Cin7 Core

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Inventory management software for SMBs

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Value for Money
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Ease of Use
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Christopher
Christopher
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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Dear systems deliver what if promises

Reviewed on 02/02/2022

We've been using it live for one month and so far the transition has been relatively smooth.

We've been using it live for one month and so far the transition has been relatively smooth.

Pros

Comprehensive ERP features that are built with the workflow and accounting in mind. Excellent interface with Xero. Very customizable, but in an easy to understand fashion.

Cons

For those switching from other platforms, it could use better historical data import functionality. In particular outstanding orders. We had about 200 open orders when we made the switch, and had to enter them manually as Dear's import features could not handle our workflow.

Alternatives Considered

Cin7 Omni and NetSuite

Reasons for Choosing Cin7 Core

Lightspeed retail has no ability to handle sales tax based on "ship to" address and has not integration with Avalara. In discussing with Lightspeed they seem unaware that this functionality is needed. Also, you can only integrate with one ecom site and inventory management was glitching with the inventory levels frequently wrong.

Reasons for Switching to Cin7 Core

Overall value for money, plus the focus on accounting was a strong selling point.
Mia
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  • Industry: Glass, Ceramics & Concrete
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Great support for training and set up

Reviewed on 04/07/2023

My CIN 7 experience so far has been great, apart from that I couldn't get urgent support from the...

My CIN 7 experience so far has been great, apart from that I couldn't get urgent support from the daily support team after the training project is closed. Being a new user, this is essential, as even I have been trained, to be able fully function, further support is needed in a timely manner.

Pros

[sensitive content hidden] has provided great helping through training sessions and initial set up of the system to make my job easier, she has gone above and beyond which makes me feel that Cin 7 Core is a system I can easily recommend to other people from this prospective.

Cons

0Customer support from CIN 7 Support Team (after system set up), the turnaround to get back to me and the response is not user friendly for new users, all new users would be experiencing a lot of questions and issue at the very beginning start using the system, and the problem I experience actually stop my office functioning, to book a call online for a few days in advance doesn't work to this situation at all.

Julian
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  • Industry: Sporting Goods
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

Disappointment: Steer Clear of CIN7

Reviewed on 17/06/2024

Ever since CIN7 took over DEAR Systems, the shift in focus from quality service to maximizing...

Ever since CIN7 took over DEAR Systems, the shift in focus from quality service to maximizing profits has been blatantly obvious. The deterioration in service is both rapid and frustrating.

Pros

Their customer support exists, which is something. They do respond to inquiries, albeit not always in the most helpful manner.

If you’re looking for inventory management software and are okay with navigating a complex pricing structure, CIN7 might be worth considering. There are definitely options out there, but this is one of them.

Cons

Their pricing is chaotic, filled with charges for unnecessary features, and the account closure process is ridiculously cumbersome, demanding a 30-day notice. It's evident they’ve designed it this way to continue extracting money from their users.

Customer support is practically non-existent. They show no willingness to assist. In all honesty, this company and its software are a waste of your resources. There are much better alternatives available. Stay away at all costs.

Jeffrey
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  • Industry: Motion Pictures & Film
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10

Buggy software with lots of issues and poor customer support

Reviewed on 02/10/2024

We have used DEAR / Cin7 for 7 years now. Up until recently any bugs or issues that popped up would...

We have used DEAR / Cin7 for 7 years now. Up until recently any bugs or issues that popped up would get resolved in a somewhat timely manner however now that has changed. They are focusing on rolling out new product features that are great for marketing while sacrificing having a system that actually just works.
Do not onboard your company onto this software, you will regret it, as it seems the company who acquired DEAR has no intention of fixing the buggy nature of DEAR and just wants to try and focus on selling more subscriptions.

Pros

Cin7 is constantly improving the software.

Cons

They sacrifice reliability, stability and fixing bugs for improvements that they can market as a new features.

