Acctivate Inventory Software Reviews & Product Details

Acctivate Inventory Software is an operational hub for growing small to mid-sized distributors, online retailers, and manufacturers using QuickBooks®. The sophisticated solution promotes collaboration across the entire company with tools that deliver comprehensive business management, including real-time visibility of inventory, multi-channel sales, purchasing, order fulfillment + more. Operations are accelerated from customer service to the warehouse and key insights enable strategic decision-making. Acctivate replaces manual, error-prone methods like spreadsheets and helps solve virtually any business and industry specific challenge. Integrations to best-in-class technologies for eCommerce, EDI and more simplify business processes; and intelligent functionality for lot & serial number traceability, landed cost, mobile warehouse management and more enhance productivity and streamline operations. Acctivate is an ERP alternative that works with QuickBooks to serve SMBs looking to scale operational capabilities without settling for a costly, overserving mid-market ERP software. In turn, their warehouse is optimized, inventory investments protected, and customer satisfaction exceeded.

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Languages Supported

English

Solution Type

All-in-One

Overview by

Brian Sweat (President and CEO at Alterity, Inc.)

Pricing

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Total Package Price

$5,995.00

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Annual Subscription Fee

$5,000.00

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User Insights

Average based on 99 real user reviews.

Implementation Time

4 months

Perceived Cost

$$$$$

Typical contract price

$0k - $0k

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Acctivate Inventory Software Integrations

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Last updated: Nov 04, 2026

What is Acctivate Inventory Software, and what problem is it built to solve?

Acctivate Inventory Software is inventory management software for small and midsized businesses. It is built to help manage inventory, orders, warehouse operations, and customer service, with QuickBooks integration to support more coordinated business operations and inventory decisions.

What languages does Acctivate Inventory Software support?

Acctivate Inventory Software supports 1 language: English.

What company sizes and industries is Acctivate Inventory Software the best fit for?

Acctivate Inventory Software appears most aligned with smaller businesses, particularly those managing wholesale inventory and orders. The most represented segments are:

Company size: Small businesses.
Industry: Wholesale.

How long does it take to implement Acctivate Inventory Software across a team?

Reported implementation times most often fall under one month, though teams also describe rollouts taking several months or longer.

Time to go live	Relative frequency
Less than 1 month, including less than 1 day	Most common
1–3 months	Also common
3–6 months	Less common
6–12 months	Less common
More than 12 months	Occasional

What customer support options does Acctivate Inventory Software provide, and how do users find the overall support experience?

Acctivate Inventory Software provides direct support through options such as phone, email/help desk, and a knowledge base. The support experience is often described as helpful, knowledgeable, and effective at resolving questions or assisting with custom work, though users also encounter delays and find ticket-based follow-up inconvenient at times.

What is the experience like for teams switching to Acctivate Inventory Software from another tool?

Switching to Acctivate Inventory Software has helped teams move beyond limited or aging inventory tools and gain stronger inventory control, order management, and lot tracking, while retaining QuickBooks for accounting where needed. The transition can feel manageable, but implementing workflows and learning the system may take substantial effort, especially when a business has specialized processes or limited internal technical resources.

What tools and platforms does Acctivate Inventory Software integrate with, and how do these integrations help users get more value from the product?

Acctivate Inventory Software offers 21 integrations. Integrations users specifically discuss include:

Accounting: QuickBooks.
E-commerce and web stores: Amazon and web store connections.
Reporting: Crystal Reports.
EDI: TrueCommerce EDI.

These connections can keep inventory, accounting, orders, and reporting more closely coordinated and reduce repeated data entry. QuickBooks syncing is useful in daily operations, although users note that setup and occasional synchronization issues may require attention.

What features or capabilities could make Acctivate Inventory Software even more useful?

Acctivate Inventory Software could be more useful with improvements that make common tasks easier to complete and information easier to retrieve. Users would particularly value:

More flexible, complete built-in reports and easier report customization.
Faster, more intuitive search, data entry, and order workflows.
More automation for routine inventory and order tasks.
Greater reliability and smoother performance, including during updates.

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Verified User in Textiles

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

Originally submitted 9/26/2019

"Acctivate Review"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Acctivate Inventory Software?

It's pretty easy to get figured out and manage your inventory and sales in. The customizable reports can be used for almost any function you want from sending inventory feeds to creating sales reports. Support team is very helpful and quick. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acctivate Inventory Software?

Some functionality would be helpful, like if applying payments in Acctivate could be synced to Quickbooks or if the Order manager tool would let you perfom actions to PO's by just highlighting them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jason L.

Replenishment Analyst

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/26/2019

"Decent Software for the price"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Acctivate Inventory Software?

I like that it is pretty easy to use, It does our inventory management and invoicing. I also like how its EDI compatible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acctivate Inventory Software?

