127 Fishbowl Inventory Testimonials

"Everything that we put into a product we have to trace. When one of our suppliers contacted us and said, ‘We have an issue with this lot of product,’ we have to be able to find that. And that will happen in a span of minutes, rather than a span of hours."

"We use Fishbowl Inventory to manage our inventory and integrate from our website to QuickBooks. It brought our processing time down from 3-5 minutes per order in QuickBooks to about 30 seconds in Fishbowl Inventory (about an 800% improvement). We had also reached the maximum number of customers in QuickBooks as well, and Fishbowl Inventory let us have unlimited number of customers. Managing inventory by location is also a powerful tool to have. previously we had items organized alphabetically and our warehouse staff had to basically have the inventory memorized. Not very scalable. Fishbowl Inventory also does not deduct the inventory from your system until the order ships (not when the invoice is created, like QuickBooks). This helps keep track of things much better. a Real Pick, Pack, and Ship system. It also is much easier to import and export data from Fishbowl Inventory, enabling you to more easily integrate other systems (like ecommerce sites, etc.) into Fishbowl Inventory. The final great benefit is the ability to write custom reports. if you can imagine it, it can probably be done."

“It helped us automate what was previously a very manual process.”

"I looked into the question of 'How do you make a fire extinguisher that's going to fit?' and it's a tough engineering challenge. The extinguisher can't be deeper than three inches front to back. But I knew that we had to solve it within the existing rulebooks and standards. It wouldn't have been realistic to try to solve it otherwise. Early on, I tried to license our technology to the largest manufacturer in the country, and their head of engineering said it can't be done. He couldn't believe that what I was saying that I could do was possible."

"With Fishbowl, our inventory demands are known as soon as we issue a sales order. This alone allows us to see what parts need to be ordered 3-4 days earlier than with [our previous system]."

"Fishbowl makes our organic product tracking and reconciliation signi cantly easier and more accurate. Through Fishbowl, we track the flavored tea leaves, blended product, and packaged product. If we don’t have, at minimum, those flavored tea leaves ready to be blended (which doesn’t require the same amount of time) it causes a chain reaction in our production system and significantly impairs our turnaround time."

"We do a lot with very little. When I started working here we had maybe three or four employees. And now we’re up to 16 or 17. But still it’s a very tight-knit, close group."

"We’re small, but everybody works really hard. We want to do it right. We want to do it right the first time."

"Our mission is to get outdoors and enjoy life. I’m not in the business of selling you a backpack. I’m in the business of making sure that your backpacking experience is an incredible one We don’t just put a product out that’ll sell a million pieces. We put a product out because we know that our experience outdoors is going to be benefited from it, and so is anybody else who buys that from us."

"I was searching for an inventory system to work with QuickBooks. And after a ton of research with all the different QuickBooks partner companies, I said, ‘You know what? I’m going to pick Fishbowl.’ And that was the start of a great relationship."

"About three years ago, I was manually entering in every single order that we got from Amazon. And so that’s changed drastically. And thank heavens because our orders are so much larger now. We receive our orders through Vendor Central with Amazon, and we’re able to export those, and we import them right into Fishbowl."

"QuickBooks is a terrific package for our general accounting requirements. We want to teach our employees our market, customer expectations and how to sell. We don’t want to have to use resources and lots of time in training how to use our accounting and inventory software."

"I’ve purchased, recommended purchase, and participated in the implementation of as many as a dozen manufacturing and distribution software packages. While most all were functional, not one was easy to implement and most were rather complicated from a user and training perspective. Considering the significant expense of all those packages, QuickBooks and Fishbowl have made me a believer. It is excellent software, robust, highly functional and a real value to any small business."

"We purchase everything from our manufacturer partners in truckloads. We have customers from Rapid City to Green Bay. In order to provide next day service to such a vast area we use a network of LTL carriers that we match up to the customer to provide the level of service we’re known for."

"Without Fishbowl things would have been difficult."