Philip
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  • Industry: Wholesale
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Cin7 Excellent Inventory Management

Reviewed on 11/07/2023

Very easy to setup and use and excellent support when needed

Very easy to setup and use and excellent support when needed

Pros

Ease of use and almost instant access to support when required

Cons

No mobile app - it’s not easy to use the system in a browser on a phone

Alternatives Considered

MYOB Acumatica

Reasons for Switching to Cin7 Core

Value for money. But in hindsight, it’s also much easier to use, updates are reliable and it just works. Plus the support is first class. It’s what I’d expect from a cloud based system.
Paul
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  • Industry: Consumer Electronics
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 1.0 /10

Missing parts you think would be included - on initial sale promised 2 features & did not...

Reviewed on 26/06/2023

Promised a lot at the initial sales onboarding and specifically some items were not correctly...

Promised a lot at the initial sales onboarding and specifically some items were not correctly allowed for. As such all new users will then need to add the $$$ add-ons with Cin7 which quickly diminishes the value of this software. Cin7 admits the failure and the requirement for add ons but would not offer a satisfactory outcome due to their mistake

Pros

Great cloud-based inventory and sales software

Cons

Some features that you would have thought every other customer would want to have are missing, the Portal is a total waste - and independent Cin7 voiced "They have lost the battle on the B2B portal" Don't expect this to work as anticipated and look to deploy another type

Alternatives Considered

Unleashed

Reasons for Choosing Cin7 Core

We had to progress from site software to the cloud based software

Reasons for Switching to Cin7 Core

It was to have integration with many other software packages - without the need for $2000 extra a year
Cassie
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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

A Powerful Tool for Managing My eCommerce Apparel Business

Reviewed on 12/04/2023

Pros

Orderhive does what I need it to do, and more. Selling print-on-demand apparel on multiple platforms requires software that can bundle raw materials with final products and push out inventory updates in real time to multiple marketplaces and sales channels. Orderhive does this, plus it is a central location for order management, shipping, and reporting.

Cons

The process for switching over my inventory system from my previous provider has been long, but it is a one-time task and I know it is necessary no matter which software solution I transition to. Thankfully, Atulya, my onboarding specialist, has made the process as painless as possible by being extremely accessible and responsive whenever I have a question and has walked me through every step of the process on zoom calls.

Dustin
Dustin
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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

Growing SMBs / Midsized Companies are taking a chance with DEAR, Enterprise should avoid at...

Reviewed on 25/02/2021

They do not seem to have a very good handle on their "Official" integrations. We have a Woocommerce...

They do not seem to have a very good handle on their "Official" integrations. We have a Woocommerce store that does about 30,000 orders per month and we recently had an issue where no returns or refunds were being imported to DEAR. In the mean Time our CS agents were entering all credit notes and restocks manually in DEAR. It took almost 20 days of back and forth for DEAR to finally point out that their system was not receiving web hook notifications and was in polling mode. 20 days!

New situation, shipstation integration just stopped working. Submitted a ticket with the error details and steps to reproduce. Instead of getting any meaningful feedback, instead of their technical team just simply trying to reproduce it on their end which they would obviously do if they were developing the integration, they replied back that they needed to know the request details that shipstation is trying to send. They want the JSON payload presumably. But how in the world can they develop an integration if they don't already know what that response is supposed to be? How can they develop it without having a shipstation account of their own to test? The answer is they do and they can but they don't. It is much more convenient for them to simply kick the can down the road by telling the tier one person they need more information.

Pros

What I like most is that it is built by accountants. Costing is done better than most systems. I also like that it has a fairly strong inventory management and production modules. Purchasing / Receiving is average but the WMS below average. We use it all.

Cons

Customer support is absolutely horrendous. They are reasonably fast to respond but you will always be given a tier 1 support agent who can't do much but reiterate the documentation to you. Their technical team seems outsourced because in 4 years I have not been able to have a live troubleshooting session with them.

Many times they push out updates to the system which cause problems with operations and integrations.

