About Cin7 Core
Cin7 Core pricing
Cin7 Core does not have a free version but does offer a free trial. Cin7 Core paid version starts at US$349.00/month.
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Cin7 Core Reviews
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- Industry: Accounting
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Advanced tool for advanced users
Best tool (despite cons) for small business inventory management
Pros
- Lot of features, options, various settings... all together bring opportunity to reflect almost any process you may think of. But if your vision turns to be different from one of system designers, then workarounds are demanded in many cases that seemed to be "common" and you expected them to work "out-of-box". You really need good understanding of the way system works and it is point where good onboarding consulter may help.- Responsive and quick interface (though quick reporting tools and documents lists could be more convenient).- Lot of detailed reports with settings that almost no other ERP can suggest. Cool tool for advanced users familiar with pivot tables.- Responsive and attentive support resolves most of problems
Cons
- Strange limitations in accounting settings and flow (especially when you use QBO and want to use both Dear's and QBO's analytics capabilities at the same time)- Integrations with Amazon and Shopify are cool for capturing "orders" when you are not using automated 3PLs flow. But integrations are not good for capturing invoices and shipments when you are using 3PLs like FBA. Accounting processes for e-commerce are designed in quite a specific way and you really need to understand how it works to get reliable accounting data. Thought this is wide spread problem in world of ERP systems for small businesses.
Reasons for Switching to Cin7 Core
The most complex features and settings- Industry: Telecommunications
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Cin7 Core: Streamline Your Operations with Comprehensive Inventory Solutions
It excels in handling complex inventory scenarios and integrating with various business systems.
Pros
Comprehensive inventory management, Strong integration capabilities, Customizable and scalable, Improved order fulfillment and Valuable reporting and analytics.
Cons
Reporting Limitations and Interface Issues
Alternatives Considered
Salesforce Sales CloudReasons for Switching to Cin7 Core
Business size and complexity, Industry-specific requirements, Integration capabilities and customer support.- Industry: Wholesale
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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DON'T move your Software over to Cin7 Core-you will not see the end of price hikes.
Since moving to Cin7 (formerly Dear Inventory), we have faced non-stop price hikes. They keep attributing these increases to "system improvements," but we aren't seeing any benefits from these changes—none of them seem to impact our usage. Why should we be billed for improvements we don’t use? And if they're making enhancements to attract new clients and stay ahead of competitors, why are current customers footing the bill? In our business, we constantly make improvements to our products without charging more, as it drives more sales for us.
To give some context: we started with Dear in October 2021, paying $249 per month. After yet another increase, they now want $669 per month. That's a staggering jump. What’s even more questionable is when I asked them why our base subscription costs significantly more than what’s advertised on their site, I received no reply. Their website lacks transparency on pricing for additional services like B2B and POS, meaning they charge whatever they think they can get away with.
For anyone considering Cin7, I’d recommend exploring alternatives like Zoho. Something is clearly off with the way Cin7 is handling pricing and communication.
Pros
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Cons
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- Industry: Textiles
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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Hard to set up
I liked the person who helped us to set up, but he's connection was poor so sometimes, it was hard to follow the conversation. The team don't really know how the app (integrations) works together without a inventory system so it's hard to have specifications about it. I liked the little video I had before, but at one point I wasn't able to use it again. Overall, It was a long process that wasn't really easy to follow step by step. We are live but a lot of thing is still unknown of not clear. We had product that was suppose to be "out of stock" because of past orders, that was "back on stock" so this morning we have to deal with customer. An onboarding journal would have been awesome so we can have a step by step guide and a place to write our thoughts a long the way instead of forgetting it between the meeting. For the cost on the onboarding, it didn't worth it at all
Pros
Once you understand how it works, it makes everything easier.
Cons
The integration is really hard to follow. There's a platform available to follow it, but you don't actually see anything on it or you you do, you don't really understand what you can do or not. I feel like there was no link between each task. I didn't like that the onboarding team do a lot instead of letting you do it so you get more familiar with all the process.
Alternatives Considered
FishbowlReasons for Switching to Cin7 Core
I prefer the interface of Cin7 and I feel like there's less risk of loosing money because it's a monthly cost instead of one purchase.- Industry: Machinery
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Cin7 Review
Over all its ok. I think the best thing would have been to do was to upgrade OrderHive and leave that inplace. It was a great system that worked well.
Pros
There isnt really anything that I feel sticks out. I think its a little cumbersome and easy to get lost or forget to click on one of the tabs. Too much back and forth.
Cons
Not user frindly. Too much clicking to get where you want to be. Not able to modify sheets.
- Industry: Consumer Goods
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Has potencial but a very poor customer service and is missing very simple yet important...
We were working with orderhive and had to change to Cin 7.
At first it looked very promising because Cin 7 had some nice new functionalities but but we never imagined we were going to go back on some basic funcionalities we had. We thought the new system would outgrow the one we used, but this didnt happened. The new cin 7 core didnt include very practical and easy funciontalities we used on daily basis.
