Receive Goods

Efficiently Receive Shipments, Handle Product Returns, and Avoid Stockouts with Fishbowl

Receiving shipments of inventory into your warehouse is much easier with a barcode scanner, inventory management app, warehouse management software, and other tools provided by Fishbowl. Make the receiving and putaway process faster and more accurate with Fishbowl’s help.

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Streamline Your Warehouse Operations with Fishbowl's Advanced Tools

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Receive goods quickly and accurately

Scan barcodes and use other advanced inventory tools to receive incoming shipments in the warehouse.

Receive goods quickly and accurately

When you receive a shipment into your warehouse, you’re doing more than taking inventory out of a truck and putting it on warehouse shelves. You’re also updating both your inventory management software and accounting software with the new inventory counts or quantities in the warehouse. Receiving and shipping are important actions that help you avoid stockouts and keep your customers happy.
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Seamless accounting integration

Optimize supply chains, warehouse quantities, and more with a warehouse app.

Seamless accounting integration

If you’ve integrated Fishbowl with QuickBooks or Xero, your accounting records will also be updated by your warehouse management system with the cost of received inventory once the scheduled data export occurs. Receiving shipments into your warehouse with a barcode scanner keeps your inventory management system and accounting system up to date and in sync.
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Optimize putaway process

Ensure quick and accurate putaway of received inventory.

Optimize putaway process

It’s important to know where inventory items go after they’re brought in at the receiving dock. Fishbowl’s inventory management app lets you scan barcodes of all received goods to see which warehouse sections they should be taken to for storage. Fishbowl’s inventory management app doesn’t just display each item’s designated section of the warehouse, but also the aisle, shelf, and bin number.
04 | Enhance supply chain management

Optimize supply chains, warehouse quantities, and more with a warehouse app

Download the Fishbowl Advanced Mobile app onto any Android or Apple smartphone/tablet to scan barcodes and track inventory in a single warehouse or across multiple warehouses. This app enables you to quickly and accurately scan inventory items into your inventory management system. Simply scan an item’s barcode and enter the quantity being received. This will automatically adjust the inventory count in your inventory management software. You can also order more items from suppliers and get quotes from shippers to ensure quick fulfillment.

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Simplify warehouse layout with kits

Use kits and other warehouse management tools to streamline and optimize your warehouse setup.

Simplify warehouse layout with kits

Your warehouse organization, or warehouse layout, can directly benefit from a good warehouse management system (WMS) like Fishbowl. This type of system helps you spot sales trends so you can determine the ideal placement of goods in your warehouse space. Store inventory items that are often bought and sold in kits, or otherwise in conjunction with each other, in the same section of the warehouse. That way, they will be easy to restock during the putaway process.
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Calculate landed costs with precision

Calculate the actual cost of incoming goods with the help of landed costs and other advanced reconciliation tools.

Calculate landed costs with precision

Reconciling purchase orders enables you to adjust inventory quantities, add landed costs, and do other things to make sure your inventory management system and accounting system match up. You can reconcile one or more inventory items in a purchase order to resolve any issues that come up in the receiving process. Your warehouse manager, receiving clerk, and other warehouse dock workers will thank you for providing these advanced inventory tools, as will your accountant.
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Streamline returns with RMA

Use RMAs to accept inventory returns from customers.

Streamline returns with RMA

RMAs are used to process inventory returns from customers. Sometimes things go wrong in order fulfillment, and customers need to return an item to your warehouse. Perhaps the customer received the wrong product, the product arrived damaged, or another order fulfillment error occurred along the way in the warehouse or during shipment.
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08 | Ensure accurate order reconciliation

Use landed costs and reconciliation to adjust purchase orders

The receiving process isn’t always as smooth as scanning inventory items in and putting them away in your warehouse. At times, the invoice won’t match the purchase order. The vendor may accidentally put too many or too few goods in a shipping carton, or the vendor might charge a different price for each unit than you agreed to pay when you created the purchase order. If the total cost on the invoice you receive is different than the amount of money on the purchase order you issued, you’ve got a problem. That is what reconciliation is for.

09 | Additional RMA Uses

Receive, replace, repair, substitute, and refund inventory

With a good warehouse management system, you can use RMAs to receive incoming shipments in your warehouse, replace pristine products, inspect and repair damaged products, ship substitute goods to customers, and/or refund purchase amounts. If you wind up with too much inventory in your warehouse because of returns, it can result in dead stock. There are ways to deal with dead stock, such as offering it at a discount or pairing it with a popular item in a kit.

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Case Study

Boxes R Us

Big cost savings and cash flow maximization as a result of improving their inventory management

  • Automated order fulfillment and drastically improved their inventory tracking and receiving processes
  • Analyzed sales trends to identify high-performing products and adjust their warehouse layout
  • Reduced storing and handling expenses in the warehouse, increased sales, and improved cash flow
  • Cut unnecessary inventory expenses by $60,000 in the first 12 months
  • Embraced inventory tracking technology to ensure the best products are ordered and received in their warehouse

Testimonials and Awards

See why our customers trust us for their inventory management needs

“Things are done right.”
What Fishbowl has done to identify the holes that could have impacted accounting, I can’t even quantify that. The money that we’ve saved by doing things right, I can’t quantify that either.
Christy Hair
CEO, Mack and Rex
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Fishbowl is a G2 Leader for small businesses, praised for high satisfaction.
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2024
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“Keeps us ahead.”
With Fishbowl, we’re able to stay on top of inventory management and data, which allows us to stay ahead of our supply chain challenges.
Josiah
Supply Chain Coordinator, Automotive Industry
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Fishbowl's solution transforms complex distribution workflows
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2023
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I love the ability to cross-reference multiple custom products with images and information in a wide variety of queries.
Max
Manager, Textiles Industry
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G2Crowd: Summer 2024 High Performer
Fishbowl stands out with high customer satisfaction, recognized as a G2's High Performer quadrant.
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2024
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Front Runner 2024
Fishbowl is a front runner across multiple manufacturing and warehousing software categories
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2024
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Fishbowl's awarded 'best features and functionality' from reviewers.
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2024
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Capterra: 2024 Shortlist
Capterra recognized Fishbowl for its robust feature set
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2024
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Ranked Fishbowl as a top performer in warehouse management
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2024
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