Inventory Source , 215 recensioner

good app, saves time money and effort

Love this app, pricing not so much for start up businesses but I think it's a matter of finding one wholesaler that has all the products needed.

Beware of Inventory Source. They do not deserve one star. They do not deserve to be on Shopify. They have had a technical issue for the last 5 months we have tried utilizing this app. They will edit your store products even if a item isnt out of stock. They once added 16,000 products on our website by mistake and gave us a month free. Since then they have edited our Featured Items list without permission and have told us each month that it's a technical issue. They have been unable to fix the technical issue in 5 months and it keeps reoccuring and we keep having to spend time fixing our site. A shopify guru told us that we are are not not the only Shopify store that this has happened to and that it has been noted as a reoccuring problem for other stores in Shopify. That being said Inventory Source cant get it together. So beware, you may have to spend hours fixing what they change on your website because they cannot figure out the technical issue. At least they gave us a month free-once....And seems that Shopify has their hands tied up and can only do so much, which is making sure that Inventory Source will respond in a timely manner. So be careful and beware of Inventory Source.

They were and are the perfect addition to our business as we have relatively good brand recognition and natural following on social media. However, bringing the extra lines from various sources was what our business needed. They have great customer support and acumen in all areas!

Highly recommend them on all levels!

Overall a nice app. Product feed is clean and easy to manage. Except for some product that we know are on the distributors website. But are not in the API stream. But we also haven't requested those individual item which probably could be reworked in. Only true downfall is their are many products with multiple pictures and video and you only get 1 picture. That would be a great improvement. Wish they had better clothing options the. Would open another site for fashion.

I've been using Inventory Source for a few months and it works really well for my Shopify feed. It syncs/updates a few times per day and I've yet to have an issue with an out-of-stock item. My only issues are the lack of customer service on the weekends (when a lot of us new part-time e-commerce retailers are setting up and working on these type things) and the occasional lack of relaying information in a way easily understood to someone who does not have the same technical knowledge/vocabulary as the Inventory Source reps.

Excellent customer service and many suppliers. You feel the backup of a serious company and his employees.

Great App. Highly Recommended!

Addition to my initial review below:
IS contacted me and refunded me for my troubles. I think this was very honorable. I believe they will do the right thing, it just takes a long time, and it takes getting in touch with the developer. I think they were honest with the outcome, just expect up to a week to get your issue handled.

Original Review.

No I would not use it again. It was great to get products on there quickly. But they did not update inventory daily as promised. Tickets sometimes took 4 days to answer. The IT department would not take responsibility for uploading products (a supervisor later did take responsibility in a kind way), I had spent 2 hours deleting, after canceling my account the day before. The errors cost me about 4 hours of work in corrections. I do believe they would have eventually corrected it, but it was urgent so I was not banned from Google Shopping.

This could be a fantastic and invaluable app for sellers looking to resolve stock sync from a supplier to their Shopify store. There is a little bit of a learning curve with the app but once you figure it out it's fairly easy. The filter and update feature within the dashboard is too limited making editing more difficult and time-consuming than it should be.

The problem is - and it's a big problem - that the sync provided by Inventory Source is missing half of the data you need to actually make your store work! Once you start to analyze the data most of it is actually not complete and authentic from the supplier, but is poorly parsed with so many errors you can't fully use it.

For example:

- The feed data doesn't contain all description tags from the supplier meaning you don't have the product descriptions that are vital to sell most products. If you have hundreds or even thousands of products, this becomes a big problem and you can't add the descriptions that really should come with the sync.
- Inventory Source doesn't provide sync of variables from the suppliers data such as size options, volume, colors, etc. Products with multiple options end up all over the place in separated listings. It becomes a headache and pretty impossible trying to organize this mess into Collections and search filters.
- Some of the synced data is outdated and did not match the suppliers data. Some prices did not reflect the actual product price.
- Synced stock availability was not always accurate.
- The sync didn't come with the UPC/EAN codes meaning you cannot sell the products on other platforms, like eBay or Amazon, etc., where these codes are a must before you can list anything.

Over-Priced

If you want to sync supplier stock data without ability to automate the order processing they charge $50 a month which is excessive.

For Full Automation (Auto-Order processing, Sync Shipment Tracking to Sales Channels) Inventory Source charges an over-priced $150 per month with a limit of only 250 orders per month for 1 supplier.

You can get a more comprehensive feed with unlimited products, UPC codes included, and automated order processing (which Inventory Source charge $150 p.m.) for only $20 per month from other suppliers.

In other words, the most vital features are missing to even make it useful. What exactly am I paying for then? And forget about refunds... they won't refund you anything. I wasted two months on setting up my store plus their fees due to this poor quality third-party parsed sync. I have to start from scratch.

Had the sync been of much better quality and not faulty and missing so many vital details, this could be a "must-have" app for Shopify.