Best Inventory Management Software in 2026

NetSuite is a cloud ERP suite that Oracle agreed to acquire in July 2016 for US$109.00 per share in cash, about US$9.3 billion; Oracle described NetSuite at the time as a provider of cloud financials/ERP and omnichannel commerce software. Inventory management in NetSuite is not a separate product but a set of features inside the ERP, which is why it ranks first here for businesses that want stock, purchasing, order management and the general ledger in one database rather than a stand-alone inventory tool synchronised to accounting software.

The planning layer is the main differentiator. With Advanced Inventory Management enabled, NetSuite Demand Planning builds demand plans either from historical sales trends or from the current pipeline of opportunities, quotes and open sales orders, then generates supply plans that respect safety-stock settings and lead times. For multi-tier assemblies the supply plan reaches every level, producing work orders for sub-components and purchase suggestions for raw materials, and the feature processes up to 10,000 items at a time. Oracle's documentation also lists Available to Promise, Distribution Resource Planning, Supply Allocation and a Supply Chain Control Tower as related features.

The documented limitations are cost and implementation effort: NetSuite publishes no list prices, so licences, modules and partner implementation are negotiated, and the breadth of the suite is more than many small sellers need.

Cin7 is an inventory and order management vendor that says it started as a small team in 2012 and now serves more than 8,500 customers, with offices in six countries. It sells two product lines: Cin7 Core, priced on published tiers, and Cin7 Omni, priced by quote. Core is the line most buyers compare against Fishbowl, Zoho Inventory and Unleashed.

Core plans are sized by users, annual sales orders and the number of e-commerce and app integrations. The Standard plan includes 5 users, 6,000 sales orders a year and 2 integrations; Pro raises that to 10 users, 24,000 orders and 4 integrations; Advanced to 15 users, 120,000 orders and 6 integrations, with more orders available for purchase. That structure suits businesses that sell across a web store, marketplaces and wholesale channels at once.

Much of the depth sits in add-ons: ForesightAI demand forecasting, a B2B portal, point of sale, API access, advanced automations and premium support are sold separately, while Advanced Warehouse Management, RMA, Advanced Production Manufacturing and the Flex API are unavailable on Standard and become add-ons from Pro (Advanced Warehouse Management is included on Advanced). Buyers should therefore cost the add-ons they need rather than compare base tiers alone. The pricing page lists no trial length.

Fishbowl is an inventory and manufacturing software company based in American Fork, Utah, which describes itself as trusted by more than 6,000 businesses, an Intuit Gold Developer since 2004 and, in 2026, as celebrating 25 years of inventory software. Its long-standing position is as the inventory layer for companies that keep their books in QuickBooks, and the current line-up extends that to QuickBooks Online and Xero.

The cloud plans are tiered by users and scope. Essentials covers real-time SKU tracking, reorder points and mobile barcode scanning with accounting sync; Growth adds pick, receive, ship and fulfilment, automated reordering, multichannel e-commerce, sales-tax automation and unlimited warehouses; Scale adds included demand forecasting, lot and forward/backward traceability, audit trails and compliance documentation aimed at GMP, FDA and ISO environments.

Fishbowl Advanced is a separate, heavier product in two editions. Advanced Warehouse adds transfer orders, EDI, tiered pricing rules and multi-warehouse/3PL workflows; Advanced Manufacturing adds full bills of materials, MRP and production scheduling, job, labour and landed costing, and integration with QuickBooks Online, Desktop and Enterprise. The Advanced editions publish only starting prices; final pricing is quoted per user count and deployment. All published prices assume annual billing, so there is no month-to-month option on the page.

Zoho Inventory is part of the Zoho business-application suite and is the lowest-cost route on this list to multi-warehouse, multichannel stock control with published prices. A forever-free plan covers 50 orders a month, one user and one location, and paid plans run from Standard at US$29 per organisation per month (billed annually) up to Enterprise at US$249, which allows 15,000 orders a month, 10 users and 10 locations. A 14-day trial is available, after which an account can remain on the free plan.

Functionally, the app connects to Amazon, Shopify, Etsy and eBay so that orders and stock levels stay in sync, tracks serial and batch numbers including batch expiry dates, and manages stock across multiple locations with transfers between them. Shipping integrations include UPS, FedEx, USPS and Easyship, with real-time rates and label printing, and accounting is handled through the companion Zoho Books product. Bin locations are included from Premium upward, with 500 bins per location on most tiers and 5,000 on Enterprise.

The constraints are scale and depth. Order caps are monthly, user counts top out at 10 on the published plans, and there is no native manufacturing planning comparable to Katana or Fishbowl; composite items and kits cover simple assembly only. For sellers already using Zoho Books or Zoho CRM, the integration within the suite is the main reason to choose it.

