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Sortly has a free version and offers a free trial. Sortly paid version starts at US$49.00/month.
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- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Easily accessible across multiple platforms
It has been a game changer for our company. Our warehouse has never been so organized
Pros
Ease of access between phones, pc and tablets
Cons
I did not like the initial sorting options within the stock menu's
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Sortly is the inventory app that delivers!
Sortly has assisted us in many ways, including minimizing costs, reducing time needed to manage our inventory, giving us the ability to quickly view our current inventory status, and greatly reducing paperwork.
Pros
Sortly is very easy to use. Support really listens to requests for enhancements and implements changes quickly. There are so many different ways to use this app.
Cons
We have been using Sortly for over a year and find minimal issues, and when we do, they are quickly addressed. One thing we would like is to have more available users in the Ultra package. We could utilize more of the features available within the app if more of our employees had a login and access to the app.
Alternatives Considered
Restroworks Inventory ManagementReasons for Switching to Sortly
I do not remember the alternates I reviewed prior to purchasing Sortly. I was required to choose an option above, we did not look at Restroworks. Sortly met most of our needs and wants at a competitive cost.- Industry: Nonprofit Organisation Management
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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A great program with disappointing management
A great program, but not modular enough to suit a use case that needs high item amounts and users, but not a lot of the more complex features. We *just* need to track inventory, but we need to track a lot of it.
Pros
Easy to create folders and items, easy to change quantities, app makes it simple to teach others, reporting is robust.
Cons
Too many features that we don't use. This is especially frustrating when we have to then pay extra for features that will never be helpful to us. Enterprise edition should be an a la carte situation. We recently had to drop to Premium from Enterprise due to an exorbitant price hike of over 77%. That is an untenable change in price. Seeing as this was only our first year with Sortly, we can no longer feel secure that we won't be hit by another surprise price hike down the line, and will begin looking for alternatives as soon as possible.
Alternatives Considered
Asset PandaReasons for Choosing Sortly
We switched from a combination of PantrySoft, Homemade Spreadsheets, and a medical equipment tracker. We switched due to ease of use, and other programs having features we did not need, even though Sortly was more expensive than those others combined.Switched From
Microsoft ExcelReasons for Switching to Sortly
They were more expensive (I do not believe that is the case anymore), and their product was a bit more complicated, so training staff would have been more of a challenge.Response from Sortly
Hey Jacob,
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on Sortly. We’re glad to hear that you find the program easy to use and appreciate the robust reporting and intuitive design! 😊
We’re truly sorry to hear about your frustration with the pricing structure and feature set. We understand how important it is for the solution to match your specific needs, and we regret that the price change has made you feel uncertain about continuing with Sortly.
Your feedback about a more modular, a la carte approach is valuable, and we’ll be sure to share it with the team. If you have any questions or need assistance in adjusting your plan to better fit your needs, please feel free to reach out to us at https://help.sortly.com/hc/en-us/requests/new—we’d love to help.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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New to Sortly
We changed to Shortly about a year ago to track our construction inventory in our warehouse. it was easy to create folders for each job and track items and the QR codes on each individual box really helped our delivery team make sure they are taking the correct items to the correct job.
Pros
Easy to use for first time user. Helps inventory tracking for everyone in our company can see where and when/where things get delivered. Showing the rest of my team how to use the app really helped on tracking items down if I wasn't available to answer right away. The Sortly team always seems to be adding new features to help improve the app.
Cons
Can't just drag and drop files to folders. need more than 8 pics to add to a folder.
In the phone app, I can't seem to open attached Emails in a folder but from the computer I can. Would be nice to attach more than 3 PDFs to a folder also.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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A Happy Team
Overall, it has given us a much more automated approach to our inventory. It has made things simpler and take less time, which we appreciate!
Pros
Our favorite function that Sortly offers is the ability to review reports across all functions from inventory levels to user activity. When mistakes are made, we are able to see exactly where, and not let things fall through the cracks. Being able to backdate on that is huge for us. The ability to organize is also key, my team & I appreciate the folder/subfolder setup, and the integration with other software. We also love the ability to add photos, this makes it very easy for people of all knowledge levels to find what they're looking for.
Cons
We are not able to make changes to the unit after an item has been created, nor are we able to add variations to an existing item if not done initially during the creation of an item. These are our 2 quarrels at this time that we would love to see fixed.
- Industry: Maritime
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Get organized and see how much money you have sitting on your shelves.
