Acumatica vs. Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate

Acumatica works well for medium to large businesses with strong accounting procedures in place, it is a program for those companies that have outgrown Sage50 or QuickBooks Desktop and need to take their Finance software to the next level. The added complexity and some of the restrictions that come with robust finance software would likely be a burden on smaller organizations. Being an Acumatica Construction user, the Construction version specifically is well suited to any construction company that wants to take the leap to digitizing their construction processes.

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Sage is not at all well suited for small companies who want an agile, nimble setup for quick moving situations and mobile use. These type of companies should look elsewhere such as a SaaS offering from another vendor. In addition Sage is very expensive both in its initial outlay and ongoing support. 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

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• Ease of dragging documents into transactions has made our office paper free
• Use of Excel to export any detail that we need, particularly to reconcile balance sheet accounts
• The cloud environment is sooo wonderful! Coming out of the pandemic we value the cloud environment.

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• There are a lot of ways to drill down into information. The ability to run inquiries that can be easily exported into Excel is incredibly useful.
• The help desk is very helpful. There are multiple ways to get a hold of someone and it is extremely useful.
• The knowledgebase articles are very helpful and provide a lot of great detail.

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• We often run into strange one-off glitches that cause a Sales Order or invoice to miscalculate and provide inaccurate order totals.
• The return process in terms of a PO return receipt can be quite confusing, as when linked to a drop ship PO it does not re-open the sales order by itself.

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• 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

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Acumatica has lots of potential for our company. I can see where our company will be in the next coming year or two as we start utilizing all of the features that Acumatica has

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We have users of all levels and it works well for any user, the user interface is very easy to get used to and the screen feedback and delivery is very well done. We have many users using this product all day every day and all levels have become very accustomed to its ease of use.

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Sage is somewhat easy to use as far as its simplicity, however, when I first started using it I really wished there were more training materials available. As I did research to figure out what resources were there to learn how to use the paid software, all I found were courses you have to pay for. In my personal opinion, I don't think you should have to pay to learn how to use a software you bought.

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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.

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They have a very quick, responsive team that assists. They also have great higher-level engineers who assist in more complicated matters and all in all, you need a support team that is quick to respond when you are in the middle of business crises.

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our partner was an subject matter expert

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our partner created great online training

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lots of bumps in getting work processes mapped out. a bunch of customizations were needed.

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We selected Acumatica based on the licensing model. We also selected Acumatica based on the flexibility. We also selected Acumatica based on recommendations from our VAR. We liked the overall TCO of Acumatica vs other ERP systems. We also liked the fact that it was able to do the inter company accounting necessary for our business.

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We currently have Sage in place which handles the majority of our business needs on the back end, but compared to some others that are on the market like Builder Trend, it does lack the client facing side of the house. To make it a better product, a client facing portal would be best so they can be up to date.

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• We were able to successfully navigate the pandemic due to the fact that it is cloud based.
• We were able to determine that customers who told us to not call again, often bought from us.
• Employee morale was very high as everyone in the company had access to the data that tracked our first year of profitability in years.

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• The accounting functions (AP, AR, GL) are mature so it does a great job with core financials. The reports are flexible so it does a good job of providing flexibility in report writing. The application is written for a workgroup so multiple people can use it at the same time. The transaction detail is strong so that a transaction can be rolled back if necessary.

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