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Last updated March 13th, 2026

# Page 25 - Reviews of Fishbowl

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KL

Karen L.  
  
  
Used the software for:

### ""

August 17, 2011

5.0

Largo Tank & Equipment is a manufacturer of flatbeds, truck bodies and truck-mounted vacuum tanks for oilfield service. We had a software program that did not suit our needs and was not user-friendly. Fishbowl was the first new program we looked at and and I was hooked! Since going live in 2007 with the 5.0 version, we have been able to keep a better handle on our inventory and information. We are currently using the 11.5 version and it just gets better and better! It's the easiest system I have ever worked on, and I've seen quite a few. Having never set up an inventory software program by myself, I was pretty nervous but Fishbowl is so self-explanatory, it was a breeze. A few days of reading up and I was ready to go. I did not attend any training classes, even to this date. The online help and help built into the system is very easy to go through and learn from. We use Fishbowl as a stand-alone inventory system and it is perfect for our needs. We do inventory in September and our counts in 2010 were the best we've ever had! The cycle counts are easy to do and with the import/export capabilities of Fishbowl, it goes quickly and efficiently. The support you get from the team at Fishbowl is superior, from customizing our reports to answering any questions that might come up. The benefits - what can I say? I've quit pulling out my hair and feel so good about the choice that we made to go with Fishbowl!

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AR

Antonio R.  
Warehouse Manager  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Teaming up with CJ Global "

December 5, 2018

5.0

Kenyon Flake was very helpful in training us on fishbowl. He showed us in depth how to create reporting and new functions we can use. He was able to answer all our questions as well as solutions to issues we were having.

Pros

Fish bowl is very is easy to navigate and to learn. On day one you are already become very productive in your job.

Cons

Wish our scanning was more at a case level. Right now when we pick it scans multiple boxes at once. This can lead to accidental miss picks

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CW

Cindy W.  
Client Services Manager  
Farming  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Terrific inventory software"

June 21, 2018

5.0

Pros

Can enter an order while looking up inventory; quick and easy to learn how to use; great website utility for looking up questions.

Cons

ready made reports aren't the most useful for our industry; monthly updates to the software are issued which can impact customized reports.

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MF

Matt F.  
Operations Manager  
Sporting Goods  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Review"

February 17, 2022

5.0

Positive

Pros

Inventory control, work orders, and BOM's

Cons

Was difficult to reach someone by phone. Wait times were long and calls were dropped.

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Response from Fishbowl

March 17, 2022

Thank you for your review, Matt. We are sorry to hear that it was difficult to get ahold of a support team member. We will definitely inform our team of this inconvenience and improve our process. Thank you for the feedback.

RP

Ryan P.  
Accountant  
  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "A lot of new stuff"

May 17, 2017

5.0

Pros

It is good keeping track inventory. It creats variety price level for our company without making a hassle

Cons

We cannot edit SO once it is finished. It takes longer steps to release orders for our company, and the process is too long

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KW

Kurt W.  
CEO  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Fishbowl review"

May 30, 2017

4.0

Pros

Great customer support, fairly easy to use and learn. The software can accommodate the specific needs of my business which is great!

Cons

Sometimes all the features and capabilities are overkill and over-complicate the situation. Slightly difficult to add customizations.

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JA

Jamie A.  
President  
Food & Beverages  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Horrible. Does not work. Bugs will jeopardize your business. "

June 20, 2018

1.0

Support says they have no resolution. This system destructed my financials in two weeks. Fishbowl does not know how to fix their bugs. We had discovered over 500K in sales orders not invoices and over 1.2 million in duplicated vendor bills created. Run. Save your money Fishbowl is the worst company I have ever worked with. They have no regard for their customers or how their software jeopardized their business. RUN. RUN FAST

Pros

Easy to use. Nice looking platform. That is really it. Nothing positive to say- honestly hard to think of anything

Cons

Does not integrate with QB- watch out for units of measure conversion. Forces you to triple enter sales orders. Does not work with Magento 2. Does not work with dropships. Dropships are not linked to original sales order instead or PO. The sales order is “ghosted” and placed on a bid request with a different sales order number causing sales orders that in invoiced. Only way we caught error was due to our KPI’s being so out off. Does not work with Amazon.

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JC

Johnathon C.  
Vice President of Operations  
Wholesale  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Fishbowl Expereince"

April 20, 2017

4.0

We were looking for a software program that could best serve our inventory management and decided Fishbowl was the best option for us. Fishbowl provided the ingratiation we need with quickbooks and provided inventory details we didn't have before implementation. The customer support is terrific and the simplicity of the interface is greatly appreciated. We are very happy with the overall quality of fishbowl as a program and company.

Pros

Easy of Use. Customer Support.

Cons

At certain points the program can a little slow.

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JW

Jarrod W.  
Operations  
Logistics and Supply Chain  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Great Customer Support"

January 9, 2018

4.0

Pros

Having a support contract, FB is able to field many questions and work on solutions for the user. It may take a little bit of time to get a hold of someone but once they are working with you it is nothing short of professional and helpful.

