inFlow Inventory and StockBold overlap on the warehouse and part ways on either side of it. inFlow follows the goods out to the customer: sales orders, invoices, shop and accounting connectors. StockBold follows them in from the supplier: approvals, landed costs, claims, payment terms, valuation. The right choice depends on which side of the warehouse causes you more trouble.
This comparison was checked against inFlow’s own feature and help pages on 12 October 2026. If something has changed since, tell us and we will correct it.
Where inFlow does more
Selling. inFlow has sales orders, invoicing and its own payment option, with picking, packing and shipping. StockBold has none of that: it records stock leaving, not who bought it.
Connectors. inFlow connects to Shopify, Amazon, WooCommerce, Squarespace and Square for orders, to QuickBooks Online and Xero for accounting, and to ShipStation and EasyPost for shipping. StockBold imports from CSV and offers an API for locations, movements, counts and shelf positions, and no shop or accounting connectors.
Native app. inFlow has iOS and Android apps that scan with the camera. StockBold scans with the camera in the browser, with nothing to install, and has no native app.
Manufacturing tier. inFlow’s manufacturing plan adds bills of materials with labour folded into the finished cost. StockBold’s assemblies are included for every organisation.
Where StockBold does more
Who did what. inFlow’s movement history shows the date and the document behind each change; the user is reported separately, at the record level, in a team tracking report. In StockBold every movement carries its author, reason and date, and the history can be filtered by any of them.
Negative stock. inFlow’s documentation says it is fine for inventory levels to fall below zero occasionally. StockBold refuses any movement that would take a location below zero, even backdated, because a negative balance is an unrecorded error somewhere upstream.
Approvals. Both have purchase order approvals. inFlow enables approvers per team member, with an optional amount limit, as part of an advanced access add-on on its lower tiers. StockBold sets approvers per department and separates who approves any order from who approves only their own; an approved order that is edited returns to draft, and every approval is recorded with a name and time.
Costing. Both offer average cost, FIFO and LIFO. inFlow’s help notes that its FIFO and LIFO reports show only an average cost. StockBold rebuilds the valuation on any date from the movement history under the method you chose, and locks a closed year for everyone until someone with the permission removes the lock, with that removal on record. inFlow’s closed-transaction cutoff can likewise be reopened by an administrator.
Supplier claims. inFlow returns goods to a vendor for a refund or credit. StockBold also tracks the replacement the supplier owes, across several deliveries, and brings replacement units in at the price originally paid, so a free replacement does not land in stock at zero.
Payments. inFlow’s payment terms set a due date per bill. StockBold splits terms into instalments with their own anchors and offsets, and forecasts what falls due with each supplier month by month, firm amounts apart from estimates.
Documents and the assistant. Both attach files to products and orders. StockBold also reads the text inside them, scans included, so an order is found by the invoice or certificate number written on the document. Both have an AI assistant on your own data; inFlow’s was in beta in August 2026, and StockBold’s reads only, within the user’s permissions.
Reports. inFlow has ageing, historical inventory and profit reports. StockBold adds a turnover report with velocity bands, a twelve-month value history and the payment forecast.
Side by side
| StockBold | inFlow Inventory | |
|---|---|---|
| Sales orders, invoicing | None | Yes |
| Shop and accounting connectors | None | Shopify, Amazon, WooCommerce, QuickBooks Online, Xero and more |
| Shelf positions | Per product | Sublocations, Core plan and up |
| Movement history | Author on every movement | Date and document; user at record level |
| Negative stock | Refused, always | Allowed |
| PO approvals | Per department, edits return to draft | Per user with amount limit; add-on on lower tiers |
| Landed costs | Per unit, by value | Freight and non-vendor costs distributed |
| Costing | FIFO, LIFO, average; valuation on any date | Average, FIFO, LIFO; FIFO and LIFO reports show an average |
| Year lock | Yes; removing it needs a permission and is recorded | Closed transactions; admins can reopen |
| Supplier claims | Replacement tracked at original cost | Return for refund or credit |
| Assemblies | Included, with reservation, labour and overheads | Manufacturing tier |
| Payment terms | Instalments and a payment forecast | Due date per bill |
| Documents | Text search inside scans | Attachments |
| AI assistant | Read only, within permissions | Report assistant, beta |
| Phone scanning | Browser | Native app |
Which one for which business
Choose inFlow if orders come in from a shop or a marketplace and have to flow through picking, invoicing and accounting. A retailer or an e-commerce brand with a warehouse behind the shop.
Choose StockBold if your stock comes from suppliers and goes to production, service jobs or a sales process you run elsewhere, and if the problems you have are on the buying side: orders approved by the wrong people, deliveries recorded late, faulty goods lost in email, a stock value nobody trusts. A distributor, a workshop, a maintenance operation, a company with a warehouse and a shop.
StockBold has a free plan with no time limit; the pricing page has the details. Read more about purchase orders in StockBold.