Fishbowl Reviews

I tried Fishbowl because I thought getting to it through the cloud would be straightforward. Since the cloud access is limited, we ended up having to deal with extra setup and remote access tools, which made everything feel more complicated than it needed to be. Support was decent, but because the online options aren’t very flexible, it didn’t really solve the problem for us. For the price, I expected something that worked more smoothly without all the extra hassle

Use Fishbowl with our accounting system, and it gets the job done most days. Syncing invoices and inventory info definitely saves us time, but the setup took longer than we expected and needed quite a bit of help. Sometimes the data doesn’t match right away, so we end up double-checking things manually. Not awful, just not as smooth as we hoped. For us, it’s around 3 stars, useful, but could be easier to work with.

I’m not totally sure what was going on, but it really seemed like supplier orders kept disappearing or not getting processed properly. It happened more than once, so purchasing ended up feeling frustrating

I was hoping there’d be more flexibility to customise things to fit how we work, but it felt restricted. Even small tweaks seemed more difficult than they needed to be, and we kept running into limits. I also had to chase them a couple of times for answers, which got frustrating. It’s probably fine if your setup is straightforward, but not ideal if your workflow needs a bit of adjusting.

I’m feeling mentally drained dealing with this app. It keeps freezing right in the middle of placing orders, and it’s so frustrating having to start over or wait around not knowing if the order went through

I’ve been using the barcode scanner for a bit, mostly while sorting stuff in the back room with a coffee next to me, and it usually works fine. It scans most items without any problem, but every once in a while it just doesn’t pick something up and I have to try again or enter it manually. Not a huge deal, just a little annoying when you’re trying to move quickly.

I was expecting the ordering process to be way smoother, but it felt a bit all over the place. The updates were painfully slow, and I absolutely had to follow up more than once just to know what was going on. To be fair, everything did get sorted in the end, so it wasn’t a disaster, but it definitely wasn’t what I’d call efficient.

The implementation did get done, but it was a bit messier than I expected and took longer than planned. Support was decent enough, but the delays caused some inconvenience on our end. I’d appreciate some kind of compensation or credit for the extra time and hassle

I used the site and, to be fair, the site itself was mostly okay and did what I needed it to do, but the customer support side of things really let the whole experience down for me. It took a long time to get a reply, and it wasn’t just a case of waiting patiently for a bit, I actually had to follow up more than once before anyone got back to me. When they finally did respond, the answer felt kind of generic, almost like it had been copied and pasted from a standard template, and it didn’t really address the specific issue I was asking about. I don’t expect instant replies or anything, and I’m usually reasonable about waiting, but this ended up being more annoying than it needed to be. Overall, I’d say the website is fine, but if you run into a problem and need help, I wouldn’t count on the support being very useful. Because of that, I probably wouldn’t make this my first choice next time.

I didn’t feel like this was worth the money. I kept trying to convince myself it was better than it was, but it just didn’t live up to what I expected. Weirdly, I remember the box had this tiny dent in the corner that looked like a perfect little triangle, which stuck with me more than the actual product. I wouldn’t buy it again.

It does help with basic manufacturing workflow stuff, so I’ll give it that. The setup was clunky though, and it kind of feels like something that works best if your expectations aren’t too high.

It does a decent job handling multiple locations, but the setup just took me a while to get through. Overall it works okay, just not the smoothest experience.

I tried connecting it to our Shopify store, and it’s been a headache. Some orders wouldn’t show up, then others seemed to come through twice, so keeping stock updated every day became... yeah, not great. Support took forever to get back to us and mostly just said it was probably our settings. Maybe there is a fix somewhere, but at this point it’s been really frustrating.

We gave Fishbowl a shot mainly because I needed better lot and serial tracking, i blame myself a bit for thinking it would be smoother than it was. Every time I tried to figure out where a batch ended up, it felt slower than it should’ve been, and the reports never quite matched what I was expecting.
Serial numbers were way too easy for us to mistype, and once something was wrong, fixing it later turned into a whole thing. I probably should’ve caught some of it earlier, but support didn’t really help untangle the mess either. In the end, it just wasn’t worth the stress for our team.

My quick take: it does what it’s supposed to do, but I wouldn’t call it super intuitive. I found myself getting a little confused here and there, so it works, but the overall experience could be smoother...

When we were a smaller team, it worked okay and I didn’t have many complaints. But once we started adding more users and locations, things got messy quickly. It began feeling slow, clunky, and like we had to patch together workarounds for stuff that should’ve scaled more smoothly. Support also didn’t really understand our setup or help much, which was frustrating. After a while, I just lost trust that it could handle where our business was headed. Maybe it’s fine for a small team, but it didn’t keep up with us.

The carrier integration does work once you get everything set up... but it took me a bit to figure out. Some labels synced without any issues, while others needed me to go in and fix them manually. Overall it’s usable, just not the smoothest setup experience.

I kept running into problems with the inventory numbers being off. The system would show we had stock on hand, but when I went to check, the actual count was different. After a while, we ended up double-checking everything manually, which kind of defeated the purpose. It made ordering and picking more confusing than it needed to be, and when we reached out for help, support took too long to get back to us. In the end, it created more work for me than it saved.

I tried managing user permissions and had a full “why is this so complicated?” moment. The settings aren’t very clear, and it’s way too easy for people to end up with access they really shouldn’t have.

The app is fine most of the time, but it definitely feels a bit clunky. Some pages take way too long to load, and the notifications don’t always come through, which makes me nervous I might miss an important update or deal. It’s not a bad app, but I’d feel a lot better using it if it were smoother and more reliable.