Cin7 Alternative - $19/mo vs $349/mo (2026 Migration Guide)

Why small teams leave Cin7#

Cin7 Core is a serious inventory and order management system. It covers purchasing, sales orders, warehouse work, bills of materials, batch and expiry tracking, and connections to the big sales channels. For a business running real order volume across several channels, it earns its price.

The price is the first thing a small team runs into. Cin7 publishes three Core plans on its own pricing page:

More users, integrations and order volume are available to buy on top of each plan. Cin7 Omni, the enterprise product, is priced on request.

Three things push small teams to look elsewhere.

The floor is $349 a month. A five-person shop that mostly needs to know what it has and where it is pays for order management depth it never uses.

The plans are measured in sale orders. That fits a business shipping orders every day. A job shop, a facilities team or a rental yard that mostly receives, stores and issues stock is being measured on the wrong thing. What limits them is how many items and locations they have, not how many orders they ship.

Buying it is sales-led. The pricing page leads with "Get a demo", and onboarding comes in group, one-to-one and partner-led versions. That suits a business with an operations lead who can own a rollout. It's a lot of process for a team that wants to be counting stock by Friday.

None of that makes Cin7 bad software. It makes it the wrong size for a lot of businesses, and most of the tools below exist for exactly those businesses.

The nine alternatives at a glance#

Prices change often, and several of these vendors run promotions, so the table leaves them out. Every row was read from the vendor's own pricing page on September 29, 2026. The write-ups say how each one charges.

1. InventoryQuick#

How it charges: flat per plan, $19 to $349 a month or $180 to $3,490 a year. Team members are included in each plan rather than billed per person.

InventoryQuick tracks items, locations, purchase orders, sales orders and stock movements. Barcodes go on items and scan from a phone camera, and any item can carry photos. Stock sits at specific locations, which can nest (a building, then a room, then a shelf), and a transfer between two locations is recorded at both ends. The IQ Assistant is on every paid plan, so you can ask it what is running low or have it draft a purchase order.

Tool and equipment check-in and check-out, with due dates, starts on Pro. Spreadsheet import and CSV export are on every plan. It runs in a browser and as iOS and Android apps.

What it does not do. You'd find these out in an afternoon, so here they are:

• No saved, reusable bills of materials and no production planning. Creating work orders is on Enterprise only.
• No lot, batch, serial or expiry tracking. If you sell food, supplements or anything with a recall process, this is the wrong tool.
• No cycle counts.
• Barcodes go on items, not locations, so you can't scan a shelf.
• Low stock alerts fire on a company-wide total, not per location.
• QuickBooks connects but doesn't sync. The integrations that send data out are Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zapier and webhooks, from Pro up.

Best for: a shop that wants items, locations and purchase orders working this week, and knows it isn't buying a manufacturing system.

2. Zoho Inventory#

How it charges: per organization, not per user. Each plan caps monthly orders, users and locations. The entry Standard plan allows 500 orders a month, 3 users and 2 locations, and the higher plans raise all three.

Zoho Inventory is one product in the Zoho family, next to Zoho Books and Zoho CRM. If your business already runs on Zoho, that's the main reason to pick it: the pieces are designed to work together. The pricing page also lists integrations including Amazon, eBay, QuickBooks Online and Xero.

It's built around orders. Composite items (kits made from other items), dropshipping, backorders and a customer portal are on the Standard plan. Serial number and batch tracking start on Premium. The pricing page lists no production planning, so a business that manufactures would be leaning on composite items to cover it.

The order cap is the thing to check. A business with modest order counts and a large catalogue fits well. A business whose order volume swings with the season should look at where the cap sits on each plan before committing.

Best for: order-driven sellers who already use other Zoho apps.

3. Sortly#

How it charges: by the number of unique items and user licenses. There's a free plan with 100 items and 1 user. The first paid plan, Advanced, covers 500 items and 2 users, and Ultra covers 2,000 items and 5 users.

Sortly is built for tracking physical things rather than running orders. Its pricing page leads with items, user licenses, active jobs and QR code label creation. That fits teams who mostly need to know what they have and where it is.

It doesn't try to be a manufacturing or order system. The pricing page lists no bills of materials, no production, and no lot or batch tracking. Someone leaving Cin7 for its order management will find very little of it here. Someone leaving Cin7 because they never used the order side may find Sortly is closer to what they actually do.

Watch the item count. The limits are on unique items, and a catalogue that grows past a plan's cap means moving up a plan. Sortly was also running a discount on yearly plans when we read the page, so the price you see may be a promotion.

