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    Fishbowl Inventory

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AFishbowl Advanced is the company's on-premises inventory tracking, warehousing, and manufacturing solution with hosted capabilities, offering real-time inventory visibility and control across all locations and order fulfillment for physical warehouses, on-the-go inventory, 3PL, or drop shipping.N/A

    Floship

    Score1 out of 10
    N/AFloship is a logistics technology company that provides end-to-end global fulfillment and logistics solutions for eCommerce brands and large-scale crowdfunding campaigns, offering cross-border logistics, with international warehousing, global shipping and returns management, and multi-brand management.N/A
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    Fishbowl InventoryFloship
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Fishbowl InventoryFloship
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Fishbowl InventoryFloship
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (5 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Fishbowl InventoryFloship
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Fishbowl
    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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    Floship
    I feel you should AVOID FLOSHIP AT ALL COSTS - in my experience, we have a USD 137,978 loss and counting; they have charged my card for $10,000+ without consent multiple times. I personally recommend AVOIDING THEM AT ALL COSTS. I was originally approached by Floship to provide fulfillment services for a Kickstarter campaign. After being provided a full cost simulation and in-person advice, it was my experience that all support disappeared once fulfillment should have begun. In my experience, our clients have been severely inconvenienced through ineffective and late shipping practices. I feel we have burned a significant amount of time and money in correcting this; to the extent that we will look forward to just shipping ourselves and/or using better alternatives such as Easyship in the future. I feel they do not provide any visibility to their costs which I believe are entirely inflated (e.g. more than $50 USD quoted as import tax for a $3 shipment). It is my experience that they need to provide receipts for their services charged. [...] In my experience, having not dealt with Floship for several months, they have now attempted to charge a card we removed from their website. I believe this implies that they keep your payment details stored separately and record your CVV and other sensitive information. I have since canceled the card since they haven't stopped, and we do not owe them any money. [...] I feel that Floship's complete hostility at the suggestion of any wrongdoing indicates the awful experience I feel you will also have if you work with them. It is also my belief that their responses do not attempt to address our concerns [...]. I feel our prior requests for support, transparency regarding postage receipts, and general work orders have been largely ignored until I spoke out publicly. [...]
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    Pros
    Fishbowl
    • 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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    Floship
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    Cons
    Fishbowl
    • MRP
    • BOM creation
    • Unified interface
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    Floship
    • I believe that all costs were hidden with 0 visibility. For example, I was charged a 3% transaction fee and 3% card fee with no other payment options. Shipping costs are provided to you up to 3 months later, but in my experience, no receipts are provided.
    • I feel that customer service is non-existent. In my experience, my emails went unanswered unless they are actively soliciting.
    • In my experience, additional services such as pick packing inflate costs drastically making our costs 60% underquoted.
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    Usability
    Fishbowl
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    Floship
    I give Floship a one out of ten because there is no functionality, and I believe costs are deliberately hidden to obfuscate.
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    Support Rating
    Fishbowl
    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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    Floship
    I feel that Floship support is hostile, and did not regularly answer emails.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Fishbowl
    Fishbowl is more useful than QuickBooks Manufacturing if you operate complex manufacturing with multiple multi layered BOMS
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    Floship
    Easyship is a much better alternative; we selected Floshi, I feel, as a costly mistake.
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    Return on Investment
    Fishbowl
    • 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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    Floship
    • Negative: Cost to us of over 130K USD
    • Negative: Shipments and packages delayed by more than 28 days
    • Negative: Complete loss of trust and goodwill for customers
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