inFlow Cloud is an all-in-one inventory management solution designed for small and medium businesses to track products, sales, and customers. With features including product listing, barcode scanning, location tracking, bulk reordering, bill of materials, quote management, customer management, sales reporting, customizable templates, inventory forecasting, and more, inFlow aims to help SMB’s to save time and stay organized with their inventory, orders, and customers.
In order to assist users in tracking stock, inFlow facilitates the creation of an online product catalog with stock levels, which can be kept up to date with barcode scanning for adding or removing items, and multi-level categorization for added organization. Inventory movements can be tracked and a full history provided for each product, meaning employees always have access to an up-to-date count of on-hand stock, reserved items, available items, and in transit items. With inFlow, users can generate historical and forecast reports on inventory in order to coordinate reorders and maintain a balance between profitability and availability.
In addition, users can utilize inFlow tools to generate and track purchase orders, manage customers, print or send invoices and packing slips, handle payments, store data securely, and more. From the customizable dashboard, users can access visual reports on sales, costs, and profit, as well as top performers, outstanding orders, and taxes.
Pros
I love that I can use images and add barcodes all in the same place. It is so easy to use and even easier to teach others how to use it. I also like that I can get reports on how many items we’ve sold and to whom. The apps have come in handy so often, because when we did an inventory check, we were able to go around using the mobile app rather than having to go back and forth between the computer and the shelves. This app made life a lot easier, and support was so helpful during the few times we had issues.
Cons
It’s a tad pricey. In order to get the mobile app, you have to pay. This includes permission for two people to use the program. However, this includes support, which is definitely worth it. We would prefer to also have the option to have the inventory stored on our devices rather than just in the cloud, but if we changed to the inFlow On-Premise, we would lose our mobile device compatibility. We would be willing to pay a little more over the already-pricey cost to have the option to have it cloud-based and on our devices.
Made my job as sales representative, and inventory control, much easier and more accurate.
Pros
Once you get to find your way around some, you come to see that it's going to save lots of time, and redundancies, with regard to invoices, packing slips, inventory control. But what is wonderful is it gives you a trajectory of inventory, so you never have to worry about having enough stock, or the dreaded "too-much-stock" on hand. The tech support has been friendly, and precise, even waiting on the phone as I worked through the things that I needed help with. I used to be asked by my boss, at the worst times I might add, "How much stock do we have right now?" And I'd give a guesstimate, sometimes close, some times I was way off, as I had to answer right away. Those days are gone thankfully, as now at any given moment I can not only give an exact stock count, but I can tell if more is needed to order and how much. The neat part too, is you can put in your own trigger amounts when stock count sinks to a certain it tells you to reorder, and you decide how much. No more guess work!!
Cons
I wish the invoice templates were a little more striking in appearance. Just a little drab. Yes you can make your own but, a few more invoice template choices with invoicing would be nice with more life. That goes for the stock inventory as well. It tells the information, but looks boring. Just a little more lively looking reports would be nice especially when presenting these in company meetings.
Example: "It's like 2 Ferrari's, one with the body just primed, the other with a sleek polished competition race paint job. Both perform the same, but one looks like it means business."
Support for this software is very good, I never have a problem getting a response, and there is a user based forum that also has a lot of information.
Pros
I liked that it was affordable, did not require that you pay a monthly subscription (for the offline version) and that it was more intuitive than most I've tried. The new integrated barcode feature of the cloud product brings this to the level of $10,000 systems I have used in the past.
Cons
The biggest con with both versions of this software is the inability to handle multiple warehouses properly. If an item you have is in multiple locations, it treats those locations as different bins on the same shelf, so it will not tell you that you need to order more for warehouse "A" of there is enough in warehouse "B,C,D" to meet the min/max criteria. This requires you to use different part numbers for the same thing in each warehouse, which is doable but annoying when it comes to transferring between warehouses and labelling.
InFlow worked really well as an affordable inventory control solution with their one-time fee for a desktop version. Our client was a new industrial supply company with around 1000 items but very limited staffing. InFlow offered an unlimited number of inventory and sub-categories. We needed a program that was easy to learn with the ability to have real-time inventory counts, profit and cost of goods sold, along with sales quotes that could be moved into sales orders and invoices along with vendor ordering capability. Inflow provided what we were looking for in a desktop solution.
Pros
The inFlow Inventory program was quite easy to learn and compared to other inventory management software, really affordable. It also had the ability to integrate with Magento or Shopify for when our business client was ready to move into online sales and the ability to use barcoding. There were a number shortcuts in the program which was quite useful for a small business with inventory but with limited operations staff. For example, through the Vendor list, low stock can be identified with the Suggest Reordering feature. We found it was a fairly robust program for our small business client, but also easily installed, customized and managed with a fairly flat learning curve to run it with success.
Cons
The only major downside to the desktop version of inFlow was its inability to integrate with an accounting program. Although the reporting capacity gave all the information that was needed for management and financial meetings, the information had to be exported out of Inflow and imported into the accounting program manually. The cloud version of inFlow has this ability, but the desktop version did not. There was also no Mac version available.
Better tracking if purchases, inventory and sales, pretty much important in running a business.
Pros
I love that it has all the features from purchase to sales and the inventory functionalities are comprehensive. It captures almost all of our business scenarios. It is really comprehensive vs all other software that we evaluated. I would say that this is the top inventory software in its class, before the big ERPs. Also, their recent strategy to move to cloud with integration to popular platforms has made the software more relevant, and made our business easier to operate. Finally, the customer service is really great. They do interact with all users closely and they listen to product improvement suggestions.
Cons
1) it would really really be a big productivity boost to be able to create sales order, review customer receivables/orders, and stock transfers in the mobile app or at least in the web app
Essentials: $69 per month for 2 users, $25 each additional user (paid annually)
Advanced: $149 per month for 2 users, $59 each additional user (paid annually). Perfect for manufacturers, those that need serial numbers or specialized businesses.
Enterprise: $599 per month, for 10 users, $49 each additional user (paid annually). Perfect for larger organizations with many team members.
Below are some frequently asked questions for inFlow Cloud.
inFlow Cloud offers the following pricing plans:
Starting from: US$69,00/month
Pricing model: Free, One Time License, Subscription
Free Trial: Available
Essentials: $69 per month for 2 users, $25 each additional user (paid annually)
Advanced: $149 per month for 2 users, $59 each additional user (paid annually). Perfect for manufacturers, those that need serial numbers or specialized businesses.
Enterprise: $599 per month, for 10 users, $49 each additional user (paid annually). Perfect for larger organizations with many team members.
inFlow Cloud offers the following features:
inFlow Cloud has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Non Profit, Small Business
inFlow Cloud supports the following languages:
Chinese (Simplified), English, French, Spanish
inFlow Cloud has the following pricing plans:
Free, One Time License, Subscription
inFlow Cloud supports the following devices:
Android
inFlow Cloud integrates with the following applications:
QuickBooks Online
inFlow Cloud offers the following support options:
FAQs, Forum, Knowledge Base, Online Support, Phone Support, Video Tutorials
This program is so very easy to use. However, the price doesn’t include some features that we really wish that it would. The fact that you can either have cloud-based or device-based is not a good thing, especially when it’s something so important. If we had an internet outage, we couldn’t use it. If we wanted to be able to use it without internet, we lose the app compatibility. We shouldn’t have to decide between the two; there should be an option that includes both, and many people would pay to have that.