Bullhorn ATS & CRM vs. Sage 50cloud Accounting

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bullhorn ATS & CRM
Score 6.4 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Bullhorn Recruitment CRM is a SaaS based solution that offers a suite of features typical of applicant tracking systems: a mobile app, batch or mass communication with potential candidates via multiple channels, instantaneous posting to multiple job boards, resume parsing, and data and document uploading.
$99
per month per user
Sage 50cloud Accounting
Score 7.8 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Sage 50cloud Accounting (formerly Sage 50 Accounting) is accounting software designed for small businesses. Sage 50cloud Accounting (formerly Sage 50, and formerly Peachtree) lets businesses invoice customers, pay bills, manage inventory, control costs, and pay employees. The solution includes high-level dashboards and in-depth reports.
$299
per year
Pricing
Bullhorn ATS & CRMSage 50cloud Accounting
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Sage 50 Pro Accounting
$299
per year
Sage 50 Premium Accounting
$449
per year
Sage 50 Quantum Accounting 3 User
Starting at $1,499
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Bullhorn ATS & CRMSage 50cloud Accounting
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsContact Bullhorn for pricing informationAnnual traditional plan with license, monthly, and annual subscription plans available.
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Bullhorn ATS & CRMSage 50cloud Accounting
Top Pros
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Features
Bullhorn ATS & CRMSage 50cloud Accounting
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Bullhorn ATS & CRM
5.5
57 Ratings
37% below category average
Sage 50cloud Accounting
-
Ratings
Job Requisition Management5.856 Ratings00 Ratings
Company Website Posting5.348 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to Social Media7.222 Ratings00 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting6.027 Ratings00 Ratings
Customized Application Form4.739 Ratings00 Ratings
Resume Management5.757 Ratings00 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention4.954 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate Search5.657 Ratings00 Ratings
Applicant Tracking5.757 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaboration5.152 Ratings00 Ratings
Task Creation and Delegation5.351 Ratings00 Ratings
Email Templates5.554 Ratings00 Ratings
User Permissions5.248 Ratings00 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts5.151 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting5.451 Ratings00 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Bullhorn ATS & CRM
-
Ratings
Sage 50cloud Accounting
9.0
14 Ratings
18% above category average
Pay calculation00 Ratings9.014 Ratings
Benefit plan administration00 Ratings9.011 Ratings
Direct deposit files00 Ratings9.011 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management00 Ratings9.013 Ratings
Reimbursement management00 Ratings9.013 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Bullhorn ATS & CRM
-
Ratings
Sage 50cloud Accounting
9.0
10 Ratings
24% above category average
API for custom integration00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
Plug-ins00 Ratings9.09 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Bullhorn ATS & CRM
-
Ratings
Sage 50cloud Accounting
9.0
19 Ratings
12% above category average
Single sign-on capability00 Ratings9.017 Ratings
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings9.017 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Bullhorn ATS & CRM
-
Ratings
Sage 50cloud Accounting
9.0
21 Ratings
17% above category average
Dashboards00 Ratings9.020 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings9.021 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings9.020 Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Product A and Product B
Bullhorn ATS & CRM
-
Ratings
Sage 50cloud Accounting
8.7
24 Ratings
16% above category average
Accounts payable00 Ratings9.023 Ratings
Accounts receivable00 Ratings9.022 Ratings
Cash management00 Ratings9.022 Ratings
Bank reconciliation00 Ratings9.022 Ratings
Expense management00 Ratings9.022 Ratings
Time tracking00 Ratings9.012 Ratings
Fixed asset management00 Ratings9.013 Ratings
Multi-currency support00 Ratings8.910 Ratings
Multi-division support00 Ratings9.010 Ratings
Regulations compliance00 Ratings9.09 Ratings
Electronic tax filing00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
Self-service portal00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
Global Financial Support00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Primary and Secondary Ledgers00 Ratings6.95 Ratings
Intercompany Accounting00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
Localizations00 Ratings6.95 Ratings
Journals and Reconciliations00 Ratings9.011 Ratings
Enterprise Accounting00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
Configurable Accounting00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
Centralized Rules Framework00 Ratings7.44 Ratings
Standardized Processes00 Ratings9.09 Ratings
Inventory Management
Comparison of Inventory Management features of Product A and Product B
Bullhorn ATS & CRM
-
Ratings
Sage 50cloud Accounting
9.0
16 Ratings
25% above category average
Inventory tracking00 Ratings9.016 Ratings
