Zoho Inventory - Reviews page 3

Pros

Powerful yet easy to learn and manage - Lovely interface.
Very useful to grow (and grow with) your business.
Seamless integration with Zoho Books.

Cons

Not the best for managing large, technical inventory. Although composite items are available, it is a bit cumbersome to switch between the two.
Needs better integration with Zoho Commerce. The two should become one product for those that need an online store. Zoho Inventory would make a good backend for the eCommerce site.

Pros

Easy to use and available on mobile. Inventory on the go is the best thing that happened to us.

Cons

We don't find any problem with this software as such.

Pros

It’s the perfect way to manage my inventory! I own a small business I have to handle many jobs, this handles a big job for me! Love it!

Cons

Getting use to it was hard for me. But I get it now! My team understood it faster then I did! So far that’s the only issue!

Pros

We only send a small number of parcels a month and its mainly keys to code for our Locksmith Business. However, I find Zoho Inventory a great help in keeping track of these orders and levels of key blanks in stock.

The intregration with other Zoho Products is excellent.

Cons

No Android Phone App for when im on the road and need to start the process for key shipment.

Pros

Integration with Shopify very easy. Pricing affordable with many features for a small company to afford.

Cons

Clients with different currencies not easy. I am a company in Canada with Inventory in the USA and most of my customers are in USA.

Alternatives Considered

Reasons for Choosing Zoho Inventory

Switched From

Reasons for Switching to Zoho Inventory

Pros

we were maintaining an inventory of all the equipment and their invoicing along with the license expiry details and track them when used internally or sent to clients.

Cons

there are far more better tools within same price or even less with more features and functionalities than zoho offers.

Pros

EASY TO OPERATE AND MAINTAIN THE BUSINESS MODEL.

Cons

INVENTORY OPENING BALANCE HAS TO BE ADJUSTED

Pros

It integrates with all required systems.
We use it with Zoho Books, Zoho CRM and Shopify

Cons

That Shopify is not a Marketplace instead a Cart, this means that we can not sync our items both ways.

Pros

I love how easy it was to intergrate with ebay. the listings synced over, the orders, the customer profile, everything. Hands down the easiest and most time and cost sufficient program i hvae tried.

Cons

i love all the different Apps available, but im not sure if i c an get one app for a certain price and it work completely without having to purchase another subscriptiion for another service.

Alternatives Considered

Switched From

Pros

integration with other apps , also dashboard

Cons

currency change , support , customer service

Pros

EXCELLENT SOFTWARE FOR ACCOUNTING. WE USE FROM LAST 3 YEARS.

Cons

ONLINE PLATFORM

Pros

Easy to Use, Low Cost, Faster Customer support

Cons

Currently there is no user friendly POS function with ZOHO

Pros

I can store all my products, invoice and track shipping, payments, and delivery all in one location. It just makes the whole invoicing, sale right through to delivery process easier! And the integrations to various platforms

Cons

I linked zoho crm, but I am unable to bill directly to someone who is in my crm from inventory, I had to add the client manual.

Pros

I love how it integrates into the rest of the ZOHO Platform. Using ZOHO/ONE is a low cost way to get all of the features of ZOHO.

Cons

I don't use Inventory for the webstore features, which could possibly be the best use of it, however I just wish the serial number features could track for rental purposes of the items.

Pros

user friendly- and quick loading for the page

Cons

integration platform missing with online merch website

Pros

I use this software at the studio to monitor and manage inventory reports, and easily access data and plans for our daily, weekly and monthly schedules, especially delivering photographic equipment, receiving orders and monitoring the overall process.

Cons

The price! It could be a better deal, more cheap. I find it a bit expensive. But apart from this, I am happy with this product!

Pros

This software keeps everything organized and is very easy to use and the mobile application makes it easier to check our stock levels on the go

Cons

Awaiting some new features like printing barcode labels

Pros

Best part is its integrated with Zoho Books , which ,makes its wow, mobile makes its handy, so that i can access it without any limit of desktop

Cons

Not find yet, i think its thete is no cons.

Pros

User interface is well designed. Easy to use and learn quickly.

Cons

Subscriptions plans are confusing and not straight forward. Hard for us to match the plan to our needs.

Pros

The single greatest thing that we found to make Zoho stand out from the rest was the dashboard. We absolutely loved every aspect and option it provided.

Cons

The only thing I can think of would be the reports option the app provided. Just took some time setting it up with outlook.