Best for: teams tracking physical items with QR labels, not selling through sales channels.

4. Katana#

How it charges: a Core plan with no per-user fees, plus add-ons. There's a free plan capped at 30 SKUs with unlimited users, locations and integrations. Manufacturing management, traceability, warehouse management and planning and forecasting are each sold as add-ons.

Katana is the closest thing on this list to a like-for-like Cin7 replacement for a business that makes things. Its manufacturing add-on plans each step of production and tracks what it costs. The traceability add-on assigns batch or lot numbers to purchased and manufactured items and adds expiry dates. Barcode scanning is included, and integrations include Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, QuickBooks Online and Xero.

Unlimited users is a real difference. A shop floor where eight people need to record production would pay for seats on Cin7 and on several other tools here. On Katana it doesn't matter.

The add-on model cuts both ways. You pay only for what you use, but a manufacturer who needs production and traceability is buying the Core plan plus two add-ons, so compare the total rather than the headline.

Best for: manufacturers with real production steps who want everyone on the floor in the system.

5. inFlow#

How it charges: by plan, with team members and locations included and more available on higher plans. The entry Lite plan includes 2 team members and 1 location, and Core includes 5 team members and 5 locations. Annual billing is cheaper than monthly, and each plan comes with a hardware credit.

inFlow covers a lot of ground: purchasing and receiving, sales and invoicing, barcoding, reporting and a mobile app. Manufacturing is an optional package you add to any plan, covering bills of materials, assembly steps, and labor and material costs. Lot numbers, serial numbers and a B2B showroom are also add-ons.

That makes inFlow a good fit for a business that might need manufacturing later but doesn't want to pay for it now. You start on inventory and turn manufacturing on when you need it.

The thing to check is the location count. Lite covers one location with no sublocations, so a business with a second warehouse or a van is on Core from day one.

Best for: established small businesses that want an all-in-one with manufacturing as an option.

6. Unleashed#

How it charges: by plan, with a set number of user licenses and monthly sales orders, and more of each available to buy. The first plan includes 3 user licenses and 100 sales orders a month.

Unleashed competes with Cin7 more directly than anything else here. Its production module manages bills of materials, assembly and disassembly, and its pricing page lists batch tracking with expiry dates and serial number tracking. It's aimed at manufacturers and wholesalers who need accurate costing across several departments.

The pricing page sells implementation, onboarding and support packages alongside the software, so budget for help getting started.

The sales order allowance deserves a look. A hundred sales orders a month is fine for a wholesaler with a few large customers and tight for a business shipping many small orders. Upgrades are available, and they change the price.

Best for: manufacturers and wholesalers with several departments who want Cin7's depth from a different vendor.

7. Qoblex#

How it charges: by plan, sized by revenue and order volume. The Starter plan is for businesses under $200K in gross merchandise volume and covers up to 2,000 orders a year, 2 users and 2 warehouse locations. Business removes the user and location caps, and Scale is priced on request.

Qoblex is aimed at small product brands. The pricing page lists manufacturing, order management, returns and advanced purchase orders. Lot, serial and expiry date tracking, with traceability reports, is an add-on on Starter and Business. API access and the mobile apps are add-ons on those two plans and included on Scale.

The lot and expiry add-on is the reason to look at Qoblex. A small food or cosmetics brand that needs recall-ready traceability can get it without buying an enterprise system.

Onboarding is priced separately, so budget for it if you want help setting up.

Best for: small brands that need lot, serial and expiry tracking.

8. Finale Inventory#

How it charges: by plan, with published starting prices. Essentials is pitched at one or two warehouses, and Growth is the next step up. The pricing page describes capacity up to 300 users, but doesn't state how many users each plan includes. Finale is now part of Descartes.

Finale is built for ecommerce businesses running several warehouses. The pricing page lists stock audits, cycle counts, lot ID and serial number tracking, returns, kitting and bundling, alias SKUs and wave picking, plus more than 40 integrations including Shopify, Amazon, Walmart and QuickBooks.

Kitting and bundling cover a lot of what an ecommerce brand needs, but the pricing page doesn't list production planning.

The tradeoff is weight. Finale suits a business moving real volume through more than one warehouse. A small team with one stockroom and simple needs will be paying for picking and warehouse features it doesn't use.

Best for: multi-warehouse ecommerce at volume.

9. Ordoro#

How it charges: separate apps for shipping, inventory and dropshipping. Shipping starts free. The inventory plans come in two tiers, Advanced and Premium, each with unlimited users, warehouses and sales channels and 1,000 orders a month included, with a charge for each further block of 1,000.

