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Great New Things Are Coming Soon from Fishbowl

Robert LockardJanuary 11, 2021Leave a Comment
Exciting new products are coming from Fishbowl this year.

2021 is here, and there are a lot of reasons to be hopeful for the future. For example, Fishbowl has several exciting new products in store for this year that might just change the way you manage your inventory forever.

A Variety of Fishbowl Products

Fishbowl is well-known for its core products, Fishbowl Manufacturing and Fishbowl Warehouse. They are the #1 selling QuickBooks inventory management software. But did you know that we also offer a variety of other solutions that integrate with those two desktop solutions and either augment their feature sets or make them accessible through the cloud? These include:

  • Fishbowl Anywhere
  • Fishbowl Canada
  • Fishbowl Checkout
  • Fishbowl for Salesforce
  • Fishbowl Go
  • Fishbowl Hosted Services
  • Fishbowl ShipExpress
  • Fishbowl Time

In addition, Fishbowl has a number of plugins, including Forecasting and Sales Data modules. So we already offer barcode scanning, server hosting, shipping, online employee time clock, and point of sale solutions. What more can we expect in the future?

Something New Is Coming Soon

Prepare for new additions to this list coming sooner than you might think. Fishbowl has been in business for more than 20 years at this point, and we continue to innovate and offer our customers new products to make their jobs easier. That’s what makes this year so special. We’re going to provide something that will be a big benefit to your business. Wait and see. Exciting things are coming soon!

If you’d like a sneak peek, head over to the Release Notes article on Fishbowl’s Documentation Wiki. It’s constantly being updated with fresh information about the latest software releases. There is nothing in there yet about the big new thing that’s on the horizon, but it will be there eventually.

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Bulk Buying or JIT: Which Is the Best Ordering Strategy?

Robert LockardJanuary 01, 2021Leave a Comment
Bulk buying or just in time: which is the best order management strategy?

Are you better off buying in bulk or only ordering what is necessary to meet your current needs, as in a just in time (JIT) setup? There are advantages and drawbacks to each order management strategy.

You’ll often receive discounts for reaching a high threshold of items in one order, and you’ll save money on shipping fees. But you’ll also have higher carrying costs, more money tied up in inventory, and the potential for product spoilage if it sits on the shelf for too long. When you order smaller quantities, you will avoid unnecessary storage costs and be able to run a leaner warehouse. However, you need to have incredible precision in your inventory data because you risk running out of items if you order too few, and you will likely have higher shipping costs as you place more orders over time.

I’d like to share two personal experiences from my life that allude to the dangers of going to one extreme or the other, and the need for finding a healthy balance in your ordering strategy.

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Are You Ready for 2021?

Robert LockardDecember 08, 2020Leave a Comment
Are you prepared?

There has never been a year like 2020. With unprecedented restrictions placed on businesses and individuals, we’ve experienced major declines in production, consumption, and travel. As a result, it’s been hard on just about everyone’s mental health and wallet.

What will 2021 be like? Will we see a dramatic recovery like none we’ve ever experienced, or will we continue to slide down or even see an economic or stock market crash? Hard to say. But you can be prepared for either a positive or negative eventuality by using inventory management software to make your business processes as efficient as possible.

We will discuss how manufacturers, ecommerce businesses, wholesalers, and retailers can get ready for the New Year by implementing inventory management software.

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Go from the Longest Year to Your Strongest Year

Robert LockardDecember 01, 2020Leave a Comment
Go from the longest year to your strongest year by using Fishbowl.

2020 has been a long year. Businesses have struggled to conform to COVID-19 safety guidelines to keep their customers and employees safe while also having to deal with significant supply chain disruptions, travel restrictions, and other problems. If you’ve found yourself asking “Will this year ever end?” you’re not alone. As we finally come to the end of the year, we can reflect on what went wrong and how we can make next year go right.

Fishbowl’s manufacturing and warehouse management software can help you go from the longest year to your strongest year. While your competitors are shrinking, you can expand. Increase employee productivity, add mobility, cut costs, find new opportunities for growth, and make better use of your resources. How can a software solution help you stage such a dramatic turnaround? Let’s find out.