It can be slow at times when invoicing especially if you have a ton of them to do. It would also be nice if it was able to do USPS, FEDX, and UPS labels too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Glass, Ceramics & Concrete

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/17/2019

"Intermediate acctivate user"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Acctivate Inventory Software?

This software is so easy to use. Very simple to edit or update locations, prices, invoices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acctivate Inventory Software?

Nothing really. I do wish it had less issues with our server Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ken H.

President

Food & Beverages

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/2/2018

"Incredible Software & Exception Service"

5/5

What do you like best about Acctivate Inventory Software?

Acctivate does exactly what it is supposed to do and it is very intuitive and easy to use. I just love the software and I love the team of people who support it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acctivate Inventory Software?

There is nothing I dislike! It has everything I need and then some! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Acctivate Inventory Software:

There's no question the software works. It does everything that it is advertised to do. Furthermore, their customer support is off the charts great! They bend over backwards to make sure you know how to use it. They also have excellent tutorials right on line, so you can find very well prepared materials to keep you operating at the highest level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Acctivate Inventory Software solving and how is that benefiting you?

QuickBooks cannot effectively manage inventory. And, QuickBooks cannot track it by lot codes that are necessary for managing perishable products. Acctivate has simply changed our company from an ineffective and inefficient company into a professional leader. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ray L.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/17/2018

"Solid program and decent business solution."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Acctivate Inventory Software?

The best feature is the self contained robustness that acctivate offers. From an inventory standpoint, we can set all kinds of min/max values and really keep tabs on our products. It can generate tons of reports and custom ones can be made as well.

In addition, from a sales side, it stores plenty of addresses and the process of submitting a PO or invoicing the order is a breeze. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acctivate Inventory Software?

It does have a few perceived shortcomings.

1) Very heavy on the graphic resources: This often leads to improper shut downs of the program, visual errors and memory issues. This has some to do with our choices in hardware, but it is very resource intensive.

2) Pre-auth: Some programs will allow your pre-auth to be adjusted in the upward direction. Acctivate is not one of those. You must delete it and then charge separately (effectively removing double funding from your customer).

3) Sensitive order of operations: There are some actions that must be done in order. If you don't, you end up in an endless error loop that could eat of 5 minutes of your time. For example, if you have a dropship D and a lot number assigned. If you change it to a Stock Shipment (P) before removing the lot number, you will end up in an error loop.

4) Windows: You are only able to have a finite (20's ish for me) amount of windows open. Furthermore, the window button only shows you 10 active windows. So if you are using 15, you can't switch directly to them using the window tab.

There are some more that could eventually be improved upon, but these aren't "deal breakers" just improvement possibilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Acctivate Inventory Software:

Have someone on staff who is very computer savvy. Preferably an in house tech to help explain/troubleshoot or communicate with Acctivate staff when help is needed. While there are a great deal of tutorials, you will only be able to get out of Acctivate the same quality of work you can put into it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Acctivate Inventory Software solving and how is that benefiting you?

Quickbooks records all of our financials as it has much more malleability for transaction needs. However, we heavily rely on Acctivate to track our sales data and inventory management. An area that Acctivate is very strong in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Erica Avila of Acctivate

Hi Ray,

Thank you for your thorough and valuable feedback. The areas you have noted for improvement are greatly appreciated and will be taken into consideration for future enhancements.

Thanks again for sharing and being an Acctivate customer,

Erica Avila

Verified User in Retail

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/13/2018

"New Company, Needed an inventory management/sales system"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Acctivate Inventory Software?

The flexibility to create custom reports that help me get the information that I want. The ease of use that helps me train new employees quickly. The Order Manager that directs the flow of an order from quotation to delivery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acctivate Inventory Software?

Some of the journal entries created in QuickBooks after synchronization are difficult to trace. The inability to look up vendor information outside of creating a PO. The lack of suggested MIN/MAX stocking quantities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Acctivate Inventory Software:

There are a number of options out there. Acctivate is very reasonably priced for the capacity that it can function. Acctivate is worth a look and the customer service team has been a big help in solving issues with getting the information that I need. They are a phone call away and can only help if you call. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Acctivate Inventory Software solving and how is that benefiting you?

The order manager tab is a quick snapshot of what is/should be going on in each area of our business (i.e. warehouse, dispatch, inside sales) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Erica Avila of Acctivate

I am happy you chose Acctivate as a new company and thank you for your valuable feedback. So that readers have more information, I’d like to point out some of the items you mentioned and resources to learn more.

Regarding tracing journal entries, our Inventory Detail Journal Report in Acctivate can help research journal entries further – learn more about it at https://help.acctivate.com/articles/807/. Vendor info can also be stored in the Product Screen within Acctivate and the PO screen includes a View Supplier Info button for a quick snapshot – there’s more about this at https://help.acctivate.com/articles/1997/. Our suggested inventory reorder quantities are based on a complex formula, which is explained at https://help.acctivate.com/articles/5468/.