For over 6 months we had an issue where any advanced purchase (a purchase with more than one invoice and receiving) would not place the correct receiving record with the correct invoice. And you can't even choose which receiving note to associate to which invoice. So we would have open invoices which were actually received and closed invoices which had not been received. I had dozens of back and forth messages with support and I ended up having to get a DEAR partner to reach out to them on my behalf and get in touch with someone who could actually get it fixed. Then after we got told they would work on a fix it took another month or two for the fix to be implemented. And it still isn't perfect.

Another time, the support team deleted one of my eCommerce store applications. This meant we had to re-add the store and it re-imported and duplicated about 50,000 orders, causing a disastrous mess. Technical team refused to help so we had to go page by page in the interface and void 100 at a time.

Alternatives Considered

Odoo, NetSuite and Stitch Labs

Reasons for Switching to Cin7 Core

It was cheaper. And it was also a mistake. 4 years later and it is by far the source of the most frustration. If you're evaluating ERPs support must be your number one criteria your business will not be able move quickly if you have to fight to get information and action from your vendor's support team. The system is not bad. And in some cases the issue was with the third party they were integrating with, but these issues can never be resolved without the two teams working together. And that just does not happen at DEAR. The technical team seems like a whole other company. I suspect it is outsourced or something. The support and willingness of the technical team to help is abhorrent. I have more horror stories but I ran out of space to write.

Response from Cin7

Hello Dustin,

Thank you for your feedback. As per the conversation you had with our tech support we are pleased to have being able to resolve the aforementioned issues.

We are constantly looking at ways to improve our service and your valuable feedback is highly appreciated.

Regards,
DEAR Team

Mike
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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10

Function is good, but the price will keep increasing.

Reviewed on 06/03/2024

I have been using their Cin7 omni for 7 Year, starting from $399 and increased to $799, but all the...

I have been using their Cin7 omni for 7 Year, starting from $399 and increased to $799, but all the function is same and nothing changed. Then I gived up to change to a cheaper version Cin7 Core Standard plan, but I just started it one month, they already changed the function for standard plan, from unlimited warehouse location to one location only.
And force you to upgarde to a highter plan if you need more warehouse location.
But when the time I subscribated, it was unlimited warehouse, and they were downgarde you function without any notification.
It was really unfair, and their customer service team were ignord my require and don't give any reply to me. I have been contact them many time and their only reply is someone will contact you asap, but actually no one will contact you. They just ignore you because you only using the cheapest plan and service.

Pros

Cin7 has most of the function that required to run a small or large business.

Cons

They will keep increasing the plan every year and all the function and service was same, and some maybe downgraded if you don't upgraded you plan.

Elliot
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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

Poor Customer service

Reviewed on 09/05/2024

Bad, system does not meet my requirements and this was not communicated by onboarding manager/sales

Bad, system does not meet my requirements and this was not communicated by onboarding manager/sales

Pros

It's got a variety of possible option and integration.

Cons

Jack of all trades master of none.

Literally does not work well if you have a complex supply chain

David
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  • Industry: Wholesale
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

Terrible Customer Support. Lacks flexibility and API issues

Reviewed on 21/08/2023

Decent at best

Decent at best

Pros

Order management however it is not as intuitive as you would like

Cons

Many issues are difficult when operating with DEAR/Cin7 Core. They do not allow you flexibility with the pricing. I purchased a annual subscription to save one month cost however, if you do so, if you need to add a POS for 1 month, you will have to purchase the entire annual year just to use it for one month. Customer support is absolutely useless and API issues can occur which cause issue with accounting. Overall they are not a great software to use but gets the job done however, at a costly amount. Customer support takes a long time to reply and half of the support are pretty useless.

Damien
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  • Industry: Military
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

DEAR Review in 2023

Reviewed on 26/05/2023

Overall good experience, and good customer service always happy to help.

Overall good experience, and good customer service always happy to help.

Pros

Ease of use and intuitivity, as well as youtube guides for most of the products modules.It has been really easy to train new staff onto the platform.

