Order fulfillment includes picking, packing, and shipping products to customers. There’s a manual way and an automatic way to handle order fulfillment, and we’re going to go see which one delivers the right results for your company. (more…)
Author: Robert Lockard
Fishbowl Integrates with Zen Cart
We started this blog series more than a year ago with Amazon’s shopping cart and now we’re ending it with another shopping cart called Zen Cart. From A to Z. It’s been quite a journey. Let’s jump right into it and finish this puppy!
Zen Cart is an ecommerce solution, and it utilizes the product listings, pictures, quantities, and descriptions from Fishbowl. Orders placed in Zen Cart’s shopping cart are downloaded into Fishbowl, which generates shipping and tracking information and handles the fulfillment process.
And now we’ll talk more about this integration: (more…)
Manual vs. Automatic Business Processes
This blog post marks the beginning of a new series of posts comparing manual and automatic business processes. While manual processes may work for startups and other less tech-savvy companies, there are some major advantages to automating as many tasks as possible.
Over the next few months, we’re going to cover the following topics: (more…)
Fishbowl Integrates with Zebra
A big name in the barcoding world, Zebra provides leading-edge hardware solutions that will greatly aid you in your use of Fishbowl software. They offer barcoding, printing, and wireless network solutions that are easy to use, scalable, and reliable. And when you combine these devices with Fishbowl’s app, you have the power to cycle count, pick, pack, and ship orders, and much more.
Let’s talk about how this integration works and how it makes your job easier: (more…)
Whiteboard Wednesday: What Is a Business Automation Platform?
In this Whiteboard Wednesday James Shores explains what a business automation platform is. It’s a tool you use on a daily basis that integrates with all of your other business solutions and helps you simplify and automate complex tasks.
Fishbowl is an excellent business automation platform. It integrates with dozens of software, hardware, and other solutions. It acts as a central hub for information from e-commerce websites, accounting software, CRMs, and more to pass through and be stored in. It imports and exports information on a daily basis to keep orders flowing smoothly in and out of your warehouse(s) while also tracking data and helping you make the most of your warehouse space and money with automatic reorder points and other tools.
James explains all of this and more in the video above. Check it out, and start automating your business with Fishbowl!
May the Best Referrer Win
Fishbowl is holding a competition for its Referrers. We appreciate everything that our Referrers do, and we’d like to show our appreciation by offering them a reward for their efforts.
In the month of August, whoever refers the most potential customers to Fishbowl will receive an Apple Watch Series 2. It doesn’t matter if they purchase Fishbowl in that timeframe or anything like that. We’re purely going off of the number that gets referred. (more…)
Fishbowl Integrates with Xero
Xero is a cloud-based accounting solution for small and midsize businesses. Fishbowl integrates with Xero, giving you a complete manufacturing and warehouse management system that works in conjunction with your accounting solution to ensure you always have the correct invoices, ledger entries, and other documentation you need.
Here are the many details of this integration between Fishbowl and Xero: (more…)
Using Inventory Management Software Is in Your Best Interest
Inventory management software is good for your business. In fact, it’s in your best interest to have the right tools to keep your inventory in check and your warehouse working like a well-oiled machine. And this software does all of that and much more.
Here are four reasons why using inventory management software is in your best interest. (more…)
Fishbowl Offers a Sales Data Module
Fishbowl offers dozens of plugins with both internal and external solutions that enhance its functionality. The Sales Data module is one of these Fishbowl Plugins that integrates with both Fishbowl Manufacturing and Fishbowl Warehouse. It’s not a separate solution from Fishbowl, but it’s contained within the interface.
Businesses can use this module to view and analyze total sales revenue and other data on an interactive map of the world. You can home in on a specific period of time and also zoom in or out to see where you’re getting the majority of your sales from and when you’ve received them.
The Sales Data module is a very useful tool, and here are just a few of the features and benefits of using it: (more…)
How to Create a Sales Order in Fishbowl
To create a sales order in Fishbowl, go into the Sales Order module, click the New button, and fill in all of the empty fields. Boy, that was easy! (more…)