Thanks again for sharing and being an Acctivate customer,

Erica Avila

Dillon L.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/13/2018

"The software does its job and exceeds in a lot of ways, but undoing mistakes can be a pain"

3/5

What do you like best about Acctivate Inventory Software?

I really like that orders are very neat and the software is very easy to use if you do not make mistakes. All the functions are intuitive and do not take very long to learn, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acctivate Inventory Software?

If you make a mistake with some of the functions like inventory or cost landed, then fixing those mistakes can be very time consuming and difficult. The support often takes longer than we would like. They are helpful, but do not always answer their phone and the online ticket process can be a pain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Acctivate Inventory Software:

If you are a smaller company that uses QB and needs to an inventory management software then Acctivate really offers a lot for a reasonable price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Acctivate Inventory Software solving and how is that benefiting you?

The software has provided an easy way for our purchasing department to receive containers and track different custom orders. The reporting functions have really helped to track sales numbers and margins on our products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Erica Avila of Acctivate

Hi Dillon,

Thank you for letting us know how we’re doing. I’m glad you have found Acctivate to be easy to use and easy to learn and have seen improvements in purchasing and gains with reporting.

Acctivate was designed to streamline processes, most of which is automated, but when human error is involved there are steps that must be taken to correct the issues. I apologize for any inconvenience correcting those errors has caused, but we continually work to make improvements in the system that can also catch errors, such as through warnings.

I’m sorry to hear you haven’t had the best response times with support. Our team works very hard to respond in a timely manner to every customer support request. We do receive a high volume of requests and take care of them in the order received and based on urgency. We’ve also added additional reps to our Support Team to answer phones more consistently.

Thank you again for your recommendation of Acctivate and feedback.

Erica Avila

Hunter G.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/13/2018

"Has confused the way I spell Acctivate forever..."

1.5/5

What do you like best about Acctivate Inventory Software?

Ability to sync with our web store, QuikBooks, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acctivate Inventory Software?

Having to click edit to start working on anything. I'd much prefer just being able to start typing. Clicking the magnifying glass before searching, it'd be nice if you could just type in the search field, and it would you know... search. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Acctivate Inventory Software:

1-10 million dollar company that can handle an off the shelf software, great. Larger companies should avoid, customization is limited and updates Acctivate comes up with normally benefits their broader user base but can often negatively impact your companies personal user experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Acctivate Inventory Software solving and how is that benefiting you?

Acctivate allows us to run a business, take orders, and have a history of what we've done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Erica Avila of Acctivate

Hi Hunter,

I have the same problem with the spelling of ‘Acctivate’, too. It really got me when I first started working here. It is great to hear that you are finding the sync between QuickBooks and your web store with Acctivate to be seamless.

In terms of the search capabilities, they have significantly improved through the years, but I do understand the productivity benefits via incremental search directly from a window. I’ve presented this as a consideration for future UI enhancements. But I also would like to add that our Lookup functionality via the magnifying glass is very powerful and does have incremental search. There are filters that can be set to get the results you need faster. Take a look at https://help.acctivate.com/articles/21402/ to see how to do that.

You also mentioned that there are challenges that can negatively impact user experience. We strive to deliver fixes and enhancements via updates, but if you are experiencing issues after updating, our support team can assist. You can call Support at 817-870-1311 or open a request at https://help.acctivate.com/requests/.

Thank you for sharing,

Erica Avila

Marc T.

Warehouse & Logistics Manager

Cosmetics

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/27/2018

"Grande Cosmetics"

4/5

What do you like best about Acctivate Inventory Software?

Inventory management and order management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acctivate Inventory Software?

Constant Invoicing orders. We have a lot of orders that are processed and it is not easy for us to stop and invoice constantly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Victoria K.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/11/2018

"Not the best fit, but it works"

2/5

What do you like best about Acctivate Inventory Software?

Ability to link transactions

copy emails to a transaction

various easy ways to search transactions and products

Ability to track items by lot #

Ability to do manufacturing assemblies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acctivate Inventory Software?

we were sold a service that we have never used

It doesn't work well with the products that we inventory in pounds

It allows for a lot of accounting errors that you have to find on your own

there aren't enough preventive measures to help keep the costing accurate

basic reports are mediocre and one report adds up the totals wrong and hasn't been fixed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Acctivate Inventory Software:

Make sure you spend time monitoring your financial statements for errors in the first few months. Make sure you review what modules you purchased before your implementation ends to make sure everything was setup. Make sure you understand the workarounds if you have inventory in pounds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Acctivate Inventory Software solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed a way to track related transactions and acctivate has been incredibly helpful in that way

We needed to start tracking our products by lot #

We needed a way to start tracking our raw materials for our manufactured products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.