Compare Sortly and LineNow on physical stock accountability and replenishment. The right choice depends on the operating record your team needs and the work each configured product actually completes.
This comparison is published by LineNow and is based on the vendor documentation linked below, checked September 4, 2026. It is not a hands-on comparative test. The worked example is illustrative, and absence from a public page is not proof that a feature is unavailable.
What Sortly documents
Sortly describes inventory management for supplies, materials, tools and equipment, with barcode functionality and access from mobile, desktop and tablet. It also documents purchase orders and received or partially received statuses. Its emphasis on physical-item visibility makes it relevant to teams whose first problem is locating and counting stock. Sortly purchase orders. See the primary source.
A reusable tool and a consumed supply need different workflows. Checking a drill out to a job should not create a purchase requirement every time it leaves the storeroom. Consuming a box of fasteners may create one. Start by classifying those items before choosing a purchasing system.
Separate missing equipment from consumed supplies
An illustrative maintenance team has ten drills and 30 boxes of fasteners. Two drills are checked out to jobs; five boxes are consumed. The team should still own ten drills, with two assigned elsewhere, but only 25 boxes remain before any receipts or adjustments.
Ask the trial users to find a drill by location or assignee, record a damaged asset and count the remaining supplies. Then show how a buyer receives a low-stock request, chooses the supplier and avoids ordering equipment that is merely checked out.
Introduce a partial delivery of the fasteners and a supplier price change. Evaluate the purchasing and receiving steps separately from the speed of the count. The right system might be the one that makes counts reliable enough to support a simple manual reorder; a full purchasing workflow is justified only if it solves additional recurring work.