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Last updated March 13th, 2026

# Page 13 - Reviews of Fishbowl

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LM

Laurent M.  
GM  
Health, Wellness and Fitness  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Affordable and Capable "

March 10, 2022

4.0

Pros

Relatively easy to implement and lots of integration options. We use it for manufacturing and it gets the job done.

Cons

The software integrates nicely with Quickbooks but you definitely need someone in your team that is very comfortable with Quickbooks and understand account mapping. Fishbowl uses default accounts which depending on how your Quickbooks is setup may not end up where you expected. So would highly recommend spending a little more up front to make sure the mapping is where you need it. Also ,if you have customs pluggins, make sure you check with Fishbowl Dev team before pushing updates to avoid surprises.

Reason for choosing Fishbowl

Integration with Quickbooks

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KN

Kevin N.  
Vice President  
Retail  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "User Friendly ERP System"

March 21, 2024

5.0

Pros

Easy to use, and thorough support documentation

Cons

Cost seems high for the program when compared to other services

Alternatives considered

[Monsoon Marketplace](https://www.capterra.com/p/126486/Monsoon-Marketplace/)

Reason for choosing Fishbowl

More integrations available for all of our needs

Switched from

[Denali Business](https://www.capterra.com/p/20020/Denali-Accounting-Software/)

Built in Integrations and easier to use platform

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RB

Robert B.  
Systems Analyst  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "A very good general inventory/manufacturing management program"

February 28, 2022

5.0

Definitely a medium-steep learning curve for the system administrator who needs to know how everything works and works together.

Pros

Many, many features available for inventory control and manufacturing, and the program integrates seemlessly with Quickbooks. The recently improved Material Requirements Forcasting feature should be a great help with just-in-time purchasing. The overall product is slowly but consistently improved at no charge to customers under their support contract.

Cons

The inventory module should integrate more seamlessly with other modules such as purchasing and sales orders without having to resort to using reports. Some online documentation is lacking, especially for integration plugins and lesser-used features.

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CR

Cameron R.  
Supply Chain & Operations Manager  
Non-Profit Organization Management  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "$25 Amazon Gift Card for leaving a 4-5 star review on G2 Crowd"

March 28, 2022

4.0

Decent/ as expected.

Pros

Product is easy to use for the most part is what I like about it.

Cons

Having to reach out to get custom reports updated before updated software, Fishbowl should automatically ensure custom reports are compatible. Also support is not open 24 hours and operates in a different time zone than us can be inconvenient if their server is down (we host on FB server).

Reason for choosing Fishbowl

Was not my decision.

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DV

Dan V.  
Owner  
  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Fishbowl Inventory & Manufacturing: Not great for custom manufacturers..."

May 25, 2017

5.0

Inventory management is a breeze, great for warehousing and manufacturing bigger build products, the modules, and UI is well thought out, and very logical, they did a great job with it. They have great eCommerce integrations they added on for magento and amazon which makes it more powerful. The fact that you buy the product up front (with a year of support that can be renewed) makes it seem like you are saving money by owning the software, but you'll need to upgrade every year until the software does what you want it.

Pros

It's great if you are manufacturing the same thing over and over, so you need 500 or 1000 widgets made the same way. It's a pretty powerful tool for warehousing and inventory. It costs for just the warehousing, plus users and add-ons. They'll give you a discount if you ask them, but you almost should just go with a saas program you'll get quicker updates. fishbowl you can save lots of money down the road if you don't buy there support package. They have a pretty good product development team, but it takes them at least a year it seems like to roll out any useful new features you talk to them about.

Cons

Very challenging to set up, learning curve is huge in my opinion. The BOM stages work for the most part, but you'll spend a lot of time in a sandbox database seeing if what you want works (if your doing multi stage builds) If your doing 1 to 100 of anything, and what your making varies order to order, I'd recommend some other software like ordoo, shopvox, or corbridge. They are alot quicker to set up on the

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CF

Cristian F.  
Logistic Administrator  
Logistics and Supply Chain  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Outstanding Logistic management Software "

March 30, 2022

5.0

Fishbowl has been outstanding for our business special with to manage stock and inventory it helps us to have a better management better stock control, we are happy with our experience with Fishbowl.

