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Sortly Alternative
Sortly is great for simple stock tracking, until you need purchase orders, sales orders, invoicing, and a B2B portal. VNDLY is the upgrade: real inventory and sales management, AI-powered, starting at $49/mo.
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Sortly vs VNDLY
Sortly is genuinely good at what it's designed to do: making it easy for a small team to track where physical items are, how many there are, and who has them. That's a real problem worth solving. But there's a hard ceiling: Sortly is an asset and inventory tracking tool, not a business operations platform. The moment you need to buy from suppliers, sell to customers, issue invoices, or connect your Shopify store, Sortly can't go there with you. Here's where that line sits and what crossing it looks like.
What Sortly is built for
Sortly targets internal asset and stock tracking — IT equipment, tools, samples, supplies, and physical inventory that needs to be counted and located, but not necessarily bought and sold through a formal order workflow. Its mobile app and QR-code scanning experience make it fast for teams doing physical counts, and the folder/item hierarchy is intuitive for non-operations staff. For a company tracking office equipment, a properties firm managing fixtures across sites, or a studio managing physical production assets, Sortly delivers cleanly.
What Sortly doesn't do: purchase orders (there's no supplier-facing buying workflow), sales orders (no customer-facing selling workflow), invoicing, e-commerce channel integrations, B2B wholesale portals, or any form of demand forecasting. If you're running a product business — buying from suppliers and selling to customers — Sortly handles the 'how much do I have and where is it?' question but leaves the 'how do I buy more and sell it?' question entirely unanswered.
Where VNDLY is different
VNDLY starts where Sortly stops: purchasing from suppliers (purchase orders, landed cost tracking with AVCO costing, goods receipt), selling to customers (sales orders, fulfilment workflows, invoicing), and connecting your stock to your sales channels (Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Squarespace) so inventory updates happen automatically rather than manually.
On top of that operational backbone, VNDLY's AI assistant — BYOK, using your own OpenAI or Anthropic key — ships on every plan: demand forecasting, stock projections, and plain-English queries against your live purchasing and sales data, so you can answer 'what should I reorder this week?' without building a spreadsheet. Sortly can tell you how much you have. VNDLY can tell you how much you should buy.
Pricing, side by side
Sortly starts at $24/month and goes up to around $149/month on its Business plan — all within the asset-tracking and inventory-counting scope. It's genuinely inexpensive for what it does, and if what it does is exactly what you need, that's a fair price.
VNDLY starts at $49/month (Starter: 2 users, 500 orders/month) — more than Sortly's entry plan, but for a fundamentally different product category. You're not paying more for better stock tracking; you're paying for purchase orders, sales orders, invoicing, e-commerce channel sync, and AI forecasting that Sortly doesn't offer at any price tier. If your business genuinely only needs asset tracking and physical counts, Sortly may be the right answer and VNDLY is more than you need.
Who this is (and isn't) for
VNDLY is a good fit if...
- You're running a product business — buying from suppliers and selling to customers — and need purchase orders, sales orders, and invoicing, not just stock counts.
- You sell through Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, or Squarespace and need stock levels to update automatically when orders come in.
- You sell wholesale and want a self-serve B2B portal for buyers rather than manual back-and-forth for every order.
- You want AI-assisted demand forecasting so you're not manually building spreadsheets to decide what to reorder.
Sortly is the better call if...
- Your use case is internal asset tracking — IT equipment, tools, studio gear, office supplies — rather than a product business with suppliers and customers.
- You don't have formal purchasing or selling workflows; you just need to know what you have and where it is.
- Your team needs a mobile-first QR scanning experience for counting and locating physical items across sites.
- You genuinely only need inventory visibility, not order management, and Sortly's $24/month price is the right fit for that scope.
Best Sortly alternatives
The 5 best Sortly alternatives in 2026
Sortly is the right tool for internal tracking — but if you're running a product business, here's how the alternatives compare.
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VNDLYOur pick
Full inventory and sales management: purchase orders, sales orders, invoicing, B2B portal, and AI forecasting. From $49/mo.
Best for: Product businesses that need buying and selling workflows, not just stock tracking
- 2
inFlow Inventory
The simplest step up from tracking tools: purchase orders, sales orders, and basic warehouse management at an accessible price.
Best for: Small teams moving off Sortly who want order management without complex setup
- 3
Fishbowl
QuickBooks-native inventory and warehouse management with purchasing workflows and light manufacturing.
Best for: QuickBooks users who need proper purchasing and warehouse management added to their accounting
- 4
Cin7
Multi-channel inventory and OMS with manufacturing, EDI, and retail integrations — a major step up in both power and complexity.
Best for: Growing businesses that need multi-channel selling and more complex inventory workflows
- 5
Brightpearl
Enterprise retail operations platform for high-volume multi-channel retailers — the maximum end of the spectrum from Sortly.
Best for: Large retailers that need full OMS, returns management, and automation at scale
Integrations
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See what inventory and sales teams are saying about VNDLY.
“VNDLY's purchase order workflow got me from signup to first PO in under an hour. Inventory tracking across my store and pop-ups is finally in one place instead of scattered spreadsheets.”
“Implementing this system has significantly boosted our productivity and streamlined our warehouse operations.”
“Before VNDLY we had no real system, just spreadsheets and a lot of manual work. Since switching, our order processing is faster, stock accuracy has improved significantly, and invoicing takes a fraction of the time.”
Pricing
Plans that grow with your operation.
