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The Best School Inventory Management System.
Your teachers and administrators should be focusing on educating—not searching for school supplies or looking for missing laptops. With Sortly’s inventory software, you can:
Organize, track, and manage inventory from any device.
Track supplies, materials, and equipment in real time, even across multiple locations or campuses.
Know exactly what’s in each classroom, closet, or storage room.
Track, manage, and organize your school inventory with ease.
Sortly’s easy school inventory management software makes it easy to know what supplies and equipment you have on hand and their exact location.
Use Sortly on your phone, tablet, or computer—from anywhere, anytime.
Add high-resolution photos for everything from prom decorations to lab supplies.
Create custom fields to track details such as quantity, location, and condition.
Barcode your school's inventory for greater speed and accuracy.
A more efficient inventory system for your school.
Whether you run a pre-school or a university department, Sortly make it easy to keep tabs on everything from supplies and parts to valuable equipment and machinery, so you’ll never run out of anything again.
Set inventory minimums for every item in your inventory.
Get low stock alerts and reminders long before you run out.
Track high-value equipment and supplies as they move from classroom to classroom.
Reduce human error with digital inventory management—no more outdated spreadsheets.
It's time for a smarter inventory system for your school.
Stop relying on messy spreadsheets or hand-written inventory lists to track your education inventory. Sortly helps you organize, track, and automate inventory tasks and set up a digital inventory system in minutes. Here are a few smart features our education customers love:
Use the in-app barcode and QR code scanner to check items in and out.
Generate and print custom barcodes and QR codes for unlabeled items.
Pull inventory reports instantly with our easy reporting dashboard.
Give the right levels of access to different employees on your staff.
School inventory software you’ll get the hang of in minutes.
Sortly was designed with users like you in mind. No day-long orientations, no 200-page manuals. The software is intuitive, customizable, and engineered to get your school or university organized today.
Easy, intuitive, and fully mobile.
Seamlessly manage inventory across devices.
Friendly, super-helpful customer service if you ever need it.
Sortly school inventory management software features.
Easy Inventory Import
Easy inventory import transfers your existing inventory into Sortly with the touch of a button.
Items
Enter your items and track key details about them, such as quantity, location, and cost.
Item Photos
Add item photos to your entries to create a visual inventory and track appearance and condition details.
Custom Folders
Custom folders so you can organize your stuff exactly how you want it.
Custom Fields
Custom fields so you can track the unique details that matter to you and custom-segment your items.
Inventory Lists
Inventory lists perfect for audits, budgeting, or forecasting.
User Licenses
User licenses so you can collaborate with your team and even your clients.
Customizable User Access
Customizable user access ensures you share the right info with the right people.
Activity History
Activity history provides visibility into user updates so you know who did what, and when.
Pick Lists
Create a pick list to ensure your team grabs the right items from your inventory, every time.
Barcode & QR Code Scanning
Barcode & QR code scanning so you can scan items right from your smartphone.
QuickBooks Online Integration
Easily send invoices and purchase orders to your existing QBO account.
Purchase Orders
Create a purchase order using your inventory details for end-to-end inventory management.
Label Generation
Label generation so you can add barcode labels to physical inventory.
Check-in/Check-out
Use the in-app scanner to check items in and out and ensure they’re returned to the correct locations.
Quantity-based alerts
Quantity-based alerts to notify you when an item falls below a set threshold (so you know when and how much to re-order).
Date-based Alerts
Date-based alerts so you can schedule maintenance and repairs for valuable equipment and assets.
In-app Alerts
In-app alerts to notify you of your alerts while you’re using the Sortly app.
Email Alerts
Email alerts to notify you via email of your alerts.
Activity Report
Activity reports allow you to keep tabs on all users' changes to items, folders, tags, and more.
Inventory Summary Report
Inventory summary reports allow you to quickly see the total quantity and value of your inventory based on selected filters.
Move Summary Report
Move summary reports gives you a record of all inventory location changes during a specified time period.
Low Stock Report
Low stock reports allow you to see all items that are below set minimums so you can re-order the right amount at the right time.
Item Flow Report
Item flow report gives you a full picture of all quantity changes for your items during a specified time period.
Transaction Report
Transaction reports provide a full picture of all inventory transactions, including quantity changes, additions, and deletions.
Easy-to-use Mobile App
Easy-to-use mobile app for iOS or Android.
Cloud-based Automatic Sync
Cloud-based automatic sync ensures your team can seamlessly update inventory in real time from any device.
Offline Mobile Access
Offline mobile access so you can use Sortly in the field (and sync later).
API
API access so you can connect your existing tools and data to Sortly.
SSO (Single Sign-On)
SSO (Single sign-on) for maximum security.
Sortly customer reviews and testimonials.
We're proud to be an industry-leading solution trusted by thousands of businesses.
"Sortly has made managing our inventory fun! There, I said it. All of our items in one place. Categorized in a way that makes sense to us. With photos so there is no confusion by only having product numbers that no one really knows. We see the value, the quantity, the item type, the variants, etc. all in one place. And, it's mobile! Our inventory used to be a guessing game before Sortly. Now, we always have confidence in what products are in stock."
Heather P.
"[Sortly is] super. It just makes a huge difference on everything. It's probably one of the most helpful products that I use in the business on a day-to-day basis."
Christopher Boshears Design
"This has changed my job as manager of Inventory for an office space! It is so much easier to get things sorted when they can be counted in a flash, instead of having to use an excel spreadsheet."
Lisa D.
"It has been wonderful and made my work life so much easier. I'd recommend to anyone or company. Keep up the great work Sortly team!"
Jason J.
"With Sortly, we have been able to quickly and efficiently add our inventory. We love that notifications can be sent to individuals when inventory is running low on a particular item."
Robin R.
"Overall, it's been a delight. It's easily customized, consistently functions well, allows us to run the reports we need for inventory tracking and auditing, and it's easy to use, so it's easy to onboard new volunteers who join our Inventory Team."
Kristen B.
"It is really easy to keep track of the items we have in our warehouse. I like how it also keeps track of the history, so it makes it really for us to see a date and time an items level decreased or increased. I also really like how easy it is to use, we were able to easily get multiple people on board to understand how it works."
Celina M.
"This app took our business to a new level. We could never keep all of our inventory straight without it. Extremely easy to use."
Josh
"Ours is a very quick, fast-paced environment and Sortly has been able to help us keep track of all our different pieces, whether it be furniture or signage. For us to be able to keep all of those things moving, we needed software to help us more clearly track those items, and Sortly has been a really great place for us to do that. It's been easy for us to train on."
Better Beans Branding
"I've been a customer since [Sortly's] first year. They have kept up a clean responsive product that has also evolved as my company has. I can't imagine running my inventory on a clunkier or messier system. It's easy to use and integrates well in my business. QR codes are a game changer and helps keep me away from messy, tedious spreadsheets. Their portal for upvoting and requesting features with progress on if they are considering or implementing them is fantastic, as they actually do implement those changes."
Tim T.
"So far, I've really enjoyed sortly, its a good basic inventory management system at a reasonable price for a small buisness."
Crystal D.
"Sortly [has been] a game changer. I am really happy with the product. It's very easy for me to do stock takes and give access to my clients to their respective bins. I found the onboarding process on Sortly seamless. It was very easy for me to start putting in my warehouse stock into Sortly in a matter of days. Sortly worked as we wanted it to instead of the other way around."
Shaffi M.
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