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Rating Breakdown

  • 5
    85% (125 ratings)
  • 4
    2% (3 ratings)
  • 3
    1% (2 ratings)
  • 2
    3% (4 ratings)
  • 1
    9% (13 ratings)

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5 / 5 Share

March 4, 2024

Super god service og hurtig respons

Using app

Over 3 years

Total reviews

4

Average rating

5.0

Developer Reply

Hi there, Thank you so much for taking the time out to review us, we really appreciate it! It's fantastic to hear how well you rate our service and response time. Thanks again, Tom (Inventory Planner by Sage)

3 / 5 Share

Feb. 21, 2024

Initially, I cannot recommend it to customers who use ShipHero. Considering its price, the system and implementation have been difficult. A simple matter has been made really complicated. Training costs $5000, where basic things are explained, but for the most part, I have had to dig out the answers myself. Pricing is based on revenue and does not meet expectations. Customer service has been quick on the part of Inventory Planner. It's unfortunate that training is done by a third party and they are unable to answer more challenging questions. I recommend first exploring lighter options such as Fabrikator.

Using app

3 months

Total reviews

13

Average rating

3.1

Developer Reply

Hi there, Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We sincerely apologize for the difficulties you encountered, especially regarding your implementation and training process. We understand that a smooth and straightforward onboarding experience is crucial. Your concerns about the complexity of training are being taken very seriously. We're currently working to streamline our implementation process and improve our training resources to make them more comprehensive and user-friendly. It's also concerning to hear that you found the partner training insufficient for addressing more advanced questions. We are auditing and enhancing our training partnerships to ensure that all our customers receive the highest level of support and expertise. I genuinely appreciate your positive comments about our support team at Inventory Planner. They are committed to providing quick and effective assistance, and we will continue to strive for excellence in this area. We respect your honesty when it comes to exploring lighter options. However, we believe that with the improvements we're making, we’ll continue to provide the robust solutions that our customers rely on. Thank you again for your feedback. It’s invaluable to us as we continue to improve our offerings. Best regards,
Mike G.

5 / 5 Share

Feb. 13, 2024

Jasper was more than able to help you should probably at least try the demo it will for sure change your way of business.

Using app

10 days

Total reviews

2

Average rating

5.0

Developer Reply

Hi there, Thank you so much for your review, we really appreciate it. It's great to hear how well Jasper has supported you, and your endorsement means a lot. Thanks again, Tom (Inventory Planner by Sage)

1 / 5 Share

Feb. 11, 2024

It is with a heavy heart that I am giving Inventory Planner a 1-star review. We have been using Inventory Planner for over 4 years now and in that time we enjoyed all of the great features it had to offer. There is a lot of data to play with, and we finally set it up just the way we wanted. Unfortunately, when our team inquired about negotiating a yearly contract (as opposed to the monthly payments we had set up through Shopify), we were shocked to be hit with a proposal over twice the price of our current subscription. As a loyal customer, this was the last thing we expected. Once we realised we had been caught in a trap, it was too late. We discovered other reviews from customers that had experienced the same thing. If only we had seen these sooner. If you are a new customer, and you are agree to the new pricing model, there shouldn't be any issues. But if you are a current customer and looking to review your pricing, please take note of what happened to us and avoid it at all costs!

Using app

Almost 3 years

Total reviews

10

Average rating

4.6

Developer Reply

Hi there, Thank you for sharing your feedback. I understand that you were informed about the implementation of the GMV pricing model for new and existing customers of Inventory Planner. From your discussions with us, we made many efforts to secure the most cost-effective solution for you based on our GMV pricing model. When you expressed dissatisfaction with the presented discount, we sought your feedback regarding your expectations and how we could move forward. We highly valued your partnership, and we wanted to explore further options upon review. We offered to consolidate a collective contract for all three of your Inventory Planner accounts on a 12-month term, while still allowing you to continue making monthly payments. It is a common practice across multiple industries to review contracts at the time of renewal, ensuring fair charges for GMV increases or decreases. We apply this approach to all our customers. We wish that we could have found a mutually beneficial resolution. Best regards, Mike G.

4 / 5 Share

Jan. 21, 2024

At first, there's a bit of a learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, the Inventory Planner app is a game-changer. The support team is fantastic, always ready to assist when you hit a roadblock. Highly recommend!

