Did You Know Fishbowl Can Do Many Things QuickBooks Can’t

January 4, 2016
Two years ago I wrote a white paper exploring 19 things Fishbowl can do that QuickBooks can’t. And now I’m going to share a few of those things in this blog post. Fishbowl does many things QuickBooks can't.Obviously, QuickBooks isn’t meant to be a standalone manufacturing or warehouse management solution. It’s an accounting solution. Fishbowl Manufacturing and Fishbowl Warehouse pick up the slack and handle the inventory logistics that QuickBooks can’t. That’s why Fishbowl is so popular among QuickBooks users. So let’s dive in and learn about 10 things Fishbowl can do that QuickBooks can’t.

10 Features Where Fishbowl Shines

Fishbowl allows its customers to use the following features in addition to what QuickBooks provides: 1. Create bills of materials for many types of jobs, not just for simple assembly. 2. Create work orders for simple and multistage assembly, disassembly, repair, and replacement jobs and group them together into manufacture orders. 3. Generate and print new barcodes and then scan them rather than only scanning existing barcodes. 4. Use Last In First Out (LIFO) and Standard Cost methods in addition to Average Cost and First In First Out (FIFO). 5. Combine several products into a kit and add that kit to a sales order. 6. In addition to lot numbers and serial numbers, Fishbowl can also track parts by revision levels and expiration dates. Plus, with its Custom Fields option, you can set up virtually any other tracking criteria you like. 7. Issue Return Merchandise Authorizations (RMA) for product returns, repairs, refunds, and replacements. 8. Use production stages in manufacturing to see how close products are to completion. To be fair, QuickBooks Enterprise does have this feature, but every other QuickBooks version does not. 9. Use transfer orders, rather than invoices, to move parts and products between warehouses and other locations. 10. Offer discounts on products with cost-plus pricing and group pricing in addition to a percent discount and dollar amount taken off the price. Fishbowl and QuickBooks complement each other well. Click this link to learn more about Fishbowl’s integration with QuickBooks and how it benefits your business.

More “Did You Know”

Interested in more information about Fishbowl? Check out all of the previous entries in the Did You Know series of blog posts: Did You Know Fishbowl Has Manufacturing and Warehouse Software Versions Did You Know Fishbowl Supports Windows, Mac, and Linux Operating Systems Did You Know Fishbowl Integrates with Online and Desktop Versions of QuickBooks Did You Know Fishbowl Integrates with Xero Did You Know Fishbowl Has an Australian Version Did You Know Fishbowl Has a Canadian Version Did You Know Fishbowl Is UPS Ready Did You Know Fishbowl Manufacturing Uses Production Stages Did You Know About Fishbowl’s ‘How To’ Button Did You Know Fishbowl Has a Forecasting Feature Did You Know Fishbowl’s CEO Is a Published Author