Comparison
Stockroom vs Sortly: from tracking to a real back office
Sortly is a friendly visual inventory and asset tracker. When you start needing to buy, sell and cost that inventory, with purchase orders, weighted-average cost, COGS, reorder points and audits, you need a back office, not a catalog. Stockroom is that next step.
Where Sortly shines
Sortly is genuinely easy and great for visual asset and supply tracking with photos, folders and QR labels.
Where it stops
It tracks what you have, not what it cost or what you sold. There's no costed ledger, no purchase-to-COGS flow, no reservations and no variance-based audits, so it can't tell you your margin or true stock value.
Side by side
Stockroom vs Sortly, capability by capability
A fair look at what each tool covers. Plan-dependent items are noted rather than dismissed.
| Capability | Sortly | Stockroom |
|---|---|---|
| Visual item & asset tracking | List + labels | |
| QR / barcode labels | ||
| Purchase orders & receiving | ||
| Sales orders & COGS | ||
| Weighted-average cost ledger | ||
| Reorder points & suggestions | Basic alerts | |
| Reservations / available-to-promise | ||
| Cycle-count audits + variance | ||
| Multi-location transfers | Basic | |
| Reports: P&L, valuation, best sellers | ||
| Two-way Square sync |
Visual item & asset tracking
- Sortly
- Stockroom
- List + labels
QR / barcode labels
- Sortly
- Stockroom
Purchase orders & receiving
- Sortly
- Stockroom
Sales orders & COGS
- Sortly
- Stockroom
Weighted-average cost ledger
- Sortly
- Stockroom
Reorder points & suggestions
- Sortly
- Basic alerts
- Stockroom
Reservations / available-to-promise
- Sortly
- Stockroom
Cycle-count audits + variance
- Sortly
- Stockroom
Multi-location transfers
- Sortly
- Basic
- Stockroom
Reports: P&L, valuation, best sellers
- Sortly
- Stockroom
Two-way Square sync
- Sortly
- Stockroom
Why teams switch
What you gain moving to Stockroom
Teams who started with Sortly for tracking and now need to run buying, selling and costing off the same stock.
The back-office depth you unlock
- A true weighted-average cost ledger: every movement is signed and costed, so on hand, COGS and margin are always reconciled.
- Landed cost: freight allocates across received lines so your unit cost reflects reality, not just the invoice.
- Reservations / available to promise and backorders derived from confirmed orders. You never oversell.
- Real cycle-count audits with live shrink, overage and accuracy metrics, not just a manual stock adjustment.
- Per-location truth with a request/ship/receive transfer workflow; stock only moves on receipt.
- Two-way Square sync so you can keep selling on Square while Stockroom owns your inventory truth.
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