LilyPad Warehouse Manufacturing
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Advanced manufacturing management features designed specifically for mid-market QuickBooks® users
Ideal Lilypad Warehouse (LPM) Customer
- Midsize company with 10 to 200 employees
- Annual sales: $2 million to $100 million
- Multiple warehouses or production facilities
- QuickBooks user seeking advanced inventory control and manufacturing tools
- Sage (or similar software) user wanting to return to QuickBooks
- 5 to 30 Lilypad Warehouse users (can handle up to 75 concurrent users)
How does Lilypad Warehouse work with QuickBooks?
- During the initial integration, LPW downloads all the customer, vendor, inventory, and company information from QuickBooks directly into the LPW database
- After integration, LPW manages all sales, purchasing, manufacturing, and inventory function
- QuickBooks essentially becomes the accounting module of LPW. When products are sold, LPW updates inventory records and alerts QuickBooks to create invoices, bills and make other accounting adjustments
Feature Comparison
Implementing your Inventory doesn’t have to be overwhelming. We break down the process into clear, manageable stages—from database setup and training to custom reporting and full implementation.
| Capabilities | QuickBooks Only † | QuickBooks with your software |
| Multi-currency | Supported | Supported |
| Accounting methods | Average costing and FIFO | LIFO, FIFO, standard & average costing |
| Barcode printing & scanning | None | Supported |
| Bill of materials | Assemblies | Multiple levels and stages |
| Displays work-in-process | None* | Supported |
| Drop shipping | None* | Supported |
| Locations | Sites | Multiple locations supported |
| Manufacture orders and work orders | Assemblies | Assembly, disassembly and custom |
| Multiple location part tracking | Some (limited) | More than you’ll ever need |
| Part tracking | Lot or serial | Serial, lot & revision #’s, exp. date & custom fields |
| Product/kit configurator | None | Unlimited |
| Remote access | VPN only* | Any network connection |
| RMA | None | Supported |
| Transfer orders | None | Supported |
| UPS Ready Shipping | Yes, most features | Yes, all features fully integrated into your software |
| User access rights | Role-based | Role-based and granular feature-based |
| Variable pricing and discounting | Percent, amount | Percent, amount & group and cost-plus pricing |
| Warehouses | None | Supported |
How does Lilypad Warehouse work with QuickBooks?
How does Lilypad Warehouse work with QuickBooks?
The Warehouse version of Lilypad Inventory gives you the ability to streamline your daily processes, as well as providing advanced inventory control and tracking. The day-to-day activities of order entry, inventory management, receiving, picking, shipping, etc. are handled directly in Lilypad Inventory. When you sync the transactions to QuickBooks, you are able to keep the financial information in a separate, more secure, environment, since fewer people will need to be logged into QuickBooks. Lilypad Inventory Warehouse version is divided into modules that allow you to split your operations among people or departments. Each module interacts with other modules within Lilypad to keep the entire company up-to-date. This can help improve communication and accuracy between groups. Lilypad Warehouse also gives you the ability to plug in other programs, such as shipping, ecommerce, Fishbowl Go, or LilyPad Mobile Warehouse, through its open API (Application Programming Interface). Integrating your programs so that they communicate and pass information automatically can not only reduce human error, but also improve efficiencies throughout the company and among all departments. The user interface of Fishbowl Inventory is intuitive and easy to navigate. Although it is already simple to
use with the default settings, you have the ability to manipulate the user interface in several ways to make navigation even more user-friendly for your needs. This includes such things as saving specific layouts, automation of certain actions, and auto-loading of the modules that you most often use.
There are fewer features in the Lilypad Warehouse management version, as compared to the manufacturing version, so the Fishbowl Warehouse price is lower. If you are on a budget, and you do not need the manufacturing functionality, then the Lilypad Warehouse version is the correct option for you. All other features, such as inventory management, sales orders, and purchase orders are included in the Lilypad Warehouse price.
Many people who are considering moving to Lilypad Inventory have been using QuickBooks, or spreadsheets, or even something as simple as pen and paper methods. It can be overwhelming to decide if Lilypad is right for you, but when you consider the return on investment for having a robust inventory management system, the Lilypad Warehouse cost will be well worth the investment.
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