Sortly is a clean, mobile-friendly inventory tracker. It works well for small teams with a few hundred items. Nautilus is what you move to when inventory tracking turns into warehouse operations — pick paths, pack workflows, multi-location, real WMS.
Nautilus vs Sortly, quickly.
Five positioning differences that matter most when teams are evaluating both.
- Full WMS: pick, pack, ship, cycle count
- AI-powered route and replenishment
- Multi-warehouse with per-location pricing
- Custom workflows configurable per team
- Role-based permissions and an audit log of changes
- Inventory tracking, no workflow engine
- Manual quantity adjustments
- Single-location focus, limited multi-site
- Fixed workflows, light customization
- Basic auth on standard plans
Where the difference shows.
10 features, side-by-side. ✓ supported, ◐ partial, — not supported.
Where Nautilus differs from Sortly.
The differences worth weighing if you're thinking about moving off Sortly.
You outgrew inventory tracking
Sortly is great at counting things. Nautilus runs the operations that move them — pick paths, pack stations, ship workflows, cycle counts.
Real warehouse workflows
Multi-step receiving, putaway algorithms, batch picking, packing verification, shipping integrations. The full WMS, not just stock counts.
Multi-warehouse without spreadsheets
Real-time sync across locations, transfer orders between sites, location-level reporting. Sortly handles single-site well; Nautilus handles networks.
Enterprise integrations
Connect to your ERP, your shipping carriers, your e-commerce stack. Native integrations vs. Sortly's CSV-import workflow.
When Sortly might fit you better.
We're not the right choice for everyone. If any of these match your situation, Sortly is likely the better call — we'd rather tell you that up front than waste a sales cycle.
- Your operation is simple inventory tracking, not warehouse operations
- You manage under a few hundred items in a single small location
- You don't have pick/pack/ship workflows — items just sit and get checked out
- Your budget rules out a real WMS and you'd rather track on a phone than a spreadsheet
Let's show you Nautilus running on your data.
A 30-minute call with a Nautilus engineer. We'll walk through your current Sortly setup and show how each piece would work in Nautilus — including the migration path.