Inventory Planner by Sage

This app is a blessing, I can't recommend it enough! It's saves us hours of admin every week, its great for our accounting, our stockists love it and it's even reduced errors. By my our calculation this app paid for itself in the first week we used it, and pays for itself every month within the first day - it's that efficient. It's also given us great insight into our stock holding. The team behind it are also superb, their support and responsiveness are the best we've come across.

Signing up for Inventory Planner is one of the worst decisions I've made in 13+ years as a business owner. I chose it over the competition because it had the best interface and design. In practice, the software doesn't work anywhere near as smoothly as the sales pitch suggests. Everyday tasks require workarounds that eat up the time the product was supposed to save. For example Inventory planner will not sync to Quickbooks without manually syncing the web connector every time. Onboarding was even worse. Over 10 weeks, we were shown several different ways to do the same operation, and the answer changed each time, after they checked with another team member. Nearly every question took days to answer because it had to go to their so called "tech team." They told us the onboarding sessions were being recorded multiple times. When I asked for copies, I was told they had never been recorded, despite them asking for permission to record each time. I also confirmed verbally, multiple times, the recordings would be supplied to me so I could go back over them and review the material. Be sure to demand your recordings after each meeting. The contract structure is the real trap. They structure the contract so that you pay for a year in full up front. Onboarding does not start until full payment is made and contract is signed. By the time you find out how the product actually works you have no way out. The price is tied to your revenue, so as your business grows your costs only go up, regardless of whether the software is helping you. If you read their contract and it feels one-sided, take that seriously, I wish I had.

Inventory Planner does a great job of helping me to plan orders for inventory replenishment. Simple and effective in helping me avoid wasted spending on unnecessary inventory while ensure adequate stock for items that sell well, based on my own shop's analytics. UPDATE 5/17/2017: It's hard to express just how amazing the customer support behind this app really is. At this point, we have completely replaced Stitch Labs for inventory management with Inventory Planner, which has simplified our workflow without compromising any of the features we need to manage our inventory start to finish. Amazing app by an amazing team. Highly recommended!

We are very pleased with Inventory Planner. We've been looking for a user-friendly forecasting solution and have tried quite a few over the past year. Oleg's quick and personal assistance is also incredibly helpful. So much so, we're now writing PO's straight out of Inventory Planner so all can be easily managed in one place.

Consider me an evangelist for Inventory Planner. This is honestly the best program out of any our company uses. Hands down, no contest. They are THE BEST. The services provided by Inventory Planner replace what would otherwise take at least a full-time person (on a very small team) to do not even half as well. Our inventory control is on point. We now carry half of the inventory on hand compared to what we had 9 months ago because we can see what we will really need and focus on those SKUs rather than being overstocked in variants and products that won't move as well. Not only that, but the Inventory Planner team is so quick to make improvements (ranging from 10 minutes to a max of 2 days from suggestion to implementation) that they put all other companies to shame. I've suggested at least a dozen tweaks to them including some that were just 'wish list' items. They've implemented all of them and done so most times the same day. Do yourself a favor and install this app.

Inventory Planner was great before it was acquired by Bright Pearl. Now they are trying to lock their loyal customers into contract with terrible customer service and little feature updates. If you don't currently use this app, I don't recommend them. Bright Pearl is a terrible parent company. Try something like Cogsy.

Been using it for over a year, we manage thousands of items for sale, and more than 50 suppliers, Inventory Planner has taken away the "drama" and time expense to place new orders, they also have analytics on what you have on overstock so you can promote and it even integrates with google analytics to check how many times has been viewed. It is just great! And to close this, I just ask theme to have bigger pictures of the products on the Purchase orders so the suppliers can read and see the products to avoid mistakes and they did it in 15 minutes, that was not even an option and they just implemented in less than 15 minutes. Its worth every penny!

Oleg is very responsive to any requests for help and has added variations to inventory planner that we have requested very quickly

Amazing application that has saved me countless hours managing stock. The sales forecasting has also been incredibly useful as it's helped the business stay in stock, free up cash and increase revenue. The amazing level of detail in the reporting is a huge bonus as well. By far the most useful shopify app I've ever installed.

The information is never accurate - it warns us we are overstocked on items we know we can't keep in stock. It says we are out of items that shopify says we are not - it just seems kind of buggy and expensive for how much customisation you need to do to get it started. We're switching to doing this in a free excel sheet that we can control.

This app has become a game changer with placing reorders for products. Helping us forecast sales, looking at COGS/gross profit/and sales in general. The PO functionality is amazing, being able to make PO's for vendors and get products on order with ease. So much it can do and I am sure we only use it for 10% of it's actual capabilities but we are always learning new things with it.

This app has taken my inventory management to a whole new level. What used to be many spreadsheets, complicated hours and hours of work. And a process that could not be delegated easily. Inventory planner has streamlined, simplified, and allowed me to confidently delegate. I have multiple warehouses, and FBA. I also have tons of variations for each product and this system does it all. Jill's amazing onboarding and support is a huge bonus and is the best fastest support I have ever received. Couldn't recommend any higher!

We have only recently begun using Inventory Planner, but they have been instrumental in dialing in our replenishment process for both our online store, as well as our new Amazon Seller Central account. The best part of the app is the team that comes with it. They are friendly, knowledgable and always happy to help you refine your store to work best for your business!

This is the best inventory planning/management app I have ever used! It impresses me more and more every day. Their customer support is probably the best of any Shopify app i've used. (Jill is amazing) Keep doing what you're doing Inventory Planner!

This app is a must have for any E-commerce store. We tried it out on one of our several stores and are now using it for every store. Shopify is missing so many aspects to properly plan, merchandise or buy and Inventory planner picks up the slack, making a huge difference with proper inventory levels and stock oversight.

The best inventory planning application with fast support. If you have an issue their technical team immediately gets it escalated and fixed. Excellent communication and the app is the key to successful inventory planning.

The layout is very user-friendly, the support team is surprisingly prompt and helpful, and the features are next-level. This is more efficient and navigable than Stocky, and at the same time more flexible and detailed. A superior product.

Love this app, a must have when you carry inventory and need to do forecasting / projection. The support is phenomenal Jill is the best, she comes back with answer very fast and always try to make sure you are 100% satisfy.

We have used this app for almost three years. At first, it was a pain because there were long wait times for a response and things were constantly changing. But those changes have been made for ease of use and understanding! Now we can not get enough of IP. My favorite feature is the robust reporting tool and the ability to see snapshots of inventory at any given point. Highly recommend!