Aralco Inventory Management vs. QuickBooks Commerce

Aralco Inventory Management is well suited for a retail operation with one or two locations that is expanding to 5+. At that point, there is small enough start-up costs and significant benefits available for this software to assist a company with the inventory and POS challenges associated with rapid growth. Aralco Inventory Management is also particularly helpful for retail companies that have complicated sales orders or a sales fulfillment time that is longer than a day or a week.

Incentivized

If things I listed in the "issues" section are resolved and addressed - I could recommend it more. Currently, it's still very undeveloped and I have to do a lot of manual work in order to make it work more or less.

Incentivized

• Retail focus
• Single source for all inventory control requirements
• Power-to-cost ratio
• Training package

Incentivized

• Interface with WooCommerce.
• Interface with Xero.
• Maintain Perpetual Inventory (less than 0.001% difference in value of inventory in TG and Xero).
• Works with ShipStation extremely well.
• Works with major EDI vendors (with reservations).

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• Lengthy set-up process that requires strong management
• High base hardware requirements (can't be used with just a phone, for instance)
• Inventory forecasting is not linked to any external or macro forces

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• Needs email alert on payment for all assigned to QuickBooks Commerce
• Improve auto payments set-up
• Would be really nice to get automated reminders on the system

Incentivized

TG works well for us.

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TG is good and easy to use, but could be improved

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Support team just sends links to blog posts that are often out of date.

Incentivized

I looked at several other products and either they were cost prohibitive or just too complex. If I wanted complexity I would go with a full suite approach (Navision, Intacct, Netsuite, Sage, etc.) for a major price point entrance into the accounting system world. While TG has been at times very aggravating overall I'm more that satisfied given the clients operating parameters. No software solution is perfect - no matter what the software publisher says!

Incentivized

• Short training time reduced costs and increased sales which increased ROI
• Less downtime which reduced costs and increased ROI
• Good customer support which boosts employee morale which leads to efficiencies and higher sales which increased ROI

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• No real ROI - we're stilling pulling reports from multiple platforms.
• Positive - segregation of wholesale and DTC orders in Shopify.

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