Moving from LabWare LIMS to LabFlow
An enterprise LIMS for laboratories of every industry, offered as LabWare SaaS, LabWare Hosted or on your own cloud, with a mobile app on the app stores. Last checked 7 November 2026. Check LabWare LIMS yourself, because a page that says something newer than this one is right.
The side-by-side comparison, with LabFlow's own limits, is on the LabFlow site. This page is about making the move.
Before you move
- Choose LabWare if you are an enterprise laboratory, clinical or not, that needs a LIMS configured to its own workflows, instrument interfacing at scale and a choice of where it is deployed.
- Choose LabFlow if you run a small clinical laboratory, want a patient-facing portal rather than a stakeholder portal, and would rather read a price than request a demo.
The move, step by step
- Get your data out of LabWare LIMS first. Ask LabWare LIMS how your data leaves it before you cancel anything; we have not checked that. Keep the copy: LabFlow reads none of it directly.
- Create an account. Sign-in is with Google, and there is no password to set.
- Set up the laboratory. Five steps, including its name, departments and time zone.
- Build the test catalogue, then panels and reference ranges. These are typed in. There is no bulk import.
- Invite your staff and give each person a role.
- Add patients as they arrive. There is no bulk import of patients or of past results, so your old system stays your archive for what came before.
- Take orders. A system that sends HL7 v2 order messages can hand them over one at a time as files, each becoming a draft order, as interoperability explains. There is no live feed.
- Enter and release a result on a real sample before you switch the bench over, and run both systems side by side until you trust it.
LabWare LIMS's prices
As its own pages stated them on 7 November 2026, not converted between currencies. LabFlow's are on the pricing page.
| Plan | Price | What the page says | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| LabWare LIMS | Quote only | Quote only (Request Demo); no price on the page | Source |
What each one says it does
"Not stated on the pages we checked" is not a no. Ask LabWare LIMS. LabFlow's column lists only what has shipped.
| What we looked for | LabWare LIMS | LabFlow |
|---|---|---|
| A price on the public page | No (source) | Yes |
| A free plan, or free for the person | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
| Patients read their own results online | In part (source) | Yes. For results from laboratories that run LabFlow. |
| The person decides who sees a record | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes. One frozen report at a time, by a link the person can withdraw. |
| Share one section only (one test, one report) | Not stated on the pages we checked | No. A share opens one whole report. There is no grant for the ECG only or the X-ray only. |
| A laboratory asks for access by the person's ID and the person accepts | Not stated on the pages we checked | No. Not in the product today. There is no ID to give and no request to accept. |
| Access can be withdrawn later | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
| Records kept for years, stated on the page | Not stated on the pages we checked | In part. Free keeps 12 months, then read-only. The paid plans set no cap. No number of years is promised. |
| Quality control (QC) built in | Yes (source) | Yes |
| HL7 or FHIR interfaces | Not stated on the pages we checked | In part. As files, in and out. No live feed. |
| Several sites or branches under one account | Yes (source) | Yes |
| An Android app | Yes (source) | Yes |
| Works in a browser | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
| A desktop application | Not stated on the pages we checked | No. Not in the product today. Browser and Android only. |
| A backup commitment stated on the page | Not stated on the pages we checked | No. No backup or recovery commitment is made today. |
| Analytics for the laboratory | Yes (source) | Yes |
| Collection work continues offline | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes |
| Reports sent by SMS or WhatsApp from the system | Not stated on the pages we checked | No. An SMS link opens on the handset. Nothing is sent from the system. |
| Hosted by the vendor (cloud) | Yes (source) | Yes. Hosted only. On-premise is not offered. |
| Open source | Not stated on the pages we checked | No |
What LabFlow does not have
LabFlow has no ID a person can give a laboratory, no laboratory access requests and no sharing section by section. It has no desktop app, promises no retention period and makes no backup commitment. No laboratories run it in production. Status and limits has the full list.