Fishbowl vs LOCATE: Which is a better fit?

Love the visual aids in identifying status of orders. Integration with Quickbooks is excellent and seamless.

The main complaint that I have about this product is, the not so much the lack of MRP but the inability for Fishbowl to schedule materials plannings automatically.

Fishbowl has great customer service, and their support and availability during the setup phase of implementation has been excellent.

Can't pull accurate report on inventory valuation summary, excel export is garbage and hard to sort, can't sort valuation summary by date, and all reporting feature are just bad.

Although it is an easy system to work with, I would highly recommend to invest a bit more on the Implementation package, which we did and are very happy we did.

Hard to fix problems without having to talk to fishbowl. But they are usually very responsive when i have a problem.

Fishbowl's ease of use, excellent documentation, and use of wizards were key features we fell in love with. We have been using the software for two and a half months now and have never looked back.

The user interface is difficult to navigate and make sense of.

Locate is continually rolling out improvements and additional capabilities, their customer service is responsive, pleasant and truly helpful.

For example, sales orders can't be edited in an issued status. This is inconvenient when a partial order goes out and you need to adjust the remaining order.

We feel like this is a platform that will grow with us. Locate is radically different - better, IMO - from any other inventory/order management platform in it's class and a great value for the money.

Some of the features and functionalities are still too limited.

Tyler T

Chief Executive Officer

I like the fact that it is SaaS, and they have integration with all the tools we need. The barcoding on BIN locations and the paperwork it generates has been a godsend.

The second chart of accounts threw me off a bit and it was sometimes difficult to reconcile with QBO.

Tyler T

Chief Executive Officer

I've already recommended LOCATE to two other clients, and will continue to do so. They care about their clients, and keep improving their software.

Tyler T

Chief Executive Officer

If they are weak anywhere, I would say the accounting expertise that LOCATE provided us may need another person, but that was a year ago we implemented so maybe they did that.