Cin7 Core, formerly DEAR Systems, is a complete operations suite: quote to invoice, point of sale, a B2B portal, a warehouse app with directed picking, manufacturing, and links to the major shops and accounting packages. StockBold covers stock, purchasing and valuation and stops there. If the question is how much of the business one system should run, Cin7 Core’s answer is most of it and StockBold’s is the warehouse.
This comparison was checked against Cin7 Core’s own feature and help pages on 12 October 2026. Cin7 Omni, a different product, is not covered. If something has changed since, tell us and we will correct it.
Where Cin7 Core does more
Order to cash. Sales orders, picking, packing, shipping, invoicing, credit notes, customer returns, point of sale and a B2B portal. StockBold has none of it.
Connectors. QuickBooks Online, Xero, Shopify, Amazon, WooCommerce, Magento, ShipStation and a long list of partners. StockBold imports from CSV and offers an API for locations, movements, counts and shelves, and no shop or accounting connectors.
Warehouse app. A native iOS and Android app with camera scanning, and on the higher tiers directed picking by zone and bin, and kitting at pick. StockBold scans with the camera in the browser, with put-away and moves by shelf, and has no pick-and-pack workflow.
Permissions. Well over 150 individual permissions with role templates and toggles to hide cost and value. StockBold has about 40. Both restrict users; Cin7 by location, StockBold by department.
Costing variants. Seven FIFO-based methods, including batch and serial tracking with FEFO. StockBold has FIFO, LIFO and average cost and no batch or serial tracking.
Where StockBold does more
Negative stock. Cin7 Core holds a sales order at picking when stock is insufficient; we found no global rule for other movements. StockBold refuses any movement that would take a location below zero, including backdated ones.
Approvals by department. Both approve purchase orders. Cin7 Core’s approval is a toggle with approve and reject; StockBold sets who approves per department, separates approving any order from approving only your own, and returns an edited order to draft.
Supplier claims. Cin7 Core issues a purchase credit note and unstocks the returned units. StockBold keeps faulty units blocked where they are, tracks the replacement the supplier owes across several deliveries, brings replacements in at the original cost, and records the loss when a supplier refuses.
Payment forecast. Cin7 Core has supplier terms, deposits and partial payments; its purchase order cash-flow forecast belongs to the Omni product. StockBold has terms in instalments and a forecast per supplier per month, firm amounts apart from estimates.
LIFO. Cin7 Core uses average cost for estimates only and offers no LIFO. StockBold values under LIFO where accounting rules allow it, as they do in Italy and the US.
Documents. Both attach files. Cin7 Core’s paid add-on reads customer purchase orders into sales orders; StockBold searches the text inside any attached document, scans included, so an order is found by a certificate or invoice number.
Simplicity. This is not a feature on a list, and it is the main difference. StockBold is set up in an afternoon, by the people who will use it, with a free plan to try it on real data. Cin7 Core is implemented.
Side by side
| StockBold | Cin7 Core | |
|---|---|---|
| Sales, POS, B2B | None | Yes |
| Shop and accounting connectors | None | QuickBooks, Xero, Shopify, Amazon, WooCommerce, Magento and more |
| Shelf positions | Any product, put-away and moves | Bins; directed picking on higher tiers |
| Movement history | Author on every movement | Audit report with old and new values |
| Negative stock | Refused, always | Held at picking; no global rule found |
| PO approval | Per department, edits return to draft | Toggle, approve or reject |
| Landed costs | Per unit, by value | By value, quantity, weight or volume |
| Costing | FIFO, LIFO, average | Seven FIFO variants, batch and serial |
| Year lock | Yes | Lock date |
| Supplier claims | Replacement tracked at original cost | Purchase credit note |
| Assemblies | Reservation, labour and overheads | BOM with labour and overheads; reservation on the manufacturing tier |
| Payment terms | Instalments and a forecast | Terms, deposits; forecast in Omni |
| Documents | Text search inside scans | Attachments; paid add-on reads customer POs |
| AI assistant | Read only | Yes, on live data |
| Permissions | About 40, by department | Over 150, by location |
| Phone scanning | Browser | Native app |
| API | Included | Add-on |
Which one for which business
Choose Cin7 Core if you sell through several channels and want one system from the sale to the accounts, with a warehouse app that directs picking, and you have the budget and the time to implement it.
Choose StockBold if you need the warehouse and the buying side under control without an operations suite around it: a distributor, a workshop, a company with a warehouse and a shop, a business whose sales already live somewhere else.
StockBold has a free plan with no time limit; the pricing page has the details. Read more about purchase orders in StockBold.