Using app

9 months

Total reviews

5

Average rating

4.6

Developer Reply

Hi there, Thank you so much, for taking the time out to review us, we really appreciate it! It's great to hear how impactful Inventory Planner has been on your tech stack. It's also wonderful to hear how well you're supported by the team. Thank you again, Tom (Inventory Planner by Sage)

5 / 5 Share

Jan. 12, 2024

Store

BRAUZZ.

Using app

About 2 years

Total reviews

7

Average rating

4.9

Developer Reply

Hi there, Thank you for rating us 5/5, we really appreciate it! Thanks again, Tom (Inventory Planner by Sage)

5 / 5 Share

Dec. 19, 2023

I have been using Inventory Planner for more than two years, and I find it to be an incredibly helpful tool. The platform is user-friendly, and there are many online resources available for review, including a YouTube channel. Inventory Planner helps me forecast future demand, monitor inventory KPIs, predict cash flow, and generate various reports. The quality of their online support is exceptional, and Karen is always available to help with any issue. However, as an Australian business, we are unable to receive live support due to the time difference. Overall, I highly recommend this tool as it has helped our business focus on the right areas and move in the right direction.

Store

STAX.

Using app

About 2 years

Total reviews

4

Average rating

5.0

Developer Reply

Hi there, Thank you so much for taking the time out to review us - we really appreciate it! It's great that Inventory Planner allows you to forecast demand and monitor your inventory so well. It's also wonderful to hear how well you're supported by our team - especially Karen. I'll definitely pass this on to her as I know she'll love hearing your feedback. On your point regarding live chat for our Australian customers, we acknowledge this and are constantly working to add more features to all of our customers, wherever they may be. Thank you for bringing it to our attention. Thank you again, Tom (Inventory Planner by Sage)

5 / 5 Share

Dec. 13, 2023

Pretty much the best purchase planning app for Shopify. Have been using for years.

Using app

Over 6 years

Total reviews

2

Average rating

3.5

Developer Reply

Hi there, Thank you so much for taking the time out to review us, we really appreciate it! It's great to hear that you rate Inventory Planner so highly. Thank you again, Tom (Inventory Planner by Sage)

5 / 5 Share

Nov. 7, 2023

This app has become a critical part of our workflows for its excellent abilities to forecast inventory needs. And the support team is awesome, too. They can always track down an answer to my question, and there are a lot of features they can enable on the back-end for specific use cases.

Using app

Over 2 years

Total reviews

8

Average rating

4.9

Developer Reply

Hi there, Thank you very much for your feedback, we love hearing from our customers! :) It's fantastic to hear how well Inventory Planner has fit into your tech and how impactful it is. It's great to hear how highly you rate our support team too, I'll be sharing this with for sure as I know they'll get a kick out of hearing how well they're helping. Thank you again, Tom (Inventory Planner by Sage)

5 / 5 Share

Nov. 6, 2023

I like working with Inventory planner. Service is great.

Using app

Over 2 years

Total reviews

2

Average rating

5.0

Developer Reply

Hi there, Thank you so much for your review, we appreciate you taking the time out to give us your feedback. Thank you for your kind words about the service we provide and I'm really pleased to hear that you like working with us - we feel the same way! :) Tom (Inventory Planner by Sage)

5 / 5 Share

Nov. 1, 2023

Have been using Inventory Planner for a couple of years now and it's helped us to streamline our processes. Very powerful tool that we need on a daily basis.

Using app

About 2 years

Total reviews

8

Average rating

5.0

Developer Reply

Hi there, Thank you for your review, we really appreciate it! It's fantastic to hear how well Inventory Planner has helped streamline your processes over the last two years. Thank you again, Tom (Inventory Planner)

5 / 5 Share

Oct. 3, 2023

We've been using Inventory Planner for various years now, and have nothing but good to say about the platform itself. While this is certainly not the cheapest option around, it's made managing 10's of thousands of SKUs much more manageable and has led to us developing very advanced inventory strategies that has brought our brand to the next level. There are endless metrics and numbers in here that you can get lost in, and each term is defined in their Glossary of Terms, which is a life-saver if you're learning and wanting to know how to best utilize the data that the tool generates. We can finally do collection-based reporting thanks to Inventory Planner as well, something that is not available in Shopify's native reporting. Forecasting, building POs, and really any other inventory-related task is all made very easy thanks to this platform. The biggest downside is the price. They received outside investment and the investors are wanting a quick return. They tried to increase our price literally 6x overnight, to which we had to negotiate and got down to 3x our old price, which is still an absurd increase for the same service we'd already been paying for for 2+ years prior. If the tool wasn't so good, we would have dropped Inventory Planner due to that experience. That being said, they are now showing some positive signs and more flexibility in pricing, which is a welcomed change and I still would recommend this tool to all Shopify merchants.

