Case Study: Backyard Adventures achieves streamlined multi-location inventory control and faster, accurate custom work orders with Fishbowl Inventory

Backyard Adventures - Customer Case Study

Backyard Adventures, an Amarillo, TX manufacturer of customizable playsets, faced complex inventory and order-entry challenges from dozens of product configurations and a nationwide network of 65 distributors. The company needed to track many parts across multiple locations, create accurate custom work orders, and standardize reordering while integrating with distributors’ QuickBooks accounting systems — so they selected Fishbowl Inventory (using Fishbowl Manufacturing with QuickBooks Enterprise integration).

Fishbowl Inventory implemented its configurator, sales order module and reorder system (with multiple reorder/order-up-to points and unit-of-measure support) plus a Configuration Wizard that syncs data with QuickBooks. The result: on‑the‑fly, accurate customized work orders, real-time inventory visibility for dealers across locations, automated reordering that reduced stockouts and excess inventory, and elimination of hours of manual data entry — a transformation of Backyard Adventures’ inventory control within a year.

Backyard Adventures

Chris Connors

Vice President of Specialty Sales and Marketing