Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Acumatica
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Acumatica delivers a set of cloud-based business software applications with dashboards, reporting tools, integrated document management, centralized security, and customization tools.
$1,000
per year
SAP Business One
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
SAP Business One is an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for small and medium-sized businesses, The product encompasses functionality around sales, customer relationships, inventory, operations, financials and human resources.
$99
per month
Pricing
AcumaticaSAP Business One
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Limited
$99.00
per month
Starter
$110.00
per month
Pro
$132.00
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AcumaticaSAP Business One
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPricing is always consumption-based with no five-year lock-ins or termination penalties. The Acumatica ERP pricing structure allows adding casual users, suppliers, and customers without paying for additional licenses. The cost is based on the features and resources utilized, not on the number of users who access the system. An Acumatica partner works with users to understand specific requirements, determine the proper resources and modules for the company, and presents a price for the license.
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Community Pulse
AcumaticaSAP Business One
Considered Both Products
Acumatica
Chose Acumatica
I worked for a partner that sold SAP Business One and ByDesign. The very best thing I would say about Acumatica compared to those platforms is the support team. I have not seen a level of support that is actually able to resolve very difficult issues. Especially when they are …
Chose Acumatica
The basic difference between Acumatica and similar solutions is their complexity and usability. It is less complex and easier to learn, and it is also based on a low-code platform, which makes it more convenient for the end user.
Chose Acumatica
Cost. Modern code base and technology stack. Features. Customization and data access
Chose Acumatica
Acumatica is more flexible. Acumatica gives more control underneath the hood of the ERP, which enables us to meet our requirements out of the box WITHOUT customizations
Chose Acumatica
Acumatica is more user friendly whilst still providing a high level of customisation to suit our business.
Chose Acumatica
Ultimately this was the one that I chose. I just thought that it was the perfect blend of affordability, customization, and convenience.
Chose Acumatica
Head and shoulders above them. Acumatica is flexible and that is important for our growing business group. The pricing for Acumatica is affordable and reasonable. We love the support from Acumatica as well. The training and community support is overwhelmingly great.
Chose Acumatica
Much more easy to use and more cost effective. Seemed to be a better support network through Acumatica University and our VAR. In general, the look and feel was much better also.
Chose Acumatica
They end user experience is where Acumatica really shines, along with the customization ability and additional app connection ease.
Chose Acumatica
Acumatica has proven to be a more sophisticated product than B1 in many ways, and is much more in touch with the needs of todays businesses.
Chose Acumatica
ACU is far and away a better ERP solution. SAP does a great job at saying what they can do and develop but ACU does what they say to help improve the product. The UI is much prettier and configurable and you can see you data how you want to
Chose Acumatica
NetSuite is much more expensive and is difficult to customise or integrate. SAP is a more complex and powerful system, but several times more expensive to implement and run.
SAP Business One
Chose SAP Business One
As a consultant, SAP Business One has a strong set of core features that will perform well for a multitude of businesses. It is a mature product with lots of documentation and available training online to answer questions and assist users. It also has multitudes of proven …
Features
AcumaticaSAP Business One
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
8.3
112 Ratings
12% above category average
SAP Business One
10.0
10 Ratings
31% above category average
Pay calculation7.398 Ratings10.09 Ratings
Benefit plan administration7.075 Ratings10.07 Ratings
Direct deposit files7.498 Ratings10.08 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
8.3
317 Ratings
10% above category average
SAP Business One
9.3
38 Ratings
21% above category average
API for custom integration8.3298 Ratings9.336 Ratings
Plug-ins8.3271 Ratings9.436 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
8.3
391 Ratings
1% below category average
SAP Business One
8.9
42 Ratings
6% above category average
Single sign-on capability8.6323 Ratings8.834 Ratings
Role-based user permissions8.1384 Ratings9.141 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
8.1
399 Ratings
9% above category average
SAP Business One
8.1
43 Ratings
9% above category average
Dashboards8.2374 Ratings7.238 Ratings
Standard reports7.9392 Ratings8.443 Ratings
Custom reports8.2382 Ratings8.839 Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
