Quartzy Erfahrungen

Review

Kommentare: A great tool for our lab! thank you!

Vorteile:

I love how easy it is to maintain our inventory. Once we run out of something, we simply pull up quartzy, and it is already there in our inventory. When I hit 'request', quartzy has the lowest offer come up. great for savings!!

Nachteile:

sometimes quartzy orders are slower than orders from VWR. however, only by a couple days.

Experience with Quartzy

Vorteile:

It provides an user-friendly interface for us to manage all the ordering and stock in the lab. We can easily track the orders and manger the items we have in the lab. Especially for a big lab like us, this is really helpful.

Nachteile:

Overall is good; just sometimes the website is a bit slow.

Good for basic lab management

Kommentare: Quartzy is overall "okay." There isn't much to complain about, but there isn't much to rave about either. The platform does its job. However, since our lab does most of the purchasing there seems to be a disconnect between our lab and Accounting, even though we all have access to the site. I wish there were more admin/organization features that allows better tracking of received items so there is better communication between us (the purchaser) and our accounts payable (the payer), thus allowing for more timely payments to both Quartzy and outside vendors.

Vorteile:

The site is pretty self explanatory and not hard to use, making it easy for those who are not technologically aware.

Nachteile:

I dislike how Quartzy will "recommend" similar products and make the dashboard look and feel cluttered. The search bar is also pretty useless, since it'll either be too specific and not find what you are looking for or be too general and give you things you originally weren't searching for. I also really dislike how Quartzy makes it a lot harder to revert a requested item back to its original vendor. It's as if it wants to make it difficult/not possible so that you're forced to purchase through Quartzy.

Great tool for small labs

Kommentare: It has helped to streamline our ordering process, which used to just be a communial google doc and which got really slow after a few thousand orders. This has made it eas to search in an orderly faschion by catalog number, so that we can be sure to order the same item for consistency. It also speeds up the ordering process since I can approve orders electronically rather than signing them each time. Everything is organized nicely and can be exported to a list if an audit ever happens. There are even quartzy special prices which sometimes are better than vendor ones.

Vorteile:

You can't beat the free price! We use this to manage lab orders, and it has worked well for the most part. It is easy to search for vendors, and the catalog number usually auto-populates for orders that have been completed before. You can also see what others in the lab have ordered so that you can avoid duplicates. You can even set up a lab inventory to track what you have or don't have. It makes it easy for lab managers to approve requests, and then either order it ourselves or send it up to finance to approve and then order.

Nachteile:

We have a period in time where our lab grew very large, and Quartzy became a little less optimal in that situation. I had to keep track of multiple orders and ended up making a spreadsheet to track stuff rather than relying on quartzy, which has a rather cumbersome interface if you have to track 30+ orders a day. Also, it sends a lot of emails unless you opt out, but then you miss updates on urgent requests people make. I would love to see more customizable notifications.

Positively changed the way we manage our lab

Kommentare: Really enjoy the software for the types of work that we do, and it has made a major impact on the organization and ordering of our chemical inventory. I would highly recommend to any lab that purchases chemicals and biological components on a regular basis, or who is looking for a fairly flexible inventory system.

Vorteile:

Quartzy serves as our lab inventory and chemical management software as well as the primary site we use to place orders and price-match. It allows us to segment the lab to better organize the storage of components, making the tracking of inventory much more simple and streamlined. Ordering and reordering is a breeze - things that we have previously purchased can be ordered again in seconds, and new products are price-matched and shopped around to various vendors. A final (huge) perk is the discounts and free shipping provided from various vendors, often making it cheaper to order through Quartzy rather than deal with obtaining quotes directly.

Nachteile:

The biggest problem we face is a lack of transparency regarding backorders and shipping delays. I understand that much of this the fault of the specific vendor and not something easily solved, but there seem to be a variety of chemical suppliers that show up in a search with great prices, but who never see to actually stock any inventory. It would be nice to have a way to remove those suppliers from a custom search.

What would labs do without Quartzy?

Kommentare: Love Quartzy, would recommend it to any lab, but I feel like most labs probably already have it.

Vorteile:

I don't understand how I am the first person to review this, this software is lifechanging. The fact that it is free is almost unbelievable, as it saves so much time in lab that you could almost cut down from 2 to 1 lab technicians once you switch to using a program like this. Basically, no more e-mailing our lab manager for random items, which saves him and everyone else in the lab a bunch of hassle. Also, their product archive saves a bunch of hassle as well, since you can just let Quartzy know what you are looking for and it will tell you if it's in stock.

Nachteile:

The inventory management system is limited to reagents and is very vulnerable to humans forgetting to say we ran out of something or have too much of something. I am not sure how you could get around the human fallibility problem though.

Quartzy makes lab-inventory and ordering easy !

Kommentare: Quartzy has been critical for organising the ordering and maintaining inventory of mission-critical research reagents. This allowed team members to collaborate more efficiently and access reagents for our research.