Automatic reordering00 Ratings9.010 Ratings
Location management00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
Manufacturing module00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
Order Management
Comparison of Order Management features of Product A and Product B
Bullhorn ATS & CRM
-
Ratings
Sage 50cloud Accounting
8.4
17 Ratings
13% above category average
Pricing00 Ratings9.014 Ratings
Order entry00 Ratings9.016 Ratings
Credit card processing00 Ratings9.011 Ratings
Cost of goods sold00 Ratings9.015 Ratings
Order Orchestration00 Ratings7.85 Ratings
End-to-end order visibility00 Ratings7.45 Ratings
Order exception Resolution00 Ratings7.85 Ratings
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Bullhorn ATS & CRMSage 50cloud Accounting
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Recruit CRM
Score 9.5 out of 10
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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Score 9.5 out of 10
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Enterprises
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Score 4.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
Bullhorn ATS & CRMSage 50cloud Accounting
Likelihood to Recommend
5.7
(79 ratings)
9.0
(34 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
2.1
(13 ratings)
9.6
(12 ratings)
Usability
6.7
(6 ratings)
10.0
(8 ratings)
Support Rating
1.0
(10 ratings)
10.0
(7 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(4 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Bullhorn ATS & CRMSage 50cloud Accounting
Likelihood to Recommend
Bullhorn
Bullhorn served as a very reliable and thorough tracking system for contacts, discovering prospects, and maintaining track of all relevant data. There are many customization options, strong search results, and sensible workflows. Excellent reporting tool. When we needed to find new resumes but all we could find were talents who had previously been discovered, it was less appropriate. Job Boards outperformed Bull Horn in terms of speed and quality.
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Sage
Sage is great for portability and exchange with external accountants as it is widely used and people will be able to read your data in. It's a very good and complete solution for a little business where one person can handle all of the accounting. I doubt that it scales well to large companies with several in-house accountants working at the same time.
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Pros
Bullhorn
  • It provides the contact details of a candidate relevant to the job. All details are with a user-friendly interface that anyone can use the application.
  • The specific details given by Bullhorn ATS & CRM are unbelievable. One place and you can make a decision about hiring or not hiring.
  • The messaging automation feature again helps to save our time.
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Sage
  • It has the capability of "Single Click" processes that allows you to turn Quotes into orders, instant invoicing and track A/R in the Order Screen
  • I can email Sales Orders directly to my Customer and also remind them of past due from a single screen. I can track Project, Closeouts, Over Seas order by setting up Jobs and clicking the job name in Order Entry.
  • You can use recurring entries and copy and paste on the P&L, using masking for department reporting and budgeting
  • You can use the BI feature and export into Excel in Pivot format and utilize Timeline and Slicer to see the company overall performance by months, day or years
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Cons
Bullhorn
  • Reporting: out of the box reporting is not very detailed or easy to navigate. In order to get better detailed and specific reports, you either need their Canvas product or pay for a 3rd party vendor.
  • Customization: will get better with NOVO Experience update, but many users still don't have it. Right now many fields and order are not customizable
  • Many features Bullhorn can do are not apparent to the user, often times you have to call in the figure things out.
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Sage
  • Sage 50 could use some improvement in the Invoicing Module to allow for more flexibility in the design of the Invoice fields. The report customization tools could use some upgrading for easier use.
  • Fixed assets management module needs to be included with unlimited number of fixed assets.
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Likelihood to Renew
Bullhorn
We have about 2 years left on our current contract; It would take a major change in the ATS marketplace for us to strongly consider opting out of renewal given the time and effort we have dedicated to building our our Bullhorn system. I will take the time to revisit with some of the competition down the road, but Bullhorn acquired our runner up, MaxHire, about a year back and continues to offer a solid product suite for our current and future needs.
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Sage
I use this rating simply because I have a thriving Sage 50 consulting practice and will continue to keep my expertise in the product. I have consulted on both Sage 50 and QuickBooks for over 25 years so I have to maintain expertise in the solution as well as accounting and verticals.