Pros

I liked how Zoho made the task of moving from one shopping channel to the next a simple process that allowed me to save time and use inventory control to increase the profit of my business.

Cons

Occasional issues that were solved quickly by customer service. Timing out of pages before they save, etc.

Pros

Zoho software is easy to use and can be adapted to every kind of business

Cons

But sometimes the Authentification through OneApp is not that easy

Pros

Ease of use, online access, cost. Simple to implement. Informative reports.

Cons

To sell as different units had to create different item code and bundle/unbundle. Would like more control over templates - the built in ones take up too many pages when numerous items. To search as typing have to know how an item is named.

Pros

I only considered Zoho Inventory because of the Inventory integration with multiple Shopify stores but It never worked on more than 1 store.

Cons

Besides having paid $250 for a product that never worked, the customer service is very slow. They say they will contact their developers and have the issue fix overnight, they ask for screenshots of everything but NEVER SOLVE ANYTHING.

Alternatives Considered

Reasons for Switching to Zoho Inventory

Pros

Its difficult for me to write too many positives about Zoho Inventory, but what I will say that it is robust. It is feature rich. There is a great deal of information that can be recorded and documented with Zoho Inventory. And, sadly enough for those of us who need to keep track of inventory, its probably the best Inventory Platform on the market.

Cons

When it comes to keeping track of my farm inventory I like clean, easy, and intuitive. None of which, in my mind at least, describes Zoho Inventory. While it is robust, its also clumsy. I suppose if I were to devote the time to learning how to use it well it would be worth the time spent, as a farmer, I'm just too busy. That is why I find myself to be disappointed with Zoho Inventory. While it is the best Inventory Platform I've found, that isn't because it's great, its only because its better than the rest, which is saying little.

Pros

Being able to connect purchase orders, sales orders, customers, and payments together. It makes it easier to search for information, generate reports, and track sales & money spent. It makes handling my administrative processes quick and easy.

Cons

I wish there are additional minor customization that could be made. Importing sales information could use more documentation and takes some testing to understand. I wish I could import old sales information from previous years without it affecting the monthly orders limit.

Pros

Ease of use. This software is very user Friendly.
Value for money.

Cons

Few feature doesn't support manufacturing.

Pros

Zoho Inventory is very adaptive in the sense that you can transfer inventory between warehouses and stores. Also it allows for sales returns helping to track inventory better.

Cons

Cannot do Estimates for Customers or create accounting reports. Would be more beneficial to combine books and inventory to one software.

Pros

Its easy to use and really its the only one of its kind on the market for the price.

Cons

As the app grows more functionality will be added.

Pros

Zoho Inventory makes it easy to keep track of inventory, sales, and best sellers. Reports are intuitive and easy to run and make monitoring the performance of my business very easy.

Cons

I do wish there was a little better integration with some services. For example, I utilize PayPal Here for payments. Zoho Inventory only integrates with PayPal Payments Pro and Payflow. I've attempted to send invoices using Zoho Inventory and the regular PayPal integration, but it doesn't work unfortunately.

Pros

Excellent application for the growth of a small medium business. It is easy to use and accessible.

Cons

support in other languages like Spanish...

Pros

I’m a big fan of all of the branches to Zoho. Same goes for the inventory application, I can easily add/delete and manage inventory items and merge them into my Zoho CRM. Capatability is amazing.

Cons

It could be a little more customizable with certain items but for the most part this is an overall great inventory management option.

Pros

One of the big reasons we signed up with Zoho One was Zoho Inventory. We thought we'd use it to do our inventory management and order processing, but it failed in both aspects. So nothing to like about it really.

Cons

It is very rigid and old school inventory system. It's more for big manufacturing factories looks like with the traditional inventory processes. We wanted to keep inventory of parts of a product, we wanted inventory to get reduced once we receive new orders, we wanted to integrate with other apps, we wanted it to streamline our order management, but we weren't able to do any of those things with Zoho Inventory. We had to use Zoho CRM for all these things.

Pros

Is easy to set up and maintain updated. Good for companies that resale finished goods

Cons

not so good to manufacturing companies that have a complex mix of raw materials

Pros

Its all about speed and data integration, and we can use it sitting in any part of the world or on the go. It's Amazing.

Cons

Data backup is not so user-friendly. At least backup must be a daily basis.

Pros

Awesome to use. I use it on a daily basis and it helps me keep track of a lot. I am very please so far.

