CommerceHub vs. Fishbowl Manufacturing (FBM)

Commercehub is perfect for those that sell in a online market place such as Walmart, home Depot, Lowe's, Amazon, and other various stores that also have an online presence. If you are getting hundreds of orders then commercehub will make your life so much easier.

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Fishbowl is well suited for warehouse operations because you can control, monitor, report or view the progress of materials all the way from purchasing and receiving to the shipment and tracking of products. It integrates with major carriers and with QuickBooks so it does offer a suite that can support the entire operation. It allows for workflow monitoring, so particular groups or products can be tracked.

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• User friendly
• The features are simple.
• Can get a lot of information in one place

Incentivized

• Inventory control - provides easy/accurate reports. Also, cycle counts can be done at any time. The warehouse team was easily trained.
• Sales Orders - Fishbowl allowed us to have the sales orders accessible to everyone and linked the customers' purchase order to the orders and work orders (within the system). It no longer needs to be manually linked.
• Custom reports - for a small fee we had reports customized specifically for our company.
• Link to Quickbooks - invoices generated directly after closure of sales order.

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• Allow for mass uploads for shipping and invoicing.
• Allow for custom notes when canceling an order.
• Allow for changing items that are shipped or invoiced when needing to change a customer order.

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• MRP
• BOM creation
• Unified interface

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Originally the support for Fishbowl was very poor. It was hard to get anyone to help. In the last 12 - 14 months, it has greatly improved and if it continues this way I would certainly rate it higher.

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It was best suited for the business need at the time.

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Fishbowl is more useful than QuickBooks Manufacturing if you operate complex manufacturing with multiple multi layered BOMS

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• Less time spent manually entering orders.
• More time spent shipping and invoicing - costs more on the company than if a mass uploads from an Excel sheet would be allowed.
• Cancelling orders can cause issues especially if you cannot add notes to transmit to them directly to the customer.

Incentivized

• Positive: Decreased time spent on copy/pasting in spreadsheets.
• Positive: Easier to analyze costs and guarantee efficiency.
• Negative: Time to get it up and running is really difficult to work with.

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