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Cin7 Core
What Is Cin7 Core?
Cin7 Core, formerly DEAR, empowers businesses with warehouse and inventory management, manufacturing, sales integration, reporting, and automation. Optimize your operations using this multi-module software, from material intake to sales and returns. The Core WMS app boosts efficiency with mobile barcode scanning, guided paths, and dedicated warehouse zones. Handle receiving, picking, packing, and shipping right from your handheld device.
Who Uses Cin7 Core?
Retailers, wholesalers, distributors, and manufacturers with 5 to 100 employees seeking everything in one system at the fraction of the cost of ERPs.
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IntegrationKings review of Dear Systems
Comments: A great overall platform for anyone selling products in the market that wants to control their Inventory correctly and the workflows in relation to an Inventory business. Also from an accounting background it is a full end-to-end solution in relation to ensuring the accounting is 100% correct in the business.
Pros:
The features we like most about Dear Systems and so do the clients we work with are: - Integrations around stock control and sales workflows with Woo Commerce and Shopify. - Complete bi-directional integration with Xero and QBooks Online. - Love the fact that we can do Supplier Deposits and Customer Deposits, tracking them correctly within the accounting system. - Also the fact that we can do multi-level Build of Materials for manufacturing clients and then sell via multiple of sales channel.
Cons:
The features we least like most about Dear Systems: - Reporting in the platform takes abit to set-up and ensure you are getting the reporting you want out of the system. - Would like to see more integrations over time into the core platform overall as well.
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Energenic
Comments: Dear is an overall well planned software, i enjoy working on it, I will say I am 80% happy - still need development in certain areas
Pros:
Procurement and Stock keeping working great, Can have latest prices on hand
Cons:
Job Costing is difficult and need to go to reports to get information cast export job cost directly from Job's BOM in Production cant be exported and work on average cost - need to work on latest price as i am using the BOM for price costing
Customer Support on WMS Deployment and Set-Up
Pros:
[sensitive content hidden] was very helpful with me on the support call and answered all of my questions and gave me walkthroughs.
Cons:
Automatic printing i believe is essential, Would be very good to have this functionality.Also WMS Scanner i feel should have more control. An example would be that the scanners should have the ability to raise transfers to and from warehouses from scratch, no input from Cin7 core on the web browser.
Terrible, Terrible Software for Small Businesses
Comments: I loathe this software. I sincerely wish we had never ever implemented. It is completely unfit for purpose for a small ecommerce business and should be not marketed as such. Unless you have staff to dedicate to this software, it's a complete waste of precious resources.
Pros:
Nothing. It's been a battle from start to finish.
Cons:
Appalling integration with Shopify and Xero.Total lack of decent supportHas driven more cost into my business than remove it - extra staff required.Incoherent logic - eg posts Sales but not corresponding COGS if fulfilment is delayed.No on screen reportingDiabolical UI
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Administrator Feedback
Comments: Thank you for the very good software that is really helpful to everyone, keep updating its features and I suggest that can you also please update the support website. Please do more in integration side to be posted, the side effects if we have the wrong steps that may affect each software. I would like to apprecaite [sensitive content hidden] from her/his last support to me, I was really satisfied on her response, it's being clear and detailed and informative, I was successfully implemented my client's needs because of good support. I look forward to see that kind of support to improve your customer service.
Pros:
It's inventory module that is really in detailed feature. It's not easy to integrate since you have to feed the data more detailed and informative especially in importing the products. Some companies are not complete in their product details. But it worth the patience, when it's successful, it will be more ease for the users/clients to use the whole system as well as they are trained and learned how to use it.
Cons:
About the support in my previous months, I cannot get the satisfaction based on their answers, especially when I have a very technical and critical situation. They are not consistent on their solutions, hence, I was disappointed. The support is given 24 to 48 hours of response and yet there are times that their answer to my query is not kind of convincing for me to follow. I have this instance that their advise for me to do this and that lead me to almost danger situation of the system and to my client. So I want your support team to always discuss the DO's and DON'Ts and the effect of the situation of each query especially when it comes to technical side of integrations between other software like in Xero, most commonly cloud based integration.