Cons

Little support for anything outside of FB (i.e. 3rd party applications). It's understandable being that most are very unique, but sometimes a little insight can go a long way.

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RR

Rafael R.  
Inventory Control Manager  
  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Fishbowl streamlines inventory control and order fulfillment. "

December 7, 2017

5.0

You may need some technical knowledge to implement it yourself; that is really needed for any software like this, that will help you to streamline your whole supply chain. They offer a great after-sales support, but if you think you are not technical enough for the implementation, they also offer a training/implementation package.

Pros

\- Robust - It has all required features from BOM creation, thru Mfg. / Purchase Orders, to Sales Order fulfillment - For order management and fulfillment, manual solutions, like Excel, can't really compete with Fishbowl - Cost-effective - I have really experienced great technical support from different reps.

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JB

Jessica B.  
Owner  
Food & Beverages  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Impossible to Integrate with"

December 21, 2017

1.0

Pros

Works for inventory management purposes. We are a food manufacturer and this system came recommended.

Cons

No good if you actually need to sell a product. It doesn't integrate with anything properly. We have had tons of problems. If you need to integrate with Shopify, do not use Fishbowl. The plugin was down for over a month after a Shopify update...which means no sales were going into Fishbowl and we couldn't properly manage our inventory. Customer service is prompt but unhelpful. Now that it's finally up and running again, we realized our taxes import as a sales item. They say that importing tax as tax is not a functionality of the plugin. So now we have to go line by line in Quickbooks and take tax out of every sale. Fishbowl, how are you selling an incomplete plugin to people...? If you are going to sell an inventory management software, it has to be able to integrate with other systems successfully.

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TH

Tracy H.  
Owner  
Logistics and Supply Chain  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Up until the update to MY SQL we were doing great with FB, we have over a month that we've experienced major issues with the system"

May 17, 2017

3.0

Hi, we updated today to the most updated version of FB and it seems to have fixed our major issues we've been experiencing for over a month since My SQL. I would have like a quicker solution as it was a huge company wide issue for us.

Pros

User friendly Live Chat is helpful Importing SOs is helpful for our big orders Staff is always very friendly!

Cons

Major crash of system when moving to My SQL Have to pay extra for reports that seem like they should be standard

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DB

David B.  
Senior Business Process Analyst  
  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "As always, they are good about resolving the issues in a system as complicated as an ERP tends to be"

March 7, 2018

3.0

Pros

Very easy to use and cost effective. For the $, hard to beat. While there may be most elaborate systems out there, FB provides great ease of use and their support team, especially Travis give great support when the inevitable problem rears it's ugly head.

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PR

Phyllis R.  
Enterprise Application & System Admin  
Oil & Energy  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Labor within a Bill of Materials"

March 16, 2017

5.0

Customer support representative was very helpful & courteous. He solved my issue and followed up just the way he said he would with additional information.

Pros

It's simplicity.

Cons

Wished kits could be used as a product. We'd like to pull multiple parts, give it a part # and sell it. The problem is it doesn't pull it from inventory. We've had to make a BOM for it so it could be considered in inventory.

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JD

Jim D.  
President  
  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Powerful, but still needs work"

August 4, 2017

4.0

Pros

Works with Mac, Qb online, and Amazon FBA. Lots of features. Paid training was comprehensive. Overall it has solved many of our inventory issues.

Cons

I really do want to like the software but some days I am sitting there pulling my hair out. There are little glitches that do not seamlessly integrate all of the different features together. Our poor bookkeeper has had a really difficult time because there are so many discrepancies during the import to QuickBooks online which makes reconciliation a nightmare. Numerous other bugs along the way that requires a support call. The biggest gripe I have is that their support is hit or miss. Sometimes we get a call back within 10 minutes sometimes it's two days. I really thought they had it figured out because they went to a ticketing based system which seemed to improve things. However I'm on day two of waiting on a call back as I write this...

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WZ

Winnie Z.  
Designer  
Civil Engineering  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Professional community, conversations about work and salary"

December 13, 2022

4.0

Pros

It's interesting to discuss salaries and compensation with other users. More of a personal aspect than Glassdoor as you are able to have a discussion

Cons

Not a lot of users from Civil Engineering industry, not many posts in my company Fishbowl channel

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DS

Deborah S.  
Office Manager  
Furniture  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Repairs of Remote Desktop "

March 22, 2019

5.0

Pros

The customer service team will go above and beyond to understand the issue even if it is not within Fish Bowl but Voonami and get er dooooonnnneee.

Cons

Have to wait for someone to call you back, not that user friendly so you can fix yourself. That is a pain when you are down and cannot work.

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LC

Lalo C.  
Web  
Furniture  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Pretty good software/support"

May 19, 2017

5.0

Pros

Pretty robust, easy to use. Really like the support they offer, customer support has been awesome at helping us when we need support.