Cons

By being brilliantly simple, it is not allowing for flexibility which is very often needed. It does a very basic job of goods in / invoice / goods out but could benefit of some simple upgrades.

Megan
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  • Industry: Wine & Spirits
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

POS investigation of ERROR

Reviewed on 21/06/2023

Average when it was DEAR, improvements showing with Cin7 but many issues caused due to upgrades....

Average when it was DEAR, improvements showing with Cin7 but many issues caused due to upgrades. Tax rules have been particularly challenging.

Pros

Support member [sensitive content hidden] was terrific when investigating errors that arose with POS and Cin7

Cons

Not good with POS ordering. Very basic use of POS with Cin7

Charles
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Thank you [sensitive content hidden] for Excellent Onboarding Experience, Top Notch Customer...

Reviewed on 26/09/2023

Overall experience so far is excellent, again I truly appreciate the excellent service provided by...

Overall experience so far is excellent, again I truly appreciate the excellent service provided by [sensitive content hidden] to help us get up and running as soon as possible.

Pros

Cin7 Core is intricate, but in time will prove to be a viable resource.

Cons

Cin7 Core could be made more user friendly, I have used other platforms that I was able to learn without educational content etc. This platform is great, but could be softened up some for the user.

Chantell
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  • Industry: Wholesale
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Post support review

Reviewed on 31/05/2023

Fair

Fair

Pros

Connectivity to several ecommerce platforms, reports, and extensive data stored per product

Cons

Under "All Products" - If I search for a product, and can see all the variants for that product, I cant see the SOH in our main warhouse instantly (like on other platforms like TrageGecko). I have to 1) click on the varant, 2) Open up the new tab, 3) navigate to "stock" where SOH appears, 4) repeat the last 3 steps for of the variants.....it would be much more user friendly if I could see all the SOH numbers for all the variants after I search for the product instead of having to open each variant individually, or go and pull a specific report. Either option is time consuming and laborious. ALSO, images for each product dont show thumbnails....so I cant see if the images are dated or not.

Luke
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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

So far so good

Reviewed on 28/04/2023

Overall it's been good. Few kins as mentioned but that is to be expected on new software. The team...

Overall it's been good. Few kins as mentioned but that is to be expected on new software. The team has been helpful and they do have a process to escalate issues such as I had which is good.

Pros

The reporting. Other products on the market at this price are poor in this department. It offers products by variant which is a necessity for us. Customer service via chat (on a small plan) has been really good. Better than expected.

Cons

Some things were a little different from the platform I have been coming from but that it so be expected. There have been a few clunky things that have cost us a fair bit of time when setting up such as not being able to update the ProductFamilySKU via .csv. You can only do this manually. If you update via .csv if doesn't actually update it, it creates another and then you have doubled ProductFamilySKU's. This took some working out but the chat support was very helpful. Another one was products that have no history won't show in "Availability" so it wasn;t until I entered SOH that I could see any products but products that had a value of 0 would not come up as they did not have any history. In the end I did a plus 1 stock adjustment and then -1 stock adjustment so it had a history so it would show up in availability. Some things like this have made set up take longer than it needed to as these kinks are not well known by the staff so they had to test to get answers. Again support was good but it;s more of a why does it work like this and why don't the staff know, wouldn't this happen to everyone.? Anyway, sorted now.

Stefan
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  • Industry: Medical Devices
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Lowe Herz Med

Reviewed on 02/07/2023

Very good

Very good

Pros

Inventory Control and warehouse management

Cons

So far we are able to do all that is needed

Monika
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  • Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Pricing & barcode Margins

Reviewed on 01/06/2023

Pros

Inventory Tracking is amazing I like how everything is connected

Cons

That you can't delete or remove old/no longer warehouse, sales reps

Eric
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  • Industry: Consumer Goods
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Lelior Review

Reviewed on 09/05/2023

good support and assistance when I need it. All questions I have are answered professionally.

good support and assistance when I need it. All questions I have are answered professionally.

