Lab inventory software built for academic, start-up, and teaching labs
Reagents, supplies and samples. Know what you have, where it is, and when it runs out.
Pays for itself the 1st time it saves a reagent, or the 1st time nobody has to drive out for tips.
30-day free trial, no credit card required
Still Using Spreadsheets?
Five problems every lab faces and how Labsistant solves each one.
✗ The Problem
- Expired reagents discovered mid-experiment. 24% of researchers report missing experiments due to unavailable reagents.
- Out of tips on a Friday. The consumables nobody owns are the ones that run out, and no spreadsheet row turns red when they do.
- No visibility into who used what. 54% say recording inventory is a major burden.
- Outdated spreadsheets. 81% of labs still track inventory with spreadsheets, paper, or nothing.
- Manual compliance. Disposal of unknown chemicals costs 100 to 1,000x more.
✓ The Solution
- Real-time tracking with automatic expiration alerts. Know what is expiring before it costs you.
- Supplies tracked properly. Tips, tubes, plates and gloves counted in boxes and packs, with low-stock thresholds and one-tap use. On every plan, including Free.
- Automatic logging. Every use recorded with user, date, and quantity.
- Single source of truth. Replaces spreadsheets on day one.
- Immutable audit trails. Compliance-ready without reconstruction.
Sources: C&EN BrandLab/MilliporeSigma, 2020 (n≈1,000); ACS Chemical Health & Safety, 2024
What the Research Shows
of lab professionals say their biggest inventory problem is not knowing what they have or where it is.
lose at least 3 days of work per month to inventory issues.
of those with dedicated inventory tools are satisfied.
Always Know What You Have
Reagents, supplies and samples, with the experiments, alerts and reporting that go around them.
Describe what you need. Edna drafts it, you confirm it.
Ask a question in plain language and get the answer from your own lab's records. Ask for a change and nothing is written until you approve the confirmation card. Team plan and up.
Learn more →Reagents, supplies and samples, all in one inventory
Reagents by lot with expiration dates and cost. Supplies counted in boxes and packs, on every plan including Free. Samples with lineage and thaw history on the Lab plan.
Learn more →Set up your lab from the spreadsheet you already keep
Labsistant matches the columns, works out your freezers and shelves and merges the duplicates, then shows you every row exactly as it understood it. Nothing is created until you approve it.
Learn more →What can I make right now, from what is on the shelf?
Keep your recipes in one place and see which of them you have the components for today. Making a batch deducts what it used and creates what it produced. Team plan and up.
Learn more →Scheduled experiments deduct what they use, as they use it
Reusable templates that can require reagents, supplies or samples. Pull against a running experiment and return what you did not use. Team plan and up.
Learn more →A digital twin of your lab at a glance
Rooms, freezers, shelves, boxes, down to the slot. A labmate sees that a slot is taken, never whose personal item is in it or what it is.
Learn more →Alerts that watch so you can focus on research
Custom low-stock and expiry thresholds, a notification centre on every plan, and email or a daily or weekly digest on the Team plan.
Learn more →See where the money and the reagents actually go
Usage, spend, what the shelves are worth, waste, and what a run cost. Every figure computed across the whole range, never summed in your browser. Team plan and up.
Learn more →Also on the features page: samples with lineage and thaw history, audit trails nobody can edit, and roles, requests and ownership handoff.
5 Minutes to Managing Inventory
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30-day free trial, full access, no credit card. Explore the demo sandbox or jump straight into your own lab.
Import or Start Fresh
Hand over the spreadsheet you already keep. Labsistant matches the columns, works out your freezers and shelves, and shows you everything it understood before it creates a thing. Reagents, supplies and samples, or start from an empty lab.
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Add your labmates. No more guessing what's in stock, what's expired, or what that mystery reagent even is.
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The Inventory System Your Lab Deserves
Other platforms treat inventory as a checkbox, a module buried inside a LIMS or bolted onto an ELN. We built an entire product around it. Every feature, every workflow, every design decision serves one goal: making lab inventory management actually work.
Full Lifecycle Tracking
Tracks reagents, supplies and samples from delivery to disposal. Lot numbers, expiration dates, packaging counts, usage history, all in one place.
Storage That Mirrors Your Lab
Storage hierarchies that mirror your actual lab. Freezers, shelves, racks, and boxes, not a flat database.
Works Alongside Your Stack
Built to complement the tools your lab already runs.
Simple, Transparent Pricing
The median lab loses ~$10K/year in expired reagents. Labsistant pays for itself in month one.
Free
For individuals, up to 2 users
- Up to 2 users
- Up to 50 inventory items
- 5 storage locations
- Reagents and supplies, both tracked properly
- In-app Help Center
- Basic stock & expiration alerts
- 7-day audit history
- CSV export
- Dashboard
Team
Per lab, up to 10 users
+$7/user/mo for additional users
- Everything in Free, plus:
- Edna, the lab assistant
- Unlimited inventory items
- Unlimited storage locations
- Unlimited experiments & scheduling
- Make your own reagents from what is in stock
- 90-day audit history
- Groups & member management
- Usage trends, cost analysis & reporting
- Saved reports
- Email and daily or weekly digest notifications
- Pull/split portions, ownership transfers
- Lot cost tracking
Lab
Up to 40 users
+$7/user/mo for additional users
- Everything in Team, plus:
- Samples with lineage and thaw history
- Unlimited audit history
- Zone management (containment, clean room)
- Sterile & RNase-free tracking
- Days until you run out, per reagent
- Priority support