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<h3>What Merchants Think</h3> <p>The "Inventory Planner by Sage" is perceived as a valuable tool by many merchants, praised for its robust inventory forecasting and planning capabilities. Nonetheless, users report mixed experiences, highlighting challenges with integration and customer support. While some users highly appreciate the forecasting tools, others find the implementation cumbersome and the platform less adaptable to specific business needs.</p> <h3>Key Strengths</h3> <ul> <li>Effective inventory forecasting tools that help prevent understocking and overstocking.</li> <li>Seamless integration with platforms like Amazon and robust management of the Amazon FBA Purchase Orders.</li> <li>Feature-rich platform with capabilities to manage inventory KPIs, predict cash flow, and generate comprehensive reports.</li> <li>Support team frequently praised for their responsiveness and resourcefulness.</li> <li>The platform is considered a "Swiss army knife" for inventory functions, offering a wide range of tools for daily use.</li> </ul> <h3>Common Concerns</h3> <ul> <li>Challenges with integration, especially with complex systems involving multiple warehouses and third-party fulfillments.</li> <li>Customer support limitations post initial training period, with no direct call support available.</li> <li>Issues with data syncing, particularly with Shopify, affecting forecast accuracy and analysis.</li> <li>Difficulty in generating accurate forecasts for seasonal products and poor user interface navigation.</li> <li>Pricing concerns, particularly for long-term users facing increasing subscription costs.</li> </ul> <h3>Final Thoughts</h3> <p>"Inventory Planner by Sage" is a powerful inventory management tool with substantial benefits for merchants looking to streamline their operations and improve inventory accuracy. However, the mixed reviews suggest the need for improved integration capabilities and more robust customer support. Despite these challenges, the app remains a recommended option for businesses with straightforward inventory needs.</p>

Reviews (160)

Overall rating
4.4

What Merchants Think

The "Inventory Planner by Sage" is perceived as a valuable tool by many merchants, praised for its robust inventory forecasting and planning capabilities. Nonetheless, users report mixed experiences, highlighting challenges with integration and customer support. While some users highly appreciate the forecasting tools, others find the implementation cumbersome and the platform less adaptable to specific business needs.

Key Strengths

  • Effective inventory forecasting tools that help prevent understocking and overstocking.
  • Seamless integration with platforms like Amazon and robust management of the Amazon FBA Purchase Orders.
  • Feature-rich platform with capabilities to manage inventory KPIs, predict cash flow, and generate comprehensive reports.
  • Support team frequently praised for their responsiveness and resourcefulness.
  • The platform is considered a "Swiss army knife" for inventory functions, offering a wide range of tools for daily use.

Common Concerns

  • Challenges with integration, especially with complex systems involving multiple warehouses and third-party fulfillments.
  • Customer support limitations post initial training period, with no direct call support available.
  • Issues with data syncing, particularly with Shopify, affecting forecast accuracy and analysis.
  • Difficulty in generating accurate forecasts for seasonal products and poor user interface navigation.
  • Pricing concerns, particularly for long-term users facing increasing subscription costs.

Final Thoughts

"Inventory Planner by Sage" is a powerful inventory management tool with substantial benefits for merchants looking to streamline their operations and improve inventory accuracy. However, the mixed reviews suggest the need for improved integration capabilities and more robust customer support. Despite these challenges, the app remains a recommended option for businesses with straightforward inventory needs.

Astrid & Miyu

Mar 19, 2025  on Shopify

Inventory Planner is a great demand forecasting and stock planning tool. It helped us increase efficiencies, optimise our buys and automate allocations from the warehouse to multiple stores. We have good access to support channels and a quick turnaround for resolving issues. Our customer success manager, Chan, is always there for the team, keen to understand the business needs and look for solutions to meet them.

Campmor

Mar 13, 2025  on Shopify

Inventory Planner has been an absolute game-changer for us at Campmor. It keeps us completely up to date with our inventory and stock POs, making the entire process seamless and so much more efficient. The platform’s forecasting is incredibly accurate, ensuring we stay on top of demand and avoid both overstocking and stockouts. One of the standout features is how intuitive the system is. It gives us clear insights into what needs to be ordered and when, helping us make smarter purchasing decisions. The ability to plan POs directly within the system has saved us so much time and reduced the risk of errors. Overall, Inventory Planner has transformed the way we manage our inventory. It’s reliable, easy to use, and has become an essential tool for keeping our stock in check and our operations running smoothly. Highly recommend!

Essentially Natural

Mar 12, 2025  on Shopify

We've been fans of Inventory Planner for a number of years - it's been a game-changer for managing stock and keeping our inventory on point. But special thanks are due today for the top-notch support from Nathan - thank you for your swift (literally, seconds...) and friendly assistance!

William Wood EU

Mar 12, 2025  on Shopify

Great app. Great software. Have been using for nearly a year now and any issues I have ever had they have gone out of their way to help with. Jasper on the support team made sure engineers knew I needed an urgent fix, and it was done within the hour. Great service

wox.gr

Mar 11, 2025  on Shopify

Professional top level app with Top support. All we need is here. We use this app the last 3 years.

Maebe

Mar 05, 2025  on Shopify

Nathan from IP has been super helpful. He’s always quick to respond to my emails and takes the time to explain things clearly. I’m new to IP, and he’s made the whole process really easy and straightforward.