Pros

All the features for the stock control, to tack the stock the full range of reports the customize dashboard. The purchasing and sales has great functionalities that make the management easy also it is easy for the user.

Cons

When i have stock take i find difficult to note have some feature to support or make it easy, the only option is the cycle count file export and import.

Alternatives considered

[AscendTMS](https://www.capterra.com/p/122488/AscendTMS-Logistics-Software/)[NetSuite](https://www.capterra.com/p/135757/NetSuite/)[DaVinci Resolve](https://www.capterra.com/p/209733/DaVinci-Resolve/)

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CR

Carlos R.  
IT MANAGER  
Food Production  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Customize"

March 11, 2022

4.0

Is good but the freight is also difficult to capture

Pros

The Manufacturing option is complete is the best feature of the tool

Cons

Forecast not been able to access from the cloud

Alternatives considered

[Odoo](https://www.capterra.com/p/135618/Odoo/)

Reason for choosing Fishbowl

It was already in the company when I joined.

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CQ

Carlos Q.  
Director of Business Intelligence  
Food & Beverages  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Absolute Ripoff"

June 23, 2016

1.0

Ignore any of the positive reviews they are clearly lies placed by the company. Notice how only the negative reviews mention any specifics. If you can adopt this software to fit your business needs, you will quickly find it is not a scalable solution whatsoever. The software allows for minimal to zero customization and requires to follow every step of their preset workflows. The product is essentially an open-source, i.e. free, database packaged with a one size fits all schema and a slow and clunky front-end. They include an open-source reporting platform (iReports) and market it as having fully customizable reporting. Yet they do not support this free reporting platform and barely support getting it connected if you're patient and don't mind waiting up to a week for answers. They also sale a completely impractical mobile interface that will quickly make anyone prefer to run over to a computer before trying to navigate their handheld device software. It could NEVER be used by someone operating a forklift. This product is a complete RIPOFF targeting a great group of suckers, i.e. businesses without the financial or technical acumen to move beyond the world of QuickBooks. Before you spend $50,000 on a bad, bad, solution think about return on investment and whether your business plas to grow. Then find one of the many scalable ERP systems that can be implemented for the same price, even if it takes a little longer to get setup. Better to get by with spreadsheets for 6 months and have a real solution down the road then waste time and resources in solution that if you're lucky enough to get to work, you will outgrow in a year. THIS SOFTWARE SUCKS A !!

Pros

The 2016 front end looks slick. There is an API, but it will cost you more to hire a progammer to figure out how to integrate with it than to just get better softwate that plays better.

Cons

THE SUPPORT IS HIDEOUS, THE MOBILE APP IS USELESS, SALESPEOPLE ARE LIARS

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SP

Scott P.  
Director of Manufacturing  
Health, Wellness and Fitness  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Fishbowl Works for Us"

March 4, 2022

4.0

I've implemented about five ERP/MRP systems and this was the easiest of them all. Our team has picked up on it quickly and likes to use it. Very user friendly.

Pros

The software is easy to use and intuitive. Unlike SAP and others, a new person can jump in and start using the software day one. Things are easy to find and the learning curve is days not months. A system the people won't use is worthless.

Cons

Can't think of anything...does what we need it to do.

Alternatives considered

[NetSuite](https://www.capterra.com/p/135757/NetSuite/)

Reason for choosing Fishbowl

One of our senior leadership had implemented it before and liked it at a previous company. The others liked the simplicity of the system, and its ability to work with our already existing Quickbooks.

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TB

Tara B.  
Controller  
Retail  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Pet supplies retailer and manufacturer"

May 21, 2024

5.0

Pros

I liked the process of implementation - I had a great support team with the implementation process and my contact was incredibly helpful and knowledgeable.

Cons

I think my least favorite aspect was the user interface - it's not terrible but it feels a little bit clunky.

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DS

Dasha S.  
Business Development Director  
Medical Devices  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Too Expensive, Unintuitive, and Aesthetically Unpleasing"

December 17, 2020

3.0

Pros

It meets our basic needs for manufacturing and sales.