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What Can Fishbowl Go Do for Your Business?

Robert LockardOctober 26, 2020Leave a Comment
Fishbowl Go is an inventory app for many types of businesses.

Fishbowl Go is an app that can be used on smartphones and tablets by warehouse workers to perform a variety of warehouse management jobs. Talking about it in isolation like this can come across as far too abstract, so let’s try something different.

We’ll compare Fishbowl Go with another inventory app called myStock Inventory Manager to give some scale and dimension to all of the things it can do. We recently published a comparison of Fishbowl Go and myStock Inventory Manager in an article on the main Fishbowl website. That article dives deep into all of the intricacies of the features contained in the apps, comparing and contrasting them. Feel free to click the link above to read more. We will share the highlights in this chart:

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Fishbowl Manufacturing Helps with Production Planning

Robert LockardOctober 21, 2020Leave a Comment
Fishbowl helps with production planning.

The 2020.10 version of Fishbowl Manufacturing and Fishbowl Warehouse was recently released, and it offers several new features that contribute to the software’s already-impressive production-planning capabilities. Let’s go through those features to see how they can benefit your manufacturing business.

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Fishbowl’s Ever-Increasing List of Integrations and Plugins

Robert LockardSeptember 28, 2020Leave a Comment
Fishbowl offers dozens of plugins, integrations, and products, Fishbowl Blog

Fishbowl has an extensive list of integrations and plugins, and the most impressive thing about it is that it keeps growing! Fishbowl integrates with numerous accounting solutions, CRM’s, ecommerce platforms, EDI’s, merchant services, mobile hardware, operating systems, shipping solutions, and more. Let’s go through the list of these software and hardware solutions as it currently stands.

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CPA Practice Advisor’s Review of Fishbowl Warehouse

Robert LockardAugust 26, 2020Leave a Comment
CPA Practice Advisor gave Fishbowl Warehouse a 5-star rating, Fishbowl Blog

CPA Practice Advisor published a 2020 review of Fishbowl Warehouse, which talks about its strengths and weaknesses. They gave Fishbowl Warehouse a perfect score of five stars.

The strengths are almost too many to include here, but this is a small sample of them:

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How Fishbowl Compares to NetSuite

Robert LockardJuly 22, 2020Leave a Comment
Fishbowl compares well to an ERP like NetSuite, Fishbowl Blog

While NetSuite is a full ERP and Fishbowl is an inventory management solution, Fishbowl nonetheless stacks up surprisingly well compared to NetSuite. You can see that comparison on the Fishbowl vs. NetSuite page. The chart briefly matches up the two solutions based on the following criteria:

  • Order Management
  • Procurement
  • Manufacturing
  • Bill of Materials
  • Warehouse Management
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Product Management
  • Reporting and Business Intelligence
  • Accounting Integration
  • Flexibility
  • Ease of Use
  • Price

Fishbowl and NetSuite are equally capable of accomplishing the first eight criteria, but Fishbowl outshines NetSuite in the final four. Keep in mind that some things are referred to by different names in each solution. For example, Fishbowl calls the assembly of new products manufacturing and NetSuite calls it production. Let’s go more in depth on each of these bullet points to specifically show their similarities and differences.

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Get Shipping Discounts and Savings from Shippo and Fishbowl ShipExpress®

Robert LockardJune 09, 2020Leave a Comment

Want to get special discounts on shipping without SaaS fees for each of those labels? Easy. All you have to do is create a Shippo account and download the newly redesigned Fishbowl ShipExpress plugin. Shippo has partnered with Fishbowl to waive its 5-cent software service fee when Fishbowl users generate a shipping label.

What’s the catch, you might ask? None, if you’re a Fishbowl customer! Fishbowl ShipExpress is absolutely free for every Fishbowl customer, and it automatically adds a new module and many features to the Shipping and Sales modules.

Fishbowl ShipExpress used to cost $995, but it’s now available at no cost to help Fishbowl customers when they need it most during the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s also the reason why Shippo has stepped up to waive its usual software fees tied to shipping labels. Both companies want their customers to be able to do their jobs without any added expenses associated with their shipping services.

With Fishbowl ShipExpress, you get the following features:

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