Using app

Over 3 years

Total reviews

17

Average rating

5.0

Developer Reply

Hi there, Thank you very much for taking the time out to review us, we really appreciate it. It's great to hear that Inventory Planner has made such a big improvement on managing your stock and accelerated your growth so well. We appreciate your feedback on our pricing too, we're always keen to hear feedback from our customers and are keen to strike the best balance between what's fair to our customers whilst allowing us to grow so we can take Inventory Planner to the next level - and ones after that! Thank you again, Tom (Inventory Planner by Sage)

5 / 5 Share

Sept. 1, 2023

I've used this app from the early days and it has saved TONS of time on forecasting. Support team is 10/10

Using app

Over 4 years

Total reviews

9

Average rating

5.0

Developer Reply

Hi there, Thank you so much for your feedback - we love hearing from our customers. It's great to hear that you've saved so much time using Inventory Planner, efficiencies are exactly what drives us so it's great to hear that it's meeting that aim so well with your business. Thank you for your glowing praise of our Support Team too, I'll pass this on to them as I know they'll love hearing that they help you so well. Tom (Inventory Planner by Sage)

1 / 5 Share

Aug. 17, 2023

THIS APP DOES NOT DO WHAT IT IS DESIGNED TO DO. The logic this software uses is fundamentally flawed and there doesn't seem to be any fix for this. Once you realize this you will spend days going back and forth with their support chat as they only respond once every 4 hours if your lucky. If your products have a long lead time (in our case 3 months) and you sell out of inventory during this time and are waiting for new stock to arrive this app will add the lost sales quantities into your next replenishment ON TOP of the units you are forecasted to sell for the month. If historically you sell 100 units a month and are out of stock for 3 months their calculated replenishment recommendation will tell you that you need to order 400 units for you next order as if you will magically be able to sell 4x your monthly average. This issue is amplified even further when your sales are growing month over month. At the very least you should be able to disable this functionality, and not add lost sales quantities into the active forecast, but their only solution is to manually edit the forecast for every single item.

Using app

9 months

Total reviews

8

Average rating

4.0

Developer Reply

Hi there, Thank you for your feedback, I'm sorry to hear it's not very positive however. I've taken a look into your conversation history with our Support team and it looks as though what you're looking for does exist, but not in the specific way you're looking to achieve it, I can completely see how frustrating that would be. Nevertheless, we are committed to finding a workable solution for you. My colleague with whom you were speaking with was digging deeper into your requirements and offered you a call to go over them in more detail (also to reduce the time delay between written updates), however we haven't heard from you since offering that. We're really keen on helping you with this, so I'm hoping that you get back in touch so we can work this out. Thank you, Tom (Inventory Planner by Sage)

5 / 5 Share

July 21, 2023

Inventory Planner has streamlined our ordering process. It is so clear to see what's selling through, what needs ordered and what's not selling. The filtering is endless so you can keep going deeper and deeper into searches and really refine what you are after. I would highly recommend this to anyone who wants clearer visibility about their stock, sales and trends

Using app

Over 1 year

Total reviews

2

Average rating

5.0

Developer Reply

Hi there, Thank you so much for your review, it's great to hear about the impact that Inventory Planner has had on your business through the visibility and streamlining of processes. Thank you for your endorsement, we really appreciate it! Tom (Inventory Planner by Sage)

5 / 5 Share

July 4, 2023

We've been using this app for about 2 years and we cannot imagine living without it anymore! :-) We have made some major changes recently and it took us a while to get everything set up. Anyway, the support is very helpful and patiently walked us through all the settings. Our special thanks goes to Chan personally! We can only recommend this app.

Using app

Over 2 years

Total reviews

17

Average rating

4.4

Developer Reply

Hi there, Thank you very much for taking the time out to review us, we really appreciate it! It's great to hear how well Chan supported you during the changes you made to your setup. I know our team gets a kick out of helping customers optimize their workflows and seeing them thrive and I know Chan will be especially pleased to read this so I'll be sure to share it with him. Thank you again, Tom (Inventory Planner by Sage)

1 / 5 Share

June 28, 2023

Awful experience, dreadful service and woeful project management. 6 months after signing up we are still waiting to use the tool. They seem incapable of managing a project or providing any form of support.

