What each product is built for
Sortly is designed around visual, photo-first tracking: items get a photo, a location, and custom fields, with an interface built to be usable by a small team with minimal setup or training. It fits well for a business that mainly needs to know where its tools, equipment, or supplies physically are.
Asset Panda leans further toward configurability — custom workflows, role-based permissions, and reporting built to serve larger organizations tracking many asset categories across multiple departments, each potentially needing different fields or approval steps.
The practical differences
Setup time is the clearest split: Sortly is built to be usable within an afternoon with little configuration, which suits a small team well but can feel limiting once an organization needs more structured workflows. Asset Panda offers more configuration depth, at the cost of a more involved setup process to actually use that depth well.
Reporting is similarly split: Asset Panda's reporting is built for larger organizations that need to slice asset data by department, category, or custom field. Sortly's reporting is simpler, matching its smaller-team target audience.
- Sortly: visual, photo-first, minimal setup, best for small teams
- Asset Panda: configurable workflows and reporting, best for larger multi-department organizations
When you need inventory, not just assets
Both Sortly and Asset Panda are asset trackers — built for tools, equipment, and fixed assets, not for live product inventory with stock levels, reorder points, and sales activity. A business that needs both asset tracking and real inventory management (a shop that tracks tools and also sells product, for instance) usually ends up running two disconnected systems with either of these tools.
StockFlow covers both from one place: barcode-based asset tracking with check-in/check-out and maintenance scheduling, alongside full product inventory with stock levels and reorder points — useful when the two are related in your business rather than fully separate concerns.
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What our customers say
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