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Sortly

Sortly Inc. US

Sortly is a visual stock and asset tracker with a phone scanner, free for one user and a hundred items, and 45 EUR a month for two users and five hundred items. It is the right tool for counting and photographing things you own, and it is not inventory software for a business that ships orders.

From
€45
Free plan
Yes
Trial
14 days
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Sortly website, captured on 2026-11-11
Screenshot of Sortly, captured 2026-11-11. Source: https://www.sortly.com/

Best for

A trade business or site office that needs to know where its tools and parts are

Strengths / Weaknesses

Strengths

  • The fastest set up in this comparison, you can photograph and tag stock on a phone the same afternoon
  • A genuine free tier for one user and a hundred items, with a 14 day trial on the paid plans
  • Barcode and QR scanning from the phone camera, with iOS and Android apps
  • Custom fields and photo first records make it good for tools, equipment and spares

Weaknesses

  • Item caps bite early, 500 items on the 45 EUR tier is small for any stockholding business
  • No carrier integrations at all, and no sales order or purchase order chain
  • QuickBooks Online is the only accounting connector, there is no Xero, Sage, Exact or Datev
  • All prices and in product amounts are in USD only, the vendor states this explicitly
  • The privacy policy confirms data may be stored outside the EEA under standard contractual clauses, with no EU region offered

Pricing

Plan Price Unit Note
Free Price on request per month 1 user, 100 unique items, 1 custom field
Advanced Price on request per month USD 49 list price, 2 users, 500 items
Ultra Price on request per month USD 149 list price, 5 users, 2,000 items
Premium Price on request per month USD 299 list price, 8 users, 5,000 items
Enterprise Price on request quote 12 or more users, 10,000 or more items, price on request

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Verdict

Sortly does one job well and does not pretend otherwise. If the question is where is the tool, the spare or the demo unit, it answers it in a day with a phone camera and no training. If the question involves purchase orders, supplier lead times, multi-currency selling or shipping labels, Sortly is the wrong class of product and the item caps will stop you quickly. For an EU buyer the USD only billing and the absence of an EU data region are the two things to weigh before committing.

Other Inventory software

Odoo Inventory Odoo Inventory A European small business that wants stock, purchasing and accounting from one vendor at a euro price €19.90 8.7 Zoho Inventory A small online seller that wants euro pricing, a free plan to start and published EU datacentres €29 7.9 Katana Cloud Inventory Katana Cloud Inventory A small manufacturer or maker brand that needs bills of materials and work orders, not just stock counts Price on request 7.4 Cin7 Cin7 A multichannel retailer or wholesaler selling across several marketplaces and storefronts at once €321 7.3 Erplain Erplain A small European wholesaler that wants euro billing, quotes, B2B orders and multi-site stock in one tool €59 7.2 Mecalux Easy WMS A European warehouse that also buys its racking and automation from one supplier Price on request 7

Where we write about it

Where these numbers come from

  1. [1] Sortly pricing, USD list prices converted at 1 USD = 0.92 EUR accessed 2026-11-11
  2. [2] Sortly privacy policy, company address and data transfers accessed 2026-11-11
  3. [3] Sortly features, QuickBooks Online integration and USD billing accessed 2026-11-11

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