DEAR Inventory Review - why 4.4 stars?

Shlomi Lavi / updated: May 18, 2022

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What is DEAR Inventory?

DEAR Inventory is a cloud-based inventory and order management that offers complete back-end management. DEAR Inventory aims at helping the small business as well as medium business to streamline and simplify the daily operations by automating inventory and order management.

This solution also works well for e-commerce as it can be integrated with Quickbooks Online and Xero. DEAR Inventory organizes invoices, suppliers, customers, sales leads, purchase orders, as well as estimates.

With the inventory management feature, a user is able to check stock levels I real time and be notified on low inventory. DEAR Inventory is a product of DEAR systems, which is an Australian based company that was founded in 2012.

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Who is it best for?

The typical customers include the following business size: Small businesses and start ups.

What is the actual cost?

DEAR Inventory offers three license pricing options: Standard, Manufacturing, and Retailing.

• Standard starts at $325 per month billed monthly, and $3,575 billed yearly.
• Manufacturing starts at $525 per month, billed monthly, and $5,775 billed yearly.
• Retailing starts at $445 per month billed monthly and $4,895 billed monthly.

Standard comes with features such as multi-channel order management, All core operations features, Warehouse mobile application, Advanced multi-location inventory, Comprehensive reporting, Inventory Management, etc. Manufacturing comes with all the features in the Standard plan plus an Advanced manufacturing module, Capacity and scheduling tools, Workflow and approval automation, Shopfloor/operators mobile app, etc. Retailing comes with features such as Unlimited locations and registers, Unlimited POS users, Advanced multi-location inventory, Workflow & approval automation, Returns management (beta), etc.

ITQlick pricing score is 3 out of 10 (10 is most expensive). Access ITQlick pricing guide for DEAR Inventory. You can also find here pricing information from DEAR Inventory's website.

Pros

• DEAR Inventory offers a nice layout and is feature-rich
• Users can customize reports
• The software aids in the management of inventory and sales/purchase process for various channels

Cons

• Users complain that there is not enough business intelligence information

How it stacks up?

Access a head to head analysis of DEAR Inventory vs alternative software solutions.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Is DEAR Inventory right for you or your business?

Inventory managers looking for an inventory and order management tool for SMBs that includes purchasing, sales, warehouse management, light manufacturing functions, as well as shipping, eCommerce, and payment gateway connectors would like DEAR Inventory.