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Brightpearl: A Great Tool for Growing Companies
December 15, 2016

Brightpearl: A Great Tool for Growing Companies

Joel Graham | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Brightpearl

Implementation is fairly simple, and it's not unrealistic to have it functioning within days. The number of different systems and SKUs and channels you need to setup can obviously add complexity, but it still should not be a very difficult process. When it comes to teaching and on-boarding new employees to the system, it's also fairly simple, and a short tutorial and some basic write ups or screen-share videos can do the trick.
The majority of the times I have personally used Brightpearl support, I have found them to be quite responsive and helpful in resolving the issue at hand. Occasionally we've arrived at somewhat of an impasse where they essentially say they're working on a new feature to resolve the issue, but can't give a specific date for when it will happen, which is understandable, albeit not ideal.
At Spikeball Inc., we use Brightpearl in our operations department, as a the go-between for our online sales systems and our shipping and fulfillment systems. It also serves as an inventory and accounting tool, and is used by roughly half of our employees. Brightpearl helps us to bridge the gap between several systems and keep track of numerous sales and SKUs in a simple and intuitive way.
  • Brightpearl allows you to create filters and set favorites, which enables us to view orders in different categories easily, and avoid having to scroll through numerous orders to find the ones we're looking for.
  • Brightpearl gives you the option of adding pertinent product details such as weight, dimensions, and cost to our company, which is helpful both for accounting and as an internal resource for customer support.
  • Brightpearl has great dashboards showing charts and graphs of sales sorted by channels, which is helpful for monitoring progress.
  • The processes for canceling and modifying orders can be a bit tedious, and it seems like the multi-click processes could be consolidated in a more user friendly way.
  • The order filtering feature is great, but I personally work with our international orders, and the fact that you can't create favorites for multiple countries is somewhat inconvenient.
  • Some of the connection features between Brightpearl and Amazon stores seem to have some glitches, as I've experienced while trying to link them up recently.
  • It has allowed us to consolidate our use of systems which results in better employee efficiency.
  • It has helped bridge the gap between our sales and fulfillment systems, which allows for smoother operational functionality.
  • It has helped our company experience less growing pains as we have seen our volume increasing but been able to continue using the same system successfully.
Brightpearl is very well suited for small-medium companies that are growing quickly and need a way to improve their operational systems and functionality to handle increasing volume of orders. Particularly if you use multiple SKUs, sales channels, and/or warehouses, the features offered by Brightpearl are excellently well suited to handle these types of needs. I don't believe Brightpearl would be very applicable for very small companies with a small number of SKUs, as many of the features offered would be unnecessary and underutilized.