It is a great tool for what we are doing, and I am very happy with it. Easy to navigate, easy to learn and overall, a great product. If I had one wish, it would be a module for maintenance attached to my fleet. It would be great to click on a truck or forklift record then manage all activity with that piece. I would also be happy if I can interface to maintenance software via EDI so I can use Sortly as my dashboard and entry portal. Aside from my greedy wish list, I love this product. Straight A's.
Pros
Photo capability, Unique ID system, cloning ability, editability.
Cons
I want to print an entire inventory report and can't seem to get that done. I also have redundant photos which I would like to drag into another record but can't. Lastly, I would like this to be available offline when I'm disconnected.
- Industry: Consumer Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Effective and easy to use
Good, easy to use. Makes setting up inventory control intuitive. Some higher level functions for item creation would make it better.
Pros
Works great in mobile form, can use on phone or tablet for portability
Cons
Can be difficult to create distinction between similar products. Creating a Sortly QR code can be broken very easily. Can not reprint QR code, only make a new one
Alternatives Considered
Salesforce Sales CloudReasons for Switching to Sortly
ease of use and open api's to create custom ordersResponse from Sortly
Hi Michelle,
Thank you for your feedback and for highlighting how Sortly is helping streamline your inventory control! We're glad to hear that the mobile functionality is working well for your needs and that Sortly’s ease of use and open APIs stood out to you. 🚀
We appreciate your insights on distinguishing between similar products and QR code management. Good news: You can reprint QR codes! If you need guidance on how to do this or have any other questions, please reach out to our support team at https://help.sortly.com/hc/en-us/requests/new—we’d be happy to assist.
Your feedback about higher-level functions for item creation is also invaluable as we work to make Sortly even better. Thank you for choosing Sortly, and we look forward to supporting your success!
- Industry: Entertainment
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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A Rock Star of a program
A great organizational tool that convinced me and my team that we actually could keep track of everything we have without having to break the bank and spend weeks training....Its actually made us all much more organized as we now have the perfect tool to do just that.
Pros
Ease of entry and organization . I was creating a structure in a matter of minutes . I have over 2 million dollars of Audio and Video gear to keep track of and this was a perfect fit for our team. Easy is good !
Cons
At first, we needed to have a pick list function which was not available....UNTIL we asked for it and it was created within a 6 month period of time. I was floored.
Alternatives Considered
CheqroomReasons for Switching to Sortly
the price for cheqroom was ridiculous and the need for the featureset was not really necessary for me.- Industry: Real Estate
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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Highly recommend
Overall I an very satisfied with my experiment
Pros
intuitive use. Love the tags feature for quick searches. They are always adding new features to help business run more efficiently.
Cons
I would like to have the ability to tailor some features that apply in a more specific way to my business.
Alternatives Considered
On the StageReasons for Switching to Sortly
I think they had a better price than the other inventory app that we were considering. At the time our biggest concern was organizing and keeping track of what had.- Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Tried the rest? Try the best!
Overall, we are extremely pleased with the product. We tried 3 others before finding Sortly and irt accomplishes exactly what we needed. A complete inventory tracking solution.
Pros
Gives me the ability to track every item from receiving to consumption within an organization containing 9 locations.
Cons
The learning curve is a bit steep. I am still trying to learn if or how to determine dollar values of use per location.
Reasons for Switching to Sortly
Ease of use and abundance of features available- Industry: Hospitality
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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A good way to run your small business
Pros
The ability to customize the set up and tailor it to your needs. By adding folders and items in whichever manner you choose you are able to get a really customizable use.
Cons
Items not syncing together when changes are made. New items are created which can mess up inventory numbers and you then have to go through and merge or add inventory together manually.
Response from Sortly
Hi Susie! We appreciate you taking the time to submit your review.
We are sorry to hear you're having issues with syncing. The software syncs across all devices, so if you are having trouble, we would be happy to look into this for you. Please reach out to [email protected] and we will get right on it!
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Coffee Company’s Review
Overall we like Sortly. There are some features we would like added but Sortly is always offering new capabilities.
Pros
It has helped us cut down costs astronomically. We can move our stock between shops and cut down on ordering. We have been able to log loss of product, leave notes to our managers about stock, organize our vendors. It’s been great.
Cons
There isn’t a way to see what your inventory was on a certain date. For example we do a COGS adjustment at the end of each month to see how much inventory we’re sitting on. If I don’t pull the report on that date I can’t go back and look at my inventory in that point of time retrospectively.
I also wish it was clear that there was support to help set it up. I did it all manually and it was tough.
- Industry: Food Production
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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SORTLY IS AMAZING
Pros
I really enjoy how easy the app is to use because I do not have to spend much time training other staff members to use it. The Inventory Management and Control aspects of sortly are really what makes the app so worth using though.
