Sortly review

A photo-based inventory app for tracking parts, materials and equipment across the shop, the trucks and the job sites, so a trade owner can scan a QR code to see what is in stock, check parts out to a job, and get told when it is time to reorder.

What it costsas of August 2026

Free: $0/mo1 user, 100 unique items, 2 jobs
Advanced: $49/mo2 users, 500 items, 5 jobs
Ultra: $149/mo5 users, 2,000 items, 10 jobs
Premium: $299/mo8 users, 5,000 items, 15 jobs
Enterprise: No public priceStarts at 12 users and 10,000 items

Those are the standard monthly rates. Yearly billing costs less: a 20% discount applies to all yearly plans, and a 50% off first-year offer for new customers was running when we checked, showing $24, $74 and $149 a month billed yearly. The item count is the ceiling that bites, not the seats, and the quantity you hold of a part does not count against it. Low stock alerts and check in and out start on Advanced, purchase orders on Ultra, QuickBooks Online sync on Premium. The 14-day trial needs a credit card and turns into a paid subscription unless you cancel first.

We have not published a long-form verdict on Sortly yet. What is below comes from the vendor's own documentation and pricing, checked and dated.

What Sortly does

Pricing & terms

Starts atThe real monthly cost to get in the door, before add-ons.

Free plan at $0, then Advanced at $49/mo for 2 users and 500 items

How pricing worksFlat tiers, per user, or per job. This decides how fast the bill grows as you add people.

Flat tiers capped by item count and seats, so the item limit bites first

Free trial or planCan you try it with your own jobs before paying?

Free plan for 100 items, plus a 14-day trial that does need a card

ContractMonth-to-month vs a year-plus commitment you can't easily leave.

Monthly or yearly, yearly costs less, cancel any time in your settings

Fit & support

Ease of useHow hard it is to get a non-technical crew actually using it.

Rated 4.6 for ease of use on Capterra; crews pick up scanning fast

SupportWhat owners say about reaching a human when something breaks.

Help center and email tickets. A named success manager is Enterprise only

What it does

Barcode and QR scanningScan a part or a tool with the phone camera instead of typing part numbers.

Scans barcodes and QR codes on every plan using just the phone camera

Truck and job-site stockTrack what is on each truck and at each job, not just what sits in the shop.

Folders and locations hold stock per truck, van and job, with photos

Check tools in and outKnow which tech has the drill, and get it back when the job is done.

Check parts out to a job and return what came back, from Advanced up

Low stock alertsTells you to reorder before a tech is standing in a basement without the part.

Low stock alerts start on Advanced; purchase orders start on Ultra

Works with no signalCrawl spaces and rural jobs: can the crew still scan when the phone drops signal?

Offline mobile access on every plan, syncs once the signal comes back

Alternatives to Sortly

Other tools that do the same job for a trade business. Prices are what each vendor publishes, dated when we checked.

GoCodes

A QR-tag asset tracking system that ships you printed tags for your tools and equipment, then logs the GPS location every time someone scans one, so you know what you own, who has it, where it was last seen and what maintenance is due.$500/yr on Standard, which buys 200 assets and 3 user logins

ShareMyToolbox

A tool and equipment tracking app for field crews, so an owner can see which tech has which drill, move tools between trucks and job sites with a phone scan, and send an audit to a field guy to confirm he still has what the system says he has.$100/mo for the first admin, plus $10 per user sold in blocks of 5

How we research this

Pricing comes from Sortly's own pricing pages and is dated at the time we checked it. Features are taken from the vendor's documentation, not from a sales call. We are independent and rank on fit, never on what a tool pays us. See how we review.