--- description: Review of Flowlens Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Flowlens | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice AU --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [MRP Software](/directory/163/mrp-software/software) > [Flowlens](/software/135184/flowlens) # Flowlens Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/135184/flowlens Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/135184/flowlens?page=2) > Flowlens is a cloud-based MRP and CRM solution that helps manufacturing and dealership businesses manage stock, sales and purchases. Its key features include time tracking, forecasting, reporting and notifications. The application allows manufacturers to assemble SKUs, configure bills of materials and evaluate project costs. Operations teams can use this system to record stock levels and analyze job profitability. With its CRM feature, administrators can manage multiple accounts, capture inquiries, assign tasks and monitor leads. The system also assists users with order processing and dispatching. Flowlens integrates with Xero, QuickBooks and Mailchimp. The system's service functionality enables supervisors to track labour costs and maintain job cards and tickets. The solution is available on a monthly subscription and support is provided via phone, email and chat. We also offer a complete hands-on implementation and training service that will take the time to fully understand your business before customising Flowlens to fit your exact requirements. We will work with you to help you migrate your data to Flowlens and train your people to ensure everyone gets the most out of the system. As a Flowlens customer, you will also have access to a live 'sandbox' tool to experiment with ways of improving your processes once you are live without making experimental changes to your business - unlocking incredible insights and mitigating risk in your business improvement strategy. What are you waiting for? Start your Flowlens journey today... > > Verdict: Rated **4.8/5** by 24 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.8/5** | 24 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 5.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Flowlens - **Location**: Belfast, UK - **Founded**: 2006 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: GBP 45.00 - **Pricing model**: Per User (Free version available) (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Flowlens starts at £45 per month per user - minimum 5 users. Additional users £39 per month. Shopfloor users £9 per month. Premium subscription includes bolt-ons for Pipeline and Service management plus tailored onboarding consultancy and training package, free sandbox and ongoing refresher sessions. - **Target Audience**: 2–10, 11–50, 51–200 - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Australia, Canada, Guernsey, Ireland, Isle of Man, Jersey, New Zealand, South Africa, United Kingdom ## Features - API - Accounting - Accounting Integration - Activity Dashboard - Automated Scheduling - Barcode/Ticket Scanning - Billing & Invoicing - Bills of Material - Compliance Management - Cost Tracking - Distribution Management - Document Management - Financial Management - Forecasting - Inventory Management - Inventory Optimization - Inventory Tracking - Item Management - Job Costing - Maintenance Management ## Integrations (4 total) - Mailchimp - QuickBooks Online - Sage 50 Accounting - Xero ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - Chat ## Category - [MRP Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/163/mrp-software/software) ## Related Categories - [MRP Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/163/mrp-software/software) - [Manufacturing Execution Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/164/execution-systems/software) - [Manufacturing Inventory Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/392/inventory-software/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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[Acumatica Cloud ERP](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/24043/acumatica-manufacturing) — 4.4/5 (243 reviews) ## Reviews ### "Flowlens review" — 5.0/5 > **Stephen** | *14 October 2021* | Mining & Metals | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: The part of the software most useful to us is being able to take an initial enquiry right through to despatch and invoice, generating clear documentation at every stage and finally pushing the sale through to our accounting package. > > **Cons**: The feature I don't like is the email integration process - it's easy to mail out from the software but it uses a Flowlens mailbox which can be confusing. > > Outstanding level of service and friendly staff who are keen to take ideas into their development plan. There have been a number of good developments over the 2 years I've used it. ----- ### "Software that is easy to use and implement" — 4.0/5 > **Dan** | *15 September 2022* | Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: As a service company we looked high and low for a software that would manage both the new manufacture product and also customers equipment coming in for service. Flowlens fits that bill, the intergration into the company was relatively painless and would probably be even smoother should you come from an existing system most of our pain in the intergration was coming from our old Excel and Access databases but the team were fantastic in their support to get this up and running for us. > > **Cons**: The service side of the system does function for us but it sometimes feels like the poor relative. It would be good to get some of the functionality from Sales and Projects across to the service side for service related businesses such as our own. > > Overall experience with Flowlens has been good, they are a company that values the input from their customer base and if they can make your life easier by working in updates to the system they always will. For us the biggest thing was the immediate visibility that the system gave us, we'd gone from having to have multiple spreadsheets and databases open to being able to jump from one section of Flowlens to another and then back again overnight ----- ### "Good Basic MRP Tool for SMEs" — 4.0/5 > **Eric** | *12 January 2022* | Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Recommendation rating: 6.0/10 > > **Pros**: Our company recently trialled Flowlens as an MRP solution that could integrate with Xero to create a more robust ERP solution. We really liked the simple integration with Xero and the fact that it could manage the shop floor well. > > **Cons**: We found the system could use improvement when dealing with complex sub-assemblies and when managing multiple complex products. This product is best suited for simple manufacturers. > > After many product demos and a trial we decided that Flowlens was not for us as we need a more robust and mature MRP/ERP solution. ----- ### "Ease of use and aligned with our business" — 5.0/5 > **Iain** | *11 October 2021* | Industrial Automation | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: The user interface is clear and intuitive and won't scare away first-time users. Compared to other offerings there are not lots of unused boxes/fields or white space taking screen space. All the key information is available where you want it. Customisations are possible using the form templates which make it very easy to capture business specific data, for example we use this within our sales leads to capture customer requirements and create technical sales-support notes or even as simple as generating covering note to print and identify some free-issued materials from a customer. Integration with Xero for accountancy is flawless. You only need to give certain people access to certain elements keeping the user interface focussed to their role. The response of support has been excellent whenever we have needed to ask a question. The product is also designed for companies like us - small-medium manufacturers / solution providers so there is an alignment of the offering to the use case which meant we weren't fitting a round peg into a square hole from day 1. > > **Cons**: The system generated documents are fixed format, 90% of the time there is ample scope to use the fields that already exist to make the document contain what you need but there are times where an editable document would suit our need better. Some bulk actions don't exist at the moment (Like archiving multiple obsolete products) - although I believe they are coming soon. > > We have moved away from out team working within an accountancy package to now using flowlens for all day-to-day business activities. Only accounting and management now need to touch the accounts system. Where we perceived limitations or lack of features against some of the big CRM providers now we are using the system these have turned out to be non-issues and the simplicity and accessibility of the platform has driven adoption ----- ### "Blows Salesforce Out the Water\!" — 5.0/5 > **Amy** | *3 October 2019* | Automotive | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Flowlens is so easy to use and understand, it saves me hours on admin and sales and the team are so helpful. It's just so easy to use I can't believe it.... having used Saleforce previously which is overpriced, not suitable for SME and ridiculously complicated, Flowlens is a breath of fresh air. Admin is no longer a dread\! > > **Cons**: There is literally NOTHING I don't like. > > My overall experience with Flowlens has been fantastic. The price point is great, the support is there, and the system itself is awesome. We use the system for everything from holding a parts database to selling vehicles. The system integrates with our Quickbooks system beautifully which saves us hours of inputting stuff. It sends me daily reminders for all of the leads I need to get back to, and it just does everything- even job cards for the workshop\!\!\! It's just awesome and if you're reading this right now then you NEED to get this software. You won't be disappointed. ----- Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/135184/flowlens?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/135184/flowlens) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | ----- ## Structured Data