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Best of · Inventory

The best inventory management software for SG and MY

One question decides this category, and it is not the one the vendors want you to ask. Do you sell on Shopee, Lazada or TikTok Shop? If you do, the best-engineered software here is the wrong software for you, and we will show you why.

4 tracked, 0 hands-on tested yet Edited by Wei Chun Updated 2026·07

Nothing in this category is hands-on tested yet, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Every score here is research based, from verified vendor pricing and named user reviews, and each card says so. Some links are affiliate links; we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you, and it never decides what we cover or how we rank it. See our affiliate disclosure and methodology.

The one that decides it

Why the best software here might be the wrong one for you

Most inventory roundups would put Zoho Inventory at the top, note that it is well built, and move on. That would be accurate and useless, because it skips the fact that actually decides this purchase in Singapore and Malaysia.

Zoho Inventory has no native Shopee, Lazada or TikTok Shop connector. For a seller in this region, those channels are frequently not a side experiment, they are the business. Bridging them means paying for third-party middleware, which is another vendor, another monthly bill, and another integration that can silently stop syncing at two in the morning and leave you overselling stock you no longer have.

So the honest ranking is conditional, and we would rather say so than pretend there is one winner. If you sell direct, through your own site or wholesale, buy Zoho Inventory: the stock control is stronger, the reporting is trustworthy, and you can start free. If your revenue arrives through the regional marketplaces, then SiteGiant and EasyStore do the one job you cannot do without, and their weaker reporting is a price worth paying for sync that exists.

There is a second thing worth knowing about Zoho, and it is not a criticism so much as a budgeting fact: GST, SST and MyInvois are handled in Zoho Books, not in Inventory. The two work together by design, but if compliance is part of what you are solving, you are buying two products, and you should compare prices on that basis.

Side by side

Every option, compared

Read the marketplace-sync column first. For most sellers in this region it outranks everything else on the table.

Software Our score From Shopee & Lazada sync Reporting State
Zoho Inventoryglobal 8.0 Free, then $39 No, needs middleware Trustworthy Review →
SiteGiantmultichannel · MY 7.5 By quote Native Gross profit needs fixing Review →
EasyStoree-commerce · MY & SG 7.4 S$61/mo Native, 0% fee Adequate Review →
WhiteBoxfulfilment · SG not scored from S$49 30+ channels Unverified Listed

Scores are out of 10 and are research based, not hands-on. Pricing is entry level and checked July 2026.

How we picked

What a place on this list has to earn

01

Sync where you sell

In this region, native Shopee and Lazada sync outranks almost every other feature. We rank it that way, even when it demotes the better-built product.

02

Reporting you can trust

A profit report that needs manual correction is worse than no report, because you will act on it. We weight reporting accuracy heavily.

03

Prices we can verify

Every figure was checked against the vendor’s own page. Where a vendor will not publish one, we print no number instead of guessing.

04

Merit, not commission

Nothing is ranked higher, or added, because it pays a referral fee.

Read the full testing methodology →

The shortlist

Our take on each, in a paragraph

8.0 Research

Zoho Inventory

#1 · Best overall

The best-built one, with a caveat that may disqualify it. Multi-warehouse stock, reporting that holds up, and a free plan that is a real plan rather than a countdown. Then $39 a month. The caveat: no native Shopee, Lazada or TikTok Shop connector, so a marketplace seller needs middleware. Local tax lives in Zoho Books, so budget for both.

Free to startBest for direct sellersSources shown in review
7.5 Research

SiteGiant

#2 · Best for marketplaces

It does the job Zoho cannot. Native sync across Shopee, Lazada and the local channels, which is what stops you overselling stock you have already sold somewhere else. Onboarding reviews well. Set against that: named Malaysian reviewers repeatedly flag gross-profit reporting that needs manual correction, support responsiveness is the most common complaint, it bills annually, and it will not show you a price without a quote.

By quoteBest for marketplacesSources shown in review
7.4 Research

EasyStore

Best value multichannel

The friendlier local option. Native Shopee, Lazada and TikTok Shop sync, no transaction fee on its plans, and it publishes its Singapore pricing openly at S$61 to S$359, which is more than SiteGiant will do. The problem is support, and it is not a rumour: the same complaint recurs in Malaysian forum threads from 2015, 2018 and 2023, and its Capterra rating sits near 3.3 out of 5. Buy it for the channel sync, not the safety net.

S$61/moBest for 0% feesSources shown in review
Listed

WhiteBox

Tracked, not reviewed

A Singapore fulfilment and multichannel operation, from S$49 a month, syncing 30-odd channels, and it opened its own SG warehouse in 2026. It carries no score because we could not independently corroborate anything about it: its entire web footprint is self-published, with no presence on the independent review platforms. One important trap if you go looking: almost every "Whitebox review" you will find online is about an unrelated US company of the same name, which discontinued fulfilment in 2023. Those reviews are not about this company. We are tracking it and intend to test it.

from S$49/moSingaporeHands-on test planned
No score yet

FAQ

Questions buyers ask us

What is the best inventory management software for a small business?
Zoho Inventory is the best-built option at this price, with multi-warehouse stock control, reporting you can trust and a genuinely usable free plan, then $39 a month. But it has no native Shopee, Lazada or TikTok Shop connector. If the regional marketplaces are where you sell, SiteGiant or EasyStore fit your business better despite being weaker products.
Is there free inventory management software?
Yes. Zoho Inventory has a real free plan, with one user, two warehouses and fifty orders a month, and no time limit. It is enough to run a micro business, and enough for anyone else to test the software properly before paying for it.
Which inventory software syncs with Shopee and Lazada?
SiteGiant and EasyStore both sync natively with Shopee, Lazada and TikTok Shop. Zoho Inventory does not, and needs third-party middleware to bridge them, which is an extra vendor and an extra bill. For a South East Asian seller this is usually the single fact that decides the category.
How much does inventory management software cost?
Zoho Inventory is free to start and then $39 to $329 a month, verified against Zoho’s own page. EasyStore runs S$61 to S$359 a month in Singapore with no transaction fee. SiteGiant tiers by monthly order volume and bills annually, but does not publish a price we could verify, so ask for a written quote.

Edited by

Wei Chun

Founder & Editor

Every product here carries a research based score, not a hands-on one, and each card says so. I verified all pricing directly against vendor pages, which is how I found that the commonly-quoted Zoho Inventory figures were out of date and that SiteGiant publishes no price at all. Hands-on testing for this category is on the list, and the scores will be re-dated when it happens.

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