Cin7 Core
Formerly DEAR Systems, DEAR Inventory. If you were searching for that name, this is the same product.
by Cin7
Manufacturing ERPPasses all 6 Full MRP testsProprietary SaaS✓ Verified
A mid-market inventory and order platform with two quite different manufacturing modes: simple assembly bills of materials included on every plan, and a separate Advanced Manufacturing module with production orders and work centers. MRP supply suggestions are a further module, an add-on on the entry plan.
Why it is classified this way
We call this a Manufacturing ERP product. A broad business system (accounting, sales, purchasing) with a substantial manufacturing or planning module attached.
This product meets our Full MRP tests, but we classify it by its center of gravity rather than its planning engine alone. The capability table below shows the detail.
The six Full MRP tests, and how Cin7 Core does on each (6 of 6)
- YesIt represents a bill of materials, recipe, or formula.Evidence: cin7.com › Pricing(opens in a new tab)
- YesIt accepts dated demand, sales orders, a forecast, or a master production schedule.Evidence: help.core.cin7.com › Material Requirements Planning MRP(opens in a new tab); help.core.cin7.com › Capacity Planner(opens in a new tab); cin7.com › Pricing(opens in a new tab)
- YesIt nets that demand against stock on hand and orders already incoming.Evidence: help.core.cin7.com › Material Requirements Planning MRP(opens in a new tab); cin7.com › Pricing(opens in a new tab)
- YesIt explodes requirements through at least one level of the bill of materials.Evidence: help.core.cin7.com › Nested production orders production BOM explosion(opens in a new tab); help.core.cin7.com › Material Requirements Planning MRP(opens in a new tab); help.core.cin7.com › Material Requirements Planning for Production(opens in a new tab)With "BOM explosion" ticked in the MRP supply settings, the MRP run breaks production and assembly BOMs down to their components and suggests supply orders for nested products and components; without it, it suggests production orders for the top level only. From the nested production orders article and the MRP manuals, read through search retrieval on 2026-09-19 because the help center returns 403 to direct fetches. Scope: that setting, and the Advanced Manufacturing add-on.
- YesIt uses lead times or required dates.Evidence: help.core.cin7.com › Managing Production Orders(opens in a new tab); help.core.cin7.com › Material Requirements Planning MRP(opens in a new tab)
- YesIt produces dated buy, make, transfer, release, or reschedule recommendations.Evidence: help.core.cin7.com › Material Requirements Planning MRP(opens in a new tab); cin7.com › Pricing(opens in a new tab)
These rules are applied identically to every product and enforced at build time, a record cannot be published as Full MRP unless all six pass with a source attached. Read the methodology.
Best for
- Growing brands that already need multi-channel order management and want manufacturing in the same system
- Teams of ten or more, where the bundled seat counts start to look reasonable
- Shops that only need assembly-style kitting, which is included rather than extra
Not a fit when
- Small shops. $349 a month before the manufacturing module is a serious commitment
- Anyone who needs production orders and work centers on the entry plan; those are an add-on available only from Pro upward
- Buyers who need to know the full price up front, since the add-on cost is not published
Pricing facts
What it costs to do manufacturing in this product.
Advertised from
$349/month
Useful entry price
$599/month
Billing basis
Per module
Why the useful price is higher
Standard at $349 includes only the simple assembly BOM, with material requirements planning offered there as a paid add-on whose price is not published. The pricing page lists MRP as included from Pro at $599, which is why that is the realistic entry point for planning. Cin7's MRP help article says MRP needs an add-on without naming a plan; we read that as a general note, but it is worth getting Pro's MRP inclusion in writing. Advanced Production Manufacturing is a separate add-on again, also unpublished, and it is what adds production orders, routings and the shop-floor screen.
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What moves the real bill
- Required add-ons. The manufacturing capability needs: Material requirements planning, on the Standard tier only (price not published), Advanced Production Manufacturing, for heavier production than the included MRP (price not published).
- Priced per module. The base plan is not the whole system. Check which modules you need.
