# Fishbowl > Inventory and manufacturing software built around QuickBooks and Xero Fishbowl makes inventory software for businesses that sell physical goods and keep their books in QuickBooks or Xero. Fishbowl Inventory is a cloud product for resellers of finished goods, with barcode scanning, reorder points and ecommerce channels. Fishbowl Advanced is a separate, quoted platform for manufacturers and multi-warehouse distributors, with bills of materials, MRP, work orders and EDI. - **Category:** Inventory Management - **Made by:** Fishbowl (since 2001) - **Website:** https://www.fishbowlinventory.com - **Runs on:** Web, Windows, macOS, Android - **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026 ## Pricing Fishbowl is a paid product, starting at $229 per month for up to 2 users, billed annually. - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Essentials | $229 per month for up to 2 users, billed annually | Fishbowl Inventory, sold after a demo. QuickBooks Online and Xero sync, real-time stock and SKU tracking, reorder points and mobile scanning. | | Growth | $429 per month for up to 5 users, billed annually | Adds picking, receiving and shipping, automated reordering, multichannel selling, sales-tax automation, AI insights and unlimited warehouses. | | Scale | $729 per month for up to 10 users, billed annually | Adds demand forecasting, lot traceability, audit trails, compliance documents for GMP, FDA and ISO, and advanced AI automations. | | Advanced Warehouse | $595 per month and up | Fishbowl Advanced, quoted by users and deployment. Multi-warehouse, 3PL and EDI workflows, transfer orders, payment processing and audit trails. | | Advanced Manufacturing | $675 per month and up | Fishbowl Advanced, quoted by users and deployment. Bills of materials, MRP, scheduling, work orders, job and labor costing, lot tracking and an open API. | Read from https://www.fishbowlinventory.com/pricing on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Fishbowl before buying. ## Key features - **Accounting sync:** Posts inventory movements, COGS and landed costs to QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop or Xero. - **Barcode scanning and labels:** Mobile barcode scanning on every plan, with an Android warehouse app for handheld scanners, barcode printing and cycle counts. - **Reordering and forecasting:** Reorder points on every plan, automated reordering from Growth, and demand forecasting included on Scale or as an add-on. - **Lot and serial traceability:** Lot, serial number and expiry tracking with forward and backward traceability for recalls and regulated goods. - **Manufacturing in Fishbowl Advanced:** Multi-level bills of materials, sub-assemblies, MRP, production scheduling, work orders and made-to-order builds. - **Warehousing and EDI:** Multi-warehouse, 3PL and EDI-driven distribution with tiered pricing rules, RMAs and audit trails in Fishbowl Advanced. ## Good for - QuickBooks or Xero users who have outgrown their built-in inventory - Small manufacturers that need BOMs, work orders and MRP - Food, chemical and other regulated businesses that must trace lots ## Worth knowing - An implementation package is required with every purchase, and its price is not published. - Fishbowl Inventory plans do not include manufacturing; bills of materials, work orders and MRP need Fishbowl Advanced. - Fishbowl Advanced prices are starting points quoted by users and deployment, and the vendor calls them illustrative. - Standard ecommerce and marketplace integrations cost $50 a month on some plans, and the B2B portal and custom reports are add-ons. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Fishbowl adds proper inventory to QuickBooks or Xero: barcode scanning, reorder points, lots and serials and, in the separate Fishbowl Advanced, bills of materials, MRP and work orders. It's sold only after a demo, with no trial, and every purchase needs an implementation package whose price isn't published. - **Value for money: C.** Essentials is $229 a month billed yearly for 2 users, a store connection is $50 a month on some plans, and multichannel selling is listed from Growth at $429. Every purchase also needs an implementation package with no published price, so with the real total unknown we've left it in the middle. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial. You book a demo, and there's nothing to try on your own first. - **Features: B.** Stock and SKU tracking with reorder points, barcode scanning, picking and shipping, lot and serial traceability, and in Fishbowl Advanced, bills of materials, MRP, work orders and EDI. Together that's the whole job, but manufacturing is only in Advanced, a separate quoted product. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. An implementation package is required with every purchase, so setup is a project with Fishbowl's team rather than a sign-up form. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, Windows, Mac and Android, but no iPhone app is listed. It links to QuickBooks Online and Desktop, Xero, Amazon, Walmart, WooCommerce, HubSpot and Zebra, with an open API in Fishbowl Advanced. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Fishbowl's own pages on 18 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among inventory management tools - Fishbowl's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 1 of the 11 other inventory management tools we grade, and level with 1. - It stands best on features (B, above 2 of 11) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $229 a month, against a middle price of $95 for the category: 6 of the 9 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 3 tools score higher and cost less. 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 Fishbowl you could make: inventory. What surrounds it you could not. The 5 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 9 of the 11 other inventory management tools grade higher. It costs $2,748 a year. - You could make: Inventory: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Scanning barcodes with a phone camera or a scanner. - You could not: Apps for macOS, Windows and Android that stay in step with each other. - You could not: It plugs into other products, QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop and Xero among them, and has an API. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop, Xero, Amazon, Walmart, WooCommerce, HubSpot, Zebra **Tags:** Inventory, Barcode scanning, AI features, Public API ## Alternatives - [Katana](https://toolgpa.com/tools/katana): Inventory and production software for makers and manufacturers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fishbowl-vs-katana) - [SOS Inventory](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sos-inventory): Inventory, orders and manufacturing add-on for QuickBooks Online. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fishbowl-vs-sos-inventory) - [inFlow](https://toolgpa.com/tools/inflow): Inventory, orders and barcoding for wholesalers and small warehouses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fishbowl-vs-inflow) - [Cin7](https://toolgpa.com/tools/cin7): Inventory software for wholesale and multichannel product sellers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cin7-vs-fishbowl) - [Unleashed](https://toolgpa.com/tools/unleashed): Inventory, purchasing and assembly software for wholesalers and makers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fishbowl-vs-unleashed) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026: - https://www.fishbowlinventory.com/pricing - https://www.fishbowlinventory.com/ - https://www.fishbowlinventory.com/company - https://www.fishbowlinventory.com/integrations/android - https://www.fishbowlinventory.com/integrations/apple-inc - https://www.fishbowlinventory.com/integrations/windows Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/fishbowl Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).