Vorteile:

Quartzy integrates seamlessly with our institution ordering system. We routinely use Quartzy to place new order, track and document the delivery. Moreover, it automatically adds the order to the lab inventory. This is a one-stop shop for research lab to organise their reagents.

Nachteile:

The website could be a bit slow to load and refresh. The search has improved a lot in recent times, but adding more advanced search options could add value. The interface hasn't changed much in years.

Great tool

Kommentare: Quartzy has made traceability much easier for our organization. Having purchasing and inventory together is really great. Plus the Quartzy shop often has lots of good deals or better availability than the manufacturer.

Vorteile:

We are using the free version, which is great. The software is pretty intuitive and has a lot of different functions.

Nachteile:

The biggest problems were related to the implementation.

Quartzy is good for organizing orders

Vorteile:

As a research scientist, Quartzy is a good software for me to communicate with our administrators who are taking care of the lab ordering. I request reagent that I need on the website just be simply type in the vender and catalog number, the software will do automatically search for product not only in the vender company but also in Quartzy stock to give us multiple choice to choose the cost efficient reagents.

Nachteile:

So far, I am satisfy with all the features in the software.

Use Quartzy for easy ordering, re-ordering, and inventory

Kommentare: It was hard to search the past orders, now we can order the same stuff in a few clicks. The ordering process is also visible now!

Vorteile:

Easy to search, user-friendly, good-looking design

Nachteile:

The uploading function. It has way too many tabs, which might not be good for customized inventory making.

Suggestions

Kommentare: Positive! I always get a quick response when I inquire about a purchase I made through the site directly.

Vorteile:

I like how I can easily track my items I order - whether it is directly through Quartzy or from other vendors and import my purchases into Quartzy to track.

Nachteile:

When I look at the "ordered" tab - I use multiple labs to find the items I am ordering to track them. I then export to print off a "receiving list" for people to use to actually check off what items arrive. It would be much easier to do this without having to switch between each lab, export each order list and then merge them all together into Excel. If I could just do this as one step, it would be much easier. It would also be beneficial to have more accurate availability dates when ordering through Quartzy directly. There's been times when I placed an order under the impression that it was available, but actually wasn't due to QC results, etc.

The only useful and free tool on the market for laboratory management that actually works

Vorteile:

The best part of this software is order management. Many small labs cannot afford to allow the students and research scientists to just order supplies and reagents by themselves. Using Quartzy, the staff in the laboratory basically send in the order for me to go over and approve first. By this extra step, I would not only know what they are doing and also keep an eye on the prices and budget. In addition, supplies and reagents that are finally ordered are kept in the system for future reference. After the order is placed, the person who orders the items will need to keep an eye on the shipment and check it off once it is received. This also applies sort of responsibility on them. Another advantage of Quartzy is that it has a store where we can order. Now I can compare the price between Quartzy and other vendors. If price is good on Quartzy, I would simply order them to save my time writing up the requisition forms. On Quartzy, you basically can combine the orders for several companies into one order. That saves a good amount of time for me.

Nachteile:

There is nothing bad about Quartzy although certainly it could be improved further. But it does satisfy our basic needs. Otherwise, I would hope the store has more information for the supplies and reagents that we can order and a better pricing.

Best Inventory and Procurement tool

Vorteile:

I used it daily for my medical lab supplies. Best for tacking procurement process and inventory for supplies using in the lab.

Nachteile:

It is not always easy to get buy-in on this software as there are competing software tools out there

Quartzy, a great product for a small companies

Vorteile:

We were looking for a more elegant solution to handle the ordering in our lab that would streamline the request and approval process within our organization. Quartzy makes requests very straightforward and the appropriate people are notified for a approval. The person making the request can easily track the status of their order through the website. Quartzy also recommends better pricing through their vendor partnerships when it detects that you may be paying more than what they can offer. This allows you to save money on many orders without having to create separate accounts with every vendor. The inventory tool is also quite useful to keep track of what you currently have in stock. Great free website, especially for smaller organizations.

Nachteile:

The website would be better if there was a way that it could auto-populate order information (confirmation numbers, tracking, etc.) This is the case for orders placed directly through Quartzy, but not when ordering through another vendor's website.

Quartzy

Kommentare: I recommend it to all labs, it helps our lab to stay organized and helps us save on costs along the way.

Vorteile:

It makes managing order requests in a laboratory setting easy and organized.

Nachteile:

When a blanket PO is used, there should be countdown option that shows remaining amount on the PO. On the "All requests" tab we should be able to specify which date we want to see: the current option is updated, which means it only shows the date of the latest action on the item, but sometimes I would like to figure out all items that were approved or ordered on a specific date independent of the items current status. Also with quartzy shop or quote options it would be great to be able to change the item name itself so that a description that makes sense for the individual lab can be used.

Ever growing and ever awesome

Vorteile:

Still can't believe it's free. We use this for order requests, inventory, price matching, and shipment tracking. I also appreciate that Quartzy is constantly trying to help their customers more, and reach out for feedback. Not only is customer service with them a breeze, but they want you to enjoy using their product. I love it!

