Likelihood to Recommend Certent Equity Management is well suited in the following ways: 1. [The] software provides seamless integration to internal software. 2. [It provides] detailed reports of market equity management. 3. [The] software prepares financial equity footnotes for 10k reporting very well. 4. It helps with award modification [as] needed. 5. I enjoy doing capitalization tables.
Read full review Pros Expense calculations – the whole accounting for equity awards is pretty technical and not real easy to follow. It does a good job of calculating GAAP expense for each award. Read full review Cons There are no features that are hard to use or that I would like to see improved. Read full review Likelihood to Renew I personally like the Equity Edge software better. The reporting is better and the software easier to use. The reason we didn’t continue to work with them is we didn’t want to use E-Trade as captive broker.
Read full review Usability Pretty easy to go through and learn on your own.
Read full review Reliability and Availability I can only remember a couple of times when cannot access the system.
Read full review Support Rating We do not access support directly. We go through Plan Mosaic.
Read full review Online Training We had a 2 hour introduction to the software over a Webex meeting by Plan Mosaic, and a user guide. Plan Mosaic is a reseller.
Read full review Implementation Rating A lot of decisions had been made already when I joined. I thought it was a fairly smooth process. You just need to make sure that you do a good job of auditing all the awards that are transferred from system to system. We did a reverse stock split that caused challenges with rounding of shares.
Read full review Alternatives Considered As an organization, we have evaluated various Equity management and accounting software before shortlisting and testing these software and finally selecting 1 software. It has a user-friendly interface that helps and encourages employee participation. Moreover, it has simple and easy-to-understand grants and reporting, which are illustrated by easy-to-understand examples.
Read full review Return on Investment It helps with taxation compliance, which could be a major issue. [The] uploaded template helps with large amounts of data [that needs] uploading in grants and helps keep a lean team in management and operations. [The] availability of different types of reports makes transactional activity easy. Accounting, reporting, and disclosures become easy. Read full review ScreenShots