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Merchants highly recommend this app for its effective inventory forecasting and purchase order management, noting significant time savings. They value its extensive features, including demand forecasting, multi-location management, and integration with platforms like Amazon. Advanced functionalities like assembly management and profit analysis are also highlighted. The responsive customer support is frequently praised for enhancing the app's effectiveness in optimizing e-commerce inventory processes.
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The app itself is helpful, but I've never seen slower support.
After our trial phase I wanted to sign up as paying customer and could not log in due to a technical issue being redirected constantly to the "end of trial" phase page.
No replies whatsoever from the support. Not what you expect from such an app.
Hi Maison,
Thank you for your feedback, I'm really pleased you find the app useful and you're looking to migrate from your trial to use the app as a paid-up customer.
Regarding the slow response times, due to your location, you were connected with one of our representatives in the UK. Looking at your conversation history your last message was late in the evening our time so she had finished work for the day. Since then we've reached out a few times, but have heard nothing back. Off the back of this review, my colleague has reached out again, hoping to make contact.
Hopefully we can connect with you as we'd love to welcome you as a customer and see you grow and thrive on Inventory Planner.
Tom (Inventory Planner by Sage)
Inventory Planner is fabulous and is meeting everything I need. It took me a while to get an understanding of the program and was frustrated from time to time in getting it set up however the support team is amazing and has held my hand all the way through delivering a superior customer service. Thank you support team! If you want a good forecasting model and an AI product replenishment tool that is accurate Inventory Planner is it.
Hi there,
Thank you so much for your feedback - we really appreciate it.
It's great to hear that Inventory Planner has all you need and that our Support Team were able to fill in the knowledge gaps you needed. We regularly promote our on-demand training webinars too so watch out for those as they're a great additional way to build on your learning.
Tom (Inventory Planner)
The app is very useful. Dated UI but overall functional. Support and billing, however, is a nightmare.
If you're a new customer signing onto their new pricing model and the setup is correct from the start, you'll likely enjoy the product.
If you have any questions or need assistance with your account, buckle up and get ready to have your patience tested. Repeatedly.
For most customers this will be an important pieces of their tech stack. And once integrated for inventory management, the cost and hassle of switching to another tool means customers are a little locked in. In my experience that lock in risk is not offset with good support times or follow through. Fingers crossed that improves.
Hi there,
Firstly, I'm glad you're finding Inventory Planner useful.
I've spoken to our success team who you have been engaging with regarding migrating your accounts from one to another which I understand, for the most part, we've been able to complete.
There are some remaining issues which we're working with you on, and as a result of which, we're reviewing our processes to make things more straightforward onward for you and our other customers. Whilst not your aim from the outset, we do appreciate your partnership, specifically your candor and feedback which allows us to evaluate the above.
We are committed to doing the right thing, for your business, and beyond.
Thank you,
Tom (Inventory Planner by Sage)
This app has taken my inventory management to a whole new level. What used to be many spreadsheets, complicated hours and hours of work. And a process that could not be delegated easily. Inventory planner has streamlined, simplified, and allowed me to confidently delegate.
I have multiple warehouses, and FBA. I also have tons of variations for each product and this system does it all.
Jill's amazing onboarding and support is a huge bonus and is the best fastest support I have ever received.
Couldn't recommend any higher!
We love to hear how Inventory Planner saves you time and helps your business grow!
THIS APP DOES NOT DO WHAT IT IS DESIGNED TO DO.
The logic this software uses is fundamentally flawed and there doesn't seem to be any fix for this. Once you realize this you will spend days going back and forth with their support chat as they only respond once every 4 hours if your lucky.
If your products have a long lead time (in our case 3 months) and you sell out of inventory during this time and are waiting for new stock to arrive this app will add the lost sales quantities into your next replenishment ON TOP of the units you are forecasted to sell for the month.
If historically you sell 100 units a month and are out of stock for 3 months their calculated replenishment recommendation will tell you that you need to order 400 units for you next order as if you will magically be able to sell 4x your monthly average. This issue is amplified even further when your sales are growing month over month.
At the very least you should be able to disable this functionality, and not add lost sales quantities into the active forecast, but their only solution is to manually edit the forecast for every single item.
Hi there,
Thank you for your feedback, I'm sorry to hear it's not very positive however.
I've taken a look into your conversation history with our Support team and it looks as though what you're looking for does exist, but not in the specific way you're looking to achieve it, I can completely see how frustrating that would be. Nevertheless, we are committed to finding a workable solution for you.
My colleague with whom you were speaking with was digging deeper into your requirements and offered you a call to go over them in more detail (also to reduce the time delay between written updates), however we haven't heard from you since offering that.
We're really keen on helping you with this, so I'm hoping that you get back in touch so we can work this out.
Thank you,
Tom (Inventory Planner by Sage)
Great customer support and awesome app for "retail heavy" companies like ours. Would totally recommend!
Thanks so much for your feedback!
The app works great. Before using it I was just building bases on our average sales for the previous month. Now it's really easy to just look at the report and build the right amount. Since we manufacture it helps to manage our bulk inventory better. So that's the one thing that's missing for us. We need a way to manage the bulk ingredients. If the app integrated with our inventory management app it would be amazing.
One suggestion: I would LOVE if I could export our inventory in a clean layout to share with wholesale customers once a week.
All the catalog-making apps don't include inventory.
All the inventory apps don't look good enough for sales materials.
I think you guys can create a simple easy solution.
Very buggy, overly complicated. Data was not reliable. And support team was totally unhelpful. I've also also hear sketchy sales practices on raising prices drastically once you are on. (As they know it's hard to stop using it once you have migrated all orders, data, etc.)
Hi there,
Thank you for your feedback. I'm sorry to hear that you're experiencing issues with Inventory Planner.
Looking back at our interactions, we last heard from you in August last year at which time our team gave you some forecasting advice which you asked for, but it seems there are other areas we can help you with.
Please get in touch with some specifics and we can get you on the right path.
Thank you,
Tom (Inventory Planner by Sage)
I have been in the retail world for well over 12 years and have used a range of tools, ranging from Microstrategy, Arthur (EP), Moco, etc and can comfortably say that IP is the most user-friendly tool. The functionality of this software will allow you to run a successful small business or large corporations. The team at IP are always available to help and will always try to understand your business needs.
Thank you for your feedback! We always appreciate your input to improve the system, and we're so glad to hear that it fits well with your business needs.