Accounting Seed vs Expandable

Likelihood to Recommend

The ability to see detail in the data is second to none. The ability to tie into the same data base as other salesforce products is huge. I do believe you need an on site expert. I have found my staff hesitant to "explore" the world outside of their routine. There are certain functions - like accounts payable - that are very similar no matter what program you buy, but it would be helpful if Accounting Seed put together some "Best Practices Procedures" for the A/P person to review and teach themselves. As the manager, it should not be up to me to have to retrain every person that steps into the position from scratch. How much nicer it would be to have something in the knowledge base or in the Accounting Home page that would direct new hires!

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Gayle Ulrich

General Manager

Trinity RepPerforming Arts, 51-200 employees

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Expandable fits our companies needs quite well to manage inventory, sales orders, and purchasing. We recently started to also use Expandable to track ECN changes. The ECN functionality is a little limited in the fact it is difficult to add descriptions or parts affected after it has been implemented. I would recommend having an additional program for managing ECN history

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Engineer in Engineering

Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Accounting Seed

Expandable

API for custom integration

Accounting Seed

Expandable

Single sign-on capability

Role-based user permissions

Accounting Seed

Expandable

Dashboards

Standard reports

Custom reports

Accounting Seed

Expandable

Accounts payable

Accounts receivable

Cash management

Bank reconciliation

Expense management

Fixed asset management

Multi-currency support

Multi-division support

Regulations compliance

Self-service portal

Global Financial Support

Primary and Secondary Ledgers

Intercompany Accounting

Localizations

Journals and Reconciliations

Enterprise Accounting

Configurable Accounting

Centralized Rules Framework

Standardized Processes

Accounting Seed

Expandable

Inventory tracking

Location management

Manufacturing module

Accounting Seed

Expandable

Pricing

Order entry

Cost of goods sold

Order Orchestration

End-to-end order visibility

Order exception Resolution

Accounting Seed

Expandable

Period Close

Accounting Seed

Expandable

Award Lifecycle Management

Indirect Cost Management

Accounting Seed

Expandable

Forecasting

Inventory Planning

Multi-tier Supply Chain Planning

Pros

Ability to create custom reports on the fly.
Sharing/flowing information across Salesforce project pages.
My favorite, saving tons of time by having all information in one location, not having to stop and compare Salesforce reports to a separate accounting program reports.

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Pamela White

Accounting Manager

Telecom Infrastructure CorpElectrical & Electronic Manufacturing, 11-50 employees

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Great way for everyone on the team to see the same information - sales orders, inventory, purchase orders etc
The support team is always very responsive!!
Very customizable to create links between screens

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Engineer in Engineering

Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Cons

Most accounting systems have a number of canned reports included with the system. Accounting Seed has a few limited canned reports. These have grown over the past three years.
Though using the Salesforce reporting feature makes reporting easy, you are limited by what the Salesforce reporting system can do.
Budgeting is connected to project tasks rather than general ledger accounts.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Finance and Accounting

Non-profit Organization Management Company, 11-50 employees

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Data entry on certain tasks can be very tedious (for example effected parts on an ECN)
Sometimes data connections for upload are very slow or just flat out fail multiple times. The problem is intermittent so difficult for support to track and fix
Certain fields cannot be pulled on a report and require engineering time to create a process to add functionality. It would be nice to have unfiltered access to all fields

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Much easier to have accounting software be native to Salesforce. That's the main reason we went with Accounting Seed and are happy to have made that decision. We also love the customization abilities - just as easy as adding any field in Salesforce.

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David Jacoby

President

HostfullyHospitality, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

We are too soon into the process to answer this. Our year end is June 30 and our audit will take place in July and August, with completion in October. I am very happy with the program and look forward to the next year being more efficient with my time, but I cannot determine an ROI benefit at this point.

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Gayle Ulrich

General Manager

Trinity RepPerforming Arts, 51-200 employees

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Helps to provide accurate lead times to customers.
Accurate revision recording for customer support

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Engineer in Engineering

Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

Accounting Seed

Expandable

Likelihood to Recommend

Accounting Seed

Expandable

Feature Rating Comparison

API for custom integration

Single sign-on capability

Role-based user permissions

Dashboards

Standard reports

Custom reports

Accounts payable

Accounts receivable

Cash management

Bank reconciliation

Expense management

Fixed asset management

Multi-currency support

Multi-division support

Regulations compliance

Self-service portal

Global Financial Support

Primary and Secondary Ledgers

Intercompany Accounting

Localizations

Journals and Reconciliations

Enterprise Accounting

Configurable Accounting

Centralized Rules Framework

Standardized Processes

Inventory tracking

Location management

Manufacturing module

Pricing

Order entry

Cost of goods sold

Order Orchestration

End-to-end order visibility

Order exception Resolution

Period Close

Award Lifecycle Management

Indirect Cost Management

Forecasting

Inventory Planning

Multi-tier Supply Chain Planning

Pros

Accounting Seed

Expandable

Cons

Accounting Seed

Expandable

Alternatives Considered

Accounting Seed

Expandable

Return on Investment

Accounting Seed

Expandable

Screenshots

Accounting Seed

Expandable

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

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