Is Flipwise cheaper than Intakes?

For most sellers, yes. Flipwise is free up to 24 listings and $9.99 to $69.99 a month by store size. Intakes is $49 a month with 1,000 items and 300 sales included, and unlimited people. The question is what you are paying for: Flipwise is eBay bookkeeping with listing automation; Intakes is inventory and costing across every place you sell, including making things.

Does Flipwise work with Etsy, Poshmark or Mercari?

Sales on those are recorded by hand in Flipwise; only eBay syncs automatically, with its fees, labels and refunds. Intakes connects eBay and Etsy, with orders, fees and tracking arriving on their own within a minute; its other marketplaces are recorded by hand too, with Shopify and Square next.

Both handle bulk buys — what is the difference?

Flipwise splits a bulk buy evenly across its items, or by unit, and lets you lock one item’s cost so the rest share the remainder. Intakes keeps the purchase open while you unpack, marks what you sell meanwhile as provisional rather than guessed, spreads freight and fees into every item’s cost, lets you value the standout pieces and spread the rest over what is left, and reprices everything — including what already sold — when the lot is closed.

Can I move from Flipwise to Intakes?

Your items come in through the spreadsheet import: export them from Flipwise, map the columns, and each row becomes an item and a line on a draft purchase at the cost you paid. Connect eBay and Etsy and new orders arrive from then on. Old sales are not imported; Intakes starts costing from the day you connect.

Does Intakes relist my eBay items like Flipwise does?

No. Flipwise ends and relists fixed-price items before eBay’s auto-renew, lowers the price on each relist by a percentage you set, and promotes items once they have sat unsold for a while. Intakes reads your listings and does not change them yet; publishing and stock sync from Intakes are on the way.

Intakes vs Flipwise — eBay Bookkeeping or True-Cost Inventory?

Side by side

	Intakes	Flipwise
Built for	Businesses that buy, make and sell: resellers, makers, small teams. The true cost of each piece is the point.	eBay resellers. Bookkeeping, taxes and eBay store automation, with other marketplaces recorded by hand.
Marketplaces that sync on their own	◐ eBay and Etsy: orders within a minute of being paid, with fees, labels, tracking and refunds. Shopify and Square next.	◐ eBay only: every active and sold listing, with fees, label costs and refunds. Amazon, Poshmark, Mercari, Etsy, Depop and Facebook sales are entered by hand.
A bulk buy (storage unit, pallet, lot)	✓ One purchase that stays open while you unpack and sell. Cost is marked provisional until you close it, then every piece — sold ones too — takes its final share, by value where you say, freight and fees spread in.	✓ One bulk buy with the total split evenly or by unit across its items; lock one item’s cost and the rest share what is left. Shows the lot’s sales, profit, ROI and unsold value.
Shipping and fees on a purchase	✓ Recorded on the purchase as named adjustments and spread across its items, so each piece carries its share.	— Not described on its site. The purchase price is what you enter per item or per bulk buy.
Stock by quantity (fabric by the yard, a case of 300)	✓ Lots measured in pieces, yards, pounds or grams beside individually tracked units, with split and merge that keep cost history.	— Items are one record each; a bulk buy can split by unit, but quantity-tracked stock is not described.
Making things (recipes, production)	✓ Recipes, work orders and a schedule board; a made item carries the actual cost of what the run consumed.	— Not a feature.
Expenses and mileage	✓ Expenses with receipts, refunds in their own month, trips at the IRS rate linked to the purchases they produced.	✓ A ledger of expenses and sourcing miles in Schedule C categories.
Tax time	✓ A year-end packet with cost of goods worked two ways and the differences named, placed on Schedule C; PDF and CSV. US and non-US workspaces.	✓ A tax report for cash or accrual, with starting and ending inventory and COGS, exportable for an accountant or TurboTax.
Returns and exchanges	✓ A return document that restocks or writes off each piece and counts in its own month; exchanges as a linked return and replacement sale.	◐ eBay returns, cancellations and refunds are detected and applied to your records.
Listing automation	— Reads listings and compares what is listed with what you hold; writes nothing back yet.	✓ Relists fixed-price items before auto-renew, lowers the price by a set percentage each time, and promotes items once they have sat unsold.
People and permissions	✓ Unlimited people per workspace, roles and permissions, a full history of who did what.	— Team access is not described on its site.
Currency and country	✓ Any currency per workspace; tax lines and mileage for the US, everything else everywhere.	◐ Available to sellers in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia and eight EU countries.

The honest split

Where Flipwise is the better choice

You sell mostly on eBay and want the chores done: relisting, repricing, promotion.
You want to pay less, or nothing, while your store is small — free up to 24 listings, $9.99 a month up to 99.
Your bookkeeping question is "what do I owe the IRS", and an even split of each lot is close enough for you.
You want returns and refunds applied to your records without recording anything.

Where Intakes is the better choice

You buy lots and need each piece’s cost to be right, with freight spread in and nothing guessed while you are still unpacking.
You hold stock by quantity — fabric, parts, a case of identical things — as well as one-off pieces.
You sell on Etsy as well as eBay and want both arriving on their own, or at a market with stock in one place.
You make some of what you sell, or might.
More than one person works in the business, and you want roles and a history.
You keep your books in a currency other than US dollars.

Pricing, as of the date above

Intakes

$49 / month

One plan, every feature, unlimited people.
1,000 items and 300 completed sales a month included; beyond that $0.02 per item and $0.10 per sale.
90-day free trial, no card needed.

Flipwise

Free up to 24 listings, for new members.
$9.99 a month for 25–99 listings, rising by store size: $19.99 for 100–499, $29.99 for 500–1,000, up to $69.99 for 10,000–25,000.
Store size is active listings plus items sold in the last 30 days.
No free trial listed; a 7-day money-back guarantee.

Prices from flipwise.app, monthly billing. A yearly price was not shown.

Questions people ask

Is Flipwise cheaper than Intakes?: For most sellers, yes. Flipwise is free up to 24 listings and $9.99 to $69.99 a month by store size. Intakes is $49 a month with 1,000 items and 300 sales included, and unlimited people. The question is what you are paying for: Flipwise is eBay bookkeeping with listing automation; Intakes is inventory and costing across every place you sell, including making things.
Does Flipwise work with Etsy, Poshmark or Mercari?: Sales on those are recorded by hand in Flipwise; only eBay syncs automatically, with its fees, labels and refunds. Intakes connects eBay and Etsy, with orders, fees and tracking arriving on their own within a minute; its other marketplaces are recorded by hand too, with Shopify and Square next.
Both handle bulk buys — what is the difference?: Flipwise splits a bulk buy evenly across its items, or by unit, and lets you lock one item’s cost so the rest share the remainder. Intakes keeps the purchase open while you unpack, marks what you sell meanwhile as provisional rather than guessed, spreads freight and fees into every item’s cost, lets you value the standout pieces and spread the rest over what is left, and reprices everything — including what already sold — when the lot is closed.
Can I move from Flipwise to Intakes?: Your items come in through the spreadsheet import: export them from Flipwise, map the columns, and each row becomes an item and a line on a draft purchase at the cost you paid. Connect eBay and Etsy and new orders arrive from then on. Old sales are not imported; Intakes starts costing from the day you connect.
Does Intakes relist my eBay items like Flipwise does?: No. Flipwise ends and relists fixed-price items before eBay’s auto-renew, lowers the price on each relist by a percentage you set, and promotes items once they have sat unsold for a while. Intakes reads your listings and does not change them yet; publishing and stock sync from Intakes are on the way.

Intakes vs Flipwise