The world is your oyster with Brightpearl!
Overall Satisfaction with Brightpearl
We are a product design company that designs and manufactures kitchen and tabletop products. Brightpearl is central to our business. Our inventory/pricelists/customer information are all wonderfully connected in a system that is easy to use and gives a clarity to all aspects required to run an efficient business. Its connectivity to other software around the business (Shopify/Amazon etc.) increases its reach and the ability to do more with less!
Pros
- Cloud based. A given now but not all programs like this are.
- CRM is good and the ability to add notes and information so everyone can see what is going on with a customer.
- The accountancy side has some excellent features (which I do not use) but which our accountant constantly loves.
- Seems to have just enough features/ability without being overloaded/over complicated (many other systems seem to do too much and have functions you may never need which obscure the features you do.
Cons
- The email pane where you email an invoice out of - it would be good to be able to add additional documents or PDFs here like a catalogue & price list - it does not seem that you can.
- Some of the templates are a bit hard to understand - how they will look when you have populated them - is sometimes not what you think it will be.
- Have customer card file info connect better if you update info in that part to the other parts - they do not seem to link.
- Positive - we are all able to do more with fewer staff, keeping our costs down - essential for an SME.
- System is easy to use so we can all feel confident about joining in on tasks/accounts as the information is clear.
- Can write orders incredibly quickly and get them sent off, speed is good!
We looked at various programs. Some were too big/costly and scary looking to use. Some seemed too simple and not potentially able to do more if things got busy. Brightpearl seemed like good value for money for what it can do and offer versus other systems, as well as being able to work on Macs and PCs. It had lots of intelligent features which seemed just made for our type of business. Not all programs had these features all in one package, plus its ability to link and integrate made it a no-brainer.
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