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    Connecteam

    Score9.5 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Connecteam is a workforce management platform designed to streamline operations and enhance communication for businesses of all sizes. Connecteam helps companies manage, train and communicate with the non-desk teams more efficiently. Connecteam offers a mobile-first platform that helps improve communication, and enhance daily processes. What Connecteam offers: Employee Scheduling: To create and manage…

    $35

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    e-automate

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AECI Software Solutions offers e-automate, an ERP for office technology companies to automate business workflows and increase contract profitability.N/A
    Pricing
    Connecteame-automate
    Editions & Modules
    Small Business
    $0
    Up to 10 users.
    Basic
    $35
    per month For the first 30 users, $0.6 / month for each additional user
    Advanced
    $59
    per month For the first 30 users, $1.8 / month for each additional user
    Expert
    $110
    per month For the first 30 users $3.6 / month for each additional user
    Enterprise
    Custom
    For 200 users and up. Please contact sales for a quote.
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Connecteame-automate
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsUp to an 18% discount is available for annual billing. All plans support up to 200 users. For more than 200 users there is an Enterprise plan with custom pricing to be quoted by a sales representative.—
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    89%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    81%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    6.3
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    Implementation Rating
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    Product Scalability
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    User Testimonials
    Connecteame-automate
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Connecteam
    Connecteam is great for distributed teams; the messaging feature is good for DMs and group messaging. Sending updates to relevant staff groups is very easy with Connecteam. Furthermore, having required acknowledgements on updates is paramount for compliance and ensuring all employees have received and understood new information that was sent to the team
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    ECI Software Solutions
    If you need a system to place and track sales quotes, sales orders, purchase orders, and service calls then E-Automate is perfect. However, if you want to be able to easily bulk upload customers and contracts or if you want to be able to quickly and easily track contract profitability, customer costs, etc, then you'll likely want/need a secondary or different system to do so.
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    Pros
    Connecteam
    • Daily team productivity with time clock feature
    • Easy of running weekly payroll reports
    • Employees to manage and own their time before being approved for payroll
    • Easy to add absences and PTO
    • Free until you need more than 10 users
    • It is great that you can tell where your employees are logging in from ie the office, home or in the field
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    ECI Software Solutions
    • Sending Invoices out to customers via email or printing.
    • Keep track of ordering and inventory.
    • Sales Tax reporting.
    • Monitoring customer payment activity/setting up and removing credit holds.
    • Calculating payments to process each cycle.
    • Excellent aging reports.
    • I like the fact that when I am looking at one item, such as an invoice, I have the capability to switch to the customer menu rather than having to exit out of invoices and then enter into customers.
    • I love the flexibility of the search menus - being able to sort on several factors at once.
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    Cons
    Connecteam
    • Adding the ability for employee to be able to set up their own reminders would be beneficial for those that seem to forget to clock in or out
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    ECI Software Solutions
    • Make sales invoices not require serial numbers, or be more flexible with it.
    • Make contract invoices have some sort of flexibility in terms of editing. Our end users complain that QuickBooks made it very easy to edit invoices, and in e-automate, for them, it is practically impossible. (I do personally understand why it has to be as it is myself, I'm just forwarding their observation.)
    • Make the API actually useful. I spent days looking at the functions and the functions available are not really useful.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Connecteam
    Our team like the product and uses it so there is no reason to change. It works, it is easy, saves us time and headaches
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    ECI Software Solutions
    Its really the only option for the industry that does enough of what we need for it to function . I'm not sure if there were better options out there if we would have to renew our subscription. With the addition of AI, hopefully something will be able to become more useful.
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    Usability
    Connecteam
    It's a clean interface that's very intuitive to use
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    ECI Software Solutions
    The user interface may be slightly outdated, but it is very intuitive and easy to navigate. Once you have learned one module within the system it is very easy to apply that knowledge to any other module. It makes using the system much easier, and it makes training another person on the system quick and efficient.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Connecteam
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    ECI Software Solutions
    Mostly available, sometimes down for issues but usually there when we need it
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    Performance
    Connecteam
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    ECI Software Solutions
    Reports are the struggle the most with the information being extracted in a way that you need to copy and paste it into a new document so some of the information is not covered
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    Support Rating
    Connecteam
    No answers on this topic
    ECI Software Solutions
    Sometimes when you need answers quickly, a voice on the phone is far better than having to wait for email support or a callback. I have found this to have delays and feel ECI e-automate should invest more in its support infrastructure.
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    Implementation Rating
    Connecteam
    It's easy don't stress just do it
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    ECI Software Solutions
    I did not participate in implementation
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    Connecteam
    Connecteam is far more robust in terms of features. The pricing is better too
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    ECI Software Solutions
    E-automate is much better at understanding the needs of the office equipment industry and provide the necessary tools. SAP Business One has limited features specific to the office equipment industry and includes things that are not useful. E-automate is also priced much better and provides the best value for your investment.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Connecteam
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    ECI Software Solutions
    I was not involved in the sales process
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    Scalability
    Connecteam
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    ECI Software Solutions
    Every department we have does use e-automate to some degree with most being successful.
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    Professional Services
    Connecteam
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    ECI Software Solutions
    I was not involved in the sales process
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    Return on Investment
    Connecteam
    • Before Connecteam I hated "Payroll Mondays" because it took a few hours to do everyone's time and upload it for the accountant. Now it takes maybe 15 mintues to do the entire process. I feel like it is more accurate and definitely less time-consuming - saving me money in the long run.
    • Connecteam has also allowed for quick glance time management to reduce overtime. Having accurate info allowing us to redeploy team members as needed and get other off the clock sooner. Or if we are having OT it is not a surprise - we can plan for it
    • Our accountant has love the reporting and has even recommended it to other small business because it provides all the info needed.
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    ECI Software Solutions
    • The e-automate will stop working if we stop paying each year. We chose not to go to the cloud and buy the software. QuickBooks and other software are a one-time fee.
    • E-automate has very few outside vendors for add-on modules.
    • The vendors that do have modules are costly.
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    Screenshot of an item search, in e-automate