8 Best Free Inventory Management Software of 2026

Square for Retail is the right free option when most stock leaves through a till. The Free plan costs $0 per location each month, and Square makes its money from card processing, so a shop can add its catalog, scan GTIN barcodes to create items, and get low-stock alerts without a subscription. Square's pricing page also lists a Shopify catalog and inventory sync through Thrive, which helps a shop that sells the same products online. The free tier is light on back-office stock work, though. Barcode label printing, unit costs, inventory history, the counting tool, vendor profiles and purchase orders are marked for Plus at $49 per location a month, and transfer orders between locations are listed only on Premium at $149. That makes Square a good free register with stock tracking for one or two shops, and a less natural fit for sellers who mainly ship online orders or move stock between sites often.

Zoho Inventory takes the top spot because its free plan behaves like real order software rather than a capped item list. A single user can process 50 orders, build composite items, and record dropshipments and backorders at no cost, which covers a seller who ships a few dozen parcels from home. Zoho's integration catalog lists Amazon, eBay, Walmart, Etsy, Shopify and WooCommerce on the sales side and Zoho Books, Xero and QuickBooks Online for accounting, so the same system can grow with the business. The limit that matters for this list is locations: the free plan has one, and a second warehouse or shop requires Standard at $29 a month billed annually, which adds 500 orders, 3 users and 2 locations. Barcode generation, stock counting, serial and batch tracking wait until Premium at $79. For a seller with one stockroom and a few channels, the free tier is the most complete starting point we found.

Odoo Inventory gives away more warehouse capability than any other free plan here. Odoo's One App Free plan lets a business run a single app on Odoo Online with unlimited users, and when that app is Inventory, the free tier includes multiple warehouses, real-time stock lookup across them, serial numbers and lots, cycle counting, barcode scanning that works offline, and min-max replenishment rules that can propose purchase orders. Odoo also supports FIFO, average, LIFO and standard price valuation. The catch is in the word one. Sales orders, an online store, a POS or accounting each count as another app, and running a second app means moving to a paid plan such as Standard, which includes all apps. Odoo's pricing page showed euro prices from our location, so we list paid pricing as pending. Plan for a longer setup than Sortly or BoxHero, since routes, locations and rules need configuring before day one.

Loyverse suits a small business with two or three outlets that wants stock tracked at the register without a subscription. Its free tier includes the POS, essential inventory that tracks stock for items and their components, low-stock alerts, multi-store management from one account and integrations, and it runs on a phone or tablet you already own. Tracking components means a cafe can count beans and cups behind each drink, or a shop can count the parts in a gift set. The free tier stops short of moving stock around: purchase orders, stock transfers, counts and production sit in the Advanced inventory add-on at $25 a month per store, or $250 a year. Free sales reports only reach back 31 days, so longer history is a separate add-on. Loyverse is a strong free option for counter sales across a few stores, but online sellers who need channel sync should look at Zoho Inventory or Veeqo instead.

BoxHero is the most straightforward free stock tracker on the list. The Personal plan is free for one member, 100 items and one location, and it still includes barcode scanning by phone or scanner, custom attributes such as size and color, Excel import and export, real-time cloud sync, and API access. That is enough for a solo seller to replace a spreadsheet in an afternoon. The free plan has two real limits for this list's readers: transaction history covers only 30 days, and multiple locations, low-stock alerts, reports and stock counts belong to the Business plan. Business costs $24 per team a month billed annually and covers 3 members, 1,000 items and 3 locations, with add-ons of $10 per 10 locations. BoxHero records purchases and sales, but its pricing page does not list marketplace channel sync, so online sellers will still update channel stock another way.

Sortly is the friendliest app here for people who think about stock visually. Items sit in photo folders, can be found by barcode or QR code, and update in real time across phone and web. The free plan allows 100 unique items and one user license, and quantities of each item do not count against the limit, so 100 product lines with thousands of units still fit. Sortly also tracks items against jobs, which suits sellers who pull stock for events or projects. The free tier is the narrowest on this list for teams, though, because it allows only one user. Advanced costs $49 a month billed monthly, or $24 a month for the first year on yearly billing before a smaller ongoing discount, and it raises limits to 500 items and 2 users. Purchase orders arrive on Ultra and QuickBooks Online on Premium, so Sortly works best as a counting tool rather than an order system.

ERPNext is the free option with no feature paywall. Frappe publishes it as open-source software under GPL-3.0, so a business can install it on its own server and pay nothing, or rent managed hosting on Frappe Cloud from $5 a month per site with no per-user charge. The stock module covers an item master, multiple warehouses, serial and batch tracking, a stock ledger and inventory reports, and it sits alongside accounting, procurement, sales, CRM and a multi-store POS in the same database. For a small seller that means purchase orders, sales invoices and stock value can live in one system that never charges for a feature upgrade. The price is effort. ERPNext expects the owner to configure items, warehouses and accounts, Frappe's own pricing page points DIY users to the documentation, and many businesses hire a partner. Pick it if you or someone on the team is comfortable with ERP setup.

Veeqo earns a place for marketplace sellers, with one honest caveat: its free plan is shipping software, and automated inventory sync is paid. The free Shipping plan has no limits on users, products, SKUs, warehouses or locations, connects orders from Amazon, Shopify, eBay, Walmart and WooCommerce, includes the Profit Analyzer and sales reports, and pays up to 5% back in credits on labels bought through Veeqo. Veeqo says it funds the free plan from a commission on those labels. Once you need stock levels pushed to every channel, the Inventory plan starts at $19 a month and adds automated sync, demand forecasting, digital picking and unlimited listings, with the price set by monthly order volume. Amazon FBA orders are excluded from that volume. For a seller juggling three marketplaces, a $19 plan is still among the cheapest true multichannel sync options, but readers who need stock sync for $0 should start with Zoho Inventory.