Beauti

Feb 23, 2025  on Shopify

Software itself works fine and I used it for a few years. It saved me a lot of time with PO and forecasting stock levels. HOWEVER, since purchasing IP, Sage have increased the annual/semi annual fees dramatically with no signs of stopping. They will corner you in an automatically renewing contract and bleed you dry. Luckily there are a number of solid alternatives out there now. I would avoid at all costs and recommend you do not sign any contracts.

Altenew

Jan 27, 2025  on Shopify

We have used Inventory Planner for years and were big fans of the tool. It has helped us with inventory forecasting in the past. Over the last few months, we have had significant challenges with Inventory Planner API with Shopify, and our data has been intermittently been syncing in Inventory Planner. For example, our last sync was Jan 13, 2025. This syncing issue has repeatedly happened over the last quarter of 2024 into 2025. This has disrupted our analysis and forecast planning. We believe the Inventory Planner is working on a solution on updating their API to Shopify, but its not clear to us when this will be fixed and help our team with. We would love to keep working with Inventory Planner if they can provide a stable API with Shopify.

TA3

Dec 20, 2024  on Shopify

This app ended up being useless for us, a huge waste of time and money. Be careful what you commit to, make sure you have an out if you can't use it. We couldn't generate accurate forecasts that take into account the seasonality of our product. When set to last sales, which was originally recommended by the IP team, it dramatically over forecasted sales and reorders. The other two methods didn't work either. Forecasting at a category level was overridden in the system. We were unable to plan Net vs Gross sales, return rate, or discount rate Couldn't see critical metrics by week/month to create manual plans such as % to LY, build, discount rate, AUR, AIR. Couldn't group or view by key attributes or export a list of skus and each attribute column. The interface is generally inefficient and difficult to navigate. Simple updates create a lag when attempting to save changes. It's possible it would work for a non seasonal business with products that all have the same attributes, especially if there are a lot of people to manage it. Just make sure you can get out of it if it doesn't work.

Zachary Webb

Oct 17, 2024  on Shopify

Not only was the explanation thorough, he's been extremely helpful following up and providing step by step directions for us to use as a resource internally.

Bakken Books

Oct 02, 2024  on Shopify

Jansen did a great job walking through a workflow issue of ours in real time to help resolve my issue. Not only was the explanation thorough, he's been extremely helpful following up and providing step by step directions for us to use as a resource internally. Every time I've reached out to their support team, they are timely, courteous, and resourceful.

Damond Motorsports

Oct 01, 2024  on Shopify

I have a love-hate relationship with this app. The basic functions of being able to make and send POs, and see/sync inventories and invoices is great. The forecasting is so-so, and doesn't always display the data you need to see. Integration is also a PITA if you have a complicated store with multiple warehouses, and 3rd party fulfillment...I turned the 3P warehouses off in the settings, why are you still importing their inventory and variants? Customer service is also lacking. You CAN'T call them. There isn't a number. So you're stuck sending chat messages, waiting for a response, then playing chat tag for days. I've also gotten incorrect information, with them not knowing they had some functionality that I found by clicking around, and being misinformed about how some apps integrate. This app does save me time, but if I had the time to find another similar app, I'd jump ship.

Joel Douglas

Sep 06, 2024  on Shopify

When first getting to know the platfrom, it does seem like its a lot. But, once you know what you are looking at, all of that information starts coming together.Once the initial training period is over the people who were helping resolve the issues just refer you to the standard support option. This app requires a lot of manual work to see the accurate results, and you need to be using the platform for over one year ... Show more

Aid Station

Aug 25, 2024  on Shopify

Inventory Planner is good for stock forecasting and it's good to have a function to integration Amazon and manage the Amazon FBA PO in one app.

Wild Oak Boutique

Aug 13, 2024  on Shopify

Inventory Planner is not robust enough for our needs and has a lot of bugs. Customer support is lacking after the initial training period. Once the initial training period is over the people who were helping resolve the issues just refer you to the standard support option. This app requires a lot of manual work to see the accurate results, and you need to be using the platform for over one year for accurate information as they can't factor stockouts from Shopify or Shiphero. One example of manual work that is needed to see accurate results is reviewing data for seasonal products vs new fasting selling items. We are a clothing brand so our default method is seasonal, but the app doesn't have the ability to use a different method for products that haven't been in our catalog for a full season without a lot of manual overrides.

Armature

Jul 21, 2024  on Shopify

Inventory Planner utilizes various forecasting methods and historical sales data to predict future demand. This helps you avoid understocking or overstocking items, leading to smoother operations and improved cash flow.

Telescopes Canada

May 27, 2024  on Shopify

We use this app daily, it makes predicting what inventory we need to order much easier and saves a lot of time. It's a swiss army knife of inventory functions. The support is excellent, Jansen and Kate have been fantastic.

Til Valhalla Project

May 21, 2024  on Shopify

When first getting to know the platfrom, it does seem like its a lot. But, once you know what you are looking at, all of that information starts coming together. The only issue I have had so far was a variant/product issue where variats were loading as their own product rather than under the same product. I reached out to Customer Service and Jansen was the one who responded. We must have worked on this issue for 6+ months together, along with his engineering team. They did not give up until the issue was resolved. There was always constent communication between Jansen, the engineering team, and myself during the process. If any other issues arrise I will be going to Jansen for assistance. I have been assisted by other customer service representatives before but since Jansen has more in-depth knowledge about our Inventory Planner, that I will contact Jansen for any further issues or questions.

Dick Johnson

Feb 21, 2024  on Shopify

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.

George and Willy

Feb 11, 2024  on Shopify

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!

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