inFlow Inventory is stock software with orders attached, and it is good at that: counts at the shelf, barcodes, purchase orders, a wholesale showroom buyers order from. It will record a deposit against a sales order and work out the balance, so that is not the honest difference. The difference is what its price is made of — $129 a month billed annually, $161 billed monthly, with 1,200 sales orders a year in the entry plan and a one-time $499 onboarding package printed beside it — which is the shape of a business with stock to control, not of a workshop shipping commissions.
inFlow · checked 9 September 2026
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| inFlow | Ordamo | |
|---|---|---|
| Built around | Stock: counts, locations, purchase orders, barcodes | Orders: deposits, balances, batch cost |
| Deposit and balance on one order | Yes — a payment is recorded against the order and the balance worked out | Both, with dates, on the order itself |
| What the plan meters | Sales orders: 1,200 a year at the entry tier, then $0.20 each | Nothing |
| Onboarding fee | A one-time $499 package, published alongside the plans | None |
| Who is included | 2 team members on Entrepreneur, 5 on Small Business, 10 on Mid-Size | The business, on one plan |
| Bills of materials | In inFlow Manufacturing, from $179/mo billed annually | No BOM — a received batch writes what the run really cost onto its products |
| Barcodes, pick and pack | Yes, with a scanner app | No |
| A page the customer can open | A B2B showroom to order from, not an order page for the customer | One link per order, no login, updates itself |
| Entry price | $129/mo billed annually ($1,548/yr), or $161 monthly | $29/mo, one plan |
| Trying it | 14-day trial, no card | $0 today, first charge after 7 days, cancel in one click |
Built for orders that take weeks to deliver, start in a message and get paid in parts.
Add a customer and their order
Deposit taken, balance still owed, and the date you promised.
Send your customer their order page
One link that updates itself, instead of twenty messages.
Record what the batch cost
What a run really cost, over the pieces it produced. One button puts that on the products it made.
See what you actually made
Revenue, cost and margin per order. Money in, money out, cash on hand.
The price is built out of stock features: locations, barcode scanning, purchase orders, integrations, an order allowance sized for a distributor. A workshop that makes each piece after it is sold uses almost none of that, and there is no smaller door into the parts it does want — the order, the deposit, the balance — because those come bundled with the warehouse.
inFlow records the payment and calculates the balance, and that much is real. What a commission generates weekly is a different question: which of the open orders are still owed money, and which are due to be ready. In Ordamo that is the orders screen, sorted that way by default. In a stock system it is a view you assemble, because the software's own subject is what is on the shelf.
Bills of materials are in inFlow Manufacturing, from $179 a month billed annually. If the reason you went looking was that you cannot tell what a batch of six actually cost you, that is the edition you land on — and what you get there is a bill of materials, which assumes the same thing gets made again from the same parts. A one-off does not work that way.
A one-time $499 package printed next to the plans is not a hidden fee; it is a statement about how much configuration the software expects. Read it as the vendor telling you who this is for. A tool a two-person studio can start on a Sunday evening does not need one, and this one does not have one.
From $129/mo
Entrepreneur billed annually — $1,548 a year — with 1,200 sales orders a year, 2 team members, 1 location and 1 integration; billed monthly the same plan reads $161. Orders above the allowance are $0.20 each, an extra team member $59 a month and an extra integration $49. Small Business is $349 annually ($4,188) or $436 monthly, Mid-Size $699 ($8,388) or $874. Bills of materials live in inFlow Manufacturing, from $179 annually ($2,148) or $224 monthly. A one-time $499 onboarding package is published alongside the plans.
$29/mo
One plan, per business, everything included. $0 today, first charge after 7 days, cancel in one click. 14-day money-back on the first month. Nothing is metered.
What is in the planWe are not the only answer, and pretending otherwise wastes your afternoon.
Materials, recipes and cost of goods for makers who hold stock, with lot traceability. From $20 a month, with its real tiers from $83 billed annually.
QoblexStock, wholesale and production for a multi-channel brand. From $99 a month, orders metered by the year.
KatanaManufacturing for a floor with staff on it: work orders, scheduling, capacity. From $299 a month before add-ons.
The whole categorySix families of tool, what each one answers, and the three questions that pick between them.
Yes, and any page that tells you otherwise has not read the documentation. You open the order, click the paid figure at the bottom, and enter the payment; inFlow works out the balance and will do the same again for the next instalment. What it does not do is treat that as a schedule with a date attached, and it has no page the customer can open to see it.
Entrepreneur is $129 a month billed annually — $1,548 a year — or $161 billed monthly, with 1,200 sales orders a year, 2 team members, 1 location and 1 integration. Small Business is $349 annually ($4,188) or $436 monthly, Mid-Size $699 ($8,388) or $874. Orders above the allowance are $0.20 each and an extra seat is $59 a month. Bills of materials require inFlow Manufacturing, from $179 annually ($2,148) or $224 monthly, with a one-time $499 onboarding package published alongside. Confirm the current position on inflowinventory.com before deciding on the strength of a number here.
For a made-to-order business, yes, and cleanly: orders with deposits and balances, what a production run cost, what each order earned. For a business with stock, no. There is a units-in-stock count per product that you adjust by hand, with a history of the adjustments, and nothing beyond it: no reorder points, no barcodes, no locations. Moving off inFlow for a cheaper subscription would cost you the part you were actually paying for.
It depends which half of inFlow you need. For stock and cost of goods, Craftybase — now Stocksmith — starts at $49 a month. For manufacturing planning, MRPeasy publishes from $49 per user. For orders that wait and get paid in parts, this is $29 a month with nothing metered. None of those is a cheaper inFlow; each is a smaller tool doing one of its jobs.
Its pricing page publishes none. The free part is a 14-day trial with no card required. Ordamo's equivalent is a sample workspace you can open without a card, with 7 days free before the first charge once you start entering your own orders.
No. No scanning, no bins, no locations, no pick lists — a units-in-stock count per product that you adjust by hand is the whole of it. What it records is what was ordered, what has been paid, what the production run cost and what the order earned. If your bottleneck is finding a box in a room, this is the wrong tool and inFlow is a good one.
For a workshop selling bespoke pieces with a deposit, the shortlist is short: an order tool built around deposits and batch cost, a self-built Airtable or Notion base, or a spreadsheet for the first dozen orders. The MRP systems that come up in these lists — Katana at $299 a month, MRPeasy at $49 per user — are aimed at a production floor with staff on it.
Export to CSV from inFlow and import the file as it is. There is no template to fill in — the columns are read for you and you confirm what was found before anything is saved. In practice only open orders need to come across; closed history belongs in an archived export.
Yes, and some businesses should. A catalogue you hold stock for and a commission side are two different problems; inFlow answers the first properly and this answers the second. Nothing gets recorded twice except the customer's name.
Export open sales orders and customers to CSV, import the file as it comes, then check that each deposit carries the date the balance is due — that is the field inFlow has no place for. Add the batches currently in production, start new orders here, and let the open ones finish where they are so there is no cutover day.
Plan names, both billing states, order allowances, seat and integration add-on prices, the $0.20 order overage, the $499 onboarding package and the 14-day trial read from inflowinventory.com/software-pricing and its inFlow Manufacturing pricing on 10 September 2026, with the monthly-billing figures confirmed against a reading of the same page the day before; the deposit and balance behaviour from inFlow's own support articles on applying partial payments to a sale. Software pricing moves; confirm with the vendor before deciding on the strength of a figure here.
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Built for orders that take weeks to deliver