Materials Inventory

Shopify inventory optimization app by Materials Inventory·Inventory management for makers & manufacturers. Create bills of materials & track profitability

Snapshot

5.00(51 reviews)#29of 434 inInventory optimization

Ongoing.AI tracks Materials Inventory daily — category rank, keyword positions in App Store search, install footprint, listing changes, and reviewer sentiment — back to when we first observed the listing.

CategoriesInventory optimization

Rating

5.00

51 reviews

Pricing

From $39/mo

free_trial

Built for Shopify

No

Years live

5

launched Jan 19, 2021

Last updated

Jul 1, 2026

Shopify listing

Category rank over time

Where Materials Inventory sits day-by-day in Inventory optimization.

Position across the Inventory optimization page, snapshot daily. Lower is better — the Y axis is inverted so the strongest ranks sit at the top of the chart. Open the full Inventory optimization leaderboard →

#51#57#63#69#75May 28May 31Jun 4Jun 8Jun 12Materials Inventory · #53Merchbees Inventory Value · #52Bulk Product Edit by MITS · #54
Best position observed: #52. Materials Inventory climbed 15 positions over the window. Greyed lines: the apps sitting immediately around it on the latest snapshot.

Catalog position

Where Materials Inventory sits in the App Store.

Rank and percentile inside the Inventory optimization category — the competitive shape of the niche around this app.

Rank in Inventory optimization

#29

of 434 active apps

Review count percentile

94th

vs category siblings

Rating percentile

78th

vs category siblings

Years on App Store

5

since 2021

Listing change cadence

What Materials Inventory has changed lately.

Every pricing tweak, tagline refresh, and Shopify-side listing ping. Captured from Ongoing.AI’s per-scrape diff log — the cadence and the content of changes, in one strip.

Listing changes · last 21 days+19shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-10 → 2026-06-13shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-13 → 2026-06-15shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-15 → 2026-06-16shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-16 → 2026-06-17shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-17 → 2026-06-18shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-18 → 2026-06-20shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-20 → 2026-06-21shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-21 → 2026-06-22shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-22 → 2026-06-27shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-27 → 2026-06-28shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-28 → 2026-06-29shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-29 → 2026-06-30shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-30 → 2026-07-01Jun 11, 26Jun 21, 26Jul 2, 26

Shopify Lastmod · Jul 2

2026-06-30 → 2026-07-01

Shopify Lastmod · Jul 1

2026-06-29 → 2026-06-30

Shopify Lastmod · Jun 30

2026-06-28 → 2026-06-29

PricingIdentity & listingCadence

Reviews

What merchants are saying

5.00(51 reviews)
  • 98%positive58
  • 0%neutral0
  • 2%negative1

Popular mentions

  • ease of use
  • customer support
  • feature set
  • inventory management
  • pricing
  • integration
  • missing features
  • features

Top themes

  1. ease of use5
  2. customer support4
  3. feature set3
  4. inventory management2
  5. pricing2
  6. integration2
  7. missing features1
  8. features1

What merchants praise

“Team are very responsive. It is loads of work to set this up if you have been operating for a while but man it is reducing our effort in keeping the Shopify inventory and orders ahead of demand. Having worked with this app for 6 months IT IS LIFE CHANGING. The Support has been amazing. Ongoing improvements, incredibly responsive support team. I literally don't know how we lived without it.”
Warndu · 5★

What merchants complain about

“Not worth the price increase they made to 19.99. I deleted it. The only thing I liked is that you could see the most recent transaction history for material changes. I have to manually enter many raw materials anyways and update them due to options we offer and this doesn't sync with option apps and they do not update with that. So went back to the trusty excel spreadsheet. Saved me $20 a month and costs me about the same amount of time spent anyways.”
Velocity Leather · 1★ · 2021-09-16

Plans

Materials Inventory pricing tiers.

Hobby

$39/month

  • Product Bundles
  • 500 Raw Materials
  • 500 Orders (/month)
  • Update of Shopify Inventory

Business

$89/month

  • All Hobby Features
  • Components
  • 1500 Raw Materials
  • 2000 Orders (/month)
  • Dynamic Inventory Alerts
  • Custom Products

Business Pro

$189/month

  • All Business Features
  • 6 Inventory Locations
  • 2500 Raw Materials
  • 5000 Orders(/month)

Capabilities

What Materials Inventory can do.

The 13 capabilities Materials Inventory lists across its category, in Shopify’s own taxonomy. Pulled directly from the App Store listing.

Inventory management

5
  • Inventory tracking
  • Inventory sync
  • Multi-location
  • Real-time updates
  • Inventory planning

Order management

1
  • Purchase orders

Notifications and analytics

7
  • Replenishment reminders
  • Low stock alerts
  • Out of stock notifications
  • Threshold alerts
  • Custom reports
  • Email notifications
  • Analytics

FAQ

Materials Inventory — frequently asked questions.

What is Materials Inventory on Shopify?
Materials Inventory is a Shopify app in the Inventory optimization category. Easily manage raw materials & products inventory. Let the app set your products' inventory based on your raw materials' inventory. Keep them in sync at all times and in real-time. Track your raw materials costs and your products profitability. Create purchase orders & order the right amount of materials at the right time. Stop overselling and stop being out of stock. It averages 5.00 out of 5 across 51 merchant reviews on the Shopify App Store.
How much does Materials Inventory cost?
Materials Inventory has 3 paid plans on the Shopify App Store, starting at $39/month and going up to $189/month.
Is Materials Inventory free?
No, Materials Inventory is a paid Shopify app. Plans start at $39/month on the Shopify App Store.
When was Materials Inventory launched?
Materials Inventory launched on January 19, 2021 — over 5 years on the Shopify App Store. In that time it has gathered 51 merchant reviews.
Is Materials Inventory Built for Shopify?
Materials Inventory does not currently carry Shopify's Built for Shopify badge. The badge is awarded to apps that meet Shopify's published standards for performance, ease of use, and merchant value — many high-quality apps operate without it.
What are the best Materials Inventory alternatives?
Merchants commonly compare Materials Inventory with Etsy Integration by QuickSync, Inventory Management, 506 EasyScan SKU & Barcode, and Bundles.app. Each alternative covers a similar use case but differs on pricing model, integration depth, and the specific themes merchants praise in reviews — see the alternatives section above for a side-by-side.
What do merchants praise about Materials Inventory?
98% of analyzed merchant reviews skew positive. The themes most often cited in positive reviews are ease of use, customer support, and feature set — see the review fingerprint above for the full breakdown.
What complaints come up about Materials Inventory?
2% of analyzed merchant reviews are negative. The pain points most often raised in critical reviews are pricing, missing features, and integration — see the review fingerprint above for the per-merchant detail.

Alternatives

Apps merchants pick instead.

R. I. T. N. S.

Etsy Integration by QuickSync

4.90★1,805

Known for: performance

Assisty

Inventory Management ‑ Assisty

4.80★345

506

506 EasyScan SKU & Barcode

5.00★330

Gazebo

Bundles.app ‑ Inventory Sync

4.90★308
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Methodology

Where the numbers come from.

Ratings, review counts, pricing tiers, “Built for Shopify”, launch date, and category memberships come from the live Shopify App Store listing — refreshed daily by Ongoing.AI’s crawler. The review-count trajectory is the diff between today’s snapshot and snapshots from 7 and 28 days ago. Topic counts and sentiment come from the review corpus, topic-tagged with Claude. Install footprint is observed via Ongoing.AI’s tech-detection pass against actively-tracked Shopify storefronts. Catalog position is computed at snapshot time against every active app sharing the primary category. Snapshot generated .

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