Cons

The flow from the creation of a sales order to the fulfillment is flawed. If a customer pre-pays, we have to artificially fulfill the order, export it to QuickBooks, charge the customer through QuickBooks, then manually notify the fulfillment department to release the purchase order to UPS.

Alternatives considered

[inFlow Inventory](https://www.capterra.com/p/78431/inFlow-Inventory/)

Reason for choosing Fishbowl

Allows inventory management for manufacturing purposes.

Switched from

[inFlow Inventory](https://www.capterra.com/p/78431/inFlow-Inventory/)

Manufacturing needs were not met using InFlow.

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JC

Jarron C.  
Inventory Manager  
Plastics  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "DK Plastics"

April 3, 2024

4.0

Pros

Fishbowl allowed us to gain a lot more traceability within production all the way through sending invoices. Collected all of our data from multiple different spreadsheets and combined it all into one user friendly hub.

Cons

There is a lot of specificity to different functions that don't apply the best in a factory with ever changing made to order products.

Alternatives considered

[QT9 ERP](https://www.capterra.com/p/125475/QT9-ERP/)[DELMIAWorks](https://www.capterra.com/p/103908/IQMS-ERP-Software/)[JobBOSS²](https://www.capterra.com/p/219273/JobBOSS/)

Reason for choosing Fishbowl

We chose Fishbowl over other ERP software's for a combination between pricing and functionality.

Review Source

JS

Jeremy S.  
Web Developer  
Food & Beverages  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Great software for Managing throughout product lifecycle"

April 27, 2022

5.0

Have used Fishbowl for years in both a custom plugin environment and production to help mainly with our online store integration to fully manage products and orders.

Pros

Great features and integrations with other systems to fully synchronize product channels.

Cons

Not as much flexibility to customize solution to fit exact needs of newer integrated 3rd party features.

Reason for choosing Fishbowl

I was not the decision maker.

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JC

Jeff C.  
  
  
Used the software for:

### ""

May 30, 2013

4.5

If you are considering Fishbowl for your business, you will be making a wise choice. Let me tell you a little about our business, what we were using before Fishbowl, and why we decided to go with them instead of the many choices you will have. We are a manufactures rep agency servicing the HVAC and plumbing industry. We work directly with the wholesale market and warehouse about 750 - 1000 sku's. Before Fishbowl, we had no inventory program in place - other than notebooks and getting up to check the shelf. As our business continued to grow, we quickly realized the need for some sort of help in managing our inventory and purchasing. In the 2 + years since full line integration, we are very satisfied with our decision and continue to find tools and reports that we didn't even know exisited. It's a very complete system. Our decision to go with Fishbowl wasn't an easy one. There are a lot of programs out there that will do the same thing Fishbowl can and at stagering range of costs. We looked at over a half a dozen systems, ranging from the 6 figure programs to the custom coded excel based from the local starving student. The decision was made based on the following facts - Fishbowl works directly with Quickbooks, our current accounting program. It works with excel which makes updating prices and importing product lines very easy. The other deciding factor was their support and training. Training was a huge concern for all of our associates. Since most of us had only been working out of notebooks or memory of inventory levels for years, and with varying levels of comfort with any computer program, going to any inventory software program was a very scary thought. We made the decision to invest into the on-site training they offered and it was the best decision we could have made. There is a learning curve, no doubt about it and it can be steep depending your level of comfort and savy with a computer. But rest assured, the support and training got us the answers and assistance we needed. The only thing I could say about Fishbowl in a negative light, is it's a little bit of a "one size fits all" program. There are some feature/functions that in our business just aren't needed. However, as a growing small business we like the idea of having tools at our disposal even if they are left in the tool box. It's nice to know we have them. We are very happy with Fishbowl. It has helped us grow our warehouse business and find loose ends in sales, stocking levels, and purchasing practices which all means at the end of the day we have become more profitable because of it. The more time we put behind us the more valuable the data has become. We are now even doing credit card transactions right out of Fishbowl! Trust Fishbowl. They will be there for you, provide an inventory program that will work and help you grow the business.

