BoxHero: Inventory Management

We recently switched from Sortly to BoxHero and couldn’t be happier. After dealing with increasing costs and unexpected fees, it was refreshing to find a platform with straightforward pricing and all the features we actually need. BoxHero is easy to use, reliable, and made the transition simple for our team. If you’re looking for an inventory management system that offers great value without the surprises, I highly recommend BoxHero above all other alternatives.

I found this app by chance about a year ago. I loved how it has a bunch of different features in the free side. I am just starting out with my little business and am crunched for startup dollars. I have to pinch my pennies every way possible. Box Hero has been a great resource for me to keep track of my incoming and outgoing inventory, sales, and customers. The app allows their free users to make different types of subheadings under the inventory item and keep track of the things that matter the most to each individual user. I am a reseller and have to keep track of my sources, the dates I sourced, the price I sourced it at, the listing price, the sold price and I can even go in and make adjustments for the “reduced price” if I’ve marked an item down since its initial entry. It also allows you to add different locations if you have more than one, and add other team members who will be using it as well. Yes, that’s right all that..AND what prompted me to get around to writing the review is there are many new features that have been added to both the free and paid subscription offerings. You can send your lists out to excel, create barcodes and print them, I’m telling you that if you are like me and are just starting out and need to keep track of your inventory and sales, this is the app for you! I haven’t even tried the paid subscription service but I can only imagine that it is 10X more than the free side. I would have given this app 10 stars if it were an option! It has an in-app user manual that gives you explicit instructions on how to use it and a direct link to email customer support should you have any questions or problems. It is a new business entrepreneur’s dream inventory keeper! It really is a HERO to your boxes full of inventory! As a small business owner I can say with confidence that you will love the simplicity, the accuracy it provides and the quality of service it offers. You don’t see much of that with other free sides of applications like this one!

In most basic functions of stocking in and stocking out, this app does well at an affordable price. But it is unable to create purchase orders based on low quantities, you are unable to have zero be a minimum quantity for a part - otherwise you won’t be notified when the part is out of stock, you are unable to track inventory efficiently per location, and you can’t set min/max’s for any location except your main location. And the min/max is for the part itself, so if your minimum is 3 and you have none available in your main warehouse, but a secondary location has 5 of those parts, it doesn’t notify you that one or any of your locations is running low. For a single warehouse, you are able to use this and be just fine. If you have multiple locations (like tech trucks) this app will mess up your numbers.