Best Inventory Management Software for Small Business

• Fabricate builds an inventory app around your own products and locations, with no cap on items; shop and till sync and phone camera scanning are not built in. Building and previewing are free; publishing is on Pro and Max.
• Sortly is free for 100 items and 1 user; Advanced is $49 a month billed yearly for 500 items.
• Zoho Inventory is free for 50 orders; Standard is $29 a month billed yearly for 500 orders a month.

• FabricateWe make this

  Built around

  Your own products, locations and fields

  Free plan

  Build and preview

  Capped by

  No cap on items or staff

  Paid plans from

  $25 a month

• SortlyInventory

  Built around

  Item tracking

  Free plan

  100 items, 1 user

  Capped by

  Items and users

  Paid plans from

  $49 a month, billed yearly

• Zoho InventoryInventory and orders

  Built around

  Stock and orders

  Free plan

  50 orders, 1 user, 1 location

  Capped by

  Orders a month, users and locations

  Paid plans from

  $29 a month, billed yearly

Tool	Built around	Free plan	Capped by	Paid plans from
FabricateWe make this	Your own products, locations and fields	Build and preview	No cap on items or staff	$25 a month
SortlyInventory	Item tracking	100 items, 1 user	Items and users	$49 a month, billed yearly
Zoho InventoryInventory and orders	Stock and orders	50 orders, 1 user, 1 location	Orders a month, users and locations	$29 a month, billed yearly

Each tool's cheapest paid plan as its own pricing page showed it on October 28, 2026, as the page bills it. Fabricate's figures come from our live plans.

What we looked for

• Items and locations

  Can it keep what you stock, where it is and how many?

• Low stock

  Does it show what is running low?

• A free start

  Is there a free plan, and what are its limits?

• Shop and till sync

  Does it connect to your online shop or till?

• Price

  What does the cheapest paid plan cost, and what does it cap?

What is the best inventory management software for a small business?

It depends on what you track. For stock tracked the way your business works, with no cap on items and no price per person who signs in, Fabricate, which we make. For a few items on a free plan, Sortly. For stock and orders together, Zoho Inventory.

Is there free inventory software?

Yes, with limits. Sortly is free for 100 items and 1 user, and Zoho Inventory for 50 orders, 1 user and 1 location. Building and previewing are free; publishing is on Pro and Max.

Can I build my own inventory app?

Yes. Describe what you stock, where it is kept and who updates the counts, and Fabricate builds the inventory app and shows it working in a preview. To change something, you ask in the chat. There is no code to write or read.

Can I scan barcodes?

With a handheld barcode scanner that types into a field, as most USB and Bluetooth scanners do: ask for a search box that finds an item by its code. Scanning with a phone's camera is not built in.

Does it sync with Shopify, Square or my till?

No. Syncing stock with an online shop or a till system is not built in, so sales are recorded in the app or brought in from a CSV file through an import page you ask for.