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NL

Nathan L.  
Materials Manager  
Medical Devices  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Great user friendly ERP software "

April 13, 2022

4.0

I have used SAP for 11+ years and transitioning to Fishbowl has been a breeze. It feels like it has the power of SAP with a much more user friendly interface and the functionality truly seems to follow common sense.

Pros

Fishbowl is very intuitive and user friendly. It allows for quick and easy material movements, reports and easy access to snapshot the entire business' status.

Cons

The only cons I've run across are the reporting format and report filtering. I would like to see an excel output in plain text without all the spaces and empty cells from formatting. Another good benefit would be to be able to run reports using lists of specific materials, so far it seems to only be individual items or all items.

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GA

Gustavo A.  
Deputy General Manager  
Machinery  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Great Inventory Control Software"

March 25, 2022

5.0

Pros

Ease of use, friendly environment, great customer support and it provides all the tools to manage inventory including tracking of each item

Cons

Sometimes errors happen and items get stuck in Committed but is not a big issue since customer support is always available to help you fix any inconvenience. VOID should be available for the Admin User Password at every level even when a transaction has been posted and needs to be revised

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LA

Leanne A.  
Purchasing/Database Administrator  
  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Very tough start, but once up and running, seems much more friendly."

March 1, 2018

4.0

Pros

Search function is amazing! Really like Fishbowl for the most part. Ordering, inventory tracking, automatic updating, etc.

Cons

1) Can't look at a part and see how many times it was ordered easily. Have to go in and out of the purchase orders. Would like to look at a part, see how often it was ordered and from whom, how many were ordered and how much we paid in a simple list form. Right now I only see the PO/Vendor without any of the important details like quantity ordered and cost. 2) I also think the Revision for an item should follow the part. It does not. There is a revision field that shows up on the purchase order, but doesn't print anywhere AND is not the same field from the Part Detail screen. In a manufacturing environment the revision for any given part should follow the part around the database, including onto purchase orders so the vendor knows what to fabricate. Right now I have to manually enter the revision on the vendor screen. The revision from the Part Detail screen should automatically populate on the Vendor screen for said part so that when the item is ordered, it appears on the purchase order . 3) I find the documentation sometimes lacking detail. 4) I'd also like to be able to create custom reports myself and without turning back the hands of time and forcing Java to use an old revision (required for iReport). A report creation function in Fishbowl would be awesome! Even my archaic old Parts & Vendors software allowed me to do create custom reports.

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MP

Max P.  
MANAGER  
Textiles  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Fishbowl Review"

March 21, 2022

5.0

As the program and software continue to develop, the program becomes easier and more friendly to use.

Pros

I like the ability to cross reference multiple custom products with images and information in a wide variety of queries. I also love that the system can be scheduled to have automatic backups in the event of computer malfunction.

Cons

Sometimes it takes a bit for support to reach back out to me, but once they are walking me through the details they are excellent at finding solutions.

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RP

Robert P.  
VP of Finance  
Food Production  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Two major areas for improvement"

August 18, 2022

3.0

Our Operations team finds it helpful and far superior to QB Enterprise's Inventory management.

Pros

Inventory builds and management within the FB software are great.

Cons

Two major flaws: 1) Support is very slow to respond. Their support page on their website indicates one can live chat, but It's been months since that was true. You can chat with a mindless bot all day and not get any support, but cannot chat with a real person. Email support requests often take hours to get a response. Don't even think about trying to call. 2) FB Inventory totals get out of balance with QuickBooks, presumably due to rounding. But a product that calls itself Fishbowl Inventory for QB should have some sort of built-in mechanism to keep the two in balance.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Warehouse clerk  
Retail  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Fishbowl para warehouse "

November 10, 2022

2.0

Pros

Sistema facil de usar. Funciones disponibles para escaneo de productos, envío y shipping. Generador de órdenes de pedidos e inventario

Cons

En ocasiones muy lento. Cuando varios usuarios se loguean en la aplicación se torna muy lento o imposible de entrar

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MS

Monica S.  
Owner  
Health, Wellness and Fitness  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "There are better ERP systems out there "

March 15, 2023

2.0

I wish I never paid over $11k dollars for this crappy software.

