Fishbowl Purchasing
Inventory and Purchasing Software for Manufacturers and Small Businesses
Fishbowl is the inventory purchasing software built for manufacturers, distributors, and small businesses that have outgrown spreadsheets. Automate reorder points, generate POs from sales orders, and sync everything with QuickBooks so finance and operations stay aligned.
QuickBooks integration
QuickBooks Integration for Inventory and Purchase Order Software
Mistakes caused by manual data entry? Not on our watch. Fishbowl is the purchase order inventory management system that integrates with QuickBooks automatically — sales, purchasing, and inventory data flow into your accounting system for accurate financial reporting and a complete view of business performance.
Automated Purchasing Software for Manufacturing Teams
Maintain optimal inventory levels and avoid stockouts with Fishbowl's automated purchasing software for manufacturing, retail, and ecommerce teams. Our inventory and purchase order software sets automatic reorder points based on sales trends, lead times, and minimum stock levels — eliminating manual PO creation and reducing carrying costs. When inventory dips below your thresholds, the purchase order generates itself, ready for approval. Once you sign off, it goes straight to the vendor, so you're never caught waiting on a part to ship.
Real-Time Inventory Tracking for Smarter Purchasing
With up-to-the-minute data at your fingertips, inventory purchasing decisions are based on what's actually on your shelves. Track items by serial number, lot number, expiration date, revision level, or a custom method to inform every purchase order.
Case Study
“Fishbowl makes our organic product tracking and reconciliation significantly easier and more accurate.”
With Fishbowl’s inventory tracking tools, Teas Etc. has been able to prevent stockouts by setting automatic reorder points. Today, the company is no longer overwhelmed by orders, inventory load, the number of customers, or regulatory requirements, thanks to the ability to easily track and maintain the right amounts of tea ingredients.
Multi-Location Inventory Purchasing Across Warehouses
Whether you manage several warehouses today or plan to expand, Fishbowl's inventory purchasing software scales with your business. Place location-specific POs, transfer stock between warehouses, and manage increasingly complex logistics from one platform.
Ecommerce Inventory and Purchase Order Software
Expand your online reach and streamline multi-channel selling with Fishbowl Commerce®. Connections to popular ecommerce platforms like Shopify, Amazon, and eBay means that it’s easy to keep online stores updated with accurate, up-to-the-minute inventory counts, preventing overselling and stockouts while ensuring a consistent customer experience across all sales channels.
Cost Control with Small Business Procurement Software
The right inventory and purchasing management software reduces excess inventory and avoids costly stockouts. When you have the tools and real-time insights needed to optimize your purchasing processes, improve forecasting accuracy, and reduce waste, inventory costs will go down — and profits will shoot up.
Reporting for Purchasing Inventory Management
You can’t make data-driven decisions without good data — and that’s where Fishbowl’s customizable reports come in. With detailed insights into purchasing trends, inventory performance, and sales patterns, you can identify top-selling products, analyze slow-moving items, and track key performance indicators to optimize operations and improve your bottom line.
Frequently Asked Questions
What’s the best software for purchase orders?
Popular purchase order tools include Zoho Inventory, Precoro, and Coupa, but most stop at PO generation. Fishbowl is a full purchase order inventory management system, so you get automated approval workflows, real-time inventory tracking that actually informs what you buy, and a direct QuickBooks sync for clean accounting. For manufacturers and small businesses that need to control both purchasing and inventory in one place, that's the difference between a tool and a platform.
What's the best purchasing software for small business?
The best inventory purchasing software for small businesses depends on your accounting system, warehouse count, and manufacturing needs. Fishbowl is purpose-built for SMBs using QuickBooks or Xero who need inventory and purchase order software in one platform — without the cost and complexity of NetSuite or SAP procurement systems.
How do you use software to manage inventory and procurement processes?
Inventory purchasing software automates the parts of procurement that go wrong when people do them by hand. Set reorder points and the system generates POs before you hit a stockout. Track inventory across every warehouse and jobsite in real time. Pull vendor performance reports to renegotiate terms. The right tool pairs inventory purchasing with accounting, so when a PO is received, costs flow straight to QuickBooks or Xero without someone re-keying them at month-end.
How do you control purchasing and inventory in a manufacturing environment?
Purchasing inventory management in manufacturing means balancing raw material costs, lead times, and production schedules. The foundations:
- Track stock in real time with barcode scanning
- Set automated reorder points tied to bill-of-materials consumption
- Forecast demand from sales and work-order data, not gut feel
- Pull POs from sales orders with one click when demand spikes
- Track vendor performance and cost trends to renegotiate on data
- Review slow-moving stock monthly to free up cash
Purchasing software for manufacturing should do all of this in one system. When inventory, purchasing, and accounting live in three separate tools, errors compound. Fishbowl runs all three on one data model and syncs with QuickBooks and Xero.
Does Fishbowl work as inventory and purchase order software for ecommerce and multi-channel sellers?
Yes. Fishbowl connects to Shopify, Amazon, eBay, and WooCommerce, so inventory counts stay accurate across every sales channel and POs auto-generate based on channel-specific velocity. For sellers who've outgrown a spreadsheet but don't want a full ERP, Fishbowl works as inventory and purchase order software across all channels at once. It's the same inventory and purchasing software whether you're fulfilling 100 DTC orders a day or cross-docking to big-box distributors.
Optimize your purchasing and inventory management with Fishbowl
Fishbowl is the best inventory management software solution for QuickBooks users. Try our platform today to see how easy it is to automate orders and maintain accurate financial data while optimizing your inventory system.