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Usability
Bullhorn
It isn't the best ATS out there. It lacks on both the recruitment and sales side. There is no way to differentiate between prospects, candidates, and clients. There isn't a way to merge accounts and names, so there are many duplicates. Too may paid add ons. I had a much longer review written up and the page just deleted it, but I wouldn't recommend Bullhorn first or even third. It feels like it hasn't been fully realized yet. There are certainly some good things about the product, but more areas where they can improve.
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Sage
Sage delivers what it promises. The whole accounting package is user friendly and can be easily picked up by a novice. The support is second to none. They always keep us abreast of new technologies and/or changes to accounting that would impact us. The range of reports fits both small and large companies.,
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Support Rating
Bullhorn
It's been a nightmare experience. The initial sales team were brilliant, and the customer service is great from the tech team - they get in touch with you quickly. However; I was often finding workarounds myself, or being advised workarounds instead of having issues resolved (example - The DPA/Non DPA issue - an Excel spreadsheet can do this, yet a CRM cannot?). I was debited on the incorrect date & then when I requested they refund until the due date, I was re-debited again on the correct date. The communication was poor - their billing team are based in the US and there was no acknowledgement of the mistake. My initial consultant chased them down for me, and advised me of their error. Lucky. The product was oversold. For example; I was advised their 'merge docs' feature would allow me to pull data directly from the 'Overview,' 'Work Histories' which later proved to be false. Finally, when I requested to end my contract & transfer my data (I advised a specific date I needed it, when my CRM would be ready) they advised it would take 15 business days & I was to put no further data in my system during that 15 days, and then gave me my data after 3. I now have no CRM for 4 weeks
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Sage
Although I have only needed to call tech support on three occasions through out the entire time of usage, each time my problem was quickly resolved by people who were obviously well trained and easy to understand. Sage 50 Premium Accounting is a reliable and "bug-free" product that is regularly improved upon.
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Implementation Rating
Bullhorn
No answers on this topic
Sage
Sage 50 is a strong accounting software package. It will work efficiently if it is installed correctly. If one puts garbage in, one will get garbage out. Also it is important to train the staff to use Sage 50 properly. It is also important to set up security for each user.
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Alternatives Considered
Bullhorn
Breathe is a great tool for smaller internal recruitment teams and I have previously used an in-house built system similar however Bullhorn is something you can use across larger businesses and growing SME's it works well for international businesses as everything is updated in real-time. The support function is excellent and the training tools for new starters are super helpful for our L&D team. Your account manager is also great for assisting in personalising sections to make them more business specific.
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Sage
As we did the conversion almost 10 years ago it is hard to answer this question. At the time it was the ease of being able to produce both cash and accrual financial statements and reporting that led us to pick Sage
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Scalability
Bullhorn
No answers on this topic
Sage
I define scalable from two perspectives; 1) the scalability to handle more bookkeepers/accountants using the product, and 2) the scalability to handle increasing customer/vendor/employee and transactional data. Sage 50 does a good job on both fronts. From the single users operating a micro-business accounting for customer invoices and bill payments only, to the multi-staff, multi-location, multi-departmental complex transactional operation. Although Sage 50 is quite expensive for that smallest user, it is quite inexpensive for the larger business entity. So, for the new enterprise expecting rapid growth, Sage 50 is the application of choice.
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Return on Investment
Bullhorn
  • Bullhorn has helped with the standardization of data which allows us to track our high, low and in between individuals. It allows for corporate bench marks to be tracked. It also allows for a closer look at all of the data points to make decisions versus making decisions based on perceptions. The data has definitely helped us make better business decisions because of the reporting capabilities.
  • Bullhorn has some great marketplace partners and additional products like VMS Access that help with your VMS clients. This is a real time saver.
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Sage
  • Sage definitely needs to do a better job with customer service. I have had to use them only a handful of times and it was not a great experience but not the worse I've seen. They didn't make us a priority and I felt that they didn't have a sense of urgency. They did address my lack of satisfaction and I can see that they are at least aware of the issues and they are trying to correct them.
  • Sage is exactly what we need in my current organization and I wouldn't change it for another system. I have used quite a few in my lifetime and I would say that it fits our needs.
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