Plans
| Plan | Price | Add-ons and setup |
|---|---|---|
| StandardBilling term not stated | $349/mo · 5 users included | Material requirements planning (unpriced); API (unpriced) |
| 5 users; 6,000 sale orders a year; 2 e-commerce and app integrations. Advanced Production Manufacturing is not offered on Standard. Extra users are sold through the sales team; the page gives no per-user price. The page gives no billing term. | ||
| ProBilling term not stated | $599/mo · 10 users included | Advanced Production Manufacturing (unpriced); API (unpriced) |
| 10 users; 24,000 sale orders a year; 4 e-commerce and app integrations. Material requirements planning is listed as a Pro feature. Treating Advanced Production Manufacturing as what adds scheduling is our reading. Extra users are sold through the sales team; the page gives no per-user price. | ||
| AdvancedBilling term not stated | $1,199/mo · 15 users included | Advanced Production Manufacturing (unpriced); API (unpriced) |
| 15 users; 120,000 sale orders a year; 6 e-commerce and app integrations. Extra users are sold through the sales team; the page gives no per-user price. | ||
Cheapest paid plan that manufactures, by paid users
- 1 user: Standard, $349 a month (billing term not stated); first year $4,188.
- 5 users: Standard, $349 a month (billing term not stated); first year $4,188.
- 10 users: Standard, at least $349 a month (billing term not stated); first year at least $4,188, not counting users beyond the 5 included.
Pricing detail
Standard $349/month with 5 users, Pro $599/month with 10 users, Advanced $1,199/month with 15 users. Extra users are available on all tiers but the per-user price is not published. Standard Assembly Manufacturing, assembly and disassembly, BOMs, extra units of measure, batch and serial tracking and auto-assembly kitting are included on all three. Material requirements planning is an add-on on Standard and included on Pro and Advanced, according to the pricing matrix. Cin7's MRP help article says "MRP requires an add-on to your base subscription" without naming a tier, which we read as a general note, and adds: "Users whose subscription dates from before 1 February 2024 will continue to have the same level of access to MRP as they previously held." Advanced Production Manufacturing is a further add-on on Pro and Advanced and is marked unavailable ("X") on Standard; its price is not published. Advanced Automations and API access are marked as add-ons on every plan, also without prices. Cin7 Omni is a separate product on quote-only pricing.
Price history
- Limited-time offer: Standard $295 a month instead of $349 and Pro $449 instead of $599, with Advanced starting at $999 a month (USD). Archived page, February 21, 2024(opens in a new tab)
- Offer ended: Standard starting at $349, Pro at $599 and Advanced at $999 a month (USD). Archived page, July 13, 2024(opens in a new tab)
- Standard $349, Pro $599 and Advanced $999 a month (USD, excluding taxes), unchanged at the last archived capture. Archived page, June 16, 2026(opens in a new tab)
From copies of the vendor's pricing page kept by the Internet Archive.
Checked on October 9, 2026. Source: cin7.com(opens in a new tab). Prices change. Check before you buy.
Manufacturing capability
23 of 25 fields resolved. "Unknown" means we have not found first-party evidence. It is not a No.
Planning
Working out what to buy or make, and when.
| Capability | Finding | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| Accepts dated demandYou can tell it what is due and when, sales orders with dates, a forecast, or a production schedule. | Yes | Cin7 says of the MRP run: "Required by date of the demand should be within planning period" Sales, production, assembly and transfer orders all count as demand when their required-by date falls in the planning period. MRP is an add-on on Standard and included on Pro and Advanced, going by the pricing matrix; the help article's "MRP requires an add-on to your base subscription" names no tier and reads as a general note. That is our reading of the two pages, not a statement from Cin7.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: help.core.cin7.com › Material Requirements Planning MRP(opens in a new tab); help.core.cin7.com › Capacity Planner(opens in a new tab); cin7.com › Pricing(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Nets against stock on handIt subtracts what you already have before telling you to buy more. | Yes | Cin7 says: "The suggested supply orders tab displays the results of the MRP run calculation, based on demand quantity and required by dates, supply rules, planned transfer days, stock on hand, stock on order, and MRP run parameters." Its worked example counts stock on hand and stock on order before suggesting anything. MRP is an add-on on Standard and included on Pro and Advanced, going by the pricing matrix; the help article's "MRP requires an add-on to your base subscription" names no tier and reads as a general note. That is our reading of the two pages, not a statement from Cin7.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: help.core.cin7.com › Material Requirements Planning MRP(opens in a new tab); cin7.com › Pricing(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Counts incoming ordersIt knows about purchase orders and production orders already placed, so it does not tell you to order twice. | Yes | Cin7 says: "This adds up all the sources of actual, draft (if requested), compares it to actual and draft (if requested) supply orders, and supply order required by dates." Open purchase, production, transfer and assembly orders count as supply, and drafts can be included. MRP is an add-on on Standard and included on Pro and Advanced, going by the pricing matrix; the help article's "MRP requires an add-on to your base subscription" names no tier and reads as a general note. That is our reading of the two pages, not a statement from Cin7.