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CNET Editors' review
Turning your passion into a small business is a very difficult task. But staying on top of the paperwork might just kill you. Fortunately, inFlow Inventory Software offers users an opportunity to organize every aspect of their business.
This freeware program has a clean interface that may be intuitive for people familiar with other inventory software programs. However, if you are not, there is an excellent training video and sample setup waiting to guide you through the program. inFlow is dominated by four major tabs for organizing a business. Sales, Purchasing, Inventory, and Reports each offer an interconnected way to stay on top.
By drawing information on customers, warehouse stock, pending orders, sales, and more, these tabs sync up nicely with a wealth of options that are certain to be useful for most small business managers. From providing customers quotes, looking at warehouse stock, and running reports on last month's sales, we were thoroughly impressed with this program's array of options and how simple they were to navigate.
inFlow's many options may not find use in every type of business, but this versatile program can be tailored to nearly any small business. We highly recommend this download for its ease of use, numerous options and free download.
Publisher's Description
From Archon Systems:
inFlow inventory is a completely free inventory management program with no limited time trial and support included even in the free edition - we are always here for you. There is no limit on the number of computers it may be installed on and multiple computers can be connected for read-only access. inFlow was designed for small to mid-sized businesses looking for a simple, easy to learn and use solution to completely manage their inventory from purchasing to sales. At the same time, inFlow offers powerful features and reporting which would be expected in a complete inventory software solution.
Over 350 000 people in 65 countries have installed inFlow, using it in a variety of industries including retail, wholesale, manufacturing, and e-commerce. inFlow grows with your business with the free edition enabling you to save 100 products and customers. In addition to keeping track of inventory, inFlow generates reports, purchase orders, sales orders, work orders, sales quotes, invoices and shipping docs. All documents can easily be previewed, printed or saved to a PDF file for simple sending to vendors or customers. The software also supports barcode integration, multiple locations, returns, multiple currencies and taxing schemes, unit converting, multi-level pricing, and custom fields. With inFlow, your data is always yours and you can easily import and export though industry standard CSV. Backing up and restoring your data is just as simple making one click from the main menu. You can even set inFlow to automatically backup your entire database at regular intervals set by you. inFlow allows you to be professional with the ability to easily produce sophisticated business documents. You can also fulfill customer and vendor inquires more accurately and efficiently as all your data is stored in one location. You will stay knowledgeable using a dashboard that shows your important business info at a glance. Instantly see outstanding orders, a top 5 list and a customizable graph of cash flow, sales, profits and costs. You can export your reports to a PDF or Excel file for easy sharing. Improve your productivity by letting inFlow do your paperwork for you. inFlow will even suggest products to reorder and the auto-fill button means you are only one click away from being done. Above all else, inFlow inventory offers the peace and satisfaction of knowing your business is under control and flowing smoothly.
What's new in this version: Version 2.5.1:
- Accept multiple payments for a single order
- New keyboard shortcuts
- Full Windows 8 (and prior) compatibility
- New toolbar on purchase and sales order tables lets you insert, delete, and rearrange lines easier than before
- You can now sort line items by alphabetical order in purchase and sales orders
- New historical inventory report gives you the quantity and total cost for your inventory as of a specific date ... See all new features
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"Very user friendly across different nationalities."
Version: inFlow Inventory Free Edition 2.5.1
Pros
I downloaded the free version a few days ago and have been playing around in it to see how easily it could be used by a non-English mother tongue user. Now have the Regular Edition. It seems very intuitive using clear English, well designed icons and familiar keystrokes. My staff in Bangladesh will now work with the free version for a while and I'll upgrade it later in the year.
Cons
Not found any yet in these few days but will update if necessary.
Summary
Thank you for a very clear and intuitive user experience. There are many small businesses in developing countries I'll recommend it to.
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"The best software I found so far"
Version: inFlow Inventory Free Edition 2.5.1
Pros
Comparing 3 softwares and found out this one is the best. It is quite surprising since I did not expect the free software to be this good. The linkage of inventory with Sales and Purchase is wonderful. The basic setting is very easy and it is easy to understand the logic as well. So far it is the best I found for small business. I am trying the 30-day trial now.
Cons
The custom documents (custom Sales Order, custom Invoice, etc) are difficult to create. I even tried to just copy (without changes) from the template and upload again as my custom document but it fails (error when I try to print preview from Sales Order). Should provide easier way to do it since the existing template does not fill my requirement.
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Excellent and easy to use software with a little custom documents improvement needed.
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