--- description: Review of Flowlens Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs on Software Advice Ireland. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Flowlens | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice IE --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [MRP Software](/directory/163/mrp-software/software) > [Flowlens](/software/135184/flowlens) # Flowlens Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/135184/flowlens Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/135184/flowlens?page=2) > If you make or service complex, quality-driven products — devices, equipment or machinery — and you're finding spreadsheets, email threads and disconnected systems can't keep up with your growth, Flowlens is built with you in mind. Flowlens is cloud-based MRP and MES software combined with a lean, sales-order-linked CRM, purpose-built for SME manufacturers (roughly 1-100 people) who need more depth than general-purpose systems offer — particularly around multi-level bills of materials, build-to-order work, and batch/lot or serial number traceability. What makes Flowlens different: Handles real manufacturing complexity: nested, multi-level BOMs (customers run 1,500+ line BOMs today), and parts can be added or substituted on a live job card for builds, even after work has started. Step-level shopfloor control: break every job into workflow steps, each with its own people, machines, work instructions and bill of materials, so workers know exactly what's assigned and managers see what's on track or overdue. Traceability built in: batch, lot and serial number tracking, plus FIFO and average costing with actual labour and material costs tracked against every job. A CRM that's actually connected: manage quotes, leads and orders in one place, with full company and contact history, so sales and production aren't working from separate systems. Room to grow: quality management, service and forms modules are ready when you need them, so the system that gets you to 100 people doesn't need replacing at 50. Flowlens integrates with Xero, QuickBooks and Sage 50, so your accounts package stays in place while everything else transforms. Support and onboarding: Flowlens includes a hands-on implementation and training service — the team takes time to understand your business before configuring Flowlens to your exact processes, helps migrate your data, and trains your people so everyone gets full value from day one. Ongoing support is available by phone, email and chat, and every customer gets access to a live 'sandbox' environment to safely test process changes before rolling them out — so you can improve with confidence, not risk. Flowlens is available on a monthly subscription, with pricing based on the number of users and modules you need. If you're a growing device, equipment or machinery manufacturer looking for software that's built for your kind of complexity — not adapted from something else — Flowlens is worth a conversation. > > Verdict: Rated **4.8/5** by 25 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.8/5** | 25 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 5.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Flowlens - **Location**: Belfast, UK - **Founded**: 2006 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: £45.00 - **Pricing model**: Per User (Free version available) (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Flowlens starts at £45 per month per user - minimum 5 users. Additional users £39 per month. Shopfloor users £9 per month. Premium subscription includes bolt-ons for Pipeline and Service management plus tailored onboarding consultancy and training package, free sandbox and ongoing refresher sessions. - **Target Audience**: 2–10, 11–50, 51–200 - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Australia, Canada, Guernsey, Ireland, Isle of Man, Jersey, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom, United States ## Features - AI Copilot - API - Accounting Integration - Activity Dashboard - Adaptive Planning - Alerts/Notifications - Automated Scheduling - Barcode/Label Management - Barcode/Ticket Scanning - Barcoding/RFID - Bill of Materials - Billing & Invoicing - Bills of Material - Built-in Accounting - Collaboration Tools - Compliance Management - Cost Tracking - Cross-system Integration - Custom Pricing Rules - Customer Database ## Integrations (3 total) - QuickBooks Online - Sage 50 Accounting - Xero ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - Chat ## Category - [MRP Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/163/mrp-software/software) ## Related Categories - [MRP Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/163/mrp-software/software) - [Manufacturing Execution Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/164/execution-systems/software) - [Manufacturing Inventory Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/392/inventory-software/software) - [Inventory Control Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/2089/stock-control/software) - [Procure to Pay Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4436/procure-to-pay/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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[Sage 100](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/219700/sage-100cloud) — 4.1/5 (413 reviews) ## Reviews ### "Flowlens review" — 5.0/5 > **Stephen** | *14 October 2021* | Mining & Metals | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: The part of the software most useful to us is being able to take an initial enquiry right through to despatch and invoice, generating clear documentation at every stage and finally pushing the sale through to our accounting package. > > **Cons**: The feature I don't like is the