Accounting Seed vs QAD

Likelihood to Recommend

Accounting Seed is a great solution for businesses looking for reliable accounting software. It offers all the features needed and works as expected. In addition, it is not as pricey as many competitors and therefore a great choice. I would recommend it for both startups and established businesses.

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Account Manager in Sales

Real Estate Company, 11-50 employees

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If you're setting up operations where you have to manage manufacturing builds from raw components to finished goods, I would recommend QAD. It's nice to have subassemblies part numbers for your builds and enter in the number of accepted quantities and rejects. QAD is very helpful if you have a lot of parts floating around. I would not buy QAD if you only have to manage less than ~20 parts... just use Excel.

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Dat Nguyen

Principal Manufacturing Engineer

VerrixMedical Devices, 11-50 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Accounting Seed

QAD

Pay calculation

Benefit plan administration

Direct deposit files

Salary revision and increment management

Reimbursement management

Accounting Seed

QAD

API for custom integration

Plug-ins

Accounting Seed

QAD

Single sign-on capability

Role-based user permissions

Accounting Seed

QAD

Dashboards

Standard reports

Custom reports

Accounting Seed

QAD

Accounts payable

Accounts receivable

Cash management

Bank reconciliation

Expense management

Time tracking

Fixed asset management

Multi-currency support

Multi-division support

Regulations compliance

Electronic tax filing

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

QAD

Inventory tracking

Automatic reordering

Location management

Manufacturing module

Accounting Seed

QAD

Pricing

Order entry

Credit card processing

Cost of goods sold

Order Orchestration

End-to-end order visibility

Order exception Resolution

Accounting Seed

QAD

Production Process Design

Supply Chain Business Flows

Production Management

Contracted Manufacturing Management

Configuration Management

Work Definition

Work Execution

Advanced Fulfillment

Manufacturing Costs

Accounting Seed

QAD

Forecasting

Inventory Planning

Multi-tier Supply Chain Planning

Performance Monitoring

Pros

Fully integrated into SalesForce so financial information is linked to all aspects of the organization.
Customer service is excellent and with timely and helpful solutions.
Upgrades are announced well ahead of pushing them out. Accounting Seed handles all the effort. When upgraded, you are assured there are no problems with it continuing to work with your other applications in SalesForce
Being built on the Force.com platform, many applications are available to add to the Accounting Seed application to expand its abilities.
Customization is simple and integrates across all aspects of SalesForce.

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Rickey Funderburk

COO (Chief Operating Officer)

Baptist Global ResponseNon-profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees

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The QAD Enterprise application is great, we only started using this application a few years ago. The Master Scheduling Workbench has been a great improvement to our daily operations.
The Web-based QAD Supplier Portal has also been implemented recently in our company and has been a huge help to our purchasing and materials department.
The QAD support that we receive has helped our company grow and is a major asset in upcoming projects.

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Amanda Bell

Sr. Materials Specialist

CK Technologies, LLCTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 201-500 employees

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Cons

Custom reporting seems cumbersome, but it could just be that we need better instructions, more examples, maybe some more canned reports. My company needs the ability to compare multiple years, and more than one budget in a report - we start with an approved board budget and then we reproject each quarter.
Non profits need to print financials by restriction level - this has also been very awkward - all the data is there but I have to piece it together in an excel spreadsheet every time I want it.
In general, the materials needed for non profits is not as accessible as it could be.

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Gayle Ulrich

General Manager

Trinity RepPerforming Arts, 51-200 employees

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Needs more flexibility to add/configure new indexes (if using the Progress Database) as the current indexes on key tables like transaction history are not helpful
Need a better support system for the TMS/Precision interface
Need better KnowledgeBase articles to understand the innerds of Pricing functionality

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

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QAD 9.0

Based on 2 answers

The cost / benefit of changing to a different ERP will create a high cost and low benefit that's why I believe that we'll continue renewing QAD for a long time.

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Automotive Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Usability

Accounting Seed 9.0

Based on 2 answers

While it takes time for new users to fully benefit and understand Accounting Seed, the user interface is amazing. It is relatively easy to use

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Verified User

Account Manager in Sales

Real Estate Company, 11-50 employees

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QAD 10.0

Based on 1 answer

Easy to use, zero or minimum cost to maintain the database (DBA etc) , no issue with OS ( Linux), stable database

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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Pharmaceuticals Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Support Rating

Accounting Seed 9.5

Based on 2 answers

We seldom have had to use their support but when we have, they have been responsive and actually were able to answer our questions in a simple, nontech language. You don't have to be a programmer to talk to them!

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Rickey Funderburk

COO (Chief Operating Officer)

Baptist Global ResponseNon-profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Honestly, Accounting Seed was the only one I focused on when looking to switch from our existing program. It showed in the partner app store and stated it was created native to SalesForce. As I read through it's capabilities, cost, etc., I knew it was the right choice.

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Pamela White

Accounting Manager

Telecom Infrastructure CorpElectrical & Electronic Manufacturing, 11-50 employees

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QAD is very easy to use once it's set up. It's basically an Excel sheet that can handle a lot more data points and faster. It's nice that you can dump the data stored in QAD to a CSV file and analyze in Excel. Careful narrow down the data searches to a limited number of points or Excel will crash.QAD is much easier to set up than Arena and SAP. And the numbering systems you can create in QAD is more customizable.

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Dat Nguyen

Principal Manufacturing Engineer

VerrixMedical Devices, 11-50 employees

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