Pros

The reporting feature is the only good part of this whole system

Cons

Everything. It constantly has bugs and needs updates. The inventory is always off no matter what. Their support is extremely costly. And their employees have the worst customer service

Reason for choosing Fishbowl

Because they were a local Utah company

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CL

Chris L.  
Controller  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Did not work out"

April 4, 2016

1.0

Pros

Customer support is thorough when you are able to reach them. Software was very easy to understand and implement. There are a few valuable stock reports. Data module allows you to write your own SQL queries.

Cons

1\. IT issues a. Having to reset company server every Sunday. As per IT department, this is a known issue on Fishbowl’s end with no plans to fix b. Having to reset fishbowl server every day due to export failures. Again, known issue. c. The client stalls on our staff daily. Just this past week, collectively we've had to kill the application 40 times due to random lock-ups. This is not an issue on our IT department's end. d. Our quickbook's database has increased tenfold due to the amount of exports fishbowl has made over the last three years. Manuvering in Quickbook's is now a nightmare here in Canada since users are unable to compress the database anymore. 2. Internal Control a. No audit trail as it relates to changes to SKUs, POs, SOs, changes to inventory valuations b. Inability to lock down PO and SO items after they are issued c. Inability to police SKU creation. We need users to be able to create SKUs and submit to management for approval. Once approved, the SKU details are locked down. Fishbowl's user account control is VERY limited. 3. Reporting a. Poor inventory reporting – not able to view listing at a specific date. Fishbook’s workaround does not reconcile to the quickbooks ledger since the report is only a snapshot and not an actual valuation at that date. b. Not able to customize views on reports such as POs, SOs, etc. c. Inventory days aging calculation is flawed. If I move inventory to another location, it resets to zero. That is not how days in inventory is properly calculated. Fishbowl can’t calculate this measure since historical values are not stored. Same with GMROII. d. Inability to create custom reports to track measures such as inventory performance and turnover. Historical carrying cost data is not stored. 4. Poor integration with Quickbooks a. If SKUs accounts were not correctly mapped, a change must be made in both fishbowl and quickbooks after the fact. If we were able to police SKU creation properly, this would rarely be an issue. b. Live inventory valuation in Fishbowl almost never agrees with ledger and I can’t figure out why.

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JO

Janine O.  
Office Manager  
Telecommunications  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Good Value, Easy to use"

May 20, 2022

5.0

It has been very good. It would have been better had we taken advantage of more training instead of trying to fugure it out ourselves but that is on us.

Pros

It is easy to use after you figure the basics out. I would recommend taking advantage of the training that is offered

Cons

The calculation of average cost gets tricky if you are not careful about what you are doing.

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DG

Daniel G.  
SEVP  
Environmental Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Terribly slow and no answers from customer service"

August 9, 2023

3.0

Someone in leadership needs to call me at \[sensitive content hidden\] and provide solutions how our $9,000 a year fee is fair. Fix this, now !!

Pros

We thought it was a long term solution, NOPE !

Cons

Takes us 10 minutes to load a part inventory. Excruciatingly slow with zero answers from anyone at FB how to improve speed. They're only response is start over with a new database. Complete and utter disaster. We have used for several years and speed has steadily declined to now its almost impossible to use, is delaying ability to complete task.

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YA

Yousef A.  
Owner  
Packaging and Containers  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Okay, when it works. A disaster when it doesnt"

September 8, 2021

3.0

Pros

When Functional, it is a good software. Order Management, fulfillment, inventory updates, accounting integrations are all great. keyword is WHEN it functions properly.

Cons

I was on the phone with fishbowl support at least 4-5 times a month. One issue after another, and although extremely friendly, i was given either incorrect information, or sent to an inbox with no reply. I could not get order fulfillment to work, my customers wouldn't receive tracking numbers. They blamed Woocommerce, but when i switched to multiple other competitors it worked just fine. We also had a ton of shipping integration issues. Any orders that had a credit card declined wouldnt come into fishbowl either. Just super glitchy Woocommerce customers, try out orderhive, its working great for what i am doing.

Alternatives considered

[Cin7 Core](https://www.capterra.com/p/133038/Cin7-Core/)

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