Using Fishbowl?
Here's what's different.
Fishbowl counts your stock fine. The trouble is everything around it: reports you pay a consultant for, Shopify and QuickBooks syncs you babysit, support tickets that sit. Spark handles those, and brings your Fishbowl data over in minutes.
20 minutes. Bring a Fishbowl export if you like. No card, no commitment.
Five things Fishbowl users ask us for first
We read 449 Fishbowl reviews. Almost nobody complained about stock accuracy. They complained about the edges. This is how Spark handles each one.
Fishbowl users report
"Switching sounds worse than staying."
Your Fishbowl data comes with you, in minutes
Export from Fishbowl, connect it to Spark, and your parts, vendors, customers, and sales history land mapped and validated. No weekend of spreadsheet cleanup. No re-keying.
Fishbowl users report
"Missing features, and no way to customize."
Point your own AI at your inventory
Spark ships an MCP server, so Claude, ChatGPT, or whatever your team already uses can query stock, draft POs, and answer questions about your data. The thing Fishbowl won't do, you can now ask for in plain English.
Fishbowl users report
"Reporting is weak, and custom reports cost extra."
The report you need, built in seconds, not billed by the hour
Describe the report in the reports playground and Spark builds it from your live data. Margin by channel, aging stock by vendor, whatever the meeting needs. Save it, share it, run it again tomorrow.
Fishbowl users report
"It tracks stock, but doesn't tell me what to buy."
Know what to order, not just what you have
Spark reads your sales velocity and lead times, flags the SKUs about to run short and the ones piling up, and turns that into reorder points and draft POs you can approve in one click.
Fishbowl users report
"Steep learning curve, and support that doesn't pick up."
Start free, with a person walking you through it
No license to buy before you know it fits. Onboarding is a series of working sessions with someone from Spark who has seen your kind of operation before, and it's included, not an add-on.
Only the things people actually complain about
No feature-grid padding. The Fishbowl column is what reviewers say, not our opinion.
SparkReviewers say the built-in reports don't cover what they need, and that custom ones are slow to get or cost extra.
Describe the report you want in the reports playground and it's built from your live data in seconds. Included on every plan.
Reviewers describe syncs that need watching, break after updates, or need a third-party connector to work at all.
Native connectors for Shopify, Amazon, and QuickBooks Online. Orders and stock levels sync both ways without a plugin to babysit.
The most common complaint in the reviews we read: a feature is missing and there's no practical way to add it yourself.
Full REST API and an MCP server, so your own tools and your own AI can read and write your inventory. No consultant in between.
Reviewers report long waits, tickets that stall, and a steep learning curve that pushed them toward paid training.
A small team you can reach. Onboarding is consultative working sessions with a person, and it's included.
Reviewers running the desktop and server edition mention maintaining the server and updates that break workflows.
Cloud-based. Nothing to install or maintain, same experience on desktop, tablet, and phone.
Reviewers say the built-in reports don't cover what they need, and that custom ones are slow to get or cost extra.
Describe the report you want in the reports playground and it's built from your live data in seconds. Included on every plan.
Reviewers describe syncs that need watching, break after updates, or need a third-party connector to work at all.
Native connectors for Shopify, Amazon, and QuickBooks Online. Orders and stock levels sync both ways without a plugin to babysit.
The most common complaint in the reviews we read: a feature is missing and there's no practical way to add it yourself.
Full REST API and an MCP server, so your own tools and your own AI can read and write your inventory. No consultant in between.
Reviewers report long waits, tickets that stall, and a steep learning curve that pushed them toward paid training.
A small team you can reach. Onboarding is consultative working sessions with a person, and it's included.
Reviewers running the desktop and server edition mention maintaining the server and updates that break workflows.
Cloud-based. Nothing to install or maintain, same experience on desktop, tablet, and phone.
Fishbowl column summarizes themes from 449 public Fishbowl Inventory reviews with a cons section. Fishbowl is a trademark of its owner; Spark is not affiliated with Fishbowl.
A small team you can actually reach
A quarter of the Fishbowl reviews we read were about support. Here is how we work instead.
You reach a person, not a queue
Spark is a small team. When you write in, someone who works on the product reads it and answers. There is no premium support tier to buy your way into.
Onboarding is working sessions, and it's included
We sit with you, look at your Fishbowl setup, and map it into Spark together. Vendors, BOMs, channels, the reports you run every Monday. It is part of getting started, not a line item.
Free to start, and your data is yours
Bring your Fishbowl export, run Spark alongside it for as long as you need, and decide with real numbers. Export everything any time. No renewal cliff, no surprise invoice.
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Bring a Fishbowl export.
We'll show you your own numbers.
Twenty minutes with someone from Spark. We load your data, build the report you've been wanting, and you decide whether it's worth a closer look. If your renewal is coming up, that's a good time to do it.