Looking for a Zoho Inventory alternative?

Zoho Inventory is capable, especially if you already live in the Zoho suite. Teams leave it for cost, complexity, or a missing customer self-service portal. Count My Boxes migrates items, contacts, orders, invoices and bills for free so you can try the simpler shape without losing history.

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Why teams move off Zoho Inventory

The suite is the feature and the cost. If you wanted inventory, a portal and batch tracking — not a second CRM, a second books product and a per-module maze — the extra surface is the problem. Count My Boxes is inventory and warehouse software. The portal and FEFO are included. Migration of Zoho CSV exports is a first-class path, not a professional-services quote.

How Count My Boxes handles it

We migrate the catalog, and the history

Items, contacts, sales orders, invoices, purchase orders and bills. Full-fidelity, including historical orders, at no charge. The dedicated walkthrough is on the migration page.

Customer portal included

Each customer gets a login, their prices and their order history. Portal orders update stock in the same system — no Zoho-to-something-else sync.

Batch and expiry without another SKU

Lot numbers, expiry dates, FEFO fulfillment and expiring-soon alerts are part of the item, not an add-on.

Count My Boxes vs. Zoho Inventory

Feature Count My Boxes Zoho Inventory
Suite required Standalone inventory Part of the Zoho suite
Data migration Free, full-fidelity, including history Export CSVs; import is on you
Customer order portal Included Varies; often another product
Batch and expiry Included Available
Setup Afternoon, self-service Suite configuration
Starting price Free to start Paid, suite-linked

Based on Zoho Inventory's publicly documented feature set as of 2026 — products change over time.

Leave Zoho Inventory without leaving your history

We import the CSVs. Try a sample warehouse with no signup while the catalog is coming across.

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