Cons

I wish you could have instant checkout so people paying invoices can pay again with 1 click. I wish you could copy and paste items

Pros

FREE To start and explore and decent features for a free version.

Cons

Inflexibility in handling certain situations -

Pros

The ability to create PO and track them from the moment a PO is made till the inventory was received to the customer.
Ability To make group items based on different categories such as size and patterns
The package services is also a great introduction

Cons

It should give us more item description. i.e when sending a supplier the PO we should send him an attachment of the item description and specifications.

Hope it allows us to assign the same PO to multiple customers based on % base

Pros

It is very easy to use and set up. The customer support is good. It is very affordable. I really enjoy web-based/cloud systems - makes it so much easier.

Cons

I was under the assumption there was a free version. After actually going in and starting to set it all up, I realized it is a free trial for 14 days. I do not feel that was clearly communicated. Regardless, the cost per year is very, very cheap compared to most of the other inventory management systems out there. Also, I cannot seem to use my own templates which means I have to redo it all in Zoho.

Pros

the user interface is very easy and is amazingly developed for proper analysis and the things can be visualized easily while doing things.

Cons

It was a bit difficult to understand first on how the whole process works but now as I know it is very convinient

Pros

I like the ease of use and the ability to barcode things easily.

Cons

There are plenty of other softwares that do the same thing with less clicks.

Pros

The software is easy to use. There are lots of tutorials available so it can be learnt easily. Having a mobile app is a great advantage. The speed and smoothness of the application impress much.

Cons

We didn't find any issue in the software as we have just started to check the features.

Pros

Ease of Use
Integration with other Zoho Softwares
Simplified tracking

Cons

Can have more features specific to Industry
Only General features considered
Hard to make changes as per the requirement

Pros

The interface is very clean and easy to navigate. The process of logging in sales is also quite simple. It does a good job of providing a bird's eye view of the inventory situation.

Cons

The data entered cannot be analyzed in great detail. We wished we could download the entire data so that we could filter and analyze it according to our requirements so that it made our work simpler. But unfortunately, it does not allow us to do this.

Pros

its automation and bank feeds.most of the work is automatically done with the use of different apis.

Cons

nothing ...everything which is needed is adding by developers day after day.
please link with state bank of india as soon as possible.

Pros

User Friendly, Quick Access, Many Features Available, Language Options, Currency Options and very easy to integrate.

Cons

Some translations not that good, Email support not that fast. There are other options that should be available, especially for other countries than US.

Pros

I like the strategy of ZOHO in their business model. The possibility to connect different Solutions (modules) with each other, and use this connectivity to develop own work flow. As a small start-up (3 persons) we are happy to use zoho Tools for free. In the beginning of our Business it's very important to have the solution like ZOHO. We can't pay after 4 month of work. If the Trial period could end, we would have to change to usual open source solutions with tabeles. One thing I can say, I would never change this system, if I have build my business on it's basis. But I need more time to be able to pay for this service.

Cons

I would like to use this solution in another language. In this case I talk about russian language. If you have some Project on GitHub, I would like to help to translate! Until today I didn't found some serios cons.
Thank you!

Pros

Seems like it has a lot of features and i am looking forward using it in 2018. It has a lot of automation compared to a local software that we are currently using. We are expanding fast, and that's why we want to use zoho inventory, to get as much as possible automated and speed up all processes. Very exited!

Cons

We have never used zoho before, and it can defiantly be a bit overwhelming when trying it out for the first time(first period). Sometimes it seems like it has too many functions, but that is probably not the case when you reach the need for those things.

Also i find it a bit difficult to sync all the programs that zoho offers. Like the CRM with the Inventory.

Pros

The number of users with the economical price range. User-friendly. Keep improving existing interface & also adding more features.

Cons

some features necessary for e-comm like shopify & Amazon is missing. Sync error or delays most of the time.

Pros

I like that I can update all of my inventory in marketplaces all at once as I have several shops. Updating products is fairly straight forward.

Cons

I dislike that the order screen has to be used. I don't use invoices, and I prefer to use ShipStation for my shipping as it utilizes barcodes or order tracking which is so much faster, so I don't really need anything with the order screen. I wish it just updated my inventory as sold and had the option to not even have the orders area. I'm afraid that marketplaces will be notified when I don't want them to, as they are already being notified by my other services. I'm still really trying it out, but so far it's not exactly what I need.