Sortly alternative

Your stock, next to who buys it.

Stock at each place, suppliers, purchase orders and sales orders, in the same app as your customers, quotes and invoices. Unlimited users on every plan.

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Free plan, no card. Import your Sortly items from one spreadsheet.

Northwind SupplyCustomersQuotesInvoicesA small distributor of branded office goods

Sortly and Alori, side by side.

SortlyAlori

Price for a team of 5Ultra, $149 a month billed monthlyFrom $99 a month, everyone included

People5 licenses on Ultra, 8 on PremiumUnlimited users on every plan

Barcode and QR scanningYes, in its mobile appNot yet

Item photos and foldersYes, a strengthNot yet

Purchase ordersFrom the Ultra planYes, with receiving in parts and supplier bills

Sales orders and invoicesIn other appsBuilt in, from a quote to an invoice

Customers, deals, email and callsIn other appsBuilt in

From a quote to stock that refills itself.

A customer accepts a quote, it becomes a sales order, stock is committed, and what runs low becomes a purchase order draft.

1The quote becomes a sales order
2What's low shows first
3Purchase orders move along

The quote becomes a sales order

What changes on Monday.

01
BeforeThe sixth teammate means a bigger Sortly plan
With AloriUnlimited users: sales, the warehouse and the owner all log in
02
BeforeA customer asks for 200 totes and you check three apps
With AloriThe customer, their quote and what's available on one screen
03
BeforeSomeone notices the shelf is empty, then orders
With AloriLow stock shows up first, and one click drafts the purchase orders

Every place, every count.

Each item shows what's in stock, incoming, committed and available, at the warehouse, the shop or any place you add. Every count, move and receipt stays in its history, with Undo.

Safety stock per place, and a Low stock list.
Several suppliers per item, with price, minimum order and days to deliver.
Freight and customs on a purchase order go into the item's cost.

Ask John what's low.

John, your AI inventory manager, reads your stock and answers in chat or Team chat: what's low, how many are left at a place, what an item sells for.

"Do we have 200 canvas totes?"
"What's below its safety stock?"
He learns the words your team uses for items.

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
Make a sales order from Brightdesk's accepted quote
How many blue mugs are at the warehouse?

The full guide

Everything above, in detail: how it works, what it replaces and what it does not.

Short answer: Alori is a Sortly alternative for a small team that sells or ships products and wants its stock next to its customers, quotes and invoices. Inventory keeps what you have at each place, buys with purchase orders and sells with sales orders, and every plan has unlimited users. Switching is one spreadsheet: export your items from Sortly and import them in Inventory.

Why teams leave Sortly

Sortly is a simple, visual inventory app with a good mobile scanner. Teams outgrow it for these reasons:

Each plan counts user licenses: 2 on Advanced, 5 on Ultra, 8 on Premium. The sixth person means a bigger plan.
Purchase orders start on the Ultra plan, and selling, quoting and billing happen in other apps.
The count is in Sortly, the customer in a CRM, the invoice in accounting. Nobody sees what a customer ordered and whether it's in stock.

What you pay

Sortly, as listed on its pricing page in November 2026:

Team of 5	Sortly	Alori
Plan	Ultra: $149 a month billed monthly, 5 user licenses, 2,000 items	Free to start, Solo from $99 a month, Business from $249
Yearly	$888 for the first year (half off), then 20% off	Monthly, no contract
People	5 licenses, 8 on Premium ($299 a month)	Unlimited users on every plan
Purchase orders	From Ultra	Included

AI, texts, calls and emails use credits. See pricing.

What Alori replaces

Each item shows what's in stock, incoming from suppliers, committed to customers and available, at each place: the warehouse, the shop, a site. Count, add, take out or move stock, with a history and Undo.
Set a safety stock per place. Below it the item shows as Low, and one click drafts purchase orders for everything low, one per preferred supplier.
Suppliers and purchase orders: several suppliers per item with their code, price, minimum order and days to deliver. Order, receive in parts, add freight or customs to the cost, and track the supplier's bills.
Open a sales order from an accepted quote, pick, ship, deliver and turn it into an invoice. Price lists and payment terms per customer.
Follow an item by lot or serial number, with expiry dates, and see where a lot came from and went, for a recall.
Ask John, your AI inventory manager "what's low?" or "do we have 40 of the blue mugs?" in chat or Team chat.
Customers, deals, email and calls are in the same app as the stock.

What Alori doesn't do yet

Barcode and QR scanning, label printing and a scanning mobile app, item photos in folders, and a QuickBooks sync for stock. If your team counts by scanning labels all day, stay on Sortly, or keep it for counting and run orders and customers in Alori.

How to switch

Start free. Describe your business and say you keep stock. Already started? Tell Alori "add inventory".
Export from Sortly. Export your items as a CSV or Excel 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), adds new items and updates the ones already there.
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, if you buy and sell what you stock and want orders, customers and invoices in the same app. If you mainly scan and count items, Sortly does that better today.

For a team of 5 or more, Alori has unlimited users from $99 a month, against $149 a month for 5 Sortly licenses on Ultra billed monthly. On a yearly plan Sortly is cheaper the first year.

Alori has a free plan with no card. You can build your app and import your items for free.

Your items from Sortly's export: codes, names, quantities, places, prices and suppliers. Photos and the movement history stay in Sortly.

Small teams, usually under 50 people. For product companies, see Alori for wholesalers and distributors.

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Describe your business in a sentence. Alori builds the app.