Acumatica vs. Netstock

If they were looking for a little more sophistication out of the box from QuickBooks and we're not gonna do a lot of customizations at all that I think your system is fine if you're gonna customize it to operate in your unique environment, I think your system due to the upgrade process is highly complex to maintain long-term.

Based on our experience qith Netstock, there is no more excuses to stick with old, inefficient methods to manage and optimize inventory and purchasing. For us, Netstock pays itself and then some with all the time and guesswork we save. Nowadays, technology solutions are a must to stay ahead of the competition.

Incentivized

• We're excited on how it links everything together. So our current system, we have a hard time, if we're in a service ticket, being able to easily go back to an old service ticket of that customer and it's so many clicks away. And with the side panels we're very eager to be able to in the same screen click and have the information that we need.

Incentivized

• Global visibility , added value for stock assisstance
• Areas that need attention are displayed on the dashboard with option to drill down if required
• With more than 5000 different SKU it is difficult to keep track of all activities related to each SKU, the process is simplified with the help of this tool, everyone has access to the right information.

• Manufacturing suite. You have all the time. So for the Manufacturing edition, you're able to have negative issues that are unlimited and are not balanced into a job that needs to be improved. The mobile app itself for warehouse picking and management sets the default item to one. This is not how most warehouses that I've ever worked at operate. Bomb hierarchy and respectful of child elements. These are nitty gritty elements, but these are kind of down-and-dirty items that need to improve. But overall it's pretty good.

Incentivized

• Supersession designation of item by region - Each market is different, having the ability to assign a supersession item specific to each mark would be nice feature
• User report creation, ability to create custom reports utilizing existing fields within the Netstock environment without the need to approach Netstock and have the ability to schedule the report creation. (Similar to Analytics functionality)
• Option to be able to view all "AI" opportunities for a given location with a single click, currently you need to click one by one to see all the opportunities.
• Ability to limit comment creation based on user permission, currently regardless of the read of write permission a user can apply their comments to all locations by selecting the "To all locations" check box.

We aren’t going to switch at this point! It’s a great system and we are looking forward to realizing the full potential of the system once we can find a VAR who has a bench that can support us.

Incentivized

I give it an 8 because it is very intuitive and easy to use for day to day work. I find it more difficult to create general inquiries and financial statements than it seems that it should be. It's not very intuitive in those areas.

It's always available.

there have been some performance issues

Incentivized

We used Acumatica Support directly for the first year or so. Overall it's pretty good, but sometimes the support staff wasn't educated on the customizations we had, nor was I as the Customer as I couldn't remember which things were customized and which things were out of the box, so when there was an error, there were some misunderstandings.

Incentivized

It was on General Inquiries and it's just a complex topic.

They taught us the basics and we were able to be pretty self sufficient on the day-to-day operations.

I'd say the partner selection is critically important. I think the software is very easy to implement. It's very customizable to your business. Finding a partner that will work with you to understand your business and your needs is the critical piece to make sure that the system goes along with it.

Incentivized

Well, we decided to go with Acumatica and I believe it was a really good decision. The VAR was a big part of that as well because of their insights and knowledge, but I just felt Acumatica was the right fit for us in size and it had the capabilities we needed, but it also wasn't overkill.

Incentivized

i didnt shop around because Netstock had what we needed and it was going to work well with our old and our new accounting systems.

Incentivized

No, annual invoices are fine. I do like that unlimited users are included.

From my understanding, the P.O. module is not very robust, at least the last time I inquired about it. At the time, it had a one-to-one match, with one invoice for one P.O. and that isn't practical for many businesses. I don't believe it would be an easy system to use for sending out invoices, if we had thousands of retail utility customers. We do a small number of invoices because we sell wholesale power, not retail, so we only Invoice the municipality. Not each utility customer.

They are very responsive and knowledgeable about the product. If the rep doesn't have the ability to solve the issue, they quickly get someone else involved to assist us.

• Positive impact. Customers had no problems getting their products during the implementation process and this location still grew 10% this year. So, it's enabled us to handle more with less steps and also with less people. Even though we didn't need to let anyone go, we were able to divert those resources to things that help generate revenue or to handle more orders.

Incentivized

• We have vastly reduced the amount of safety stock that we used to hold
• Our stock holding value is within a manageable figure for the size of our business
• We can monitor our poor performing suppliers so we are confident when placing purchase orders

Incentivized