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: help.core.cin7.com › Material Requirements Planning MRP(opens in a new tab); cin7.com › Pricing(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Uses lead timesIt works backwards from when you need something to when you must order or start it, using supplier and production lead times. | Yes | The production order help says its release date is worked out as: "From Planned date forward: Planned Date + the critical path among lead times of components" This is for production orders and needs the Advanced Manufacturing add-on. MRP suggestions are dated differently: "Purchase orders from the same supplier to the same location will be consolidated, using the earliest required by date as the date of the purchase order." Supplier lead time is a required MRP input, but no help article says the purchase date is set back by it.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: help.core.cin7.com › Managing Production Orders(opens in a new tab); help.core.cin7.com › Material Requirements Planning MRP(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Produces dated buy/make suggestionsThe output is an actionable list with dates, order this much by this date, start this batch on this date. | Yes | Cin7 says: "This will generate a list of suggested transfer, purchase, assembly, and purchase orders to meet the demand in each location by the required by dates." Each suggested order carries a required-by date. MRP is an add-on on Standard and included on Pro and Advanced, going by the pricing matrix; the help article's "MRP requires an add-on to your base subscription" names no tier and reads as a general note. That is our reading of the two pages, not a statement from Cin7.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: help.core.cin7.com › Material Requirements Planning MRP(opens in a new tab); cin7.com › Pricing(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Capacity planningChecks whether your people and machines can do the work in the time available. | Partial | The vendor states: "The Capacity Planner shows the capacity for a selected planning period, which resources are overallocated, and allows re-planning of capacity." Needs the Advanced Manufacturing module added to a Cin7 Core subscription, which is why this is partial. The Production Scheduler helps "plan in which sequence the operations should be completed": it lists a run's operations in their BOM order with dependencies, places released orders backward from the required-by date, and lets planners reschedule by drag and drop. The calendar view ignores resource capacity; the Production view and the Capacity Planner respect it. Production BOMs, the Scheduler, work centers, resources and MES all come with the Advanced Manufacturing add-on.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: help.core.cin7.com › Capacity Planner(opens in a new tab); help.core.cin7.com › Production Scheduler(opens in a new tab)Question this |
Production
Recipes, bills of materials, and running the work.
| Capability | Finding | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| Bill of materialsA list of the parts and quantities needed to make one of something. | Yes | Bills of materials are included in Standard Assembly Manufacturing on every Core tier.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: cin7.com › Pricing(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Multi-level BOMSub-assemblies inside assemblies, a part that is itself made from other parts, nested as deep as you need. | Yes | Cin7 says: "Production BOMs can contain finished products (products with their own production BOM) or assembled components (products with their own assembly BOM)." Nested production orders are created automatically, and MRP only explodes nested BOMs when "BOM explosion" is ticked. Needs the Advanced Manufacturing add-on.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: help.core.cin7.com › Nested production orders production BOM explosion(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Recipes & formulasBatch-style production by weight, volume, or percentage, including scaling a batch up or down. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: documentation of recipe or formula records, ideally with batch scaling.Know the answer? |
| Work / manufacturing ordersA record authorising and tracking the making of a specific quantity. | Partial | Assembly and disassembly are on every tier. Production orders belong to the Advanced Production Manufacturing add-on, which is not on the Standard plan.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: cin7.com › Pricing(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Routings & operationsThe ordered steps a product goes through, and which machine or station does each one. | Yes | Operations with cycle times and resources sit on the production BOM. From Cin7's worked example: "Now that the preliminary steps are complete, we can set up the Production BOM for the packaged coffee. We want to include a setup operation and quality control operation." Needs the Advanced Manufacturing add-on.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: help.core.cin7.com › Example production BOM(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Shop-floor trackingOperators report progress, time, and completions as the work happens. | Yes | Cin7 says: "Use MES to carry out production operations. Consume components for production, record wastage, record production time, add notes, edit resources, and more." This is its MES operator screen, and it needs the Advanced Manufacturing add-on.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: help.core.cin7.com › Carry out a production operation(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Quality controlsChecks, tests, holds, and non-conformance records tied to production or receiving. | Partial | A production BOM can include an inspection step: "Select Quality control as the operation Type." We found nothing on recording pass or fail results or handling non-conformance, which is why this is partial. Needs the Advanced Manufacturing add-on.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: help.core.cin7.com › Example production BOM(opens in a new tab)Question this |
Inventory & traceability
Knowing what you hold and being able to trace it.
