Fishbowl Manufacturing
Fishbowl Manufacturing is the manufacturing and warehouse offering in Fishbowl Advanced.
What Fishbowl Manufacturing is
Fishbowl Manufacturing is the manufacturing and warehouse offering in Fishbowl Advanced. It is designed for businesses making, assembling, or mixing products and for operations using multi-warehouse, 3PL, or EDI-driven fulfillment. Manufacturing tools include bills of materials, work orders, material resource planning, time tracking, labor costing, production scheduling, and automated capacity projections. Configurable workflows move raw goods, work-in-progress, and finished products through assigned pick locations, workstations, and staging areas. Advanced Manufacturing includes an open API and supports connections to locally hosted or Fishbowl-hosted servers. Deployment can use cloud hosting or self-managed infrastructure. Listed integrations include QuickBooks Online, Desktop, and Enterprise, plus Xero. Fishbowl states that connections use TLS 1.2 or higher, stored data uses AES-256, and the service has SOC 2 Type II, ISO, and PCI compliance.
Good
- Includes BOMs and work orders
- Provides production and capacity planning
- Supports multi-level BOMs
- Offers cloud or self-managed deployment
- Open API included
Watch out
- No free plan
- Fishbowl Inventory plans exclude manufacturing features
- Pricing depends on users and deployment
Who it suits
It suits manufacturers building, assembling, or mixing products, including teams from 2 to 200 or more users. Multi-site, capacity, purchasing, and production planning needs are explicitly supported.
Verdict
Fishbowl Manufacturing brings production planning, inventory movement, costing, and warehouse operations together. It is suited to manufacturing teams that need configurable workflows and deployment control.
Plans and prices
From Fishbowl Manufacturing's own pricing page, checked 3 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced Warehouse | $595 a month | Teams from 2 users to 200+ · Complex fulfillment and transfer orders · Advanced permissions and audit trail · EDI integrations · Multi-warehouse and 3PL workflows · starts at · priced by users & deployment |
| Advanced Manufacturing | $675 a month | Teams from 2 users to 200+ · BOMs, sub-assemblies and configurations · MRP and production scheduling · Work orders and made-to-order builds · Lot and batch traceability · Open API · starts at · priced by users & deployment |
The facts
Each one read from Fishbowl Manufacturing's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API
- Advanced Manufacturing includes an open API, and Fishbowl's API documentation describes connecting to a Fishbowl server hosted locally or through Fishbowl hosting.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Audience
- Fishbowl describes Advanced Manufacturing as suited to manufacturers building, assembling, or mixing products, including teams from 2 to 200 or more users.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Backups and recovery
- Fishbowl states that customer data is housed in U.S. data centers with live replication and automatic rolling seven-day backups for point-in-time recovery.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- Fishbowl Advanced includes cloud hosting and offers self-managed deployment options for teams needing infrastructure control.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The pricing page lists deep QuickBooks Online, Desktop, and Enterprise integration; the manufacturing page also names Xero.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Inventory and quality
- Configurable workflows move raw goods, work-in-progress items, and finished products through production, with assigned pick locations, workstations, and staging environments.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Limits
- Fishbowl's pricing page says its Fishbowl Inventory plans do not include manufacturing features such as BOMs, work orders, or MRP.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Manufacturing
- Manufacturing features include bills of materials, work orders, material resource planning, time tracking, and labor costing.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Product
- Fishbowl Advanced is a manufacturing and warehouse platform for businesses that make products or run multi-warehouse, 3PL, or EDI-driven fulfillment.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Security
- Fishbowl states that external and database connections use TLS 1.2 or higher, stored data uses AES-256 encryption, and Fishbowl Inventory is SOC 2 Type II certified with ISO and PCI compliance.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Support
- Fishbowl provides access to support requests, product documentation, and software downloads through MyFishbowl.checked 3 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2001checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- American Fork, Utah, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Production planning
- The manufacturing product describes automated capacity projections, work-order creation, and production scheduling.checked 3 Oct 2026
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