Cons
I do not like the group items feature that has been included. My items used to stay grouped together, and now I have to click the button every time to get them to group back together.
- Industry: Computer & Network Security
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Excellent Application for Inventory Management
After testing out the trial version for a while and presenting this to our company owners they were thrilled to accept Sortly as our new inventory management software and we upgraded to Premium and have loved it ever since we utilized it. The cost per month for the level we have is very affordable as well.
Pros
We love the ease of use, the barcoding, and the reporting features of Sortly. Our most favorite part of utilizing Sortly was being able to add photos of the parts for better identification and inventory management. Their customer service has been great for all of our questions and we are truly happy to have this system.
Cons
Sortly is still working on feature improvements daily and we hope and look forward to a picking feature for pulling parts for jobs. Sortly truly cares about suggestions and opinions and will even keep you posted on the status of your request instead of leaving you guessing.
Reasons for Switching to Sortly
While the other alternatives had great features, they did not meet our requirements needed for better inventory management compared to what Sortly had to offer.- Industry: Design
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Sortly is an amazing inventory management asset!
Sortly is an integral part of our daily workflow in the office and when in the field with clients. It streamlined how we were able to keep track of hundreds of objects and made my job much more efficient. I love being able to print pages of the inventory that are attractively arranged so that I can create presentation binders for clients. I really can't speak highly enough of it. This is the one program that I really couldn't do my job nearly as well without.
Pros
I'm an interior designer, and we use this to keep track of our client's inventory of furniture, artwork, and objects located in their houses, storage spaces, and at different vendors. I know that it's not what Sortly was designed for, but it works perfectly for it. It's very easy and convenient to be able to pull up the inventory and see what we've placed in different rooms, what needs to be pulled from storage, and what they actually own. It's very easy to add new items as needed. Sortly is indispensable in our day to day workflow and has literally transformed how we're able to interface with clients and manage their items.
Cons
I wish that the option to crop and edit photos was consistent across platforms. I also wish that when there are multiples of an item that are located in different albums that the edits made to one apply to the other. But honestly, it is otherwise pretty close to perfect for our needs.
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft ExcelReasons for Switching to Sortly
I didn't find anything else that offered the combination of features and ease of use that Sortly offered.- Industry: Sporting Goods
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Great Addition!
We started with Sortly as a trial to see if it could easily and accurately track our inventory and also give us added features like visuals of the items and the option of generating a variety of reports. We did take our time with the transition to make sure we were comfortable with the new system. We worked on building our inventory in Sortly simultaneously while running our old system. We used the bulk import feature to add most of our inventory which was a plus. Overall the transition has been easy and is much better than what we were using. It is faster, accurate and user friendly. The search feature is excellent and the ability to easily generate a variety of reports is also extremely helpful. Overall I am very happy with Sortly!
Pros
The ability to search for a product multiple ways and upload pictures of the product. I also like being able to print a variety of reports and always seeing the total value of our inventory at a glance.
Cons
Not being able to list items in size order. There is also a lag time when updating quantities and adding photos.
- Industry: Individual & Family Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Helpful but with quirks
Pros
I like the ability to scan and easily print QR codes.
Cons
That I cannot "undo" an action. That it is difficult for me to see Sortly history and to remember what went where and who moved it. I do not like that when moving an item into a folder, that the search cannot be specific- For example if I have the folder of "Jane Doe" in 12 different folders by month, and I want to move an item to "Jane Doe" in "July", I cannot search "Jane Doe July", I have to search "Jane Doe" and scroll through multiple "Jane Doe" entries to find her in "July".
I also think the bar code scanner in the app could be improved. When you are scanning within a folder, and at the top there is a note that tells you what folder you are "searching within" I wish there was an easy way to click that and change it to search in another folder, rather than going back and selecting the folder and then going back to the barcode search scanner. Also, when I am scanning and searching within a folder and I "add a quick action" and want to "Choose folder before scanning", when I go to search for the folder in the search bar the search bar page looks strange saying "nothing to see to see here" and the search bar looks different and for a while I didn't realize could still use it
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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The best low cost inventory management app
Pros
First of all, the price is really good for all the benefits you have on the app.
It is really simple and easy to use, you can do a lot of things with it and you won't need to take a class to learn how to use it.
Cons
There are some features that we would like that it is not implement yet. For example, would be really good a button to undo an action that you did for a product.
- Industry: Design
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Great program, depending on your needs
I've spent alot of time setting this up and using, it's easy to learn and generally performs the functions we need it too. It's just not great for businesses with a lot of items with varying details bc of the info capacity for all categories and items.
