Best Inventory Management Software for Small Businesses in 2025

Plans: 

• Free: 50 monthly online orders, one warehouse, one user, and integrate one Shopify store, customer portal, and other ecommerce integrations
• Standard ($39/month): Free plus 500 online orders, two users, customer portal, dropshipping, and composite items
• Professional ($99/month): Standard plus 3,000 online orders, two warehouses, two Shopify stores, serial and batch tracking, plus a vendor portal
• Premium ($159/month): Professional plus 7,500 online orders, three warehouses, up to five Shopify stores, multicurrency handling, automations, barcode generation
• Enterprise ($299/month): Premium plus 15,000 orders, seven warehouses, seven users, and advanced analytics including custom dashboards

Extras: 

• Can add on users, warehouses, orders, and auto-scans as reduced rates
• Can also create custom plans based on the number of users, orders, warehouses, and auto-scans you need
• 20% discount for annual payment

• Vendor portals
• Customer portals
• Advanced reporting and analytics
• Highly-rated mobile app for iPhone (4.7 based on over 612 reviews) and Android (4.8 based on 2,900-plus reviews)
• Composite functions for kitting
• Batch tracking
• Real-time shopping rates
• In-transit and substatus details

Zoho Inventory Dashboard. (Source: Zoho Inventory)

Overall, Zoho is a popular product and generally has very positive reviews from both users and critics alike. Reviews typically average around 4.5 out of 5. Here’s a summary of the reviews across several sites:

• The software is incredibly easy to use, support is responsive and helpful, it’s affordable, and overall the software and uptime are reliable. Users also like the ability to link to other Zoho products.

• Users don’t like that you can’t merge products or reconcile inventory if there are duplicate products, the lack of customization options, and sometimes glitchy integrations.

POS app with inventory:

• Free: Basic inventory with variants and low-stock alerts, POS, free ecommerce site
• Square for Retail Plus ($89 per month, per location): Advanced inventory including kitting, automated purchase orders, COGS tracking, smart stock forecasts
• Square for Restaurants Plus ($60 per month): Auto-86ing and item counts, item-level inventory.
• Online ordering and ecommerce: Free, with upgrades ranging from $12 to $72 per month

All plans include Square Payments as the payment processor. Square has fixed rates ranging from 2.6% + 10 cents per transaction to 3.5% + 15 cents per transaction.

Square also offers other software tools that the rest of the services on our list do not, including team and employee management, payroll, email and SMS marketing, banking, invoicing, and more.

A variety of mobile, handheld, and countertop POS hardware is available.

• Incredibly easy to use
• Strong POS tools
• Kitting and bundling
• Stock transfers between locations
• Unit conversions
• Hundreds of integrations
• COGS reporting
• Access from any computer or mobile device
• Built-in counting tool
• Barcoding and labeling

Note: While Basic Square is available on iOS, Android, and Square devices, Square for Retail, and its corresponding advanced inventory management features, is not currently available on Android.

Square Inventory dashboard. (Source: Square)

Since Square is an all-in-one system, reviews for its inventory features are bundled with reviews for its POS and payment processing tools. However, the overall sentiment is very positive.

• Businesses love how easy Square is to use and say that it is very convenient.

• Lack of live support is a common complaint. Square is also not super customizable, and offers very basic inventory features, especially around reporting and item details.

Plans: 

• Basic ($109/month): Inventory with POS, 24/7 chat support, free training resources
• Core ($179/month): Adds ecommerce and accounting integrations
• Plus ($339/month): Adds loyalty program and advanced reporting tools, plus 24/7 phone support
• Discounts for annual plans

Extras: 

• Card-present transaction fee (for POS sales): 2.6% + 10 cents
• POS hardware available

• Inventory, POS, ecommerce, loyalty, and payments all on one platform
• Hold stock in reserve
• Track partial orders
• Create custom fields for products
• Manage work and special orders
• Create, send, and receive purchase orders
• Built-in wholesale product directory
• Connected wholesale buying platform with visual assortment planning, prebook, and in-season ordering
• Track shrinkage
• Create serial numbers and barcodes
• Create and manage price books
• Barcode scanning app for easy inventory counts and shipment receiving
• Advanced and customizable real-time analytics

Lightspeed Retail Inventory dashboard. (Source: Lightspeed)

Lightspeed Retail has positive reviews overall, averaging about a 4.05 out of 5 rating from experts and users alike. Here are the main trends I noticed:

• Customers like the seamless integration between inventory, POS, and ecommerce; that the purchase ordering tools save time; and how easy the system makes tracking products.