Ordoro is shipping-first. Its pricing page leads with the shipping app, which includes labels on your own carrier accounts, and inventory and dropshipping are separate apps on top. The inventory app adds kitting and bundling, warehouse transfers, a QuickBooks Online integration and automation rules. Purchase orders, bills of materials, manufacturing orders, stocktakes and a forecasting report are on Premium.

That split matters. A business that needs purchase orders is on Premium, not Advanced.

Best for: multi-channel sellers who need shipping first and inventory second.

How to choose#

Four questions sort most businesses into the right part of the table.

Do you make things? If you turn raw materials into finished goods from a recipe you repeat, you need bills of materials. Look at Katana, Unleashed, Qoblex, inFlow's manufacturing package, Ordoro's Premium plan or Cin7 itself. InventoryQuick and Sortly don't do manufacturing, and saying otherwise would waste your week.

Do you need to trace a lot or batch? Food, supplements, cosmetics and anything with a recall process need lot or batch tracking with expiry dates. Unleashed and Finale list it on their plans, Katana, inFlow and Qoblex sell it as an add-on, and Zoho Inventory has it from Premium up. InventoryQuick doesn't track lots, batches or serial numbers.

What are you measured on? If most of your revenue flows through sales channels, pick a tool that is priced around orders (Zoho Inventory, Ordoro, Finale or Cin7) and check where each plan caps them. If you mostly receive, store and issue stock, order caps are the wrong measure. Item and location limits are what you'll hit first.

How many people need access? Seats are the cost people forget. inFlow and Unleashed include a set number and charge for more. Katana and Ordoro's inventory plans include unlimited users. InventoryQuick includes 2 to 15 team members depending on the plan, and unlimited on Enterprise.

Once you have a shortlist of two, test them on your own data rather than a demo. Import your real item list, receive a purchase order, move stock between two locations and find something by scanning it. An afternoon of that tells you more than a comparison page can, this one included.

When Cin7 is the right answer#

There are good reasons to stay with Cin7, and it's better to know them before you move.

1. You need real manufacturing. Cin7 Core includes bills of materials, assembly and kits, with material requirements planning available. If production planning is a daily tool for you, keep it or move to Katana or Unleashed. Don't move to InventoryQuick, which has no bills of materials at all.
2. You need lot, batch or expiry traceability. Cin7 lists batch and expiration tracking. InventoryQuick has no lot or serial tracking, so on this point it loses outright.
3. You run EDI or work with a 3PL. Cin7 lists EDI and 3PL connections through its API and partners. Most of the lighter tools here don't.
4. You're past roughly 5,000 items or 15 people. InventoryQuick's Business plan ends there. Past that is Enterprise at $349 a month, the same as Cin7 Standard, and at that size you should compare the two feature by feature rather than on price.

How to move off Cin7 without losing a day#

Most of the work is getting your item list out cleanly.

1. Export from Cin7. Cin7's help center describes the path: select Inventory from the main menu, then Products, click Export, then Stock on hand. That downloads a CSV of every product in your inventory.
2. Start a trial. Every InventoryQuick plan has a 7-day trial. The web signup takes a card, and nothing is charged if you cancel before day 8.
3. Import the file. The importer recognizes Cin7's Stock on hand and Available columns and reads them as quantity. If your file has a location column, each row's quantity lands at that location.
4. Check a sample. Pick 10 to 20 items, including a few that sit in more than one place, and compare them against Cin7.
5. Run both for a week. Keep Cin7 live while your team does real receiving and issuing in the new system.
6. Cancel Cin7 once the numbers agree.

A stock on hand export carries your products and their quantities. It doesn't carry open purchase orders, order history or batch records, so plan for those separately. The simplest approach is to let open purchase orders finish in Cin7 during the parallel week, start new ones in InventoryQuick, and keep an export of your history before you cancel. If you relied on Cin7's batch or expiry tracking, reread the section above before you move, because InventoryQuick won't carry that forward.

Expect the item list to take the most time. Duplicate SKUs, old items nobody has touched in a year and locations that exist in name only all come across if they're in the file. Cleaning the CSV before you import it is faster than cleaning the new system after.

How this page was made#

Every price on this page was read from the vendor's own pricing page on September 29, 2026, and nowhere else. We only quote prices for Cin7 and for ourselves, because prices change often and several of these vendors run promotions. Where a vendor doesn't publish something, such as how many users each Finale plan includes, this page says so rather than guessing. We make InventoryQuick, which puts us first in the list. The "What it does not do" section is there so you can judge that for yourself.

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