email integration process - it's easy to mail out from the software but it uses a Flowlens mailbox which can be confusing. > > Outstanding level of service and friendly staff who are keen to take ideas into their development plan. There have been a number of good developments over the 2 years I've used it. ----- ### "Software that is easy to use and implement" — 4.0/5 > **Dan** | *15 September 2022* | Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: As a service company we looked high and low for a software that would manage both the new manufacture product and also customers equipment coming in for service. Flowlens fits that bill, the intergration into the company was relatively painless and would probably be even smoother should you come from an existing system most of our pain in the intergration was coming from our old Excel and Access databases but the team were fantastic in their support to get this up and running for us. > > **Cons**: The service side of the system does function for us but it sometimes feels like the poor relative. It would be good to get some of the functionality from Sales and Projects across to the service side for service related businesses such as our own. > > Overall experience with Flowlens has been good, they are a company that values the input from their customer base and if they can make your life easier by working in updates to the system they always will. For us the biggest thing was the immediate visibility that the system gave us, we'd gone from having to have multiple spreadsheets and databases open to being able to jump from one section of Flowlens to another and then back again overnight ----- ### "Good Basic MRP Tool for SMEs" — 4.0/5 > **Eric** | *12 January 2022* | Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Recommendation rating: 6.0/10 > > **Pros**: Our company recently trialled Flowlens as an MRP solution that could integrate with Xero to create a more robust ERP solution. We really liked the simple integration with Xero and the fact that it could manage the shop floor well. > > **Cons**: We found the system could use improvement when dealing with complex sub-assemblies and when managing multiple complex products. This product is best suited for simple manufacturers. > > After many product demos and a trial we decided that Flowlens was not for us as we need a more robust and mature MRP/ERP solution. ----- ### "Ease of use and aligned with our business" — 5.0/5 > **Iain** | *11 October 2021* | Industrial Automation | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: The user interface is clear and intuitive and won't scare away first-time users. Compared to other offerings there are not lots of unused boxes/fields or white space taking screen space. All the key information is available where you want it. Customisations are possible using the form templates which make it very easy to capture business specific data, for example we use this within our sales leads to capture customer requirements and create technical sales-support notes or even as simple as generating covering note to print and identify some free-issued materials from a customer. Integration with Xero for accountancy is flawless. You only need to give certain people access to certain elements keeping the user interface focussed to their role. The response of support has been excellent whenever we have needed to ask a question. The product is also designed for companies like us - small-medium manufacturers / solution providers so there is an alignment of the offering to the use case which meant we weren't fitting a round peg into a square hole from day 1. > > **Cons**: The system generated documents are fixed format, 90% of the time there is ample scope to use the fields that already exist to make the document contain what you need but there are times where an editable document would suit our need better. Some bulk actions don't exist at the moment (Like archiving multiple obsolete products) - although I believe they are coming soon. > > We have moved away from out team working within an accountancy package to now using flowlens for all day-to-day business activities. Only accounting and management now need to touch the accounts system. Where we perceived limitations or lack of features against some of the big CRM providers now we are using the system these have turned out to be non-issues and the simplicity and accessibility of the platform has driven adoption ----- ### "Blows Salesforce Out the Water\!" — 5.0/5 > **Amy** | *3 October 2019* | Automotive | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Flowlens is so easy to use and understand, it saves me hours on admin and sales and the team are so helpful. It's just so easy to use I can't believe it.... having used Saleforce previously which is overpriced, not suitable for SME and ridiculously complicated, Flowlens is a breath of fresh air. Admin is no longer a dread\! > > **Cons**: There is literally NOTHING I don't like. > > My overall experience with Flowlens has been fantastic. The price point is great, the support is there, and the system itself is awesome. We use the system for everything from holding a parts database to selling vehicles. The system integrates with our Quickbooks system beautifully which saves us hours of inputting stuff. It sends me daily reminders for all of the leads I need to get back to, and it just does everything- even job cards for the workshop\!\!\! It's just awesome and if you're reading this right now then you NEED to get this software. You won't be disappointed. ----- Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/135184/flowlens?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/135184/flowlens) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | ----- ## Structured Data