Cin7 vs. DEAR Systems, by Cin7

If you're looking for an all-in-one solution for CRM, Sales, POs, and Inventory, then you should absolutely consider Cin7. Their support team is always very helpful, going so far as to have team conference calls to solve any problems.

Incentivized

The software was well suited to small businesses who manufacture and sell on line and who have to manage batch codes however they are now pricing themselves out of the market. Customer service is terrible

• Powerful reporting that can be customized to fit your needs.
• Tons of integrations that help you get up and running quickly.

Incentivized

• Inventory tracking
• Invoicing
• Ecommerce synch

Incentivized

• Onboarding could be improved. We worked with a programmer who was not as familiar with our business needs. Additionally, the person in charge of our onboarding was initially difficult to schedule time with until we reached out to a manager.
• Cin7 occasionally makes updates to the software that causes the software to not work properly. For example, we would experience new errors on a CVS file import for products that had worked previously to the update. Additionally, our custom field implementations would be reverted to original and require set up again.
• We experienced semi-frequent outages of the software. The software would not be accessible for up to 1 hour at a time. I believe they took steps to address this and reduce down time.

Incentivized

• Support
• Bugs
• Website Functionality
• Down-time
• Glitchiness

It does what it says on the tin.

Incentivized

The Cin7 support team has never let us down, even if they weren't able to completely solve our problem. They are willing to have conference calls, video chats, whatever works to help fix your issue.

Incentivized

Terrible support, absolutely useless for anything more major than a simple navigational problem. They always provide meaningless responses that don't really address the issue such as, "our engineering department is working on the issue" or "we're working on some optimisation". These responses would be fine if anything actually resulted from them, but the same errors and problems have existed for 4 years so I don't believe they really amount to anything. In addition, they're quite pushy for me to "close your ticket" so it can be marked as resolved, but my issue hasn't been resolved. I don't exactly want to leave my ticket open for several months, but they send me consistent reminders to close the ticket which is obnoxious especially since their resolution was "our engineering department will work on it".

As a wholesale focused business, we found Vend to be tailored to retail businesses. TradeGecko was well suited for our wholesale business, however, lacked the full range of capabilities that Cin7 offered (B2B website, POS). Fishbowl had many features that we would not need. OMS Office Master System offered the wholesale capabilities we needed, however, the software could use an update. Cin7 was a perfect balance in terms of features and pricing for our company.

Incentivized

DEAR Systems is much better software compared to Xero. The inventory tracking within Xero doesn't record batch dates and isn't really capable of production modules. Additionally, Xero doesn't have pricing tiers within invoicing, which is a very helpful feature offered by DEAR Systems. If a business has any level of complexity than DEAR Systems is a significantly more capable software.

Incentivized

• Cin7 reduced the number of errors in our invoices and allowed us to expedite the checkout process via POS software.
• Cin7 helped us to maintain an accurate inventory and sync our inventory across different locations.
• Cin7 helped us to accurately forecast for purchasing decisions.
• Cin7 increased their pricing 1 year into using the software.

Incentivized

• Lost company time
• Effective inventory management
• Mostly does the job it's supposed to