![]() But now the customer says they don’t want to wait, and reduces their order to 3 so they can take what you have. The customer might want to order 5 Gifiza 25’s, and you need to generate a re-stocking order because you only have 3 of them. Sales and purchase orders also tend to change as they are processed. Now you might sell them individually, but you might also want to offer discounts if the customer buy a whole box, or skid. That means you can only order 80 at a time. For instance, your product might ship to you in boxes of eight, and you can order a minimum of ten boxes to a skid. More subtle systems will account for packaging on the way in and out. During these processes you’re going to want to record ID’s like serial numbers and UPCs. To start with, you’re going to receive things from providers, ship things to customers, transfer things from place to place within your organization, and maybe build new things out of other things, manufacturing them. So we’ll start by exploring what these systems are basically for. ![]() Both have customer lists with billing and shipping, sales order generation, and similar. In fact, the basic functionality is probably 80 to 90% similar between the two. Once a task gets to the point where money has to change hands, they export the data to QuickBooks, which updates all of your accounts.īoth systems also offer some level of front-office (sales support) functionality, but they aim at different areas in this respect. ![]() This limits their market to small and medium sized companies, for the most part. QuickBooks claims to have an “advanced inventory” system as part of their QuickBooks Enterprise offering, but take my word for it, it’s practically useless.īoth products are aimed primarily at back-office users, the people running the warehouse, production lines and even some of the accounting details. Basic conceptsįishbowl and Advance are both aimed at the same target: warehousing and manufacturing companies that use QuickBooks as their accounting system. That said, there are some annoying problems in Fishbowl, but just not as annoying as in Advance.īecause they are so similar, the rest of the article will mostly be contrasting differences. I’ve found Fishbowl to be “mostly better” than Advance, and I think that due to one technical issue, FB will almost always be a better choice in multi-user environments. They manage inventory on both the purchasing and sales side, and then export changes to QuickBooks for accounting. Note : I am constantly editing this post as I learn more about both systems.įor the vast majority of functionality, Fishbowl and Advance do basically the same thing. I can see people asking about the differences between these products on the ‘net, so maybe you’ll find this helpful. I’ve been using Fishbowl Inventory for some time now, but due to changes outside my control, we’re moving to AdvancePro.
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