8.7
664 Ratings
13% above category average
SAP Business One
5.7
44 Ratings
29% below category average
Accounts payable8.5644 Ratings9.344 Ratings
Accounts receivable8.4534 Ratings9.643 Ratings
Global Financial Support7.9233 Ratings7.527 Ratings
Primary and Secondary Ledgers8.1323 Ratings8.629 Ratings
Journals and Reconciliations8.3508 Ratings9.136 Ratings
Configurable Accounting8.3365 Ratings9.134 Ratings
Standardized Processes8.4406 Ratings9.139 Ratings
Inventory Management
Comparison of Inventory Management features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
8.3
420 Ratings
4% above category average
SAP Business One
8.3
43 Ratings
4% above category average
Inventory tracking8.2412 Ratings8.943 Ratings
Automatic reordering7.5209 Ratings7.029 Ratings
Location management8.1276 Ratings9.139 Ratings
Order Management
Comparison of Order Management features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
8.6
429 Ratings
8% above category average
SAP Business One
6.1
41 Ratings
26% below category average
Pricing8.1370 Ratings7.739 Ratings
Order entry8.5383 Ratings8.941 Ratings
Credit card processing7.9264 Ratings2.023 Ratings
Cost of goods sold8.1357 Ratings8.140 Ratings
Order Orchestration7.8199 Ratings8.631 Ratings
Subledger and Financial Process
Comparison of Subledger and Financial Process features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
8.7
498 Ratings
15% above category average
SAP Business One
6.9
37 Ratings
8% below category average
Billing Management8.1337 Ratings8.732 Ratings
Cash and Asset Management8.1448 Ratings9.028 Ratings
Travel & Expense Management7.7241 Ratings6.022 Ratings
Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting7.9257 Ratings8.527 Ratings
Period Close8.6363 Ratings9.533 Ratings
Project Financial Management
Comparison of Project Financial Management features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
9.9
4 Ratings
27% above category average
SAP Business One
7.0
19 Ratings
8% below category average
Budgeting and Forecasting9.64 Ratings7.017 Ratings
Project Costing9.93 Ratings7.016 Ratings
Cost Capture9.93 Ratings7.016 Ratings
Capital Project Management10.02 Ratings7.011 Ratings
Customer Contract Compliance10.02 Ratings7.014 Ratings
Project Revenue Recognition9.93 Ratings6.116 Ratings
Project Execution Management
Comparison of Project Execution Management features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
7.9
175 Ratings
13% above category average
SAP Business One
7.9
16 Ratings
13% above category average
Project Planning and Scheduling7.6157 Ratings8.015 Ratings
Task Insight for Project Managers7.8154 Ratings7.012 Ratings
Project Mobile Functionality7.7133 Ratings1.011 Ratings
Definable Resource Pools7.891 Ratings5.09 Ratings
Grants Management
Comparison of Grants Management features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
8.0
72 Ratings
9% above category average
SAP Business One
7.7
15 Ratings
5% above category average
Award Lifecycle Management7.972 Ratings7.09 Ratings
Procurement
Comparison of Procurement features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
7.5
256 Ratings
7% above category average
SAP Business One
8.3
18 Ratings
17% above category average
Bids Analyzed and Compared7.999 Ratings8.011 Ratings
Contract Authoring7.875 Ratings10.012 Ratings
Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated8.2210 Ratings9.014 Ratings
Supplier Management8.0146 Ratings9.013 Ratings
Contract Repository00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
Risk Management
Comparison of Risk Management features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
7.9
109 Ratings
17% above category average
SAP Business One
7.7
9 Ratings
15% above category average
Risk Repository8.177 Ratings7.07 Ratings
Control Management8.097 Ratings8.08 Ratings
Control Efficiency Assessments8.182 Ratings8.07 Ratings
Issue Detection7.784 Ratings8.08 Ratings
Remediation and Certification7.768 Ratings7.76 Ratings
Logistics
Comparison of Logistics features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
8.7
135 Ratings
24% above category average
SAP Business One
7.1
23 Ratings
3% above category average
Transportation Planning and Optimization7.3101 Ratings8.116 Ratings
Transportation Execution Management7.698 Ratings7.414 Ratings
Trade and Customs Management7.575 Ratings7.813 Ratings
Fulfillment Management8.0108 Ratings5.417 Ratings
Warehouse Workforce Management7.6104 Ratings6.315 Ratings
Manufacturing
Comparison of Manufacturing features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
8.9
154 Ratings
18% above category average
SAP Business One
6.1
20 Ratings
20% below category average
Production Process Design7.7129 Ratings2.018 Ratings
Production Management8.1142 Ratings8.218 Ratings
Configuration Management8.1127 Ratings2.014 Ratings
Work Execution8.2119 Ratings4.016 Ratings
Manufacturing Costs8.2136 Ratings5.016 Ratings
Supply Chain
Comparison of Supply Chain features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
8.2
182 Ratings
12% above category average
SAP Business One
7.2
25 Ratings
1% below category average
Forecasting7.6152 Ratings7.123 Ratings
Inventory Planning7.7171 Ratings7.825 Ratings
Performance Monitoring7.7150 Ratings7.119 Ratings
Product Lifecycle Management