Katana is a cloud inventory and manufacturing platform headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, with staff across North America, Europe and New Zealand. The company says its co-founders raised US$700,000 in April 2017 and that the product went live by the end of that year; it reports more than US$51 million raised in total, more than 1,500 customer businesses and nearly 100 employees.

Katana is built for businesses that make what they sell. It tracks stock across warehouses, third-party logistics providers and in-transit inventory with batch, lot and serial tracing, and adds production jobs linked to multi-level bills of materials with subassemblies and routings, capacity-based scheduling and a shop-floor app for logging task time. Costing updates material availability and cost as production moves, including work done by co-manufacturers. On the sales side it consolidates orders from Shopify, Amazon, WooCommerce and BigCommerce, handles wholesale orders and backorders, and drafts replenishment suggestions from sales history and supplier lead times. Accounting integrations are QuickBooks Online and Xero, and Katana offers an open API and MCP access for AI assistants.

Pricing changed to a two-tier model: a free plan with unlimited users but a 30-SKU limit (unlimited SKUs for the first 15 days), and an Advantage plan sold on a custom annual contract after a scoping call. Buyers who have outgrown 30 SKUs therefore cannot compare costs without talking to sales.

inFlow is an inventory product of Archon Systems, Inc., a Canadian company with support teams in Toronto and Lisbon; it says more than 50,000 businesses use inFlow and that it operates in over 90 countries. Its pricing is notable for not limiting orders: every plan includes unlimited products, sales, purchases and integrations, and tiers are separated by team members, locations and features instead.

Two families are sold. inFlow Inventory runs from Lite (2 team members, one location) through Core and Pro to Max (20 team members, unlimited locations), and inFlow Manufacturing mirrors that structure with Start Up, Growth, Scale and Expansion tiers. Each tier includes a hardware credit, between US$100 and US$1,000, toward barcode scanners and printers. A third product, inFlow Stockroom, targets internal stock rooms with unlimited scanning users.

Add-ons are priced separately: extra team members, lot numbers, serial numbers, an AI report assistant, an API and MCP connection, a B2B Showroom portal and extra plug-ins. A one-time onboarding package of US$499 is required on most plans, with optional training and a US$2,999 implementation package. That makes inFlow's first-year cost higher than the monthly figure suggests, though the uncapped order volume makes it predictable for high-volume, low-value sellers. Prices are published in USD, CAD, GBP and EUR.

Unleashed was founded in Auckland, New Zealand in 2009, expanded with offices in Australia and the United Kingdom, and was acquired by the UK-based Access Group in November 2020. It reports more than 5,500 small and mid-sized customers. The product is aimed at wholesalers, distributors and businesses with light assembly or production, and bills in NZD, AUD, USD or GBP.

There are two plans. Core includes 3 user licences, 3 integrations, 100 sales orders a month and 250,000 API calls; Pro includes 5 users, 5 integrations and 500,000 API calls, and bundles modules that Core buyers pay for separately: Advanced Inventory Manager, Warehouse Management and Multi-Bin, Access Analytics, and Production & Manufacturing. Additional sales-order volume is sold in bands up to an unlimited tier, and further modules include a B2B e-commerce store, a CRM and warehouse devices billed per device.

The pricing is modular and the base order allowance is low: 100 sales orders a month on both plans means most trading businesses will also buy an order upgrade. Onboarding is a separate one-off fee, from a self-service package to full onboarding, and support plans cost extra. A 14-day trial with all features is available without a credit card.

Linnworks is a London-based commerce operations platform used by online retailers that sell across marketplaces and web stores. In September 2022 it announced the acquisition of SkuVault, a Louisville, Kentucky provider of inventory and warehouse management software; Marlin Equity Partners became majority shareholder of the combined company. At that time Linnworks said it processed more than US$8 billion in gross merchandise value a year, and SkuVault reported over 1,200 retailer customers.

The combined product line is sold as the Linnworks package and as SkuVault Core, the latter available only in North America. Linnworks also sells Linnworks Listing, Linnworks WMS, SkuVault Enhanced Warehouse and a Linnworks Forecasting module. The platform's strength is centralising orders from many channels, routing them to the right stock location and keeping listings and stock counts aligned, which suits sellers whose bottleneck is order throughput rather than purchasing or manufacturing.

Pricing is not published. Linnworks states that plans are priced on monthly order volume rather than revenue, with no percentage fees, that overage applies if a tier is exceeded, that modules are optional, and that onboarding is a one-off fee set by scope. No free trial is mentioned on the pricing page. Buyers with few orders but complex production will find more relevant functionality in Katana, Fishbowl or inFlow Manufacturing.

Odoo is an open-source business suite in which Inventory is one of many applications, alongside Sales, Purchase, Manufacturing and Accounting. Its pricing makes it unusual on this list: under the One App Free plan, a company can run one application, such as Inventory, for unlimited users at no charge on Odoo Online, with required dependency apps also free.

