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Cheqroom vs. Sortly

Sortly Counts What You Have. Cheqroom Tracks Who Has It.

Sortly is a visual inventory app for stock, supplies, and tools: quantities, photos, and low stock alerts. Cheqroom is built for equipment people borrow and return: booked ahead, checked out, returned, and maintained on the same record.

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TL;DR: The Quick Answer

Sortly is a simple, visual inventory app with a free plan, offline mobile, and stock features, but it caps users and items on every plan except Enterprise and lists no reservations. If your equipment is borrowed by many people and has to be available when the work starts, Cheqroom is built for that. Cheqroom is the Asset Operations Platform for teams that reserve, borrow, and return shared equipment, with reservations, checkout, and maintenance connected in one system.

What Makes Cheqroom Different From Sortly?

Lending, Not Stocking

Sortly is inventory first: quantities, low stock alerts, and purchase orders. Its features page lists no reservations, booking portal, approvals, or buffer time. Cheqroom is built for the borrow and return lifecycle: real time availability, conflict prevention, buffer time, and a record of who has what and until when.

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Unlimited Users and Items, Not Caps at Every Tier

Sortly caps both users and items on every plan except Enterprise: Free is 1 user and 100 items, Advanced is 2 users and 500 items, Ultra is 5 and 2,000, and Premium is 8 and 5,000. Cheqroom has no caps: unlimited users and items, priced per admin, with SSO on every plan. Your price doesn’t jump when your team or inventory grows.

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Every Asset, Every Workflow, One Operating System

Cheqroom coordinates physical assets, people, spaces, and maintenance in real time, so teams always know what’s available, what’s ready, who has it, what’s next, and what needs attention. In Cheqroom that means approvals where you need them, custody tracked from checkout to return, Spotchecks, Work Orders, depreciation, and signed PDF agreements, all connected in one system.

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Choosing the Right Platform

Choose Cheqroom if
  • Equipment is borrowed and returned by many people
  • You need reservations, approvals, audits, and custody
  • You have more than a few hundred items or more than a few users
  • SSO and governance matter
Choose Sortly if
  • You track stock, supplies, and tools by quantity
  • You want a free or low cost start for a small team
  • You need offline mobile and photo based visual inventory
  • You need purchase orders, pick lists, and low stock alerts
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Cheqroom vs. Sortly: A Direct Comparison

CheqroomSortly
What it isThe Asset Operations Platform for lending, tracking, and maintaining shared equipment.A visual inventory app for stock, supplies, and equipment.
How work movesBook it ahead, check it out, return it, and service it, all on the same asset record. Reservations, approvals, custody, Spotchecks, work orders, RFID.Count it, label it, photograph it, and adjust the quantity.
Pricing ModelPer admin, with unlimited users and assets.Free, then $49, $149, or $299 per month list price. Capped by users and items.

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The Numbers Behind Smarter Asset Management

Save up to 80+ hours

Self-service reservations put booking in your team’s hands, so coordinators aren’t managing every request by hand. Learn more

Reduce project delays by 10%

Eliminate the frustration of double bookings. Identify, avoid, flag, and act on potential conflicts before they affect your next shoot, event, or class.

Reduce asset loss by 25%

Every piece of equipment is accounted for, tracked, and managed with unparalleled precision, increasing accountability and minimizing loss.

Cheqroom vs. Sortly: Feature Comparison

CapabilityCheqroomSortly
Reservations & BookingReal time availability, conflict prevention, and buffer time, booked ahead.None listed on its features page.
Check-Out & CustodyCheck out a whole project’s gear in a few scans and automatically log who has what and until when.Check in and check out of items.
Users & ItemsUnlimited users and items.Capped by plan, unlimited on Enterprise
SSO & APISSO and API access on every plan.SSO and API on Enterprise only

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FAQs: Sortly vs. Cheqroom

  • Asset Operations (AssetOps) is the discipline of coordinating people, physical assets, spaces, and maintenance in real time so work keeps moving.

    AssetOps is not just about keeping a clean inventory list. It is the operating layer that turns disconnected tools into one connected operating ecosystem.

     It shifts the focus from simply tracking assets to ensuring the availability, control, and efficiency of specialized, high-value physical equipment, spaces or everyday essentials for teams, departments or full organizations. It's the operating system for physical assets and the people that use them.

  • No, you can have as many regular users as you need. This model is designed to empower your entire team to use the equipment they need without extra costs.

  • At small scale, yes, but Sortly’s cost climbs as your users and items grow. As of October 2026, Sortly offers a free plan (1 user, 100 items), then Advanced at $49, Ultra at $149, and Premium at $299 per month list price. It caps users and items on every plan except Enterprise, and SSO and API sit on Enterprise. Cheqroom’s published tiers are per admin, with unlimited users and items, so the price doesn’t climb with your team or inventory.

  • Cheqroom. Shared equipment has to be available when the work starts, so Cheqroom coordinates assets, people, and time with real time availability, conflict prevention, and buffer time. Sortly is built to count and organize inventory, not to schedule who uses it.

  • Sortly’s price rises with your users and items, while Cheqroom’s doesn’t. Sortly offers a free plan, then Advanced at $49, Ultra at $149, and Premium at $299 per month list price (with 50% off yearly plans in the first year), plus a custom Enterprise plan. Cheqroom’s published tiers are per admin, with unlimited users and items.