Comparison of Product Lifecycle Management features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
8.4
104 Ratings
15% above category average
SAP Business One
9.0
17 Ratings
22% above category average
Proposal Management7.888 Ratings4.913 Ratings
Product Master Data Management7.799 Ratings8.515 Ratings
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User Ratings
AcumaticaSAP Business One
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(749 ratings)
8.6
(49 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(65 ratings)
4.6
(9 ratings)
Usability
8.4
(37 ratings)
9.5
(13 ratings)
Availability
8.6
(5 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Performance
8.2
(4 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
7.2
(29 ratings)
9.0
(11 ratings)
In-Person Training
5.7
(5 ratings)
7.7
(2 ratings)
Online Training
7.8
(4 ratings)
4.5
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.3
(20 ratings)
2.8
(24 ratings)
Configurability
6.6
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
6.7
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
6.2
(2 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.5
(5 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Professional Services
9.1
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
4.9
(5 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
6.1
(4 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
AcumaticaSAP Business One
Likelihood to Recommend
Acumatica
I would love to recommend it to my friends and colleagues. They have a dedicated storage manager along with some really good cloud capabilities, which helps get the work done efficiently and professionally. We have been using it since 2022, and they are great in this segment.
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SAP
SAP Business One would be more useful if it contained tools to acommodate the growing need of online sales. A more complete shipping module which handles tracking numbers with the common couriers would be great. A built in warehouse management system would be great designed to be used with barcode scanners
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Pros
Acumatica
  • We just went live about two weeks ago, so we are here at Acumatica Summit to see everything it's capable of. One of the things it is capable of is the dashboards and the integration with some of these third-party people to ensure we can get the data we need when we need it, so we're looking forward to getting all that live for us.
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SAP
  • SAP Business One is more suitable for small and medium scale enterprises
  • SAP Business One is : analytics, mobile technologies, cloud technologies
  • SAP Business One has exceptional performance in handling business functions such as purchasing and operations and customer relationship management
  • An important key features of SAP Business One is Reporting and Analytics.
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Cons
Acumatica
  • There are a few spots where there is a list of data that we need a total for and we have to extract to Excel to get a total. It would be helpful to see a sum right in Acumatica.
  • For the first time today I had an interesting glitch - my entire bank reconciliation unchecked the "reconciled" column and needed to be redone for the month. Funky little glitches happen from time to time
  • Pivot tables don't seem to update as expected by using filters
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SAP
  • Following a bench mark process - this seems contradicting to flexibility however we have wished we could follow more of an industry benchmark. Our challenge as a small company has been knowing how to properly use the system. We have discovered that we have set up the system wrong based and are using it improperly which has cause a lot work to correct.
  • Better live reporting options - current we are on prem SQL. Yes SAP is moving to HANA however smaller companies like ourselves are not ready for that. We need to be able to maintain our existing SQL DB. We also have a demand for live BI Reporting. It has been difficult to do this with our current set up.
  • Error handling - have found it very difficult to troubleshoot. Errors are not always clear and answers are hard to find.
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Likelihood to Renew
Acumatica
I gave this 10 rating because Acumatica ERP is the backbone of the organization, next to the IT Team. We use this software for many different parts of our business. For example our Retail service stations that utilize the inventory, billing, and financials. Our Distribution company that uses it for Field services, CRM, Sales, Accounts and Financial consolidation of all company financials.
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SAP
As I said before, it is a first level tool, well developed, and with very strong development support, although the learning curve, its implementation, the cost-benefit ratio, the price and the user experience is not the most suitable for small and medium-sized companies. It is a company with extensive experience, market positioning, technical support and expanded use
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Usability
Acumatica
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.