Cons

Software feels a bit clunky and sluggish to use sometimes. Been experiencing more hangups after update lately.

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SB

Sam B.  
  
  
Used the software for:

### "Fishbowl Review IT Director Perspective"

September 23, 2016

5.0

My name is Sam Bushman, IT director for TETON Sports, Salt Lake City, Utah. After running large inventory and accounting/ERP systems in the past, and dealing with the complexities and high costs of maintenance agreements, operating expenses, outsourced consultants, etc., I decided to find a reasonable cost alternative. After several months of hunting, I found our winning combination: QuickBooks combined with Fishbowl Inventory. The system is simple: Install both Quick Books and Fishbowl Inventory on the same server and connect the two with the simple wizard style interface and you are up and running. We currently run on an In The Cloud Hosted Terminal Server and love it. When it comes to adding or changing most things in Fishbowl, we just export a CSV file, make the needed changes and simply re-import the data. Wow! Who could have ever guessed that a system could be so powerful, flexible and simple to manage. From order entry to reports, from exporting/importing data to multiple inventory warehouse locations, Fishbowl has been a life saver. In the interest of full disclosure, we do have a few issues such as occasional reboots of the server. More expensive systems seem to resolve similar issues with relative ease. Their tech support is top notch and their willingness to listen to problems and feature requests is un-paralleled. Over all, I have truly found working with Fishbowl a pleasure.

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LS

Lj S.  
CPA  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Ongoing issues- do NOT recommend"

December 12, 2020

1.0

As stated above, I would not recommend this software especially for CPAs and their clients. It sounds fantastic but doesn't work as designed, especially for Quickbooks.

Pros

We haven't seen the full value yet but hopefully, it will integrate with Quickbooks online with some modifications.

Cons

Sales team & Support- Everything is an add on extra charge. They will sell you services that don't work for your system and then won't refund your money. Either the sales staff is not knowledgable or this is how Fishbowl likes to do business.

Switched from

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Inventory integration

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DP

Donna P.  
  
  
Used the software for:

### ""

April 24, 2013

4.5

We are a promotional marketing company and a fulfillment house. There are two aspects to our company, and we have found that Fishbowl Inventory software handles them both beautifully. For our promotional marketing side, we use Fishbowl Inventory to create purchase orders to our vendors, link the purchase orders to sales orders, then export to Quickbooks for billing clients and paying our vendors. In addition, by linking our purchase orders to sales orders, Fishbowl Inventory's reports make it easy to track profitability. We also use many of the other reports to track things like sales by customer, sales by sales person, sales by date, etc. For the fulfillment house side of our company, we use Fishbowl Inventory to track all incoming and outgoing inventory, and provide weekly or monthly reports to our clients. We also have created online ordering sites for many of our fulfillment clients. By adding EZ Connector software with Fishbowl Inventory, many of our clients go online, select the inventory they need shipped, see the quantity available, and enter where it is to ship to. When the online ordering sites sync with Fishbowl Inventory via EZ Connector software, sales orders are automatically created in Fishbowl Inventory. We have been using Fishbowl Inventory software since 2003 and hve found that it is easy to learn, easy to use, and by far has the BEST customer support I have ever used.

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IS

Israel S.  
Business Development Officer  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Good and Reliable Software"

August 21, 2018

5.0

Pros

Very easy to use software. Always available for customization. And the support team has been very accommodating.

Cons

None so far. Good Job!

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TK

Tina K.  
Office Assistant  
  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "FB is easy to use."

June 7, 2017

5.0

Pros

I don't use FB a lot, but I would have to say that the thing I like most is It's ability to export to QuickBooks.

Cons

Sometimes it takes too many steps to change an order.

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KW

Kent W.  
VP Operations  
Renewables & Environment  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Fishbowl Review"

October 7, 2016

5.0

Fishbowl is very user friendly. We use it for inventory, product, kitting management, sales orders, purchase orders, BOL's, packlists and invoicing. You get more than you pay for. Fishbowl support is excellent!

Pros

User friendly and reasonably priced.

Cons

Need more custom report capability

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TS

Tina S.  
Shipping and billing clerk  
  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Easy to use, very intuitive. "

April 3, 2018

5.0

Pros

It guides you through each step. You can't skip to the next without completing the step you're in. It probably has many more functions than what we're currently using, but as we learn, we are adding to our knowledgebase and making our reporting and daily functions easier.

Cons

Would like to have a ship to address and customer PO # printed on the pick list. We have some vendors with multiple addresses and I have to hand write those things on the pick list as a reference. On our packing list, our zip code is cut off to just 4 digits. We use locations for Loans and Gifts and use a TO to move items. In the notes section, we put the details of whom it went to and the person requesting it. When we run a report, those details do not show up, so we have to click on each TO to see the details. This takes time when we are looking for one specific Loan or Gift and where an item went.

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