Nachteile:

I have seen a demo of a mobile app and I'm so excited to see if and when that rolls out

Quartzy Wins for Lab research purchasing

Kommentare: I love it - Given the restrictions of UCLA ordering, it's been very helpful and the support team very helpful with returns, changes to PDFs generated for printing.

Vorteile:

I liked that it cost the end user nothing, I like that it provides a a clear progression though the ordering process in terms of ordering and receiving items. I like that it provides a comparison to the prices available if ordered thought quartzy directly. Sometimes that can be a better deal even when compared to UCLA pricing though other vendors.

Nachteile:

I with it would remember that I am not interested in swapping out some of our products to the quartzy version, I would be nice if after declining a dozen times, they might stop offered the same product as a replacement.

Quartzy Review

Kommentare: I am quite satisfied with the overall experience with Quartzy.

Vorteile:

-It makes tracking of orders so convenient. -We have also gotten good discounts on the products that we normally order. - If you place the order through Quartzy, it automatically marks the order as "Ordered" and sends an email to requester. They also receive an email if it's back ordered. - We also get free shipping for most orders.

Nachteile:

-The system can be quite slow at times. -One thing that I would like to see though on the Purchase History is the PO#. This is very important for me to verify which PO item belongs to. - If it can be integrated to QB, it would be really great so I don't have to create the order twice.

Quartzy

Kommentare: Quartzy makes it much easier to compare prices between various vendors. This has led to finding better deals with companies that we would never have thought about before. Orders are sometimes processed directly from Quartzy and this has lead to getting orders much faster than previously. Quartzy has lead to not insignificant savings for our department.

Vorteile:

Quartzy has made both departmental ordering easier and more centralized as well as helping to maintain a departmental inventory. Quartzy makes it easy to find chemicals and supplies from multiple venders easier, and has resulted to a reasonable amount of savings for our department. User support has always been very prompt, and I have never had a problem with an outcome. When orders are no longer are available I have always been notified very quickly with alternatives.

Nachteile:

They only problem I have ever encountered is sometimes it is not always clear how to search your current inventory versus the store. I believe over time this has improved and expect that it will continue to do so.

Good software

Kommentare: Overall good

Vorteile:

This free software is very easy to use. However, while beta testing this software, it was easier to find an item when performing a search in inventory. For example, If you want to search “B27”, I would be able to locate it easily finding something similar. However, for a while now, if the item is listed as B-27, I cannot find B27 since it’s not exactly B-27, so it would return no results. That is frustrating. Overall, I like the program and will continue to use it as way to keep track of expenses and orders.

Nachteile:

See above response regarding search function

Lab ordering and inventory

Kommentare: I really like using Quartzy and feel it simplifies lab management.

Vorteile:

I like that it coordinates purchasing and inventory. You can also pull up a chemical list for EHSO due by classification of the item. Requests can be in a central location. Finally Quartz can do some comparison shopping for you and they guarantee equivalent quality.

Nachteile:

Minor things such as now it is harder to list many items from the same company. More detailed storage locations for items such as antibodies. The ability to print labels for location. Linking protocols and instructions to the item.

Quartzy is a lab saver

Kommentare: Inventory and safety documentation

Vorteile:

We use this mainly for inventory and SDS compilations. For this it is exactly what we need.

Nachteile:

The search is improving but still hard to filter results. You tend to loose valid products the more you filter. When ordering the same product from one of Quartzy's third party vendors, it creates a new item in the inventory creating redundancy. Also, we'd like to switch to a barcoding system but using Quartzy generated barcodes are useless for ordering, it's only useful for inventory purposes.

Great for keeping track of lab inventory

Vorteile:

Quartzy works great for managing lab orders all in one place - a lot of the product info gets auto-populated from many vendors which saves time, and things can be auto-added to the existing inventory once they're received. It's also great at keeping track of storage locations, which makes finding tubes and vials easy.

Nachteile:

It would be nice to have a threshold for auto-reordering of commonly used reagents and consumables, and the inventory system needs users to update the amount in stock manually so it's still possible to run out of things. It would also be nice to have a way to integrate the inventory registry with ELNs to keep track of what's being used in experiments.

Easy and fast

Kommentare: It's perfect and easy. I recommend already to several labs and in all the companies I worked

Vorteile:

It uses several venderá that makes it way easier to buy from. Instead of having to create accounts in all the "small" accounts, we can easily access and search hundreds of companies and buy directly in just 2 steps... No complications, no problems. Most of items have tracking number so it's easy to know when arrive

Nachteile:

It's not a con. But if there could be more vendors associated it would be better.

Works great for inventory- have some issues with delivery timing

Vorteile:

I think it's a great way to organize our orders and to also find better deals for some items. Not as great for our inventory as a whole, but we may not be using all of the options to the best of our ability

Nachteile:

I struggle sometimes with the delivery timing of things we order through Quartzy. While placing an order, it will often say "order now to receive by X date" and there are often times when the delivery is not at that time. I understand that all shipping and tracking are subject to error, but we have later delivery dates than expected for items through Quartzy than any other site where we order.