• Some of the biggest complaints about Lightspeed are that the user interface is not intuitive or easy to use (note, these reviews may be referring to an older version of the software), expensive hardware, Bluetooth card readers disconnecting, and slow-to-respond customer support.

• Starter ($199/month): Unlimited users, one location, unlimited items and integrations, 1200 shipped sales order lines
• Standard ($399/month): three locations, 6,000 shipped sales order lines, multicurrency support, barcode scanning
• Professional ($899/month): 10 locations, 18,000 shipped sales order lines, planning and forecasting, warehouse management
• Professional Plus ($1,799/month): Unlimited locations, 40,000 shipped sales order lines, dedicated account manager, priority support
• Discount for annual plans

• Partial manufacturing orders
• Manage product deadlines
• Automate customer processes
• Track raw materials and finished products
• See on-hand, committed, and expected stock levels
• Auto-generate batch and internal barcodes
• Job costing
• Production planning
• Automated workflows

Katana Inventory dashboard. (Source: Katana)

Katana has excellent user reviews, to the tune of 4.54 out of 5 on average. Here are some of the main takeaways:

• Users praise customer support, price, and ease of use. They also like the reliable, native QuickBooks and Shopify integrations. Katana’s new Shop Floor app has been getting good feedback too.

• Users don’t like that you can’t add images to inventory, that it can be difficult to revert mistakes, and that uploads can be slow.

Odoo’s plans run differently from any on this list. You get the Inventory software (or any single Odoo app) free—complete, no strings attached. If you want to add other Odoo apps, like POS, Manufacturing, or CRM, you have to pay for a plan.

• One App (Free): Unlimited users, all features for one application
• Standard ($31.10 per user monthly): All applications: Inventory, Sales, Marketing, Sign, Website, Accounting, CRM, Inventory, HR, Project, POS, Odoo Online
• Custom ($46.80 per user monthly): All apps plus Odoo Online, Odoo.sh (for developing custom applications), Odoo Studio, multicompany use, external API
• Discounts for annual payment

• Automated vendor reminders
• Automated proposed or triggered purchase orders
• Made-to-order
• ABC analysis
• Double-entry inventory system
• Picking optimization (single, cluster, wave, and batch)
• Integrated shipping partners
• Optimized routing
• FIFO, LIFO, average price, and standard price inventory valuation (perpetual or periodical)
• Create and manage put-away rules
• Set and track specific locations within your warehouse, including shelves, aisles, cold storage, pallets, and more

Odoo Inventory dashboard. (Source: Odoo Inventory)

Odoo reviews are overall positive, averaging around 4.16. There are several positive reviews; however, there are also many very negative reviews with similar complaints, so make sure to do thorough research before deciding whether Odoo is right for you.

• Users like how easy to use the software is (once implemented), and say that the interface is very easy to navigate and find the information you need.

• Reviewers say the support is very slow to respond and dependent on a ticketing system. Particularly, those requiring customizations and professional implementation have difficulty getting issues resolved. Also, since Odoo has no integrations with other software like QuickBooks, all software is connected via developer apps, which can be expensive and clunky.

All plans include item imports, custom folders and tags, barcode scanning, real-time updates, in-app alerts, and basic reporting.

Plans: 

• Free: Up to 100 items, one user license, one custom field
• Advanced ($49/month): 500 items, two user licenses, up to five custom fields
• Ultra ($149/month): 2,000 items, five user licenses, up to 10 custom fields
• Premium ($299/month): 5,000 items, eight user licenses, up to 20 custom fields
• Enterprise (Custom pricing): Unlimited items, 12-plus user licenses, unlimited custom fields

The above pricing is based on monthly billing. You can save up to 60% with annual billing.

• Highly rated mobile app
• Barcode scanning, creation, and printing
• Activity logs
• Check-in and check-out
• Asset tracking
• Automated, recurring reports
• Customizable fields
• Deleted data saved for 90 days (easy data recovery)
• Group items by location, condition, customer, or employee

Sortly Inventory dashboard. (Source: Sortly)

Sortly has high user reviews for both its software and mobile app. It currently has a 4.7 out of 5 on the App Store, based on over 8,500 reviews. On Google Play, Sortly has a 3.9 out of 5 based on over 890 reviews. Here are some of the common points across both app and software reviews:

• Overall, users like Sortly’s price point, barcode scanner, and how easy it is to use.