For example now we are not able to have 2 different stores like we had for our wholesale business and retail .We see the sales alltogether and because of this simple reason there are many things we are not able to do. Then being able to update attributes of products in bulk from the site, having unpickable bins, being able to map shopify to several locations not only one, being able to select what not to push into quikbooks and I could go on.
Some very easy and simple features that made our lifes very easy are not cin 7 core now, so for us it has been a lot of work and hours of implementation and we are not happy with it overall. We will probably change to another system ibn the future, not now because it has been very tiring for the whole team and it has taken a lot of our time.
Pros
The best about Cin 7 core is that it is very easy to receive merchandise at the warehouse.
Cons
The customer service is really bad. If you dont resend the tickets they might never answer, then, when they do answer, they give you a really bad response to close the ticket and want you to get tired of asking. 95% of the important issues do not get solved they tell you they cant help you, when you know there has to be a simple way to solve certain issues or they just answer what ever they want without considering what you asked for in the first place. You waist lots of time in this. They send you tutorials that dont resolve your issues and so on, I can keep on going.
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Not a good fit if you need any level of customer service or implementation support
Was initially excited about how the features could assist our inventory implementation process, that excitement turned sour as we got no support and had to figure out how to navigate pitfalls ourselves.
Pros
Cin7 core initially attracted us because of the production module options and comprehensive inventory management features. We had some concerns about the tools being overly complicated for some of our needs but was assured by the sales rep that we would have an implementation specialist and customer support to help us through this process. This ended up not being the case and the sales rep made misleading or untrue statements in order to get us to subscribe and invest time into their system.
Cons
The customer service was nonexistent once we subscribed. We received support just up until the point where we paid for the system.
Reasons for Switching to Cin7 Core
Had a more sophisticated production management processResponse from Cin7
Hi Spencer, we're disappointed to hear about your experience, and we want to make it right. A member of our team has reached out to offer extra guidance and help with your onboarding process. We hope this support will quickly turn things around and give you a great experience with Cin7!
- Industry: Consumer Goods
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Using Cin7 Core for Order Management
I had one-on-one help onboarding and troubleshooting from Muskan Israni who was very patient, helpful, and knowledgeable about the software.
Pros
I like that I can integrate my sales channels (Etsy and Shopify - Amazon is an option too, but I opted not to integrate it to save money) and input manual orders in one place to keep track of orders, inventory, shipments, and payments. I used their previous product OrderHive, so it is all fairly intuitive to use, and they provided great onboarding and setup.
Cons
I wish it was more affordable for my small business like OrderHive was
Alternatives Considered
QuickBooks OnlineReasons for Choosing Cin7 Core
Cin7 Core is the new offering from OrderHive, so I didn't have a choice.Reasons for Switching to Cin7 Core
I tried using Quickbooks Online to integrate my sales channels and manage my inventory, but the system didn't work.- Industry: Apparel & Fashion
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Cin7 Core Review
Our onboarding was very informative and taught us a lot about the best ways to use the system as it related back to our business objectives. Himash was extremely patient and very informative. He did a great job!
Pros
The level of detail you can achieve within the system.
Cons
My response would be unfair since we just activated the system today. However, I haven't experienced any particular part of the program that I would take issue with.
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Poor Customer Support, Poor functionality, Still being ignored
Worst experience I've had in the 15 years of using online software.
Pros
They sold me on the inventory management system. it sounded great in the presentation. And went down hill from there
Cons
It's been 5 months and I am still in the onboarding process. I have asked for a refudn several time only to be ignored. I even wrote to [sensitive content hidden] who never responded.
- Industry: Apparel & Fashion
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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The worst and most useless support you can get. Terrible Software
If I could leave less than one star I would.We have been using similar software for over 6 years, but Cin7 Core acquired the company and to everyone's surprise decided to stop supporting it and we were forced to move to Cin7 Core , uniting us that it offers the same functionalities as the old system. The onboarding process was OK, but even then, we noticed that Cin7 Core has much less functionality than the previous software we used [sensitive content hidden]The real problems came when we launched the system and started actually using the Cin7 Core.We have several channels through which we sell: our own sites and a marketplace, and all our orders are processed by a 3PL ( fulfilment center)
Pros
Тhere is nothing I like comparing it to the previous software we used
Cons
The worst thing about Cin7 Core is their support. Support is extremely slow and so far has not resolved any of the cases we have written to them about. The open cases so far are:- Cin7 Core does not send our orders to the fulfillment center and therefore the orders are not processed on time.- Cin7 Core does not submit accurate quantities to the marketplace we sell in- Cin7 Core is not properly syncing all the new listings we put on the marketplaceIn general, basic functionalities for which similar software is still used are not implemented, which means that users like us suffer lost benefits in the most important period of the year.
- Industry: Military
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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DEAR Review in 2023
Overall good experience, and good customer service always happy to help.
Pros
Ease of use and intuitivity, as well as youtube guides for most of the products modules.It has been really easy to train new staff onto the platform.
Cons
By being brilliantly simple, it is not allowing for flexibility which is very often needed. It does a very basic job of goods in / invoice / goods out but could benefit of some simple upgrades.