| Capability | Finding | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| Batch & lot traceabilityWhich incoming material lots went into which finished batch, and where those finished goods went. | Yes | Batch and serial number tracking is listed inside Standard Assembly Manufacturing, included on all Core tiers.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: cin7.com › Pricing(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Expiry & shelf lifeBest-before dates on materials and finished goods, with warnings before they lapse. | Yes | Cin7 says of its Lot Expiry Report: "This report shows all product batches with their expiry dates." Batch expiry dates are tracked, and FEFO costing makes an expiry date mandatory.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: help.core.cin7.com › Lot Expiry Report(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Serial numbersUnique identifiers on individual units, for warranty or field service. | Yes | Serial number tracking is included in Standard Assembly Manufacturing on all Core tiers.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: cin7.com › Pricing(opens in a new tab)Question this |
Commerce & accounting
Costs, purchasing, storefronts, and the books.
| Capability | Finding | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| Product costing & COGSWhat it costs you to make one, and the cost of the goods you sold. | Yes | Cin7 says: "Use this report to see detailed financial information such as COGS, sale proceeds, amounts for non-sale operations (transfers, assembly, etc.) and profit." FIFO, FEFO and special costing methods are documented, and a production cost report breaks out component costs. The report needs the Financial Reporting permission.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: help.core.cin7.com › Profit Loss By Product Report(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| PurchasingRaising and tracking purchase orders to suppliers from inside the system. | Yes | Cin7 says: "The Cin7 Core purchase module covers all processes involving buying stock from your suppliers." The same article covers purchase orders and a stock-received step.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: help.core.cin7.com › Introduction to the Purchase Module(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Accounting connectionSends financial data to bookkeeping software, or includes its own general ledger. | Yes | Cin7 says: "Connect Cin7 Core with Xero to integrate your inventory management with your accounting system." QuickBooks Online has its own connection too.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: help.core.cin7.com › Connect Cin7 Core and Xero(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Ecommerce connectionPulls orders and pushes stock levels to a storefront or marketplace. | Yes | Cin7 says: "Sell to your customers with Shopify and download orders to Cin7 Core. Sync inventory, pull sales information, and sync products to and from Shopify." There are also connections for WooCommerce, Amazon, BigCommerce, Magento, Etsy, eBay and Walmart.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: help.core.cin7.com › Introduction to Shopify(opens in a new tab)Question this |
Openness & your data
Getting data in, out, and away if you leave.
| Capability | Finding | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| APIA documented programming interface so other software can read and write your data. | Yes | Cin7 Core's help center points to its API reference at the old DEAR address: "Sale (see https://dearinventory.docs.apiary.io/#reference/sale)" The pricing matrix lists API access as an add-on on every plan, with no price shown.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: help.core.cin7.com › User Questions Cin7 Core API(opens in a new tab); cin7.com › Pricing(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| WebhooksThe system can notify other software the moment something changes. | Yes | Cin7 says: "Once an order reaches a specified event type you have subscribed to, a JSON payload will be sent to the endpoint you specified during the webhook subscription." The same page says webhooks work through the Automation module, which is a separate subscription.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: help.core.cin7.com › User Questions Cin7 Core API(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| MCP supportA Model Context Protocol server, letting an AI assistant read or act on this data. Useful, but it has nothing to do with whether the product plans materials. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: a first-party mcp server, or documentation of one.Know the answer? |
| CSV exportYou can get your lists out as spreadsheet files. | Yes | Cin7 says: "Suggested supply orders can be exported in CSV format for reference." Reports export to Excel, PDF or RTF. The CSV export quoted here is on MRP suggestions, so it needs MRP.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: help.core.cin7.com › Material Requirements Planning MRP(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Full data exportYou can take everything, including history and relationships, not just a few screens' worth of rows. | Yes | Cin7 says: "Backups can be scheduled automatically from the Scheduled Reports module. Select which areas of data you wish to back up, the backup frequency, and a recipient to receive Cin7 Core backup files via email." This needs the Purchase Automation module, only the Master User can schedule a full backup. "When backup is generated, an email is sent to the mailing list recipients with a link for downloading a zip archive with backup data." The format of the files inside the zip is not stated.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: help.core.cin7.com › Data backup(opens in a new tab)Question this |
Deployment, licensing and your data
- Deployment
- Cloud (hosted for you)
- Licensing
- Proprietary SaaS
- Team sizes
- 6–20 people, 21–50 people, 51+ people
- Manufacturing styles
- Countable assembled products, Batch & recipe products, Kits & bundles
Integrations
- Xero
- QuickBooks Online
- Shopify
- WooCommerce
- Amazon
- BigCommerce
- Magento
- Etsy
- eBay
- Walmart
Jobs this product qualifies for
Derived from the capability table above, not hand-assigned.
