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Based on 33 reviews and ratings
Feature Set Ratings
- CenterPoint Payroll ranks higher in 1 feature set: Payroll Management
Payroll Management

10.0
CenterPoint Payroll
100%

6.6
Priority AccountEdge
66%
CenterPoint Payroll ranks higher in 5/5 features
CenterPoint Payroll ranks higher in 5/5 features
Pay calculation

10.0
100%
1 Rating

10.0
100%
6 Ratings
Benefit plan administration

10.0
100%
1 Rating

8.0
80%
4 Ratings
Direct deposit files

10.0
100%
1 Rating

5.0
50%
4 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management

10.0
100%
1 Rating

6.0
60%
5 Ratings
Reimbursement management

10.0
100%
1 Rating

4.0
40%
3 Ratings
Security

CenterPoint Payroll
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A

9.0
Priority AccountEdge
90%
Priority AccountEdge ranks higher in 1/1 features
Priority AccountEdge ranks higher in 1/1 features
Role-based user permissions

N/A
0 Ratings

9.0
90%
7 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics

CenterPoint Payroll
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A

9.0
Priority AccountEdge
90%
Priority AccountEdge ranks higher in 3/3 features
Priority AccountEdge ranks higher in 3/3 features
Dashboards

N/A
0 Ratings

9.0
90%
4 Ratings
Standard reports

N/A
0 Ratings

9.0
90%
7 Ratings
Custom reports

N/A
0 Ratings

9.0
90%
6 Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting

CenterPoint Payroll
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A

7.2
Priority AccountEdge
72%
Priority AccountEdge ranks higher in 11/11 features
Priority AccountEdge ranks higher in 11/11 features
Accounts payable

N/A
0 Ratings

9.0
90%
8 Ratings
Accounts receivable

N/A
0 Ratings

9.0
90%
8 Ratings
Cash management

N/A
0 Ratings

8.1
81%
2 Ratings
Bank reconciliation

N/A
0 Ratings

6.0
60%
8 Ratings
Expense management

N/A
0 Ratings

6.0
60%
6 Ratings
Time tracking

N/A
0 Ratings

6.0
60%
4 Ratings
Multi-currency support

N/A
0 Ratings

9.0
90%
3 Ratings
Multi-division support

N/A
0 Ratings

9.0
90%
2 Ratings
Regulations compliance

N/A
0 Ratings

7.0
70%
2 Ratings
Electronic tax filing

N/A
0 Ratings

7.0
70%
4 Ratings
Self-service portal

N/A
0 Ratings

2.7
27%
1 Rating
Inventory Management

CenterPoint Payroll
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A

8.0
Priority AccountEdge
80%
Priority AccountEdge ranks higher in 4/4 features
Priority AccountEdge ranks higher in 4/4 features
Inventory tracking

N/A
0 Ratings

8.0
80%
6 Ratings
Automatic reordering

N/A
0 Ratings

8.0
80%
1 Rating
Location management

N/A
0 Ratings

8.0
80%
3 Ratings
Manufacturing module

N/A
0 Ratings

8.0
80%
2 Ratings
Order Management

CenterPoint Payroll
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A

8.0
Priority AccountEdge
80%
Priority AccountEdge ranks higher in 4/4 features
Priority AccountEdge ranks higher in 4/4 features
Pricing

N/A
0 Ratings

8.0
80%
5 Ratings
Order entry

N/A
0 Ratings

9.0
90%
5 Ratings
Credit card processing

N/A
0 Ratings

6.0
60%
5 Ratings
Cost of goods sold

N/A
0 Ratings

9.0
90%
6 Ratings
Customization

CenterPoint Payroll
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A

5.0
Priority AccountEdge
50%
Priority AccountEdge ranks higher in 1/1 features
Priority AccountEdge ranks higher in 1/1 features
Plug-ins

N/A
0 Ratings

5.0
50%
3 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- CenterPoint Payroll is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Support Rating
Likelihood to Recommend