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Customer Support on WMS Deployment and Set-Up
Pros
[sensitive content hidden] was very helpful with me on the support call and answered all of my questions and gave me walkthroughs.
Cons
Automatic printing i believe is essential, Would be very good to have this functionality.Also WMS Scanner i feel should have more control. An example would be that the scanners should have the ability to raise transfers to and from warehouses from scratch, no input from Cin7 core on the web browser.
- Industry: Wine & Spirits
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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POS investigation of ERROR
Average when it was DEAR, improvements showing with Cin7 but many issues caused due to upgrades. Tax rules have been particularly challenging.
Pros
Support member [sensitive content hidden] was terrific when investigating errors that arose with POS and Cin7
Cons
Not good with POS ordering. Very basic use of POS with Cin7
- Industry: Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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[sensitive content hidden] - Implimentation
Pros
[sensitive content hidden] was amazing in her training and implementation support
Cons
We have only just started using it so don't have any issues at present.
- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Thank you [sensitive content hidden] for Excellent Onboarding Experience, Top Notch Customer...
Overall experience so far is excellent, again I truly appreciate the excellent service provided by [sensitive content hidden] to help us get up and running as soon as possible.
Pros
Cin7 Core is intricate, but in time will prove to be a viable resource.
Cons
Cin7 Core could be made more user friendly, I have used other platforms that I was able to learn without educational content etc. This platform is great, but could be softened up some for the user.
- Industry: Pharmaceuticals
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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[sensitive content hidden] is a legend
Good thanks to [sensitive content hidden]
and his support with resolving inventory issues.
Pros
The CS that has been received to date from [sensitive content hidden]
Cons
Some complexity around inventory control, that is due to novice users.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Implementation Review
The experience has been wonderful. [sensitive content hidden] was extremely helpful throughout our entire process, and was a professional throughout our journey, and helped us get onboarded with everything we need.
Pros
- Integrations- UI/UX- Implementation Help- Functionality
Cons
- Could be a cleaner UI/UX and a little bit faster to load.
Alternatives Considered
FishbowlReasons for Switching to Cin7 Core
Integrations- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Good system overall and good price
Very good. Key to running the business
Pros
Many features and can do all inventory management in one place. Ties with quickbooks
Cons
Some features are confusing and take time to learn
- Industry: Consumer Goods
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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No customer service to speak of, many features do not work
Just aweful. Their customer support is less than helpful, it's a waste of time.
Pros
I dont really like it. My main need was to sync inventory across online stores, but it doesn't work. My inventory numbers drift over time, and are basically never accurate. I can't pin down the source of the errors and there is no useful customer support to speak of.
Cons
My main need was to sync inventory across online stores, but it doesn't work. My inventory numbers drift over time, and are basically never accurate. I can't pin down the source of the errors and there is no useful customer support to speak of.
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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An Excellent Customer Service Specialist
I would recommend Dear solely based on the help and support I received from a brilliant Customer Support Specialist called [sensitive content hidden]. During a time when my company was suffering some difficulties she went above and beyond to help accommodate the challenges I faced and made me feel listened to and valued. She was brilliant and made me have a positive experience of Dear. Based on my customer experience with her I would recommend Dear to other people.
Pros
The invoicing and sales management is easy to use and it has a good user interface. Customer support responds to emails within 24 hours. Some support specialists send videos which is a great way to understand the system.
Cons
There is a wide discrepancy in the quality of customer service specialists- some are brilliant and some are very unhelpful and do not seem to be empathetic to the customer's problems. Sometimes it is obvious that the person lacks the technical knowledge to support the customer so you just go around in a circle. Maybe the support emails could be flagged in different categories such as 'interface issues', 'data issues' and that way the technical emails can be sent to someone who is an analyst. The training videos are not very helpful as they only give a generic overview that doesn't help when you have your own data uploaded and face problems. Training would be more helpful when you have your own data uploaded into the system and after a week of using Dear book a 30min training session with a support member who could answer the bespoke questions you have related to your business - as the currents videos never helped when I needed help.
- Industry: Wholesale
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Great product
After a few months trying to get everything working, I had a great experience with support agent Anitra De Silva. She was able to resolve all the pending issues that nobody else got me answers on. I am finally up and running as I expected.
Pros
Great solution for a fraction of the price of enterprise software
Cons
would like to see more integrations but has the most important ones
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Dear Support personel is exellent
Pros
The support calls and the people on the other end of the call.
Cons
It takes too long to make a support call with somebody.
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Great Product
Pros
Great features: Assemblies, inventory control, best before dates, lot codes
Cons
Minor complaints: Having to create separate SKUs for case packs, creating custom forms for purchases/invoices is a bit of a burden and isn't streamlined in the system itsel
- Industry: Textiles
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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My Cin7Core Rating
I am used to Sage and Dear is much easier to understand and to use.
Pros
That it is user friendly and that there is support whenever we get stuck.
Cons
That sometimes I wonder if the reports can be trusted because of my lack of trust in data input.