensure your inventory is managed effectively and efficiently, no matter where it is.
With Finale, there will be no more delays caused by looking for inventory in multiple locations.
Speaking of multichannel sales, with more than 40 integrations (and counting), Finale allows you to keep all your Amazon, eBay, Shopify and all other marketplace listings in-sync and up to date by continuously updating the stock levels automatically, ensuring you never oversell your products again.
Your order picking efficiency will be greatly increased when you incorporate the barcode inventory management solution designed to increase warehouse productivity built on Android OS. Along with Finale’s advanced batch picking methods, such as wave picking and pick and pack, costly picking errors will be significantly reduced.
Finale makes it quick and simple to create finished products by using the Builds for Light Assembly or Manufacturing feature. This feature is ideal if you need a way to track finished goods without the complexity (and cost) of a full-blown ERP system.
Within Finale, you will create Bills of Materials (BOMs), which will track the inventory items needed to build completed goods.
Finale inventory management software comes with bundling functionality to help you manage the creation and sales of bundles and kits.
Finale has Builds, which allow for full traceability of the finished product if lot IDs or serial numbers are assigned. Every build is securely stored, and the critical data is immediately accessible whenever you need it.
Finale QuickBooks accounting Integration is integrated with both QuickBooks Desktop and Online. It will easily track your inventory across multiple warehouses and locations, lot numbers and serial numbers.
With Finale integrated with QuickBooks you will be able to run your operations in less time and eliminate costly errors, improving your inventory accuracy and lower your costs.
Finale is a cloud-based inventory management software that may be the solution for your high volume, multichannel ecommerce and warehouse-centric clients. If it sounds like the right solution, stop by the Finale booth in the exhibit hall to get all the details. For more information, you also can visit the Finale Inventory website.
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