Overview
What is Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate?
Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate is an end-to-end construction and property management product.
Sage 300 - high value for cost with Excellent U.S. based support.
Sage 300 CRE is that monolithic ERP that you sometimes hate to see show up on your screen but sometimes cannot live without.
Great Product
Sage has improved our office!
Sage 300 is above all the best in Accounting Software
Sage 300 is the real deal.
Sage is a strong tool, but can be bulky.
Sage 300 Construction: Perfect for the Mid Market
Sage 300: a good construction suite
Feels dated, but is functional with quirks.
Sage 300: Frustrated User
Powerful but the UI makes it a mediocre product.
Would you implement Sage 300?
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What is Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate?
Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate is an end-to-end construction and property management product.
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Reviews
(1-7 of 7)- Very basic
- Lack of data validation and controls
- Extremely limited report configuration without significant customization
- Too many arbitrary limits like vendor name that forced partial names into the address
- Very outdated UI
- Very siloed forcing users to open different applications for different functions
Sage 300 CRE is that monolithic ERP that you sometimes hate to see show up on your screen but sometimes cannot live without.
- Sage 300 CRE, formerly Timberline, has been on the market for dozens of years and is a very mature application. You cannot go wrong with using it for day-to-day construction company business.
- Their support department, though sometimes a little weak on the front line, is built to handle the needs of very large companies thus even though it may sometimes take some extra calls you can always be assured of getting a needed answer.
- Since this is an almost all-in-one ERP the applications/modules are linked such that doing work in one will lead to information and data being entered throughout all the modules related to that data.
- Since this is a construction/real estate specific package, contractors need little customization to be able to use the application fully within the limits of construction terms and typical construction needs such as RFIs, Dailies, and Transmittals.
- As mentioned in the pros, Sage has been around for a long time and the user interface really shows it. It has a Windows 3.1 look to it and it can be irritating to users who want a more refreshed look.
- Using an old fashioned Pervasive database, Sage is not fast. The speed of the application really relies on the infrastructure of the servers, workstations and network involved but even in best-case scenarios some screens and reports are slow to load without the help of third party items such as their SQL Replicator piece.
- The out-of-the-box Sage 300 CRE experience is NOT at all mobile friendly. The only way to use it in a mobile sense is through Terminal Services type connection but that does not scale well to mobile devices thus it is basically not usable on anything except a decent laptop. They have come out with add-ons to make it more mobile friendly but that adds to the complexity of the install.
- The old interface has a lot of trouble with unique monitor arrangements whether extra monitors or non-standard resolutions.
Medium and larger sized companies benefit from a Sage install much more than the smaller constructor. Having the modules all work in unison is important when a company is of a certain size as is having the long tenured support structure. In addition Sage requires the terminals services setup to use it remotely and the larger companies are more likely to have the infrastructure and support for that type of setup.
Sage has improved our office!
- Sage allows you to do complex tasks in a simplified manner.
- The software has a plethora of customizable features.
- The reporting options are endless!
- The user interface could be updated and be a bit more modern.
- It would be nice to have more free trainings available.
Sage 300: a good construction suite
- Ease of use
- Flexibility to add jobs and users
- Ability to write custom reports for end users and clients
- Creation/improvement of a mobile app
- Price for support is quite high
- Support is not available 24/7
Feels dated, but is functional with quirks.
- Accounts Payable invoicing.
- Accounts Receivable tracking.
- General ledger.
- Payroll.
- All aspects of reporting, including the ability to export in various formats.
- User interface.
Sage 300: Frustrated User
- Once you get it set up with all the vendors and cost codes, it works okay to manage all the transactions.
- It is made for construction, tailored for the way we use it.
- Flexible, you can modify every input and make it the way you want it.
- They have never dramatically changed the software in the last 20 years. The format could be improved.
- Very expensive. Pay every year for upgrades that don't really change anything. Need to pay for each user.
- Really hard to set up correctly. New users need to spend a month of labor getting all the cost codes in there and all the vendors in the system.
- The system crashes a lot, you'll be working along and then you get a critical error and need to restart it.
Powerful but the UI makes it a mediocre product.
- Sage 300 does a wonderful job in change management. Trying to manage a $90M job is difficult enough, but having over 60 change requests makes it essentially impossible if it wasn't for this module.
- Summary Reports. This module is the only way to get a true litmus test of the job. We use this during every monthly meeting and would probably be lost as to the status for the job without it.
- Transmittals are a masterpiece on Sage. I don't say this too lightly, but by all means it is an absolute masterpiece. When we have all different PMs doing all different transmittal, it's wonderful to see them all in one place following one template. No more trying to collaborate people's emails into a folder hoping they all are formatted the same way. This is a completely underappreciated facet of Sage 300.
- The user interface is not good, flat out. The style in which you access the information looks like a primitive version of Microsoft. In addition, there is a lack of congruence between certain screens. With some modules, you press the 'X' in the top right exit, with some you have to press a 'cancel' button, and then another cancel located elsewhere.
- To be honest a majority of the issues I experience can be correlated to the user interface. It is by far the worst aspect of Sage 300. With all due respect, Sage has a wonderful product that needs a new coat of paint. I'm hoping with the future updates they will take examples from other organizations in order to bring the UI into the 21st century, because their format is simply archaic.