Acctivate Inventory Review - why 4.2 stars?

Shlomi Lavi / updated: May 25, 2022

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What is Acctivate Inventory?

Acctivate is a powerful, easy to use and affordable inventory software for distributors and online retailers that solves growing pains at a fraction of the cost of an ERP system.

Businesses gain optimized, real-time inventory control, purchasing, order fulfillment, customer management, and business analytics, all in one system with seamless integration to QuickBooks. Operations are accelerated from customer service to the warehouse and key insights enable strategic decision-making.

Acctivate replaces manual, error-prone methods like spreadsheets and helps remedy virtually any business and industry specific challenge.

Who is it best for?

Acctivate addresses growing small to mid-sized businesses and is a cross-industry product which is suitable for a variety of sectors including food & beverage, industrial supplies & equipment, automotive parts, medical equipment & supplies, consumer goods, and many more. The solution is available to operate on-premise as well as hosted in the cloud.

Acctivate is best for companies looking for an inventory solution with the power, flexibility and scalability to grow with their business, as well as easily integrate to their QuickBooks Desktop accounting package.

It allows companies to manage inventory and distribution activities, improve productivity & planning, protect inventory investments while focusing on customer satisfaction and on time delivery.

Main features and functionalities

Acctivate offers an integrated inventory solution that helps companies improve and manage all phases of business including inventory control, warehouse management, order fulfillment, purchasing, sales and customers in one unified solution.

The software includes advanced inventory management functionality as needed for specific business requirements, i.e. lot & serial number traceability, support for kits and assemblies with multi-level bill of materials, and multiple warehouse and location control. Additionally, there is consignment & vendor managed inventory control, fully integrated picking & shipment tracking, and support for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

Acctivate offers eCommerce integration for web stores, integrating with platforms such as Magento, Amazon and eBay with multi-channel order management and Business to Business (B2B) and Business to Customer (B2C) support.

There is a service management module for scheduling, tracking & billing of service activities for both field service and professional services management. Customer management is also provided for sales force automation and customer service & support designed for an SME’s operations.

Additionally, there is a full suite of analytics & forecasting tools with business alerts & dashboards for performance and operations monitoring, as well as standard & customized reporting through Crystal Reports. Finally, Acctivate provides a Mobile Warehouse Management Software that benefits customers through less data entry, real-time updates and greater operational efficiency.

What is the actual cost?

The cost of license starts at $7,995 per license. ITQlick pricing score is 5.2 out of 10 (10 is most expensive). Access ITQlick pricing guide for Acctivate Inventory. You can also find here pricing information from Acctivate Inventory's website.

Pros

• Acctivate offers a free trial for prospects, which requires no credit card or software to install.
• Integrates with popular accounting software, QuickBooks easily to not have to fully replace the accounting side.
• The product provides integration to ecommerce platforms for web store functionality
• Acctivate is designed as a modular product so customers can utilize only the components they wish to use
• There is a full suite of Business Intelligence tools available as part of the solution for detailed analytics and reporting.

Cons

• Acctivate’s inventory product is specifically designed to integrate to one financial package
• The product is only focused on the SME market.
• Acctivate does not offer customer driven product customization as part of its solution
• There is no support for social collaboration features in Acctivate
• The solutions is provided as a full feature model with no option to license a lower feature package if the customer so requires.

How it stacks up?

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