10.0
CenterPoint Payroll
100%
1 Rating

6.0
Priority AccountEdge
60%
18 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew

CenterPoint Payroll
N/A
0 Ratings

8.8
Priority AccountEdge
88%
10 Ratings
Usability

CenterPoint Payroll
N/A
0 Ratings

9.0
Priority AccountEdge
90%
3 Ratings
Availability

CenterPoint Payroll
N/A
0 Ratings

9.1
Priority AccountEdge
91%
2 Ratings
Support Rating

10.0
CenterPoint Payroll
100%
2 Ratings

9.0
Priority AccountEdge
90%
5 Ratings
Implementation Rating

CenterPoint Payroll
N/A
0 Ratings

7.0
Priority AccountEdge
70%
2 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
CenterPoint Payroll
CenterPoint Payroll has been excellent for our company, with approximately 150 employees. I can certainly see it being excellent for smaller companies and larger companies. I don't know if there is a size of company at which it would become difficult or limiting to use - I can't foresee any of the functions or features becoming limiting factors as company size increases. To a certain extent, I could see the robustness of CenterPoint being a bit more than what is necessary for a tiny company of less than 5 employees, but it would certainly be able to do what is required for them.

Verified User
Manager in Human Resources
Mining & Metals Company, 51-200 employeesPriority AccountEdge
If you are handling a large client list, and are selling services, it is dead easy. If you are managing/selling a physical inventory, it seems like it has great options to do that quite well (disclaimer, I do not use those functions, but I have paid attention as that functionality was built into the software). If you want to link your bank account to a bookkeeping platform, this is not the software for you (at least so far).
Owner
Dan Workman MusicEntertainment, 1-10 employees
Pros
CenterPoint Payroll
- Customization options to meet your company's payroll needs.
- Excellent customer service and tech support.
- Logical and easy-to-use user interface.
- Ability to customize reports and exports.

Verified User
Manager in Human Resources
Mining & Metals Company, 51-200 employeesPriority AccountEdge
- AccountEdge has a robust report menu that allows a user to slice and dice data for analysis. Report on projects for the life of the project across fiscal years. Report on different departments with segregated income statements.
- For users who want to run payroll in house that is easily done through the payroll module. Print physical checks or direct deposit to employee's account, process payroll taxes and file year end W2s.
- My personal favorites are time billing and retainers. As a service based business I can at my fingertips review how much money a client has on deposit with me and how much of that will be billed out at the end of the month. The integration with AccountEdge Mobile rounds it all out with being able to log my time on-site.
- Last but not least AccountEdge Mobile in general, as the companion app for the desktop software is invaluable. My heaviest use is the spend money feature. Excellent for logging travel receipts & cash expenses while they are fresh on the brain. Really cuts back the data entry at the end of a trip and trying to recall what something may have been for.
Owner
FlyDragon ConsultingProfessional Training & Coaching, 1-10 employees
Cons
CenterPoint Payroll
- Perhaps include a pop-up description of an button, or a link to the help section details, when you hover over the button for more than 3 seconds.

Verified User
Manager in Human Resources
Mining & Metals Company, 51-200 employeesPriority AccountEdge
- My biggest frustration, and one that I've mentioned to Acclivity for many years, is that it only permits opening nine windows at a time (plus the home window). I hit that limit almost daily, and then I have to decide what do I close so I can complete the transaction that needed the "9th" window.
- The Accounts section includes two quick reports, "Analyze Profit and Loss" and "Analyze Balance Sheet. These can be filtered for the current month or any prior month in the current fiscal year. And that's fine most of the year, but at the beginning of the next year, when I haven't yet started the new fiscal year, these only go to December of the prior year. The regular reports for these can select "next year;" why can't these?
- It would be helpful if the journal entry number would have one or two additional digits available. For example, when I am entering journal entries for a client, I would like to use a number such as CPA2014001, CPA2014002, etc. to distinguish what I enter from the "automatic" entries that AccountEdge does. But that's one more digit than AccountEdge allows, so if I had over 100 adjustments, I would run out of entry numbers.
Shareholder
Thomas E Healy CPA PCAccounting, 1-10 employees
Pricing Details
CenterPoint Payroll
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Priority AccountEdge
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Likelihood to Renew
CenterPoint Payroll
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Priority AccountEdge
Priority AccountEdge 8.8
Based on 10 answers
Without a doubt, when you need to do accounting use the program that will get the job done in the least amount of time with the least amount of errors. Once you are using a program that works you stay with it year after year and you will find yourself even excited about the updates
Personal Angel with a Financial Background
Sharon L NashAccounting, 1-10 employees
Usability
CenterPoint Payroll
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Priority AccountEdge
Priority AccountEdge 9.0
Based on 3 answers
The intuitive interface does all the tasks we need our accounting software to do. Some tasks are slower to process than I would like but overall very usable. Customizable forms let us choose to either go with the easy ready-made out-of-the-box options or retool them to better fit our specific needs.

