You had product stock and no reliable way to track it. A spreadsheet was falling behind. Someone would update it, someone else would not. You would go to reorder something and realise the quantity was wrong by a week. You needed a stock list that stayed accurate on its own.

You searched for inventory software. inFlow came up. Good reviews. Clear pricing. You signed up.

The product list works. The quantity tracking works. The low-stock alerts work. Those three things are what you open every time you log in. The rest of the platform sits untouched.

The Three Things Your Business Actually Uses

A product list with current stock quantities. A way to record stock coming in and going out. An alert when something falls below a threshold.

That is the job most small businesses hired inFlow to do. And inFlow does all three.

It also does B2B customer ordering portals, manufacturing and work order management, multi-location warehouse management, barcode and serial number scanning, automated reorder point triggers, vendor management, purchase orders, sales order and invoicing, and advanced profitability reporting. You pay for all of it. Most small businesses use three features.

What your inFlow subscription pays for
  • B2B customer ordering portal
  • Manufacturing and work order module
  • Multi-location warehouse management
  • Barcode and serial number scanning
  • Automated reorder point triggers
  • Vendor management and purchase orders
  • Sales order and invoicing module
  • Advanced reporting and profitability analysis
What most small businesses actually need
  • Product list with current stock quantity
  • Receive stock in, record sales or usage out
  • Low-stock alerts when quantity falls below threshold
  • Simple search by product name or SKU

Who inFlow Is Actually Built For

inFlow is a proper inventory management platform for small to mid-sized businesses with complex inventory needs. Multiple warehouses. A B2B ordering portal where wholesale customers place their own orders. Manufacturing assemblies where finished goods are built from component parts. Receiving workflows driven by barcode scanners at a loading dock.

If your business has one location and a product catalogue, inFlow is built for a different customer. You are using the stock list and the quantity tracker. You are paying for a warehouse management system built to serve operations considerably larger and more complex than yours.

The Cost of the Platform You Do Not Use

inFlow Entrepreneur runs around A$110 to A$120 a month. That is the entry tier. It covers the features a small business actually uses: the product list, quantities in and out, and alerts.

Consider a small business that has been on inFlow for three years. They track stock for around 80 SKUs. They record deliveries when they arrive and mark items as sold or used. They get alerted when something is running low. They have never opened the B2B portal. They have never touched the work order module. They have never set up a second location. They paid over A$4,000 to access three features of a platform built to run warehouse operations.

inFlow Entrepreneur over 3 years
A$4,140
A$115/mo. Recurring. Forever.
Merebase Merebase inventory tracker
A$499
Once. No subscription fee after that.

What a Merebase inventory tracker Includes

A Merebase inventory tracker is built for the job your business actually has. You describe your product catalogue, the fields you need per product, the way you record stock movements, and the thresholds that trigger an alert. The app is built to do exactly that.

What a Merebase inventory tracker includes:

Product catalogue with SKU and description. Current stock quantity. Receive stock in and record usage or sales out. Low-stock threshold alerts. Product search and filter. Stock history log. Data export. A$499 once. You bring your own hosting. A basic plan runs A$5 to A$20 a month.

There is no B2B portal you will never configure. No manufacturing module. No multi-warehouse dashboard. The app does the job. Nothing else is in the way.

Your Product List Is Already in a Spreadsheet

This is where most businesses start. A spreadsheet with product names, SKUs, and quantities that someone has been updating by hand. Moving it into a proper app sounds like work.

It is not. A CSV import of your product catalogue and current quantities is included in the setup. You export what you have. The app starts with your data already in it. The running count takes over from there and the spreadsheet gets retired.

Once your stock data is in your own app, it stays there. No platform can reprice it, restrict access to it, or hold it behind a tier change.

Common questions
Is there a cheaper alternative to inFlow for small businesses?
Yes. A Merebase inventory tracker built by Merebase does what most small businesses actually use inFlow for: a product list with current quantities, stock in and out recording, and low-stock alerts. A$499 once. No subscription fee. You bring your own hosting.
Can a Merebase inventory app handle multiple locations?
A standard build covers one location. Multi-location inventory can be scoped as a custom build. Describe what you need and the scope will be written to match.
What does a Merebase inventory tracker include?
A Merebase inventory tracker from Merebase includes a product catalogue with SKU and description, current stock quantity, receive stock in and record usage or sales out, low-stock threshold alerts, product search and filter, stock history log, and data export. Your data lives on your own hosting. A$499 once, agreed in writing before payment.
Can I import my existing product list?
Yes. A CSV import of your product catalogue and current quantities is included in the setup. You bring the spreadsheet. The app starts with your data already in it.