Editorial notes and cautions
Things we would want a friend to know before buying.
- The distinction between the simple assembly BOM and the production BOM is the whole story with this product. A demo that shows you production orders may be showing you a module your quoted plan does not include. Ask explicitly.
- Cin7's MRP help article says MRP needs an add-on without naming a tier, while the pricing matrix marks it as an add-on on Standard and included on Pro and Advanced. We read the article as a general note, but Cin7 has not said so directly, so check it against your quote.
- The Advanced Production Manufacturing add-on price is not published anywhere we could find, so the true cost of manufacturing on Cin7 Core cannot be established from public information.
- This product was DEAR Systems. Reviews and tutorials under that name generally still apply.
Alternatives to Cin7 Core
An alternative is always an alternative for a reason. There is no universal replacement.
- UnleashedLower cost
Unleashed adds its production module to Core for $69, $468 a month in total, where Cin7 Core gates production orders behind an add-on from $599, though Unleashed's manufacturing depth is lower.
Both sell manufacturing as a paid module on top of a base plan; Katana publishes its module prices and Cin7 does not.
Evidence and verification
✓ VerifiedLast checked October 9, 2026 · 92% of capability fields resolved · 100% of those carry a source
Pricing and module gating are sourced from the pricing page. The help-center pages refuse plain fetches, so we read them through the help center's article API. The manufacturing and planning capabilities are now sourced from those articles, and most of them need the MRP or Advanced Manufacturing add-on.
Sources we checked (16)
help.core.cin7.com
- 9034480737551 Capacity Planner(opens in a new tab)
- 9735447858703 Material Requirements Planning MRP(opens in a new tab)
- 9034490882575 Managing Production Orders(opens in a new tab)
- 9034476290447 Nested production orders production BOM explosion(opens in a new tab)
- 11917410018959 Example production BOM(opens in a new tab)
- 11759833715215 Carry out a production operation(opens in a new tab)
- 9034504240655 Lot Expiry Report(opens in a new tab)
- 9034521219087 Profit Loss By Product Report(opens in a new tab)
- 9034461557519 Introduction to the Purchase Module(opens in a new tab)
- 9034588410383 Connect Cin7 Core and Xero(opens in a new tab)
- 9034589848335 Introduction to Shopify(opens in a new tab)
- 9982466354831 User Questions Cin7 Core API(opens in a new tab)
- 9034435578255 Data backup(opens in a new tab)
- 9034524048911 Production Scheduler(opens in a new tab)
What we still want to confirm
We publish our gaps rather than hiding them. If you can point us at a first-party page for any of these, we will update the record and credit the correction.
- Obtain the price of the Advanced Production Manufacturing add-on. The pricing page shows only "Add-on" on Pro and Advanced and "X" on Standard, and the help center gives no figure; needs a sales quote or the logged-in My subscription page.
- Get the add-on prices for MRP on Standard and for Advanced Production Manufacturing on Pro and Advanced. Neither is published, so this needs a sales quote or the logged-in My subscription page.
- Find out whether quality-control operations record pass or fail results or non-conformances. The help center documents only the Quality control operation type on the production BOM, with no article on recording results; this needs a trial.
- Price the Automation and Purchase Automation modules that webhooks and scheduled full backups depend on. The pricing page marks Advanced Automations as an add-on on every plan with no figure, so this needs a sales quote. The format of the files inside the backup zip is also not stated.
Still unknown: recipes & formulas, mcp support.