Verified User
Vice-President in Corporate
Media Production Company, 1-10 employeesReliability and Availability
CenterPoint Payroll
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Priority AccountEdge
Priority AccountEdge 9.1
Based on 2 answers
One of the finer advantages of desktop software, it's always available. AccountEdge doesn't suffer from outages or sluggish internet like web based applications do. It's always there when you power on your device!
Owner
FlyDragon ConsultingProfessional Training & Coaching, 1-10 employees
Support Rating
CenterPoint Payroll
CenterPoint Payroll 10.0
Based on 2 answers
CenterPoint support is excellent! While I have not had to use them frequently, as the program is consistently stable and has few, if any, bugs, the times I have had to reach out to tech support, they have been excellent and have solved our issues quickly. They listen to our explanation of the problems, can dial into our system to see exactly what we're seeing in real time, and have always been able to quickly determine the issue, work out a solution, and help us through the process until we've got everything back in line. They are friendly, courteous, professional, kind and very knowledgeable of their products. This is absolutely one of the best things about CenterPoint - even though we seldom need it, when we do, they are always quick to get us through the issue.

Verified User
Manager in Human Resources
Mining & Metals Company, 51-200 employeesPriority AccountEdge
Priority AccountEdge 9.0
Based on 5 answers
On the few occasions we have needed tech support over the years, they were responsive and worked to get to the root of the issues. However, even though Checkout POS is a separate application, it was pitched to us as a natural extension of the functionality of our AE software that would integrate seamlessly. The company's support for Checkout has been minimal at best, and now totally abandoned. That colors our view of Priority's support unfortunately. And to be honest, that's why it's a 9 instead of a 10. So to be fair, AccountEdge's support itself has been very good over the years.

Verified User
Vice-President in Corporate
Media Production Company, 1-10 employeesImplementation Rating
CenterPoint Payroll
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Priority AccountEdge
Priority AccountEdge 7.0
Based on 2 answers
unfortunately no.
Director, Special Accounts
Lake Industries CompanyConsumer Goods, 11-50 employees
Alternatives Considered
CenterPoint Payroll
We selected CenterPoint Payroll because of our dissatisfaction with ADP (and Paychex prior). We wanted a solution that we controlled internally, instead of having to be at the mercy of some huge company that saw us as a tiny fish in a big ocean. We set our company's configuration, add/define all of our own specific settings, profiles, etc. and simply process payroll. We print and sign our own checks, process our own direct deposits directly with our bank, and can handle our own business needs. When we were with ADP and Paychex before, both companies made promises to us that they simply were either unwilling or unable to fulfill. We have saved both time and money by doing our payrolls ourselves with CenterPoint.

Verified User
Manager in Human Resources
Mining & Metals Company, 51-200 employeesPriority AccountEdge
For Mac enthusiasts, AccountEdge is the complete installed software solution for small to medium-sized businesses, as it has so many capabilities that QuickBooks for Mac lacks. However, it holds your hand less than QuickBooks for Mac does, so you ought to know what your are doing in keeping business books properly. If your needs are simple, QuickBooks for Mac may be a better solution. QuickBooks Online and Xero are excellent cloud accounting solutions that can be used on the Mac equally well as on Windows. QuickBooks Online offers a similar set of features as QuickBooks for Mac, with the addition of anywhere, anytime access. Xero is a great basic accounting solution in the cloud that can also be used equally well on Macs and WIndows, and offers endless customization and flexibility through its extensive third-party app integration for almost any need.
Owner
Keeping Books & Computing Consulting LLCAccounting, 1-10 employees
Return on Investment
CenterPoint Payroll
- CenterPoint Payroll has saved us tens of thousands of dollars from our prior arrangement with ADP, while providing either similar or superior support.
- Having payroll completely in our control has simplified a LOT of our daily routines - if something needs to be updated or adjusted, we do it ourselves instead of contacting someone at ADP and hoping that they can do it for us, then getting frustrated when they haven't.

Verified User
Manager in Human Resources
Mining & Metals Company, 51-200 employeesPriority AccountEdge
- Increased employee efficiency - Time is no longer spent switching between programs because all of the information can be found in one place.
- Customer service has also improved because employees find the program much easier to use, even at the point of sale.
- Better record keeping - AccountEdge has a very simple invoicing application that allows us to keep track of and balance our accounts.

Verified User
Administrator in Finance and Accounting
Retail Company, 11-50 employees