Zoho Inventory Reviews & Insights

We use it to manage and track our inventory along with serialized stock. It works in tandem with Zoho CRM and Zoho Books. Quotes are converted and the sales orders appear in Zoho Inventory where the warehouse processes the order and ships.

It's a basic system which does some things well but the things it does well are the basic things you would expect! Many other features that are a little beyond basic are just not available or you can get 90% of the way there but get stuck on the final 10% so you need to hire a developer who can try to get you through the last bit. An inventory management system with no bin locations pretty much sums it up. The reporting system is terrible. To get any real use you need to integrate it with Zoho Analytics but the problem there is it only syncs every 3 hours. The integrated shipping process is extremely cumbersome

We use Zoho Inventory for our eCommerce offshoot and it feeds our retail website and also our eBay Store. There have been plans to also include Amazon as an offering but, to date, this has not been implemented. We initially needed a simple and cheap inventory management program to enable us to maintain good audit trails within the business and to provide a simple method of tracking and retaining customers.

Zoho Inventory is great if you are just starting out and want to keep things simple. If you are a "Buy box - sell box - ship box" user, it will work fine out of the box and at a relatively low cost. Once things start to get a little more complicated (bundles, variables, upgrades) it struggles and you need to find an expert or add-on to help.

We had various warehouses all holding different types of stock, certain items could only be held at certain locations, and keeping a track of the whereabouts of the entire inventory was almost impossible. Lots of items were either lost or misplaced for sometimes weeks at a time, Zoho we hoped would fix the problem and help speed up our order processing

Requires a lot of customisation to get started. Very limited customer support, support appeared to not be that knowledgable with issues that aren't the usual issues most users get. Forms aren't optimised for conversions. Zoho offers a lot of features but the depth of its functionality proves limited as our demands increase.