inFlow Inventory vs Zoho Inventory

inFlow Inventory

Stock is kept per product and location with transfers and full counts, reorder points and purchase orders, and updated levels pushed to every connected storefront — and the batch side is genuinely deep: lots with expiry dates enforced FEFO, serials, per-lot counts, expiry e-mails and a sales traceability report I could hand a customer mid-recall. It stops short of the top because reordering runs off manually set points rather than documented demand forecasting, and no inventory valuation method or multi-entity ledger appears in the pages we read.

Zoho Inventory

Batches, serial numbers and expiry-date monitoring are documented down to tracing a product to its batch, reorder points trigger low-stock alerts, bundles are calculated from component availability per warehouse, and stock syncs automatically to the connected sales channels. I found no public information on a movement history booked with reason and user, a stated inventory valuation method, or reorder suggestions built from sales history, so I stop short of calling the stock record audit-proof.

inFlow Inventory

Goods receipt against purchase orders with lot numbers and expiry dates at the dock, pick lists sorted to an efficient path through sublocations, and picking allocations that stop two temp workers grabbing the same units, with scanning on any phone, USB scanner or their named rugged Smartphone Scanner. We found no public information on batch, wave or multi-order picking, putaway suggestions, packing verification, or pick and error rates per user and shift — the number I actually run my shifts by.

Zoho Inventory

Barcode scanning is documented for pulling up item details, packing slips print in your preferred format, the pricing page caps bin places per location (2000 at the higher tier, 5000 at the top tier), and reports show shipped in/out volume per warehouse. I found no public information on goods receipt confirmed against a purchase order, scanner-guided picking routes a new hire can follow, batch or wave picking, or pick and error rates per user and shift.

inFlow Inventory

Labels go out through EasyPost and ShipStation for FedEx, UPS, USPS and Purolator, billed straight to our own carrier accounts with rates visible before purchase, shipment e-mails to the customer when the carrier collects, and returns handled in-app with restock, discard, refund or credit. We found no public information on rules that pick the carrier automatically, customs documents beyond a VAT/Tax ID field, branded tracking pages, or a self-service returns portal.

Zoho Inventory

UPS is directly integrated and APC, Aramex, Australia Post, Fastway Couriers, Hong Kong Post, IMEX, PostNL and UPS connect through EasyPost on your own carrier accounts, with real-time rates, labels in your preferred format, and tracking updates flowing to customers and the sales channels. Returns run from authorization through refund with credit notes and per-item return policies. We found no public information on bulk label printing, automatic carrier-selection rules, customs documents, or a self-service returns portal.

inFlow Inventory

We found no public information on pallet, groupage or truckload freight booking, forwarder quotes and tenders, transport documents such as CMR or delivery notes, or emissions reporting. The shipping pages we read cover parcel carriers through EasyPost and ShipStation, with freight appearing only as a cost field option on sales orders.

Zoho Inventory

The only captured fact touching freight is the Crossfire EDI integration that automates order intake and transmission to your 3PL providers. We found no public information on pallet, groupage or truckload bookings, freight quotes or tenders, transport documents, multi-modal shipment tracking, freight cost audit, or CO2 per shipment.

inFlow Inventory

Ninety-plus named connectors including Shopify, Amazon, WooCommerce, Square, QuickBooks, Xero and Zapier, plus a documented REST API that reads and writes and an MCP server for Claude — though the API sits behind a paid add-on and support only escalates API questions to the developers. Leaving is documented but clunky: record-by-record CSV and Excel exports with named exceptions the vendor itself states (manufacture orders, attachments and settings cannot be exported), and after termination a written request can take thirty business days with all fees paid first. We found no public information on webhooks, EDI or documented API rate limits.

Zoho Inventory

Marketplace sync including Amazon FBA is documented in the knowledge base with item mapping plus stock and shipment updates to the channels, EDI runs through the named partner Crossfire, accounting and CRM live in the Zoho suite, and webhooks plus Deluge scripting drive automations. We found no public information on a public API with documentation, rate limits or versioning, or a documented end-of-contract export of orders, stock and shipment history; the privacy policy states only a general right to export service data.

inFlow Inventory

The contracting entity is Archon Systems Inc. of Toronto, and customer data is hosted in Microsoft Azure's North Central US region in Illinois, with many processors based in the US and cookie data transferred to the US — a non-European chain on every link that matters to me. It is at least open about it: EU model clauses and the UK IDTA are cited, SOC 2 is audited annually, a subprocessor list is published at their trust centre, and the customer is named controller of their own data.

Zoho Inventory

The contracting entity is Zoho Corporation Pvt. Ltd. of Chennai with a Dutch contact for data protection matters (Zoho Corporation BV, Utrecht), and the privacy policy states processing in the USA, the EEA and other countries on the basis of standard contractual clauses, with a data processing addendum available on request. Subprocessors are stated to have been assessed but the captured pages name none of them with locations, and certifications are referenced only as unnamed industry standards.

inFlow Inventory

Every inventory tier is public — Lite 79, Core 229, Pro 389, Max 539 EUR per month billed annually — with team sizes from 2 to 20, priced onboarding (399 EUR one-time required, 799 EUR optional onboarding and training, 2299 EUR implementation, 169 EUR/hour extra training) and labels billed directly through our own carrier accounts rather than through inFlow. I still could not price the API and MCP add-on, team members beyond the tiers, the scanner and printer hardware or the VAT treatment, and the captured pages give different figures for refunds: the terms state fees are non-refundable while the pricing page mentions a money-back guarantee.

Zoho Inventory

All five tiers are published with included orders, users, locations and bin places, and the add-ons are priced: users €7.5, locations €10, 500 orders €7.5, advanced automatic scans €8 for 50 scans a month, advanced warehousing €124.17, each per company per month with annual billing, with prices stated as exclusive of local taxes and seven days' notice needed before renewal. Unpriced on the captured pages are the Jumpstart onboarding programmes and the monthly-billing rates for the paid tiers; label costs ride on your own carrier accounts, which the shipping help requires you to hold.