What is Flowlens?
Simple, smart software for SME manufacturers.
Flowlens delivers end-to-end business management software designed specifically to meet the needs of SME manufacturers. Use Flowlens to support your growth as you add customers, suppliers, stock and scale to your manufacturing business.
With Flowlens, you can:
• Centralize your business information in one secure, cloud-based system
• Manage customers, suppliers, and inventory with complete visibility
• Streamline production and capacity planning
• Automatically identify stock shortages and create purchase orders
• Handle multi-level BOMs and production routings with ease
• Manage unlimited SKUs across your product lines
• Maintain traceability and quality compliance
• Control multi-site and multi-level stock operations
• Deliver exceptional after-sales service with full product history
• Integrate seamlessly with Xero, QuickBooks Online, and Sage 50
Optimise productivity. Whether you’re looking to replace paper and Excel based processes or older legacy systems, implementing Flowlens provides you with a proven pathway to boosting profitability and establishing data integration across your business functions.
Deliver financial visibility across your supply chain. Connect Flowlens with your accounting applications, and you’ll remove data double entry between functions and establish full online reporting visibility across all your operations.
Enhance stock control. Pinpoint your near and long term materials requirements through Flowlens capacity planning and multi-level BOM management.
Drive supplier management. Move your supplier management processes online with Flowlens. Simplify and streamline supplier negotiations and maximise your cost and quality position through Flowlens RFQ management functionality.
Speak to our implementation staff today to agree an action plan that meets your goals for enhanced productivity, increased data integration and improved profitability.
Pricing
Annual full functionality access
Unlimited SKUs
Hosting
Implementation & data migration
Training and change management
Support and maintenance
Unlimited BOMs
Batch tracking
Serial numbering and tracking
Multi-factor authentication.
Year One Flowlens Total Cost of Ownership: £7,760
Year Two Flowlens Total Cost of Ownership: £2,870
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Flowlens Categories and Features
Manufacturing Execution System
Flowlens deconstructs each task into a series of workflow stages, each associated with specific personnel, equipment, operational guidelines, and material listings. Operators can view their assignments through a tablet app on the shop floor, where they can log their hours, record quality metrics, and complete various tasks. Managers have real-time visibility into the production schedule, allowing them to monitor items that are on schedule, currently underway, or overdue. As parts are utilized and products are assembled, batch and serial numbers are documented, ensuring traceability from the receipt of raw materials to the final product. This step-by-step control operates within the same platform as your bill of materials, inventory, and sales orders, eliminating the need for a separate manufacturing execution system (MES) integration.
Manufacturing ERP System
Flowlens is intentionally designed not to function as a conventional ERP system. Instead, it focuses specifically on the manufacturing and post-sales aspects of operations, offering extensive features for managing BOMs, procurement, inventory, production processes, quality control, sales orders, and service management. Financial management remains within your existing accounting software, seamlessly integrating with popular platforms such as Xero and QuickBooks, with Sage 50 available as an option. This integration ensures that data related to customers, suppliers, invoices, and ledgers is synchronized automatically, eliminating the need for manual entry. For instance, Cap Coder, a manufacturer of capping and filling machinery, experienced an efficiency boost, reducing the time taken for processing spare parts and sales orders by 18 to 20% after consolidating their operations from two separate systems into one cohesive platform. Flowlens is particularly well-suited for expanding manufacturing businesses with a workforce of up to approximately 100 employees.
Manufacturing Software
Flowlens is a cloud-based manufacturing solution designed specifically for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that create intricate devices, equipment, and machinery to customer specifications. It consolidates various functionalities such as multi-level bills of materials (BOMs), sub-assemblies, job costing, procurement, inventory management, shop floor oversight, quality data collection, and sales and service operations into a single platform, eliminating the need for spreadsheets, shared drives, and disparate applications. Users can easily add or replace parts on an active job card, and recurring production runs can be initiated from pre-existing templates. Flowlens seamlessly integrates with accounting software like Xero, QuickBooks, and Sage 50. A specialized implementation team based in the UK is available to assist with setup, data migration, and training. The base subscription starts at £479 plus VAT per month and includes access for four office users and two shop floor users.
MRP Software
Flowlens efficiently manages materials based on verified demand in real-time. It integrates job cards, sales orders, and warehouse requests to create a continuous shortage report, eliminating unexpected shortages. The system automatically breaks down multi-level BOMs, ensuring that each sub-assembly follows its dedicated workflow to the main job. Purchase orders are automatically populated with any shortages while adhering to minimum order requirements set by suppliers. It meticulously tracks actual labor and material expenses for each project using either FIFO or average costing methods. Tailored specifically for small to medium-sized manufacturers who create intricate products on demand, Flowlens is an original solution rather than a scaled-down version of enterprise software. The starting price for the base platform is £479 plus VAT per month.
Inventory Control Software
Flowlens offers a comprehensive inventory management solution that allows users to monitor stock levels by location using FIFO, LIFO, or average cost methods. With the capacity to handle unlimited parts and SKUs, it features built-in batch and serial number traceability. The system generates real-time shortage reports that create purchase orders based on outstanding job cards and sales requests, while also adhering to supplier minimum order quantities and pack-size adjustments. This enables automatic population of purchase orders, clearly indicating what needs to be acquired and what is already accounted for. Incoming goods inspections ensure that quality checks are conducted as parts arrive, and stock is allocated according to specific job requirements. Designed specifically for manufacturers of devices, equipment, and machinery, Flowlens ensures that inventory remains linked to the respective builds. Additionally, purchase and inventory records seamlessly integrate with accounting platforms like Xero, QuickBooks, and Sage 50.
