Asset Panda vs. BarTender

Asset Panda, in my opinion, is well suited for even the most confined environments. The software's costing is very viable and well worth the value that it brings to solving a variety of keeping inventory that many businesses face. This item has saved us money by keeping track of assets that would have otherwise been lost or written off. This all is now in its proper place.

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Very well suited for multiple barcodes and type of barcodes on one label. Can be adapted to ones particular needs, quite customizable.

A bit difficult to get used to, it takes some time and is not as user friendly as other applications.

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• It is great for a non profit organization because you can add any columns you need to the asset. For example, I have added a funding source column to sort different grants that have paid for our assets.
• Asset Panda provides the depreciation calculation for you.
• The software is easy to maneuver. It can be easily searched and sorted by type of asset/date or any category you create.
• You can add and track non depreciable items as well. Reports can be ran for just depreciable assets when needed so this will not interfere with you depreciable asset listing.

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• The ability to design labels quickly with templates or from scratch
• The ability to use a database to print a large quantity of labels with various data inputs is critical for our requirements.
• The ability to serialize is really convenient.

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• Sometimes search isn't the best
• It does not tell you if you have double posted

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• Licensing: argggh! Their draconian licensing model can stop you in your tracks if you’re not careful. It’s per printer, not seat, so errant print jobs can exceed your licenses. Be careful!
• Interaction with the cloud: we recently moved to Box and have yet to figure out a way to utilize Print Station with our cloud database. If there’s a way to do it, it’s not well documented.
• Support: if you’re not paying for premium support, expect an email response within 24 hours. Telephone support is good, but we’ve sometimes had to leave a message and wait...

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Easy to renew and update the license

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I often have to try to troubleshoot printing issues for other team members, but I have never reached out to a BarTender support network. I’ve always just tinkered within the app to figure it out.

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I have not used any other tracking programs, so I do not have an opinion either way

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We're currently evaluating Nicelable and are in the process of replacing Bartender with Nicelable. Cost is similar for our needs level and Nicelable has a modern UI and is much more user-friendly. We are having to rework our automation routines but we're seeing a higher upside with lower IT involvement that we think will give us an acceptable ROI.

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• Inventory now has RBAC.
• Inventory is easily kept up to date with annual verification buttons.
• Inventory can now use labels and gun scanners for easy reconciliation.
• Inventory can be searched using any field.

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• Ability to Design and Create Customer Specific Labels
• Able to link to different file repositories
• Ability to design labels for different media types

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