# BoxHero review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Barcode-based inventory tracking for small teams Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. BoxHero is a cloud inventory app for tracking stock across items, locations and team members, with barcode scanning from a phone or scanner. It adds purchase and sales orders, bundles, reports and low-stock alerts on its paid plan. A free plan covers one member and 100 items. - **Category:** Inventory Management - **Made by:** BoxHero, Inc. - **Website:** https://www.boxhero.io - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay free, as it stops at 1 member, 100 items and 1 location. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, BoxHero has a free plan, and paid plans start at $24 per team / month, billed annually ($288 a year). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Personal Plan: 1 member, 100 items and 1 location, with barcode scanning, Excel import and export, and 30 days of transaction history. - **Free trial:** 30-day free trial of the Business Plan, no credit card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Personal | $0 | 1 member, 100 items, 1 location, barcode scanning, custom attributes, Excel import and export and API access. | | Business | $24 per team / month, billed annually ($288 a year) | 3 members, 1,000 items and 3 locations. Adds reports, low-stock alerts, purchase and sales orders, bundles, inventory counts and unlimited history. | Read from https://www.boxhero.io/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with BoxHero before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save 20% with annual billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page marks its annual option as saving 20% and shows the Business plan at $288 a year. Source: https://www.boxhero.io/pricing ## Key features - **Barcode scanning:** Uses a phone camera or a barcode scanner to add, remove and adjust stock, with custom barcode printing on the Business plan. - **Multiple locations:** The Business plan tracks and moves inventory across warehouses and stores; the free plan has one location. - **Purchases, sales and returns:** Business plan users can manage purchase and sales orders with invoicing, record returns against the original order and create bundles. - **Alerts, counts and reports:** Safety stock levels trigger low-stock alerts, and counts, past quantity lookups and custom reports are included on the paid plan. - **Sharing and permissions:** Team members get role-based permissions, and an inventory link shares data securely with outside partners. ## Good for - Small shops and teams moving from spreadsheets to scanned stock counts - Solo sellers who fit within 100 items on the free plan - Teams that count stock on a phone or handheld scanner ## Worth knowing - The free Personal Plan is limited to 1 member, 1 location and 100 items. - Business covers 3 members, 1,000 items and 3 locations; extra members cost $5 each per month, 1,000 items cost $10 per month and 10 locations cost $10 per month. - Add-ons are available only on the Business plan. - The monthly-billing price was not readable on the page; the $24 figure is the annual-billing rate. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. BoxHero tracks stock with barcode scanning on web, iPhone and Android, and its Business plan is $24 a team a month on yearly billing. The free plan stops at 1 member and 100 items, and extra members and items cost more. - **Value for money: A.** $24 a team a month on yearly billing for 3 members, under 60% of the category's cheapest quarter at $49, which is $29.40. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A free Personal plan, but with 1 member, 1 location and 100 items you will reach the cap quickly. A 30-day Business trial with no card is also offered. - **Features: C.** Barcode scanning, locations, purchases and sales, alerts, counts and reports. Reports, alerts and orders need Business, and add-ons exist only there. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Items have to be imported or entered before you can scan. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iOS and Android, with API access, but no named integrations. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from BoxHero's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among inventory management tools - BoxHero's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 43 of the 47 other inventory management tools we grade, and level with 2. - It stands best on value for money (A, above 45 of 47) and worst on ease of use (C, above 2). - Its paid plans start at $24 a month, against a middle price of $121.50 for the category: 2 of the 31 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/inventory ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of BoxHero you could make: inventory and reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 4 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.6 is higher than 43 of the 47 other inventory management tools we grade. It costs $288 a year. - You could make: Inventory and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Scanning barcodes with a phone camera or a scanner. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: An API that other software can build on. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: roles and permissions. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Inventory, Barcode scanning, Reports, Public API ## Alternatives - [Sortly](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sortly): Phone-first inventory app for tracking equipment, tools and supplies. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/boxhero-vs-sortly) - [inFlow](https://toolgpa.com/tools/inflow): Inventory, orders and barcoding for wholesalers and small warehouses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/boxhero-vs-inflow) - [StockTake Online](https://toolgpa.com/tools/stocktake-online): Restaurant stock control, ordering and recipe costing. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/boxhero-vs-stocktake-online) - [Zoho Inventory](https://toolgpa.com/tools/zoho-inventory): Online inventory and order management from Zoho, with a free plan. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/boxhero-vs-zoho-inventory) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.boxhero.io/pricing - https://www.boxhero.io/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/boxhero Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).