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SAP
I would like to give 8 out of 10 rating for SAP Business One because SAP Business One is a good choice for the mostly used business management solutions for the small and medium-sized companies. SAP Business One can help in optimizing the existing business process and enables streamline business processes for the daily activities for all users across the entire organization. The importance realization of SAP Business One implementation is based on the selection of the good reputation partner and its approach for the entire implementation. SAP Business One is a user-friendly and easy to use Enterprise system that the organization can benefit its features and functionalities by utilizing it.
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Reliability and Availability
Acumatica
It's always available.
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SAP
The SAP Business One software is up and running every time
you need it as it was planned. In more than 6 years that we have been
using the product, it has never been unavailable and if it ever was, it was because of a planned maintenance window scheduled in the company.
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Performance
Acumatica
there have been some performance issues
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SAP
SAP Business One performance depends mostly on the speed of your internal servers, should you have the solution on premise as we do. Sometimes the system tends to be a little slower for some users when others are executing really big reports of performing some batch loads, but generally, the performance is acceptable to all the users.
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Support Rating
Acumatica
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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SAP
I rate my experience with SAP Business One's support team as excellent (10). They are easy to contact and effortless to work with on any issue or concern. I like the support SAP provides for any of their products. SAP has a great backing and I would recommend them to any of my colleagues.
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In-Person Training
Acumatica
It was on General Inquiries and it's just a complex topic.
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SAP
The training I get was a consultant level training, so it's basically a 6 weeks training covering every aspect and every module of the system. It covered most common use cases and exercise training so you can get along with the software, as well as examples so there culd be a better understanding.
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Online Training
Acumatica
Most of the trainers are amazing, but there were a couple who simply read the training guide
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SAP
Over the past two years SAP has added a great deal of new SAP Business One on-line training for version 9.0 and 9.1. Most of the training is very strong, but some is difficult to understand and follow. Additionally, SAP still has a few holes in their on-line training around Production, Bill-of-Materials, MRP and Service.
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Implementation Rating
Acumatica
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.
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SAP
These implementations are not easy. Even a standard implementation can be difficult. With a never-been-done-before implementation, the implementation team and the user team need to be thorough with planning, make a decision on key points, and stick to them before any design happens. Our biggest challenge was not from StellarOne, rather it was from the mid-implementation decisions from our internal team. StellarOne did a great job warning us, implementing our decision, and then helping us adjust our SAP to handle the new direction we took.
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Alternatives Considered
Acumatica
Acumatica's sales process was much better than that of NetSuites. The NetAtWork team spent much more time with us and showed us how Acumatica really could do everything that we needed it to do, with examples using our data.
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SAP
SAP provides the most robust solution, with modules available for all department managers and even options for customization according to the company's special needs. We especially used the Crystal reports options to provide reports for each module. Overall, even if it's not the least expensive option, it has the best value for money.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Acumatica
No, annual invoices are fine. I do like that unlimited users are included.
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SAP
No answers on this topic
Scalability
Acumatica
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.
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SAP
For most small businesses, the only way you outgrow SAP Business One is if the nature of your business changes radically. Going from 1 to 50 users is quite easy with SAP B1. Going beyond 50 may require moving to the Hana SAP B1 platform to maintain or improve performance, but the path is there.
Add-ons to SAP B1 can also be added as specific needs are encountered that are not closely met by the standard product. These may be required early in the product life because of the nature of your business, or as you expand the use of SAP B1.
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Professional Services
Acumatica
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.
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SAP
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Acumatica
  • We were able to work in one system with customizations we needed in inventory and add all our grants in the same system
  • Direct mail invoices was moved to an automated PO system saving time and allowing better financial tracking
  • The grant module can be cumbersome requiring flip flopping to program partners etc during set up
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SAP
  • Employee efficiency has definitely increased with SAP Business One. This is attributed in a lot of ways to information visibility. Our employees are able to gather the data they need, quickly, and effectively.
  • Identifying inconsistencies in pricing has also been accomplished through use of reporting off individual tables. Previously, we weren't able to access our data in such a way as to enable us to write custom reports in-house.
  • We have also benefited greatly from having a single source of all business information. We utilize SAP Business One exclusively in-house. All documentation is attached to specific orders and Business Partners, as well as serialized equipment that has been sold.
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