Cin7 Core Inventory Management

After considering several inventory systems like Trade Gecko and Unleashed we finally decided on DEAR. Even before we signed up the support and help we got from Kevin at DEAR was amazing. We had lots of questions over our trial period, which Kevin patiently resolved. We are in the process of switching over shortly and am sure that experience then will be as good as it has been so far. The integration with Shopify and Xero works really well!

I dont understand all the great reviews. I feel like it's gonna take me months to get up to speed. You can't bulk edit anything within the app. You have to export and work in Excel or Sheets, then re-upload back into Dear and purge the stuff you don't want. If you're not very skilled at Sheets/Excel, good luck. Once I get set up, I think it'll be great but I dont know how long that's going to take. I need to hire someone just to get my products, categories and suppliers set up. And when/if you connect your Quickbooks, it's going to import Suppliers from your checking account. Meaning that time you used your debit card at the corner store, well that place is now a Supplier. Same thing for Customers and Products. It imported products I havent sold in months. In order to delete, I had to export a file, change the status then re-upload. Why all the steps to do basic things?

This is an easy Inventory Management System to use. We utilized the Onboarding provided by DEAR and the ongoing support we receive to make sure our system is being used as much to its potential for us is amazing. Kevin especially is always on hand to assist with any questions and tweaks. Other features would be also be helpful if integrated into DEAR - like to totals at the bottom of the Purchase Order Pages (and the other drop down pages)

App is fine, until you have a problem when the customer service is non existent. For what you pay for multiple users and how integral this connection can be for key areas of your business like inventory control and accounting, customer support should be much better.

Goodluck with any problems with intergration. Their "tech support" is absolutely worthless. The service reps always need to forward your inquiry to their "techs". Their techs email three days later with "the integration issue is not on our end" Everytime. This has been going on for a whole month now. You can't call them, you can only "chat" with bottom level service reps, and emails take about 9 hours to respond. Most of the time a new rep will reply, so you have to start a square one, only to have you inquiry forwarded to a tech that offers no help

Very good software. The best part is the team will look at enhancement requests for new features and add them into their development. Make's our life a lot easier...

DO NOT USE IF YOUR BUSINESS INVOLVES SALES TAX. There are two major issues with DEAR Systems: The first is that their system is simply not reliable when it comes to sales tax (and frequent changes made to their system often breaks any sales tax matching that was already set up). On MORE than one occasion, these sales tax changes has resulted in thousands of transactions that required manual review/updates. The second, more unforgivable problem, is that once you sign up, it's painfully obvious that the well-being of your business doesn't actually matter, which appears to be a tone set from the top; we've certainly been disappointed on numerous occasions by co-founder and director Alexei Piltiaev's shocking lack of professionalism and respect and it would appear everyone else is following his lead. If you do make the mistake we did and sign up for this service, here's a pro-tip: When things go wrong and their team ignores you, the best way to actually get them to respond is post a negative review here. While your business doesn't matter, their star rating here sure does.

So far, DEAR's email ticket response time has been under 24 hours and the replies have resolved issues to my satisfaction, even when it takes a couple of emails...

The Solutions Architect team and Mark in particular very quickly and clearly handled all of my queries. From reviewing our manufacturing process and introducing assembly BOMs with landed costs, through to discussing our Shopify and 3PL fulfilment approach using locations - Mark showed not only full understanding of the CIN7 system, but took the time to listen to my concerns carefully and offer workable solutions. His genuine support was encouraging and I cannot speak highly enough of him. It is very reassuring to meet up with this team and have a review, sort out any niggles you may have - it has really paid off for us. 5 Stars, well earned.

We're paying thousands of dollars a month for broken functionality promised by the platform. Every month a critical fix for their native Hubspot integration is promised but never delivered. We strongly suggest merchants look elsewhere. Counting stock by hand would be more effective than using DEAR Inventory.

I used to be major fan of this software. Our company has been using it since 2016. Since the company has been acquired by Cin7 support has really declined. We've had a critical support case open for 3 weeks and it is still not resolved. I have been unable to talk to a human. I keep getting fobbed off with "the technical team is working on it" "our technical director will call you" "the fix will be rolled out over the weekend". All I want to do is talk to a human. I've asked every time to speak to someone about the issue. Nobody is talking. We pay 8K per year for the software. I used to recommend DEAR to many colleagues in the e-commerce space as a leading solution. However, this incident has left me really disillusioned with the company. If it was a minor issue I could understand a ticket taking 3 weeks to resolve but this has been a catastrophic meltdown of our Amazon integration in 4 countries. We have 69,000 notifications of sales data that can't be reconciled. I would not recommend DEAR inventory. Heather Cole Country Trading Co. Founder

We have looked at a lot of inventory management systems and migrated from Tradegecko to DEAR. Extremely impressed with the product and system. It has a lot of manufacturing features that we do not use however for tracking purchase orders, bundles, composite products it is excellent. It is easy to duplicate products to quickly add or CSV can be imported. There is never going to be the perfect IMS for everyones business processes but this covers most of ours. We have suggested some improvments regarding batch actions via the web interface. Overall can recommend, no problems syncing with Shopify.

