Cin7 vs Esker

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Cin7 is great because a business can set up quickly without having to invest in hardware/servers, and the business does not need to be concerned about backing up data. Cin7 software is easy and intuitive to use. The pricing was competitive for cloud-based software that can be customized to each business. The software is constantly updated so a business does not have to worry about paying for updates or paying a large lump sum to purchase new updated software. However, Cin7 is able to increase its fees at any time. We experienced a significant price increase after 1 year. With purchased software, a business would not have to worry about unexpected pricing changes. Cin7 offers a useful integration with BigCommerce. Unfortunately, their own B2B website is lacking in features and ultimately not useful to our company. Cin7 does not provide the most useful customer service, as they only offer paid access to phone support. Most of our issue with the software were caused by updates in the software that were not announced, and they could only be fixed via email or tickets the next day.

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Manager in Corporate

Arts and Crafts Company, 1-10 employees

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Esker On Demand is great for Sales Order Processing order creation. We use it with web services. It can make table read calls, test order creations (simulate order), and help with order creation. They are also working on change order management, but if you have multiple order entry methods or touch points, this feature may not be usable for your company.

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Brett Ray

Information Systems Analyst

Whirlpool CorporationConsumer Goods, 10,001+ employees

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Pros

Powerful reporting that can be customized to fit your needs.
Tons of integrations that help you get up and running quickly.

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Charles Combs

Head of Marketing

molly muttConsumer Goods, 1-10 employees

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Esker makes automated invoice sending very easy
Esker tracks the sending of documents & records whether or not the message was successful
Esker offers various reports that can be very helpful
Esker stores all of our customers' contact info on the cloud, and it can be accessed from anywhere

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Aubrey Miles

Finance Administrator

ArkadinTelecommunications, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

Onboarding could be improved. We worked with a programmer who was not as familiar with our business needs. Additionally, the person in charge of our onboarding was initially difficult to schedule time with until we reached out to a manager.
Cin7 occasionally makes updates to the software that causes the software to not work properly. For example, we would experience new errors on a CVS file import for products that had worked previously to the update. Additionally, our custom field implementations would be reverted to original and require set up again.
We experienced semi-frequent outages of the software. The software would not be accessible for up to 1 hour at a time. I believe they took steps to address this and reduce down time.

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Manager in Corporate

Arts and Crafts Company, 1-10 employees

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We can't enter credit memos in Esker. Need to enter in SAP and then link.
PO invoices that were trained to go into the PO bucket, route into the non-PO buckets.
Freight invoices that have had hundreds going into the non-PO bucket have a tendency to route to the PO-bucket because a PO number is referenced on page 7.

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Employee in Finance and Accounting

Biotechnology Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Pricing Details

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

$295 per month

Cin7 Editions & Modules

Edition

Ecommerce	$295¹
Wholesale	$295¹
Multichannel	$450¹
Ecommerce Plus	$495¹
Wholesale Plus	$495¹
Multichannel Plus	$650¹

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Esker 5.5

Based on 2 answers

Esker does everything that it promises to do, but it is very hard to figure out. I am a very tech-savvy person, but I needed extensive training to be able to use the basic functions of Esker. Once you know what you're doing, it's not too hard, but I don't understand why they couldn't make it easier to use.

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Aubrey Miles

Finance Administrator

ArkadinTelecommunications, 1001-5000 employees

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Support Rating

Cin7 8.9

Based on 4 answers

The Cin7 support team has never let us down, even if they weren't able to completely solve our problem. They are willing to have conference calls, video chats, whatever works to help fix your issue.

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Charles Combs

Head of Marketing

molly muttConsumer Goods, 1-10 employees

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Esker 9.6

Based on 17 answers

They have been very helpful and the online support site is awesome. They keep the site up to date with the latest changes and present challenges to keep learning the new updates to keep things entertaining. They are overall a great crew to work with

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Christopher McDaniel

Credit Manager

Excel Industries, Inc.Machinery, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

As a wholesale focused business, we found Vend to be tailored to retail businesses. TradeGecko was well suited for our wholesale business, however, lacked the full range of capabilities that Cin7 offered (B2B website, POS). Fishbowl had many features that we would not need. OMS Office Master System offered the wholesale capabilities we needed, however, the software could use an update. Cin7 was a perfect balance in terms of features and pricing for our company.

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Manager in Corporate

Arts and Crafts Company, 1-10 employees

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I have listed a few that we considered but there were many more in the initial assessment, Esker was priced well and had the best user interface. Was really easy to use and the implementation process was well designed. It was a system that could handle a two tiered delegations of authority for project expenditure and operational expenditure.

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Executive in Corporate

Construction Company, 201-500 employees

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Return on Investment

Improved inventory accuracy across all channels.
Sales gains from always showing products as in stock.

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Charles Combs

Head of Marketing

molly muttConsumer Goods, 1-10 employees

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We now have reporting available down to the individual field level (changes, errors, etc) and can calculate cost to serve.
It replaced on-premise hardware with cloud SaaS that is more cost effective and risk adverse.
It is more intuitive; we can put new hires on order entry and experience less user errors. As a solution owner who fixes problems and answers questions, I don't find myself having to "think" about Esker and it has become a smaller part of my job now that end-users are more self-sufficient.

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Brett Ray

Information Systems Analyst

Whirlpool CorporationConsumer Goods, 10,001+ employees

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Free Trial

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Starting Price

Cin7 Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

Esker Editions & Modules

Additional Pricing Details

Usability

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