Store

Bedfolk

Using app

5 months

Total reviews

8

Average rating

3.5

Developer Reply

Hi there, Thank you for your feedback, I'm sorry to hear about the delays you're experiencing. Not to make excuses in any way, but the setup for your account is more complicated than is usually required from our customers and is requiring some significant development on our behalf to get you up and running in line with what you require operationally. Again, not an excuse, but some explanation in the spirit of transparency. Please be reassured, we are working hard on getting you up and running and we will continue with our weekly check-in calls with your team until you are over the line. Thank you, Tom (Inventory Planner by Sage)

1 / 5 Share

May 18, 2023

The software is very good. But they change price model for more than 3 times in last year and the support team are not good

Using app

About 1 month

Total reviews

1

Average rating

1.0

Developer Reply

Hi there, Thank you for your feedback. Firstly, I'm glad that Inventory Planner is a good fit for your business on a software front. Regarding the pricing model, we have gone through a few changes as we wanted to find one which most directly supports the growth of our customers. The one we've settled on is based on GMV rather than warehouses, SKUs, or anything else. So bigger the volume you put through, the more you use it, so the more you pay. To us that sounds fair and doesn't penalize our customers who have more warehouses or sell on more channels. After all, we want you to grow! :) Your comment on our support team comes as a surprise as that's not in line with our usual feedback. For example, in the last three months they were rated 4/5 or 5/5 by 95% of our customers, so if you've had a bad experience, I'd really like to know more so we can look into it. Drop us a message and we'll do just that. Thank you again for your feedback. Tom (Inventory Planner by Sage)

5 / 5 Share

April 22, 2023

We have been using inventory planner for about 6 months now and I don't see how we can function without. There's a lot of functionality to this program and yes it will take a minute to get a good grasp on it but once you do, you'll be glad you are using it. There is good support documentation with videos and tech support has been great. The onboarding team is great as well. They know the software inside and out. It's extremely powerful. Inventory forecasting and planning is complicated in general so you need a software program that can handle it, and this one does the trick. It's not cheap, we spend $20K a year but it's worth it. Look at it as hiring a data analytics person on the team for 20K. Not only that, it will help you manage your inventory purchases, so you're not over or under ordering stock. We have 13 retail locations and we use it extensively for generating stock transfers to our stores from our warehouse. No more guessing on how much inventory to send to a store. There is also a nice feature that will automatically generate stock transfers and purchases orders on a schedule you configure. I have it set to place them in draft mode and run weekly. Then I can approve or make edits to them before sending it to the warehouse to fill. This has saved us countless hours. The support has been great too. There has been several times I need a certain functionality and they were able to accommodate it, not in every case but 90% of the time. Just like any software, it's not 100% when forecasting, sometimes you need to use your judgement. The more data it collects over time, the smarter it gets. The software is not for everyone but if you have multiple retail locations / warehouses or just need a better way to manage your inventory purchases so you aren't over stocking, then I would recommend checking this one out. It's a great way to help streamline your operations. If they had inventory management or WMS tied into this, this would make it even more powerful.

Using app

8 months

Total reviews

14

Average rating

4.4

Developer Reply

Hi there, Thank you so much for sparing the time to review us, we love hearing from our customers! It's great to hear that Inventory Planner is working so well for your business by taking the guesswork out and saving you so much time - that's why we built the app so it's wonderful to read how well it's doing that. It's fantastic to hear how well our support team has your back too, accommodating so many of your requests. We do recommend another Sage platform which handles inventory management and warehouse fulfillment - Brightpearl - it pairs very well with Inventory Planner. Here's the link (brightpearl.com), we'll reach out to you too! Thank you again, Tom (Inventory Planner by Sage)

5 / 5 Share

April 12, 2023

This is next stage analytics for demand forecasting. Forget the negative reviews, yes it is complicated but you need this complication to account for all demand factors! Suggestion: make also an app for sales analytics.

Using app

11 months

Total reviews

8

Average rating

5.0

Developer Reply

Hi there, Thank you so much for your review, we really appreciate you taking the time out to give us your feedback! It's great to read your endorsement and it's great to hear that you're making use of our broad functionality. Regarding your suggestion, you'll be pleased to hear that we DO have a sales analytics app. Speak to your success team about our Retail Analytics app. I'll ask them to reach out too! Thank you again, Tom (Inventory Planner by Sage)