Manufacturing

Control your manufacturing processes, prevent stockouts, and get the true cost of goods. Create advanced work orders, manufacture orders, and bill of materials.

Get features like automatic custom, batch, and repair work orders, lot tracking and serial number tracking in work orders, detailed work order instructions, available-to-build calculations, true cost of goods, and yield calculations, powerful MRP features, and more.

QuickBooks Integration

Integrates seamlessly with every desktop version of QuickBooks & with QuickBooks Online.

Barcode Scanning

Turn any phone or tablet into a barcode scanner with Fishbowl Go for iOS. Pick, pack, and ship goods, receive shipments into your warehouse, perform cycle counts, move inventory, scrap waste, retrieve and update detailed part information, and more.

Work Orders

Manage each step in the manufacturing process and manage the inventory and cost at each level. Create build-to-order work orders for a variety of tasks. Group multiple work orders into overarching manufacture orders. Add step-by-step instructions. Categorize, prioritize, and schedule work orders. Attach pictures, documents, and notes. Great for assembly, sub-assembly, disassembly, repair, and other jobs.

Order Management

Create all the purchase orders, sales orders, pick tickets, RMA's, and other essential documents you need. Pick, pack, ship, and track orders. Upgrade and customize products. Automatically generate purchase orders and manufacture orders. Set up pricing tiers for segmented customer groups. Generate orders with ecommerce or EDI integrations, CSV imports, orders created from Fishbowl Go, and more.

Serial & Lot Tracking

Track your items by serial, lot, and batch numbers, revision levels, expiration dates, and more.

Serial & Lot Tracking

Track your items by serial, lot, and batch numbers, revision levels, expiration dates, and more.

Inventory Management

Manage multiple warehouses, track parts using different criteria (such as serial numbers, lot numbers, expiration dates, and revision levels), set up auto reorder points to prevent stockouts, generate barcodes and use scanners, automate order creation with our EDI, CRM, and ecommerce integrations, and more.

Multilevel Bill of Materials

Create both simple and complex bills of materials, whether you manufacture food and drugs with complex units of measure and FDA requirements, or create advanced electronics that require multiple serial numbers. Build BOM's with multiple stages, sub-assemblies, complex units of measure, and multiple finished goods. Easily update quantities and parts. Create detailed instructions and attach pictures.

Production Stages

Manage the flow of your inventory. Get real time data of where each part is in the manufacturing process.

Organize manufacturing jobs by production stages. Assign tasks to specific workers. Calculate yield and waste estimates for each stage. Compare estimates to the actual time it takes to complete each stage. Give real-time inventory levels and production updates, and more.

Multiple Locations

Track inventory across multiple warehouses. Drill down to granular bin locations on a per-shelf level. Transfer inventory between locations. Set pick route settings so that no time is wasted walking back and forth between locations. Control who has access rights to specific location groups, and designate a purpose for each sub-location. Analyze inventory valuation and sales trends at each of your warehouses.

Labor & Job Tracking

Combine Fishbowl Manufacturing and Fishbowl Time to track employee hours, overtime, vacation time, payroll, labor on work orders, available hours for production, and more. Incorporate labor costs into total costs on work orders. Budget labor costs and compare them to actual numbers. Enable clock in/clock out on any Internet-connected device. Use GPS tracking to check where employees clock in and out from.

MRP

Plan ahead based on scheduled orders. Get real time inventory counts for each work and manufacture order. See how many labor hours are needed for each stage of manufacturing. See which employees are scheduled. Automatically generate purchase orders when items hit their reorder points, convert manufacture orders into purchase orders for short items, and much more.

Ecommerce Integrations

Integrate Fishbowl with 12+ ecommerce platforms, including eBay, Amazon, Shopify, WooCommerce, and more.

Ecommerce, CRM, and EDI Integrations

Integrate Fishbowl with 16+ Ecommerce, CRM and EDI platforms, including eBay, Amazon, Shopify, WooCommerce, Salesforce, Zoho and more.

Shipping

Pick, pack, and ship using your mobile phone. Get the cheapest shipping prices. Generate shipping labels, tracking numbers, customer addresses, and weights. Integrates with FedEx, UPS, USPS, ShipStation, and more.

EDI Integrations

Ensure your sales orders and purchase orders get converted into the formats your retailers use. Integrates with TruCommerce and SPS Commerce.

Landed Costs

Reconcile purchase orders and determine your true cost of goods. Calculate landed costs by each item’s cost, quantity, size, or weight, or calculate it manually. Add costs such as shipping, duties, and other fees into the cost of the part. Get calculations that help you see what your margins actually are.

CRM Integrations

See real-time inventory quantities in your CRM dashboard. Use a mobile device to check on-hand quantities, prices, and other product information. Integrates with Salesforce and Zoho CRM.

3PL

Manage transportation and logistics. Keep track of your inventory and know where it goes. Organize your warehouse’s aisles, shelves, and bins. Drop ship items from vendors when they’re not in stock. Get consignment tools.

Business Intelligence

Get in depth business intelligence with Fishbowl’s robust BI tools. Measure production and order fulfillment efficiency. Track vendor performance. Cross-segment and analyze your customer and sales data. Customize your dashboards to get important data at a glance. Schedule reports to be emailed to yourself and other employees on a daily, weekly, hourly, or yearly basis. Plus, calculate your cost of goods sold and profit margins, monitor inventory levels in multiple locations, and more.

True Cost Calculations

Determine your true cost of goods sold. Calculate landed cost when receiving items to add shipping, duties, and other fees into your cost of goods.

Employee Time Tracking

Combine Fishbowl Manufacturing and Fishbowl Time to track employee hours, overtime, vacation time, payroll, labor on work orders, available hours for production, and more. Incorporate labor costs into total costs on work orders. Budget labor costs and compare them to actual numbers. Enable clock in/clock out on any Internet-connected device. Use GPS tracking to check where employees clock in and out from.

Cloud Based Solution

Access your inventory anywhere you have an Internet connection. Save on server and maintenance costs. Get secure, automatic backups.