Bill of Materials (BOM) Software
Flowlens efficiently manages complex, hierarchical Bill of Materials (BOMs) where each sub-assembly is assigned a unique part number and follows its designated workflow, ultimately contributing to the parent job card. Customers often utilize BOMs that exceed 1,500 lines. The system allows for seamless imports from spreadsheets or CAD files, accommodates multiple suppliers for each part, monitors revisions, and enables real-time modifications or substitutions of parts during active builds. By implementing standardized templates for repeat products, Cap Coder successfully reduced its BOMs from 48,000 to 24,000. BOMs are directly linked to job cards, procurement, and inventory management, while batch and serial tracking extends through to the service phase.
Batch Tracking Software
Flowlens captures batch and lot identifiers when stock is received, alongside recording serial numbers for finished items and essential components. Each job is linked to specific batches and serial numbers, allowing for complete traceability from a finished product back to its constituent parts and suppliers, or conversely, from a supplier's batch to every affected unit. It also accommodates unit-of-measure conversions for purchases in bulk while utilizing individual units. The workflow integrates goods inwards inspections and non-conformance issues directly, eliminating the need for separate documentation and ensuring that insights remain closely tied to the operational process.
After-Sales Service Software
Flowlens Service Management connects the products you distribute to their respective serial numbers, original bill of materials, and manufacturing history. This allows you to quickly identify appropriate spare parts and review past service activities when a customer reaches out. You can monitor service tasks, job tickets, and labor expenses for each item. Designed specifically for manufacturers who both produce and maintain their own equipment, this solution stands apart from generic helpdesk systems added later on. Service Management is an additional module that enhances the Flowlens platform.
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Manufacturing CRM
Flowlens features a streamlined CRM that revolves around sales orders. All inquiries, leads, quotes, and orders are consolidated in a single location, complete with comprehensive company and contact histories, ensuring that sales and production teams operate cohesively. You can generate personalized quotes, attach drawings, photos, and documents to each record, set task reminders for follow-ups, and monitor your sales projections in real time. Once an order is dispatched, both sales and inventory records are automatically updated in Xero or QuickBooks. This platform is not intended for marketing automation; instead, it is specifically designed to guide manufacturers through the entire process from inquiry to production and invoicing.
Flowlens Customer Reviews
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Would you Recommend to Others? 10 out of 10
Flowlens ERP - Electrical control systems Manufacturing/Assembly
5 out of 5 stars Date: Aug 14 2025SummaryUsed the software since 2018 and it was a big factor in growing the business from £1M to £6M which would have been impossible without it.
PositiveEase of use, revolutionised stock control and manufacturing. took care of the quality control inspections and testing
NegativeLearning to let go of the old work-arounds we had got so used to, and letting Flowlens do the work
Read More...Official Flowlens ResponseDate: Aug 15 2025
Thank you W! It's really great to hear how Flowlens enabled the growth in turnover, we pride ourselves on helping SME device, equipment and machinery manufacturers to operate and scale efficiently by making production, inventory, supply chain demand, cost and quality processes integrated and streamlined. It's also a platform for surfacing insights that enables companies like yours to make data-driven decisions about growth, supplier performance amongst other things. Thanks again for your business. -
Would you Recommend to Others? 10 out of 10
Game Changer
5 out of 5 stars Date: Jul 25 2025SummaryIt has been a game changer for us and recommend anyone looking for this type of software to get a demo on this system.
PositiveThe dashboard and the many widgets that are available to use give a complete picture of where we are at with sales, quotes, conversions of orders. The reporting suite provides visibility on all the metrics we need, profitability, stock, stock movements etc. therefore visibility across the business is incredible compared to our previous systems.
Easy to use.
Integrates well with the accounts package.NegativeOne widget we would like that Flowlens are looking into developing for us.
Read More...Official Flowlens ResponseDate: Aug 02 2025
Hi Andy, thanks for taking the time to review Flowlens, and we appreciate the positive feedback. We pride ourselves in offering a comprehensive solution for manufacturing and service companies like yourselves, so knowing that Flowlens makes such an impact from the sales dept, to purchasing, to the shop-floor is great. Thanks for highlighting the Xero integration too, this seamless link removes the manual effort and risk of errors and keeps the accounts right up to date. We really appreciate your business! -
Would you Recommend to Others? 9 out of 10
Great MRP System - Recommend!
5 out of 5 stars Date: Dec 01 2025SummaryOverall I would recommend any small/medium businesses to reach out to the Flowlens team to see if this MRP system is right for you. It has been a key system for the organisation and growth of our company!
PositiveWe have used Flowlens from the opening of our company back in 2020, it was and is a key driver to our daily operations. From quoting, to acknowledging orders, creating job cards, placing purchase orders, inventory control aswell as reporting and invoicing. The Flowlens team have been a great support throughout our time using Flowlens! The systems ease and functionality make it a really good MRP system for us and I would recommend to others.
NegativeAs we have used this system over the last 5 years, we have identified additional functions that we would benefit from. We always address these with the Flowlens team as/when and they do really take the time to support us with help getting this functions in place.
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