Sortly
Simple inventory management software for small businesses to track supplies, materials, tools and equipment.
By Sortly · 4.5/5 Value-Position score (estimate)
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Small businesses replacing spreadsheets with photo-based, barcoded inventory tracking
- Teams tracking tools, equipment, materials and supplies across multiple locations or vehicles
- Operations that need offline mobile scanning plus QR/barcode label printing
- Companies wanting low-stock and date-based alerts, purchase orders and QuickBooks Online sync
- Audit- and budget-focused teams needing exportable PDF/CSV reports and activity history
Ideal size: 1–50 people · Small business or operations team moving off spreadsheets
Not for
- Manufacturers needing MRP, BOM or production planning
- Enterprises needing ERP-grade procurement and multi-entity finance
- Retailers needing POS, e-commerce order management or demand forecasting
- Operations needing full warehouse automation (WMS wave picking, robotics)
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
About 1 week
~7 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
$888/yr
Starts at $288 · Tiered subscription limited by unique items, user licenses and active jobs; billed monthly or yearly (50% first-year discount on annual plans).
Implementation Friction
1/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Value-Position score
out of 5 · model estimate
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
Free 1 user; Advanced 2; Ultra 5; Premium 8; Enterprise 12+
Add-on costs
- None
Company & support
Who is behind Sortly, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
- Not recorded
- Headquarters
- Not recorded
How you get support
- PhoneNot listed
- EmailNot listed
- Live chatNot listed
- Support portal / ticketsAll plans
- Community forumNot listed
- Help centre / docsAll plans
- Dedicated account managerEnterprise only
- In person / on-siteNot listed
- Hours
- Not recorded
- Response time
- Not stated
Self-serve Help Center and ticket submission available to all users; Enterprise plans include a Dedicated Customer Success Manager for onboarding, training and ongoing account monitoring.
“Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention that channel, not that it is unavailable. Ask about it during evaluation.
Market position
Where Sortly sits against its closest alternatives. Pick any two of cost, speed, friction and buyer score, and up to 9 companies to compare.
Quadrant view
Typical annual cost × Time-to-value
The lines cross at the median of the solutions shown, so about half sit on each side of each line. A dashed ring marks an outlier pinned to the edge; hover for its value.
Companies on the chart 6 / 10
- Sortly
- Jibble
- TeamGantt
- Cheqroom
- Whip Around
- Hourly
Add or change companies
Up to 10 companies including Sortly. Listed closest first.
Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
No supported MCP path today, so it cannot be driven from an AI client.
AI & MCP readiness
What Sortly ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
Sortly is cloud inventory management software for small and mid-sized businesses. Teams track supplies, materials, tools and equipment with photo-based item records, custom fields and folders, mobile barcode and QR scanning, low-stock and date alerts, and exportable PDF/CSV reports. Plans scale by unique items, user licenses and active jobs, from a free single-user tier to Enterprise with API, webhooks and a dedicated success manager. Slack, Teams and QuickBooks Online integrations replace spreadsheet tracking.
Frequently asked questions
How long does Sortly take to get running?
Sortly is self-serve: you can start a 14-day free trial on any paid plan, import an existing inventory spreadsheet, and be tracking items in days rather than months. There is no stated implementation fee, and mobile apps, barcode scanning and label printing work out of the box. Enterprise customers can also get a Dedicated Customer Success Manager to onboard and train the team.
What does Sortly cost per year?
There is a free plan with 100 unique items and one user. Paid tiers are billed monthly or yearly: Advanced at $288/year (2 users, 500 items), Ultra at $888/year (5 users, 2,000 items) and Premium at $1,788/year (8 users, 5,000 items) on annual billing, with a 50% first-year discount. Enterprise pricing, including ACH, wire and Net 30 invoicing, is quote-based.
Is there a free trial or free plan?
Yes. Sortly offers a perpetual free tier for getting started (100 unique items, 1 user, 2 active jobs) and a 14-day free trial on paid plans. A credit card is required for the trial and it converts automatically unless you cancel before it ends, so set a reminder if you are evaluating.
How does Sortly handle privacy and data protection?
Sortly's privacy policy states that under GDPR it acts as Controller for customer account information collected through its website and app, and as Processor for customer personnel data uploaded into its systems. A list of subprocessors is available on demand to enterprise customers. Buyers with strict requirements should request Sortly's security documentation directly, as public trust pages were not available at review time.
Does Sortly integrate with the rest of our stack?
Sortly offers Slack and Microsoft Teams notifications, QuickBooks Online for invoices and purchase orders, Amazon Business US ordering, and an API plus webhooks on higher tiers. SSO is also listed. No Model Context Protocol server is documented, so AI-agent integrations would need to be built against the public API.
What support is included?
All users get a self-serve Help Center and can submit a support ticket. Higher tiers add more administrative control, and the Enterprise plan includes a Dedicated Customer Success Manager who handles onboarding, team training and ongoing account monitoring. Sortly does not publish 24/7 support or a specific response-time SLA on its public pages.