Better than Tradegecko that we were using before. I like the ease of use. However, I think the extra $50 per additional user is too steep, and DEAR also charges ala carte per integration with 3rd party application too. This is both good and bad. You just need to evaluate your cost structure before you sign up. Overall, I would recommend it.

Buyer beware! We've been using Cin7 (formerly DEAR Systems) since 2022. Since being bought out, the cost of our subscription just increases with impunity. You think you're signing up at one price, but you're not. And the prices will continue to rise every year. I've been using Shopify since 2012, and no other third-party app has acted in this manner. Not to mention, since using DEAR/Cin 7, our team has had to spend hundreds upon hundreds of hours troubleshooting issues and opening support requests to fix features advertised that simply did not work as intended. A poor overall experience and bad business practices from this company.

Becareful here, We Have been using the Cin7 Platform for years and moved to the Cin7 Core platform from Omni last year. Their shopify app is a disaster. -Randomly orders will pull through Blank into Cin7. - Stock Just disconnects when it says it is connected. -This leads to incorrect stock values. - Bom Stock does not work, So if you have a Coffee Table with a base and a Top, this cannot be synced as a finished product. Cin7 Just recently updated their Knowledgebase (Which is incorrect most of the time to now say you cannot sync these) Their fix is to turn on auto assembly which then breaks the WMS functionality completely. We have been told to now create our own Custom API. - We pay $149 a month for premium support of which they do not respond. We have tickets open for months at a time, every time they just say they need to escalate the Problem. - We have asked to cancel our premium support and were told this "Thank you for reaching out to us. We are sorry to hear you are facing issue with your premium subscription. Please note that your ticket needs the attention of a specialist team. It may take a few days to get back to you. If your need is more urgent, please reply and let us know. Thank you for your patience while we get this looked into for you. Kind regards, Bushra M" When you finally speak to some one over a few mails - Namely Phil they ask a few questions, then request access to your system and go silent for weeks if not months. Their system Eventually just closes the support ticket. Currently we Paying Cin7 close to $5000 a month with no help sorting out their Own system issues. Onboarding with Cin7 Core was a bit of a Joke, we had been using Cin7 Omni for years however the "Onboarding Specialist" was completely untrained and her knowledge of the system was basic at best. Becareful if you are looking at Cin7, We have Coders and experienced IT/ Business people who have used their systems for years. There are problems within this institution which I dont believe the Directors are aware of nor some of their customers until it will be to late.

Dear have been fantastic to deal with. Our team have on occasions had to contact them for support and each time they reply fast and offer fantastic support. They did some some unpaid work for us updating templates etc which was fantastic. Thanks Dear great company to work with.

DEAR connects seamlessly with Shopify, very easy to manage transactions, inventory movements and fulfillment processes. The interface is really user friendly and the learning curve isn't steep at all. Really simple to get things going. I have two feedbacks though: 1 - Email support answer times: given we're in Toronto, it's a bit of a problem when support is mainly active outside of working hours. I'm not saying that they only respond then, it's just that I usually loose a day with the majority of my issues - send an email during the day, get an answer by 8pm, start fixing it next morning. It's not bad, but it could improve. I understand there are other ways of connecting with their support, but email is still the go-to communication method for us. 2 - reporting capabilities and more specifically related to inventory transactions, There isn't a built in report that shows me which FG transaction was used to fulfill which SO, for example, which is crazy, considering I have auto-assembly enabled and there are notes on each FG showing which SO that FG was created for (when the FG was not actually used for that SO). Auditing can be a real pain.

Beware, if you try to cancel the subscription, your only option is to schedule a sales call. If you don't change your mind during the sales call, you are told there is a 30 days cancellation notice and you'll have to keep paying the subscription one more month. Of course the app isn't exactly great which is why I wanted to cancel in the first place.

The onboarding group training scheme is fantastic and the support team has been very helpful since finishing the training, in particular Jinesh Shah, who is a terrific champion of the tech and has a very good way of working with teams to get up to speed.

We've been using Cin7 for several yearsl, and it's become an essential part of how we manage our business. As a small team handling inventory across wholesale, retail, Amazon, and Shopify, having everything centralized in one system has made a huge difference. I use Cin7 daily for inventory management, purchasing, forecasting, and reporting. It gives me visibility into what we have on hand, what's on order, and where we need to take action, which is especially important when managing multiple suppliers and sales channels. Overall, Cin7 has helped us stay organized, make better inventory decisions, and scale our operations more effectively. I'd recommend it to any growing business looking for a comprehensive inventory and order management solution.