The Professional Plan: Fishbowl Order Automation for High-Growth Teams

There's a specific moment that most growing wholesale distributors recognize when they look back on their business.

It's the point where order volume crossed a threshold that manual processes couldn't keep up with. Where the team started working longer hours just to keep data entry current. Where errors started showing up more frequently because everyone was rushing. Where hiring felt like the only option but adding headcount to a manual process felt like putting a bandage on the wrong wound.

If you're at that point — or approaching it — the Truss Professional Plan is built for exactly where you are.

What Changes When You're Growing

Small distribution operations can often manage manual Fishbowl order entry with one or two dedicated people. It's not efficient, but it's manageable at low volume.

Growth changes the math fast.

When you add vendors, your incoming PO volume increases. When you add customers, your SO volume increases. When you expand warehouse locations, your Transfer Order complexity increases. And all of that lands on the same team that was already at capacity.

The Professional Plan is designed for the distributor who has outgrown manual entry but isn't ready for — or doesn't need — an enterprise software contract with a six-figure price tag.

What the Truss Professional Plan Includes

At $249/month, the Professional Plan gives high-growth Fishbowl operations the capacity and team support to automate order intake at scale.

• 300 orders per month — handles significant daily order volume across all order types
• Unlimited SKU mappings — no ceiling on your vendor catalog size
• 7 team members — covers your full operations, purchasing, and fulfillment crew
• Priority email support — faster response times when you need help
• 7-day free trial — full access, no credit card required

Every Professional Plan feature is included from day one: AI-powered PDF and photo extraction, direct Fishbowl API sync for Sales Orders, Purchase Orders, and Transfer Orders, Smart SKU Matching, and the human approval workflow.

300 Orders Per Month: What That Looks Like in Practice

Three hundred orders per month breaks down to roughly 15 orders per business day. For a growing wholesale distributor that number might represent:

• 8-10 incoming vendor Purchase Orders
• 4-6 outgoing customer Sales Orders
• 1-2 internal Transfer Orders between warehouse locations

At 15-20 minutes of manual entry per order, that's 3-5 hours of data entry work every single day — before accounting for errors that need to be corrected. With Truss, that same volume takes 30-60 minutes of review and approval. Your team gets hours back every day.

Unlimited SKU Mappings: Why It Matters at Scale

The Starter Plan's 200 SKU mapping limit is sufficient for small operations with a focused vendor base. But growing distributors typically work with more vendors, more product lines, and more SKUs than that ceiling allows.

The Professional Plan removes the SKU mapping limit entirely. As your vendor relationships grow and your product catalog expands, Truss's Smart SKU Matching library grows with you — automatically building and retaining vendor-to-Fishbowl SKU associations with no cap.

This matters most for distributors who:

• Work with 10 or more active vendors
• Carry a broad SKU catalog across multiple product categories
• Are adding new vendor relationships as part of their growth strategy

7 Team Members: Built for a Real Operations Team

At the Professional level, order intake isn't a one-person job. It involves purchasing managers reviewing incoming POs, sales coordinators approving customer SOs, and warehouse supervisors confirming Transfer Orders.

The 7-member team allowance covers your full operational crew — giving each person their own Truss login, their own role-appropriate access, and a shared view of the order pipeline moving through Fishbowl.

Every team member sees the same approval queue. Every approval is tracked. Every sync is logged.

The ROI Case for the Professional Plan

Let's look at the numbers honestly.

A team member spending 3-4 hours per day on manual Fishbowl order entry represents roughly $15,000-$20,000 per year in fully-loaded labor cost — just for data transcription. That's before accounting for the cost of errors, the cost of delays, and the opportunity cost of skilled people doing work that adds no value beyond moving data from one place to another.

The Professional Plan at $249/month is $2,988 per year.

Even if Truss saves just one person one hour per day, the plan pays for itself many times over. Most Professional Plan customers find it saves significantly more than that.

Growing Into Enterprise

If your business continues to grow beyond the Professional Plan's 300-order monthly limit, upgrading to the Truss Enterprise Plan at $499/month gives you unlimited orders, unlimited SKU mappings, up to 10 team members, dedicated support, custom integrations, and an SLA guarantee.

Like the Starter-to-Professional upgrade, moving to Enterprise carries your entire order history, SKU mapping library, and team settings forward automatically.

Who the Professional Plan Is For

The Professional Plan is the right fit if you are:

• Processing 75-300 orders per month. You've outgrown the Starter Plan's capacity or are approaching it and want room to grow without hitting a ceiling.
• Working with a larger vendor catalog. Unlimited SKU mappings means no limits on how many vendor part numbers Truss can learn and remember.
• Running a team of up to 7 people. Your operations, purchasing, and fulfillment staff can all access Truss with individual logins and role-appropriate permissions.
• Taking operational efficiency seriously. You've recognized that manual order entry isn't just annoying — it's a real constraint on how fast your business can grow, and you're ready to remove it.

Professional Plan at a Glance

Feature	Professional Plan
Monthly price	$249/month
Orders per month	300
SKU mappings	Unlimited
Team members	7
Support	Priority email
Free trial	7 days, no credit card
Order types	SO, PO, TO
Fishbowl API sync	✓
Human approval workflow	✓
Smart SKU Matching	✓
AI PDF + photo extraction	✓

Start Your Free Trial

The Professional Plan includes a full 7-day free trial with no credit card required. Connect your Fishbowl instance, bring your team onboard, and process real orders before you commit to a subscription.

If you're not sure whether the Starter or Professional Plan is the right fit, start with the free trial and process a week's worth of real order volume. The right tier will be obvious.