Once a business needs more than one app, the Standard plan (all apps, hosted on Odoo Online) lists €14.90 per user per month against a regular €18.60, and the Custom plan (all apps, with Odoo.sh or on-premise hosting, Studio customisation, multi-company and the external API) lists €27.90 against €33.90; the discount applies for 12 months to the initial users ordered. Odoo's page shows these prices in euros, and installing Studio or adding a second company moves a free database onto the Custom plan. Light user licences are available through an Odoo advisor.

The attraction is that inventory, purchasing, manufacturing and accounting can grow into a full ERP without a data migration. The trade-off is that configuration and customisation often require an Odoo partner, the free plan does not cover accounting or e-commerce alongside inventory, and per-user pricing grows with headcount, unlike Katana's or Fishbowl Advanced's quoted models.

SOS Inventory is a cloud inventory and order management application designed around QuickBooks Online, positioned for small distributors, manufacturers and service companies that have outgrown QuickBooks' own inventory features. Its pricing page lists three plans with published monthly and annual prices.

Companion, the entry plan, includes two users and covers sales orders, assemblies and the QuickBooks integration. Plus, which the vendor labels most popular, adds unlimited locations, serial and lot tracking and barcoding with three users. Pro, with five users, adds job costing, advanced manufacturing and a customer portal. Annual billing is priced as two months free compared with paying monthly.

The limitation is the narrow ecosystem: SOS is most useful to companies already committed to QuickBooks Online, and its feature list is shallower than Fishbowl's or Cin7's on multichannel e-commerce. The pricing page is also inconsistent on extra users, showing US$30 per user per month on the plan cards and US$25 in the FAQ, so buyers should confirm the current rate. A 14-day free trial is offered.

Brightpearl is a retail operations system for omnichannel merchants that combines inventory and order management with the accounting side of retail. It is now part of Sage Group plc. Its focus is on merchants that sell through e-commerce platforms, marketplaces and wholesale and need inventory and financial postings to reconcile automatically.

The vendor does not publish plan names or prices. Its pricing page describes bespoke pricing, includes unlimited users at no extra cost, and bundles expert-led implementation from project scoping to configuration, with training for the whole team and access to an online learning platform. The unlimited-user model differs from per-seat vendors such as Odoo or Unleashed and favours merchants with many warehouse and customer-service staff.

Because pricing is quote-only and implementation is mandatory, Brightpearl is more of a mid-market purchase than a self-service app. Buyers should check that their sales channels and third-party logistics providers are covered by existing connectors, and that Sage ownership aligns with their accounting stack. Smaller sellers usually start with Zoho Inventory, Cin7 Core or inFlow instead.

Ordoro sells three separately priced applications for online merchants: Shipping, Inventory and Dropshipping. That modularity allows a merchant to start with label printing and add inventory control later, which is the main reason it appears here alongside broader inventory systems.

The Inventory app comes in two plans. Advanced includes 1,000 orders a month, unlimited warehouses, sales channels and users, kitting and bundling, automation rules, allocation, warehouse transfers, a QuickBooks Online integration and API access. Premium adds purchase orders, bills of materials, manufacturing orders, stocktakes and a custom forecasting report. Additional orders above the allowance cost US$100 per 1,000.

The Shipping app has a free Essential tier with 100 labels a month, and paid tiers adding automation, batch processing, branded tracking pages and returns management; the Dropshipping app adds order routing to suppliers, with supplier feeds and vendor portals on its quote-only Premium tier. A 15-day trial without a credit card applies to all apps. The documented limitation is that purchase orders and stocktakes sit only in the higher Inventory plan, and Ordoro is oriented to e-commerce rather than B2B distribution or complex manufacturing.

Sortly is a mobile-first inventory tracking application aimed at teams that need to count and locate physical items, such as tools, supplies, equipment and spare parts, rather than run order-to-cash processes. The company says more than 15,000 businesses use it.

The app supports in-app barcode and QR code scanning, works offline from its mobile app, and sends low-stock and date-based alerts. Plans are separated by the number of unique items, user licences and active jobs: a free plan covers 100 items and one user, Advanced covers 500 items and two users, Ultra 2,000 items and five users, Premium 5,000 items and eight users, and Enterprise starts at 10,000 items by quote.

Sortly's published prices include a first-year discount of 50% on new subscriptions, after which yearly plans carry a 20% discount, so the renewal price differs from the advertised one. A 14-day trial on paid plans requires a credit card and converts automatically. Sortly ranks last here because it does not handle sales orders, multichannel stock syncing or production; it is a simpler category of tool. For a maintenance store, contractor or school that needs to know where items are, that simplicity is the point.