• Some users say that Sortly doesn’t offer good value for what it provides, and some users said that their pricing plans changed unexpectedly after the first year.

Plans:

• Cin7 Core Standard ($349/month): Up to 6,000 sales orders, five users, and two integrations
• Cin7 Core Pro ($599/month): 24,000 sales orders, 10 users, and four integrations
• Cin7 Core Advanced ($999/month): 120,000 orders, 15 users, and six integrations
• Cin7 Omni (Custom): Unlimited orders, eight users, and five integrations

Extras & add-ons:

• 14-day free trial
• POS module
• B2B portal
• Automations
• APIs

• WMS mobile app
• Picking, packing and restock workflows
• Time tracking
• FIFO and FEFO picking
• Kitting and assembly
• Batch and serial tracking
• POS
• Job costing
• Shopify, Amazon, Etsy, eBay, QuickBooks, and more integrations

Cin7 Inventory dashboard. (Source: Cin7)

Cin7 has recently changed and rebranded product offerings, so many existing reviews refer to past versions or products. However, there are some reviews for Cin7 Core—here are the main takeaways:

• Users like the warehouse management tools and easy integrations with ecommerce solutions like Shopify. Users also like the automation options and the clean interface. Previous versions of the software had lots of glitches and downtime, but that seems to have been resolved since the move from Orderhive to Core.

• Overall, reviews around support are mixed. Reviewers also note that there aren’t advanced fulfillment features, and this software is not a full ERP, so if that is what you need, you may want to look at Katana.

MarketMan has three available plans. There is a free interactive demo through a webinar you can sign up for via the website but no free trial is available.

• Operator ($239 per month): 30 invoice scans, POS and accounting software integrations
• Professional ($299 per month): 50 invoice scans, inventory waste tracking, recipe costing, and digital cookbook
• Ultimate ($429 per month): 150 invoice scans, suggestive ordering, two vendor integrations

• Ingredient-level inventory breakdowns
• Easy and automatic updates of invoices and accounts payable
• Automated, granular vendor management
• Maximum food cost threshold
• PO management
• Vendor integrations
• Staff task tracking
• Cookbook and recipe management

MarketMan Inventory dashboard. (Source: MarketMan)

MarketMan is widely appreciated by its users for its intuitive interface, earning an average of 4.60 on various user review sites. While the overall feedback is highly positive, some users have noted specific areas where the system could improve, particularly in terms of invoice processing and reporting customization.

• Users really like how user-friendly MarketMan is and the significant time savings it offers on inventory tasks. The software is great at making month-end inventory and accounting much easier, and its reporting tools are very helpful for both single and multiunit restaurant owners.

• Some users find entering invoices manually a bit of a hassle and setting up the system can take some time. There are also a few requests for more customizable reporting options, especially from larger restaurant groups.

inFlow Inventory has three available plans and each comes with a free trial.

• Entrepreneur ($110 per month/$89 per month billed annually): 2 team members, 1 location, 1 integration
• Small Business ($279 per month/$219 per month billed annually): 5 team members, unlimited locations, 2 integrations
• Midsize ($549 per month/$439 per month billed annually): 10 team members, unlimited locations, 3 integrations

• B2B portal for customizable client showrooms
• Custom pricing tiers for tailored customer rates
• Offline desktop functionality
• Bulk inventory tracking for large-scale operations
• Built-in barcode scanning and labeling tools
• Automated order and reorder management
• Integrations with QuickBooks and major shipping carriers
• Detailed inventory, sales, and customer order reporting

inFlow Inventory B2B Portal. (Source: inFlow Inventory)

inFlow Inventory is highly praised for its user-friendly interface and affordability, earning an average of 4.57 on various user review sites. Many users appreciate its ease of use and how smoothly it scales from small operations to larger businesses. However, some users have noted areas for improvement, such as advanced customization options and integration capabilities.

• Most users highlight its intuitive design, affordability, and seamless scalability as key strengths. It simplifies complex inventory tasks, making it a valuable tool for growing businesses.

• Some users would like to have advanced reporting features and more integrations. A few users also noticed minor bugs such as missing information on stock adjustments.