Cin7 alternative
Inventory sized for a small team.
Stock by place, purchase orders, sales orders and lots, next to your customers, quotes and invoices. Unlimited users, from $99 a month.
Free plan, no card. Import your products from one CSV.
Cin7 and Alori, side by side.
Cin7AloriLow stock to a purchase order, in one click.
Set a safety stock per place. What drops below it shows up in To reorder, and Alori drafts the purchase orders, one per preferred supplier.
- 1What's low shows first
- 2The draft is ready to order
What changes on Monday.
- 01
BeforeA platform built for brands on ten channels, for a team that sells to 300 shops
With AloriItems, orders and customers, and nothing you don't use
- 02
BeforeAdding a sixth user means a bigger plan
With AloriUnlimited users on every plan
- 03
BeforeThe customer's history is in a CRM, their orders in Cin7
With AloriQuotes, orders, invoices, emails and calls on one record
Real costs, freight included.
Add freight, customs or a broker to a purchase order. Alori spreads them over the lines, so each unit received carries its share in the item's average cost.
- Buy by the case, count by the unit.
- Orders in another currency with their exchange rate.
- Supplier bills paid in parts, the first due first.
Expiry dates that ship in order.
Follow an item by lot with its expiry date. Shipping takes the first lot to expire, and a lot's trail shows the supplier it came from and the customers it went to.
- Lots in stock at each place, the first to expire first.
- Serial numbers for items you follow one by one.
- Ask John who received a lot.
Change it by asking.
Your app isn’t frozen on day one. Write what you need, the way you’d text it. Alori makes the change and shows you before anything goes live.
- What's below its safety stock?
- Draft purchase orders for everything low
- Add $140 of freight to PO-1029
- Which lots of cold brew expire this month?
The full guide
Everything above, in detail: how it works, what it replaces and what it does not.
Short answer: Alori is a Cin7 alternative for a small wholesaler or product company that doesn't need a multichannel inventory platform. Inventory covers stock by place, suppliers, purchase orders, sales orders, lots and serial numbers, in the same app as your customers, quotes and invoices, with unlimited users. Switching starts with one spreadsheet of your products.
Why teams leave Cin7
Cin7 is a deep inventory platform for brands selling on many channels, with EDI, a B2B portal and hundreds of integrations. Small teams leave it for these reasons:
- A team that sells to a few hundred business customers pays for marketplace, warehouse and channel tools it never opens.
- Core starts at $349 a month for 5 users, and POS and the B2B portal are add-ons.
- Leads, deals, email and calls live in a separate CRM.
What you pay
Cin7, as listed on its pricing page in November 2026:
| Team of 5 | Cin7 | Alori |
|---|---|---|
| Plan | Core Standard: $349 a month, 5 users, 6,000 sales orders a year | Free to start, Solo from $99 a month, Business from $249 |
| More people | Core Pro, $599 a month, for 10 users | Unlimited users on every plan |
| B2B portal and POS | Add-ons | Not offered |
| CRM, deals and calls | Another app | Built in |
AI, texts, calls and emails use credits. See pricing.
What Alori replaces
- Items and stock by place: in stock, incoming, committed and available at each place, with counts, moves and a history you can undo.
- Purchase orders: order, receive in parts, buy by the case, spread freight and customs into the item's cost, and track supplier bills and payments, in more than one currency.
- Reordering: a safety stock per place and one click that drafts purchase orders for everything low, one per preferred supplier.
- Sales orders from an accepted quote: pick, ship, deliver and invoice, with price lists and payment terms per customer.
- Lots and serial numbers with expiry dates and a lot's full trail for a recall.
- John, your AI inventory manager, who answers stock questions in chat.
- Your CRM: customers, deals, email, calls and tasks next to the orders.
What Alori doesn't do yet
Ecommerce and marketplace syncs (Shopify, Amazon), EDI, POS, a B2B ordering portal, barcode scanning, warehouse bins, accounting syncs for stock and orders, and assembly with bills of materials. If you sell on several channels or ship to retailers by EDI, stay on Cin7.
How to switch
- Start free. Describe your business and say you keep stock. Already started? Tell Alori "add inventory".
- Export your products from Cin7 as a CSV file.
- Import your items. In Inventory, click Import and pick the file. Alori finds the columns (code, name, unit, cost, sale price, quantity, place, supplier and the supplier's code), adds new items, updates the ones already there and makes the suppliers and places it names.
- Bring your customers. Paste your customer list into Ask Sam after "Add these customers:". Alori adds them, with an Undo button.
Questions
Another question? Ask it when you start.
Yes, for a small team that buys, stocks and sells to business customers and wants its CRM in the same app. For multichannel selling, EDI or a B2B portal, Cin7 goes much deeper.
Alori starts at $99 a month with unlimited users, against $349 a month for 5 users on Cin7 Core Standard.
Alori has a free plan with no card. You can build your app and import your items for free.
Your items from a CSV export: codes, names, units, costs, prices, quantities by place, suppliers and their codes. Past orders stay in Cin7.
Small teams, usually under 50 people. For product companies, see Alori for wholesalers and distributors.
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