Starter
$49/mo
For small businesses and solo entrepreneurs
- Users: 2
- Locations: 2
- E-Commerce Stores: 2
- Orders / month: 500
- Full order-to-ship pipeline
- Mobile App & Barcode Scanning
- Serial Number Tracking
- Lot / Batch Tracking
- VNDLY AI (BYOK)
- Planning & Forecast
- Sales Strategy
- Packing Visualizer
- CRM & Sales Pipeline
- Development Projects
- Marketing & Email Campaigns
- Reports & Analytics
- PDF & CSV Export
- API & Integrations
- B2B Customer Portal
- Sales Agents (Beta)
- Custom Integrations*
- Custom KPIs & Reports*
Professional
Most popular$149/mo
For growing businesses with a team
- Users: 10
- Locations: 5
- E-Commerce Stores: 10
- Orders / month: 5,000
- Full order-to-ship pipeline
- Mobile App & Barcode Scanning
- Serial Number Tracking
- Lot / Batch Tracking
- VNDLY AI (BYOK)
- Planning & Forecast
- Sales Strategy
- Packing Visualizer
- CRM & Sales Pipeline
- Development Projects
- Marketing & Email Campaigns
- Reports & Analytics
- PDF & CSV Export
- API & Integrations
- B2B Customer Portal
- Sales Agents (Beta)
- Custom Integrations*
- Custom KPIs & Reports*
Enterprise
$349/mo
For large organizations with high volume
- Users: Unlimited
- Locations: Unlimited
- E-Commerce Stores: Unlimited
- Orders / month: Unlimited
- Full order-to-ship pipeline
- Mobile App & Barcode Scanning
- Serial Number Tracking
- Lot / Batch Tracking
- VNDLY AI (BYOK)
- Planning & Forecast
- Sales Strategy
- Packing Visualizer
- CRM & Sales Pipeline
- Development Projects
- Marketing & Email Campaigns
- Reports & Analytics
- PDF & CSV Export
- API & Integrations
- B2B Customer Portal
- Sales Agents (Beta)
- Custom Integrations*
- Custom KPIs & Reports*
Switching from Sortly to VNDLY
Moving from a tracking tool to a full inventory and sales management system is a category change, not just a data migration. Most teams are live within a week.
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Export your item and stock data from Sortly
Pull a CSV export of your products, categories, and current quantities — VNDLY's importer maps products, suppliers, and stock counts directly.
- 2
Add your suppliers and set up purchasing
Create supplier records and configure your purchase order workflow — this is typically the biggest new capability versus Sortly, and takes a few hours to set up correctly.
- 3
Connect your sales channels
Link Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, or Squarespace so orders and stock sync automatically; no more manual stock count updates after every sale.
- 4
Set up your B2B portal (if you sell wholesale)
Give wholesale buyers a self-serve ordering experience with your catalog and pricing — something Sortly has no equivalent for.
- 5
Invite your team and go live
Add users with role-based permissions. VNDLY's onboarding is self-serve and most teams are processing real orders within a day or two of starting.
FAQ
Common questions
VNDLY starts at $49/month versus Sortly's $24/month entry price — but they're different product categories. Sortly is an asset tracking tool; VNDLY is a full inventory and sales management platform with purchase orders, sales orders, invoicing, e-commerce integrations, and AI forecasting. If you genuinely only need tracking, Sortly's price is fair. If you need to run a product business, VNDLY's additional cost is for features Sortly simply doesn't have.
Yes — VNDLY handles inventory tracking (what you have, where it is, current stock levels) plus the entire buying and selling workflow: purchase orders from suppliers, sales orders to customers, invoicing, e-commerce channel sync, and AI demand forecasting. Sortly stops at tracking; VNDLY covers the full cycle.
Yes. Sortly exports product and item data as CSV, and VNDLY's importer can bring across your products, categories, and current stock levels to give you an accurate starting inventory.
Yes — VNDLY has native integrations with Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, and Squarespace. Sortly has no e-commerce integrations; stock updates after online sales require manual entry. With VNDLY, your stock levels update automatically when orders come in.
Most customers are fully live within a week. The main tasks are importing your existing stock data, setting up your supplier and purchasing workflow for the first time, and connecting your sales channels. The onboarding is self-serve — no implementation partner required.
14 days with full access to all features. No credit card required to start.
Yes. VNDLY supports CSV import for products, customers, and suppliers. You can also sync directly from Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Squarespace, and other platforms.
VNDLY integrates with Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Squarespace, PrestaShop, Magento, Xero, Visma, EasyPost, Sendcloud, Fraktjakt, and more. New integrations are added regularly.
Absolutely. VNDLY uses row-level security, AES-256 encryption for API keys, and runs on enterprise-grade infrastructure. Your data is isolated per tenant and backed up continuously.
Yes. All plans support multi-location inventory with stock transfers, per-location stock levels, and location-specific reporting.
Bring your own OpenAI or Anthropic API key. The AI queries your real business data to generate reports, detect anomalies, compare periods, and answer questions in natural language.
Yes. Refer customers to VNDLY and earn 20% recurring commission for as long as they stay — tracked through Rewardful with a 60-day cookie window. Payouts via PayPal once you hit $50. Apply at vndly.io/partners.
Yes. No contracts, no cancellation fees. You can downgrade or cancel from the billing page at any time. Your data stays accessible until the end of your billing period.
Yes — save approximately 17% with annual billing compared to monthly. You can switch between monthly and annual at any time.
Earn with VNDLY.
Refer inventory and sales teams to VNDLY and earn 20% recurring commission for every customer you bring in, for as long as they stay.
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