Zoho Inventory
zoho.com/inventoryBuild Difficulty: 5/5
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Features
55 features across 17 categories
Accounting(5)
Transact across currencies and countries
Handle multiple currencies for each contact
Get paid online
Configure and apply sales taxes
Manage your financials and books of accounts with Zoho Books cloud-based accounting software
Administration(1)
Customize user roles and permissions
Automation(5)
Point and click your scanner at the barcode of an item to auto-fill the required information
Auto-fill custom messages, or add appropriate late fees automatically with email and field updates
Set a workflow rule to update a field or customize email message for your special customer with ease
Automate your business processes. Trigger custom actions whenever an invoice becomes overdue, or offer special discounts to specific customers
Modify a URL with webhooks, or use Deluge script to automate processes
CRM(1)
Manage campaigns and add leads and prospects automatically with Zoho CRM integration
Collaboration(1)
Collaborate better with customer and vendor portal
Customer Communication(2)
Send tracking updates to customers
Keep customers informed by sending them real-time updates after their orders are dispatched from your store
Customer Management(1)
Provide customers with a portal to view orders and information
Fulfillment(6)
Visualize item packing with package geometry
Optimize inventory logistics by leveraging precise measurements. Minimize errors and maximize space efficiency with package geometry
See the status of packages
Generate packing slips, get real-time shipping rates, and print shipping labels in your preferred format
Generate real-time carrier rates and shipping labels
Integrate with shipping carriers
Integration(1)
Automate the process of receiving orders and delivering them to your 3PL providers with Crossfire EDI integration
Inventory Control(5)
Track items with barcode and RFID scanning technology
Adjust inventory levels
Receive low stock alerts with reorder points
Set a reorder point for each item and get notified automatically the next time you are low on stock
Conduct stock counts and reconciliations
Item Management(8)
Automatically generate barcodes for items
Track items based on batches and serial numbers
Create composite items for bundled products
Create categories based on attributes and customize assemblies for the best sales
Organize items into groups
Track the movement of each item or keep a watch on batch expiration dates with unique identifier codes
Make your life easier. Let the system help you generate SKUs for your item groups
Sell at your pace with UoM (Unit of Measure) conversion
Order Management(6)
Running low on stock? Create a back order or initiate a drop shipment to avoid turning down a customer
Handle backorders when items are out of stock
Manage dropshipment orders
Convert a sales order into an invoice, send it via email, and track its status with no hassle
Convert a sales order into an invoice, send it via email, and track its status with no hassle
Create sales returns, record a refund or apply credits to invoices
Reporting(4)
Measure channel performance
Generate instant reports
Generate detailed, neat, and insightful inventory reports with Zoho Inventory so that your business decisions are always clear
Integrate with Zoho Analytics for advanced reporting
Sales Management(3)
Grow your business and expand your sales online by offering customers a secure shopping experience
Sync stock effortlessly across multiple sales channels
Get the multichannel advantage by establishing your presence across digital storefronts. Sell on multiple channels and track all your sales within Zoho Inventory
Support(1)
Contextual chat support
Vendor Management(4)
Maintain your purchase order history, keep track of your unpaid bills, and build good relationships with your vendors
Record and view payments made to your vendors and apply it to outstanding bills
Provide vendors with a portal to view purchase orders and communicate
Create price lists for regular vendors and update the prices automatically
Warehouse Management(1)
Manage stock at multiple locations and keep track of inter-warehouse transfers effortlessly
Pricing
Free
- ✓50 orders/month
- ✓1 user
- ✓2 locations
- ✓Composite items
- ✓Dropshipment
- ✓Backordering
- ✓Item groups
Standard
- ✓500 orders/month
- ✓2 users
- ✓2 locations
- ✓Composite items
- ✓Dropshipment
- ✓Backordering
- ✓Item groups
- ✓Customer portal
Professional
- ✓3000 orders/month
- ✓2 users
- ✓4 locations
- ✓Everything in Standard
- ✓Serial number tracking
- ✓Batch tracking
- ✓Vendor portal
Premium
- ✓7500 orders/month
- ✓2 users
- ✓4 locations
- ✓2000 bins/location
- ✓Everything in Professional
- ✓Contextual chat
- ✓UoM conversion
- ✓Customization & Automation
- ✓Barcode generation
- ✓Stock counting
Enterprise
- ✓15000 orders/month
- ✓7 users
- ✓10 locations
- ✓5000 bins/location
- ✓Everything in Premium
- ✓Zoho Analytics
- ✓Multi-currency transactions for each contact
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Buying Zoho Inventory saves ~$45,000 over 3 years vs building.
Estimates based on 55 features and a BuildScore of 5/5. Actual costs vary.
Integrations
10 known integrations