What is the best Sortly alternative?
The best Sortly alternative depends on what you have outgrown. If your items have become equipment that needs work orders, preventive maintenance, counts across sites and depreciation, Asset Infinity covers those on one asset record. If you still mainly track supplies and tools in one or two places, Sortly’s simple inventory may remain the better fit.
We make Asset Infinity, so we are not neutral. Every claim about Sortly comes from its own website as of October 2026, and where we could not confirm a feature we say so. This page compares features only.
Why teams look for a Sortly alternative
Sortly is quick to start, so most teams that leave it have grown. The usual reasons:
Who each product is for
Sortly
Sortly calls itself simple inventory management software for small businesses. It is built for supplies, materials, tools and equipment in trades such as construction, electrical, medical and dental, and in warehouses, schools and nonprofits. Its site lists barcode and QR scanning with label generation, check-in and check-out, low-stock alerts, purchase orders, offline mobile access, and integrations with QuickBooks Online, Slack and Microsoft Teams. It is quick to set up and easy to learn.
Asset Infinity
Asset Infinity is an asset register and maintenance system for organizations with equipment across one or more sites. It suits teams that need to know where each asset is and who has it, and also keep it maintained, count it once a year and depreciate it. Work orders, parts, purchasing and depreciation books sit on the same record as the labels. It is more product than a small shop with a few hundred items needs.
How to choose a Sortly alternative
- Asset register depth.Do you need sites, a location tree, parent and child assets and meters, or is a folder of items enough?
- Work orders and PM.Decide whether date reminders cover you, or you need work orders and plans triggered by meters and conditions.
- Mobile and offline.Both products list offline mobile apps; test them where your people work.
- Inventory and purchasing.Check reorder points across storerooms, purchase requests, purchase orders and receiving.
- IT assets and depreciation.If laptops or the fixed asset register are in scope, check for network discovery and depreciation books.
- Integrations, deployment and setup.Compare ready-made connectors, API, single sign-on, whether you need your own servers, and how each import handles errors.
Sortly vs Asset Infinity: feature comparison
Yes means the capability is listed on Sortly’s own website, or exists in Asset Infinity today. Partial means a narrower version, explained in the cell. Not listed means we did not find it on Sortly’s site; for Asset Infinity, No means it does not offer it.
| Capability | Sortly | Asset Infinity |
|---|---|---|
| Barcode and QR scanning in the app | Yes | Yes |
| Mobile app that works offline | Yes | Yes, iOS and Android |
| Label printing | Yes, barcode and QR labels | Label designer for QR, Code 128 and RFID (EPC) |
| Check-in and check-out | Yes | Yes: tools issued and returned, bookings handed over and returned |
| Low-stock alerts and reorder points | Yes | Yes, with reorder recommendations |
| Purchase orders | Yes | Yes, from purchase request to receiving |
| Custom fields | Yes | Yes |
| Spreadsheet import | Yes | Yes, a single list or a whole workbook, with undo |
| Maintenance | Partial: date-based alerts | Yes: work orders and preventive maintenance on calendar, meter, condition or asset-date triggers |
| Physical counts that reconcile found and missing | Not listed | Yes: full, sample, targeted or self-verification rounds |
| Depreciation | Not listed | Yes, several books side by side |
| RFID, BLE and GPS location | Not listed | Yes |
| API and webhooks | Yes | Yes |
| Single sign-on | Partial: listed on its Enterprise plan | Yes: SAML, OpenID Connect or LDAP |
| QuickBooks Online, Slack and Teams connections | Yes | No ready-made connection |
| Runs on your own servers | Not listed | Yes |
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When Sortly is the better choice
Stay with Sortly, or choose it, if you are a small team tracking supplies and tools in one or two places and want something you can set up in an afternoon. Its app is simple, and it connects to QuickBooks Online, Slack and Microsoft Teams, which Asset Infinity does not offer as ready-made connections.
When Asset Infinity is the better Sortly alternative
Choose Asset Infinity when your list has turned into equipment that needs work orders and preventive maintenance.
Parts and stock in Asset Infinity
Spare parts behave differently from assets, so they have their own catalogue with stock in each storeroom.
What a Sortly alternative looks like by team
A contractor with a growing fleet
A trades business that started tracking tools in Sortly often ends up with vans, generators and lifts that need servicing by hours or miles. In Asset Infinity, GPS trackers can feed odometer and engine-hour meters, and preventive maintenance plans fall due on those readings. Tools are issued to a person and returned, with calibration dates checked before a tool can go out. See fleet maintenance software.
A school or nonprofit with several sites
Once equipment spreads across buildings, the yearly count becomes the hardest job. Verification rounds let each site count its own assets on a phone, mark what is missing or damaged, and close with a report. Staff can confirm the laptops issued to them by email, and the register keeps a history of every move between buildings. See asset management for education.
How switching from Sortly works
- Export from Sortly.Sortly’s help center describes exporting the Inventory Summary report to CSV or Excel, with item details, custom fields, quantities and folders.
- Import into Asset Infinity.Upload the file, check how each column was mapped, and fix or leave out the rows with problems. Nothing is saved until you have reviewed it, and the import can be undone as one step.
- Label what needs it.An asset can carry more than one label, so an existing barcode can be recorded alongside a new QR or RFID label.
- Count once.Run a verification round on one site to confirm the import against what is on the shelves.
Asset Infinity’s asset register starts at $130 a month for up to 500 assets with unlimited users; build a quote for your count. Read more about our asset tracking software, tool tracking software, parts inventory management and work order software, or start with our guide to moving off spreadsheets.