Pros

I liked that it would easily integrate with the other systems I am using for my business. Shopify, shiprush, ect.

Cons

maybe a better way to pull payments and pricing through shopify.

Alternatives Considered

Cin7 Omni

Reasons for Switching to Cin7 Core

Friendly team, cin7 merge
Harry
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  • Industry: Wholesale
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Product feedback

Reviewed on 01/08/2023

Pros

Ease of use, Process to control the Inventory

Cons

I would prefer if the system would keep the items in memory upto pick stage as we have already scanned the items in Order stage.

Matthew
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  • Industry: Wholesale
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Fantastic support from [sensitive content hidden] at dear support

Reviewed on 19/05/2023

Pros

Fantastic support from [sensitive content hidden] at dear support

Amar
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  • Industry: Computer Hardware
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

Avoid to save time and pain with poor support

Reviewed on 10/03/2023

Poor to say the least. They cant support their own product properly and fail on a number of levels...

Poor to say the least. They cant support their own product properly and fail on a number of levels to come back to you to solve your issue.

Pros

Integrations were very good - its easy to use but when more complex things are required you will run into major issues. Not for businesses that handle a large number of orders/products

Cons

Its not often that I take to Social media to complain but Cin7 Orderhive deserve a very special shout out for the lack of Support to their customers.They offer a 20x7 Support offering yet find themselves off for days and not responding (March 6th till 9th) there was no support whatsoever. No communication to advise that there will be no support, which in any case is shocking given that they are a global SaaS provider. Often they are off during their countries National Holidays (where they are based) and have zero contingency in place, so not a true 20x7 support.This is not the first time that we have had issues, senior Managers make promises, Dipan Gajjar but deliver no change.We have waited for 4 days to get a simple FTP integration resolved. After being off for 3 days they now fail to respond to our emails or messages surrounding other issues.Issues such as:- Stock values not updating correctly- FTP integration not functioning- Not responding for days- Support team lack of product knowledge (we have had to teach them what their platform can do!)- Raise tickets for issues but do not resolveThe impact this has on our business is detrimental and as we all know changing ERP platforms takes time and planning.So yes we will be moving, and given their impeccable track record I doubt they will take any action about our issues.However I hope post helps provide other potential users of this platform get a true and clear picture of how appalling their support is .

Alternatives Considered

Linnworks
Mandy
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  • Industry: Hospitality
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Still learning/trying out

Reviewed on 02/06/2023

I am still learning and getting a feel for the system. [sensitive content hidden] has been...

I am still learning and getting a feel for the system. [sensitive content hidden] has been absolutely AMAZING during the trainings and helping me to get everything started properly for the switch over from Orderhive.

Pros

Inventory managementBulk order entryPulling Inventory/financial reports

Cons

Needing to fill out a bunch of information that has nothing to do for me.

Evan
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  • Industry: Renewables & Environment
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for Free Trial
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

It does what I need and a little more. But takes a while to get going.

Reviewed on 30/06/2023

Pros

Multiple options to input information. It allows me to change things easily enough

Cons

It took a while to get going I wasted a week trying to put everything in and realizing it was wrong

Patrick
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  • Industry: Wholesale
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

Glad to see the back of it.

Reviewed on 25/04/2023

When a previous platform closed down in Australia (thanks Quickbooks Commerce) we were forced to...

When a previous platform closed down in Australia (thanks Quickbooks Commerce) we were forced to look for another platform. We thought Dear was the one, but boy were we wrong. We used it for 12 months, but it was like we were working for the software, instead of the software working for us. One of the worst platforms I've ever used.

Pros

The ability to apply costs from other invoices to a shipment was very good.

Cons

Cumbersome, clunky, too many clicks to get one thing done, no ability to right click and open in new tab, returns and exchanges in our POS software created a LOT of work in the back end of Dear to reconcile the transaction. When applying a workaround for one issue, it would have unforeseen ( and sometimes unseen, until too late) consequences. Not intuitive.