Pros
It keeps us well organized as we stock alot of one of kind pieces so need a comprehensive tracking system to track multiple items at multiple locations. The program has generally been good for this, would highly recommend if you do not have a ton of products you are tracking.
Cons
Each item has 10 data categories to add additional information about the piece, these categories max at 10 and the categories themselves have a low maximum allowed -- like drop down menu categories have a maximum of 250 items. These are all maxed for us and we still continue to acquire new inventory that I now cannot add. To get around this I created another category with the same name "part 2" like "artist 2" and "size 2"...we are too invested in the software at this point to switch but it also is going to render useless if we continue growing our art inventory.
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Sortly is my go-to to keep my simulation center organized
Sortly has been instrumental as a first-time operations manager in streamlining my simulation equipment and supply inventory across 3 instructional sites. I have been able to generate reports in a matter of minutes and create equipment catalogs to promote and maximize the utilization of simulation equipment for several activities. Additionally, I get real-time notifications when I am running low on supplies or when a service warranty is about to expire- all thanks to custom fields and the notifications feature.
Pros
Ease of use, the ability to add pictures, and add custom fields to meet the specific needs of my organization.
Cons
Nothing so far. I have seen many updates and I appreciate how Sortly considers users' feedback to continue improving the platform.
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Sortly Review
I have requested multiple times to get help with being able to print off a sheet or sheets with ONE of EACH individual item in our inventory. They have sent me instructions several times and they do not work. I have requested a call several time to have someone walk me through the process and was told that they are not able to call.
Pros
The supposed ability to create qr codes that can be printed off to use for each individual item in our inventory.
Cons
The fact that I can't print off or create individual qr codes for all of our inventory, especially uniforms.
Response from Sortly
Hi Angela,
Thank you for your feedback and for bringing this to our attention. We're sorry to hear that the provided instructions haven't been helpful and that your experience hasn't met your expectations.
To resolve this matter promptly, please email us at [email protected]. We'll escalate your request and work closely with you to find a solution.
- Industry: Medical Devices
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Efficient and User-Friendly Inventory Management
Our overall experience with Sortly has been very positive. The software has streamlined our inventory management process and improved accuracy. The ease of use and mobile access have significantly enhanced our efficiency. While we hope for more affordable integration options, the existing features already provide great value for our operations.
Pros
Sortly is incredibly easy to use. We love having mobile access and the ability to export our data. The feature to generate QR code labels makes scanning products a breeze, and adding photos ensures we always have the right product.
Cons
We wish the QuickBooks Online integration was available for the lower pricing plan tiers since we are a smaller company, but we still use QuickBooks.
- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Best Small Business Inventory Tool
Pros
Sortly is an excellent inventory management solution, offering a user-friendly interface and customizable fields to fit your specific needs. The mobile app enhances convenience with barcode and QR code scanning, which makes it super fast to count inventory without the need for more scanners. Cloud-based ensures real-time updates - making sure it is always up to date for everyone. Multi-user access with customizable permissions is excellent for having the entire team on the platform. Easily customizable reporting and analytics provide valuable insights for the entire team. It also generates QR codes - which work awesome when you don't have barcodes to use already. It also is very simple and easy to set up and use.
Cons
What we like the least is that the barcodes don't have the option to be generated to print on an 8.5 x 11 paper size - only label printer options. Also - you have to pay for a more pricey system if you want to be able to hide pricing.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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A Necessary Program for Our Warehouse
Overall the experience with Sortly is great, could be a bit cheaper but what you get for features is well worth it.
Pros
I liked the way i can type in any product that i think of and can find it on the app and know directly where it is in the warehouse. Saves a lot of time and money.
Cons
The cost is probably my least favorite thing about Sortly.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Sortly has helped operationalize our organization
Pros
Sortly has helped our team track and manage assets. We initially started using the tool to better track and manage our hardware assets across all of our offices, however we've expanded to also tracking software applications and licenses. This has been an incredibly helpful tool to manage involuntary separations and have a one-stop-shop to know what our team members have and what hardware is available to us in each of our offices. This has resulted in cost savings because it's preventing unnecessary spend on assets we already have in our pocession.
Cons
N/A
The only thing that comes to mind is better reporting or customization for assets that are beyond technology.
Response from Sortly
Hi Laura,
Thank you for your thoughtful review! We're thrilled to hear you're finding Sortly useful and that our Customer Support team is helping you along the way.
Your feedback is crucial in helping us enhance Sortly's capabilities. If you'd like to provide some more information about the reporting options you would like to see, please do not hesitate to let us know through our submission platform at http://tinyurl.com/2p99r3bt or by emailing [email protected]