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Fishbowl Inventory Control is the best inventory software solution for small to medium sized businesses using QuickBooks. I have been using Fishbowl Inventory for a year, and it has completely transformed the task of inventory control in my company. Fishbowl Inventory has several unique features that have helped make my inventory control an easy process.

The most unique feature of Fishbowl Inventory is called the configurator. The configurator makes it possible to have different types of items in a bill of materials. The types of items available are standard, variable, optional, and optional variable. Standard bill of material items are items that are always part of the bill of materials and are always used in the same quantity.

Variable items are items that are always part of the bill of materials but the quantity may vary. Optional items are items that can be grouped into a list where you can choose one of the items from the list in a preset quantity. Optional variable items are a combination of variable and optional types. When an item is added to a Sales Order that has a bill of materials, which includes items other than the standard type, a configuration wizard walks you through the variable and optional components and allows you to customize the finished good for each customer.

Another important feature of Fishbowl Inventory is the ability to separately manage inventory in multiple locations. Fishbowl Inventory uses a hierarchy to represent your inventory storage. The highest level of control is a location group; next, locations are created within a location group; and finally, bins are created within locations. For each part, you can set unique reorder thresholds and quantities in multiple locations. You can also separate users by location groups, which means you can restrict employees to working within specific location groups. By doing so, a particular user will only have access to inventory in the location groups the user is assigned to. This filtering process works throughout the software.

I have had a few opportunities to work with the Fishbowl Inventory technical support team. They have been very helpful in working out all of my software issues. In each instance they were quick to respond, and they provided me with helpful solutions. I have seen a continual effort by Fishbowl Inventory to make improvements and add additional features to the software. Fishbowl Inventory's technical support team helped make my transition into using Fishbowl Inventory simple. I was able to take advantage of database importing to save countless hours of data input to get up and running.

Fishbowl Inventory's best feature is its ease of use. Fishbowl Inventory was wisely developed to mirror all of the logical steps in business. From purchasing to sales, to packaging and shipping your products, Fishbowl Inventory is a full featured inventory control and sales software package. My employees have been able to adopt Fishbowl Inventory in their daily routine without a large amount of training. I would recommend Fishbowl Inventory to anyone using QuickBooks for their accounting who feels the need for improved inventory control.

By Chris Connors
www.backyardadv.com

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