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BarTender vs. Fishbowl Inventory

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    BarTender

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/ASeagull Scientific in Bellevue offers BarTender, a barcode software solution, supports label design and printing, as well as barcode reading and RFID tools.

    $495

    per 1 Application License + 1 Printer License

    Fishbowl Inventory

    Score5.5 out of 10
    N/AFishbowl Advanced is the company's on-premises inventory tracking, warehousing, and manufacturing solution with hosted capabilities, offering real-time inventory visibility and control across all locations and order fulfillment for physical warehouses, on-the-go inventory, 3PL, or drop shipping.N/A
    Pricing
    BarTenderFishbowl Inventory
    Editions & Modules
    BarTender Software 2019 Professional Edition
    $495
    per 1 Application License + 1 Printer License
    BarTender Software 2019 Professional Edition
    $690
    per 1 Application License + 2 Printer License
    BarTender Software 2019 Professional Edition
    $885
    per 1 Application License + 3 Printer License
    BarTender Software 2019 Professional Edition
    1,275
    per 1 Application License + 5 Printer License
    BarTender Software 2019 Professional Edition
    2,250
    per 1 Application License + 10 Printer License
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BarTenderFishbowl Inventory
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    BarTenderFishbowl Inventory
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.2
    (6 ratings)
    8.1
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BarTenderFishbowl Inventory
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Seagull Scientific
    Bartender may well be suited for larger companies who have people with Bartender experience, but it is an unnecessarily complex suite of apps that takes some getting used to. Smaller IT shops looking for something more user-friendly, slightly less expensive, and more streamlined should look for alternatives. Some applications are built specifically to use Bartender template files, and in those cases, you may not have an alternative.
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    Fishbowl
    Fishbowl is well suited for warehouse operations because you can control, monitor, report or view the progress of materials all the way from purchasing and receiving to the shipment and tracking of products. It integrates with major carriers and with QuickBooks so it does offer a suite that can support the entire operation. It allows for workflow monitoring, so particular groups or products can be tracked.
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    Pros
    Seagull Scientific
    • Can create macros to test ranges of serial numbers
    • can be linked to electrical test stations in assembly of electronic modules
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    Fishbowl
    • Inventory control - provides easy/accurate reports. Also, cycle counts can be done at any time. The warehouse team was easily trained.
    • Sales Orders - Fishbowl allowed us to have the sales orders accessible to everyone and linked the customers' purchase order to the orders and work orders (within the system). It no longer needs to be manually linked.
    • Custom reports - for a small fee we had reports customized specifically for our company.
    • Link to Quickbooks - invoices generated directly after closure of sales order.
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    Cons
    Seagull Scientific
    • Resource Intensive - Can use a lot of resources
    • Pricey - But you get what you pay for
    • Licensing can be quite difficult to understand
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    Fishbowl
    • MRP
    • BOM creation
    • Unified interface
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Seagull Scientific
    Easy to renew and update the license
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    Fishbowl
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    Support Rating
    Seagull Scientific
    I often have to try to troubleshoot printing issues for other team members, but I have never reached out to a BarTender support network. I’ve always just tinkered within the app to figure it out.
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    Fishbowl
    Originally the support for Fishbowl was very poor. It was hard to get anyone to help. In the last 12 - 14 months, it has greatly improved and if it continues this way I would certainly rate it higher.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Seagull Scientific
    We do use Zebra label designer, a free product, in circumstances where we don’t need a complicated label, such as no serialization, no connection to a dynamic database, etc. If we were to pull those instances into BarTender, we would need more licenses, which are expensive
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    Fishbowl
    Fishbowl is more useful than QuickBooks Manufacturing if you operate complex manufacturing with multiple multi layered BOMS
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    Return on Investment
    Seagull Scientific
    • Increased accuracy and consistency
    • Improved speed of batch printings
    • Customization permitted adapted features for our unique applications saving time and efforts
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    Fishbowl
    • Positive: Decreased time spent on copy/pasting in spreadsheets.
    • Positive: Easier to analyze costs and guarantee efficiency.
    • Negative: Time to get it up and running is really difficult to work with.
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