JobBOSS² vs. Sage 100

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
JobBOSS²
Score 7.5 out of 10
N/A
JobBOSS² is the evolution of E2 Shop with the addition of features of the JobBOSS manufacturing software, since the acquisition of E2 Shop's developer Shoptech Industrial Software by ECI Software Solutions in 2020.N/A
Sage 100cloud
Score 6.9 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Sage 100 (or Sage 100cloud is a business management software offering a broad range of modules designed to meet the many needs of virtually any business. It encompasses financial operations and accounting, payroll, business intelligence, CRM, eBusiness, manufacturing and distribution.
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Per Seat per Month
Pricing
JobBOSS²Sage 100
Editions & Modules
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Sage 100 ERP Standard
Per Seat per Month
Sage 100 ERP Advanced
Per Seat per Month
Sage 100 ERP Premium
Per Seat per Month
Sage 100 ERP Online
Per User per Month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
JobBOSS²Sage 100cloud
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
JobBOSS²Sage 100
Considered Both Products
JobBOSS²
Chose JobBOSS²
We initially selected E2, and then E2 was acquired by ECI, which has Jobboss. Then E2 morphed into Jobboss2.
Sage 100cloud

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Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
JobBOSS²Sage 100
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
JobBOSS²
3.0
10 Ratings
82% below category average
Sage 100
8.4
7 Ratings
15% above category average
Pay calculation5.710 Ratings8.67 Ratings
Benefit plan administration2.74 Ratings8.65 Ratings
Direct deposit files4.55 Ratings8.07 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
JobBOSS²
4.9
14 Ratings
39% below category average
Sage 100
1.0
8 Ratings
152% below category average
API for custom integration5.114 Ratings1.05 Ratings
Plug-ins4.712 Ratings1.08 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
JobBOSS²
7.3
21 Ratings
11% below category average
Sage 100
10.0
14 Ratings
21% above category average
Single sign-on capability6.814 Ratings10.014 Ratings
Role-based user permissions7.720 Ratings10.013 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
JobBOSS²
6.3
21 Ratings
10% below category average
Sage 100
7.4
16 Ratings
6% above category average
Dashboards6.221 Ratings8.610 Ratings
Standard reports6.721 Ratings8.615 Ratings
Custom reports5.921 Ratings5.014 Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Product A and Product B
JobBOSS²
6.7
20 Ratings
13% below category average
Sage 100
7.6
16 Ratings
0% below category average
Accounts payable7.020 Ratings9.016 Ratings
Accounts receivable6.819 Ratings9.012 Ratings
Global Financial Support5.512 Ratings6.73 Ratings
Primary and Secondary Ledgers5.312 Ratings8.25 Ratings
Journals and Reconciliations6.116 Ratings10.06 Ratings
Configurable Accounting5.515 Ratings8.24 Ratings
Standardized Processes6.115 Ratings8.24 Ratings
Inventory Management
Comparison of Inventory Management features of Product A and Product B
JobBOSS²
6.9
23 Ratings
13% below category average
Sage 100
7.5
10 Ratings
5% below category average
Inventory tracking6.723 Ratings8.010 Ratings
Automatic reordering5.314 Ratings6.78 Ratings
Location management6.519 Ratings6.75 Ratings
Order Management
Comparison of Order Management features of Product A and Product B
JobBOSS²
4.8
23 Ratings
47% below category average
Sage 100
9.1
9 Ratings
16% above category average
Pricing6.522 Ratings10.09 Ratings
Order entry7.323 Ratings10.09 Ratings
Credit card processing5.412 Ratings10.09 Ratings
Cost of goods sold5.717 Ratings10.09 Ratings
Order Orchestration6.514 Ratings8.63 Ratings
Subledger and Financial Process
Comparison of Subledger and Financial Process features of Product A and Product B
JobBOSS²
2.7
16 Ratings
93% below category average
Sage 100
8.2
6 Ratings
10% above category average
Billing Management6.516 Ratings8.24 Ratings
Cash and Asset Management5.514 Ratings8.25 Ratings
Travel & Expense Management3.99 Ratings8.24 Ratings
Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting4.09 Ratings8.24 Ratings
Period Close6.112 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Project Financial Management
Comparison of Project Financial Management features of Product A and Product B
JobBOSS²
9.4
3 Ratings
21% above category average
Sage 100
8.0
5 Ratings
5% above category average
Budgeting and Forecasting9.02 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Project Costing9.03 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Cost Capture9.02 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Capital Project Management9.02 Ratings8.63 Ratings
Customer Contract Compliance9.02 Ratings7.83 Ratings
Project Revenue Recognition9.02 Ratings7.83 Ratings
Project Execution Management
Comparison of Project Execution Management features of Product A and Product B
JobBOSS²
5.6
16 Ratings
20% below category average
Sage 100
5.0
1 Ratings
31% below category average
Project Planning and Scheduling6.116 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Task Insight for Project Managers6.112 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Project Mobile Functionality6.011 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Definable Resource Pools6.18 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Grants Management
Comparison of Grants Management features of Product A and Product B
JobBOSS²
3.3
7 Ratings
78% below category average
Sage 100
7.0
1 Ratings
8% below category average
Award Lifecycle Management5.77 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Procurement
Comparison of Procurement features of Product A and Product B
JobBOSS²
3.5
17 Ratings
66% below category average
Sage 100
5.0
1 Ratings
33% below category average
Bids Analyzed and Compared6.611 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Contract Authoring7.98 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Contract Repository6.79 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated7.810 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Supplier Management6.416 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Risk Management
Comparison of Risk Management features of Product A and Product B
JobBOSS²
4.1
9 Ratings
46% below category average
Sage 100
4.4
1 Ratings
39% below category average
Risk Repository6.87 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Control Management6.78 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Control Efficiency Assessments7.57 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Issue Detection6.08 Ratings3.01 Ratings
Remediation and Certification6.38 Ratings4.01 Ratings
Logistics
Comparison of Logistics features of Product A and Product B
JobBOSS²
4.3
8 Ratings
46% below category average
Sage 100
7.1
3 Ratings
3% above category average
Transportation Planning and Optimization5.05 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Transportation Execution Management7.04 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Trade and Customs Management5.53 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Fulfillment Management6.74 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Warehouse Workforce Management6.54 Ratings7.63 Ratings
Manufacturing
Comparison of Manufacturing features of Product A and Product B
JobBOSS²
6.8
16 Ratings
10% below category average
Sage 100
8.2
3 Ratings
9% above category average
Production Process Design6.410 Ratings8.42 Ratings
Production Management6.815 Ratings8.43 Ratings
Configuration Management6.810 Ratings8.42 Ratings
Work Execution6.712 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Manufacturing Costs6.516 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Supply Chain
Comparison of Supply Chain features of Product A and Product B
JobBOSS²
6.6
15 Ratings
9% below category average
Sage 100
7.8
3 Ratings
7% above category average
Forecasting5.614 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Inventory Planning6.315 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Performance Monitoring6.512 Ratings7.63 Ratings
Product Lifecycle Management
Comparison of Product Lifecycle Management features of Product A and Product B
JobBOSS²
6.1
7 Ratings
17% below category average
Sage 100
1.4
1 Ratings
135% below category average
Proposal Management5.77 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Product Master Data Management6.45 Ratings2.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
JobBOSS²Sage 100
Likelihood to Recommend
7.2
(23 ratings)
8.0
(20 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.6
(5 ratings)
Usability
6.5
(3 ratings)
9.0
(5 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(3 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
JobBOSS²Sage 100
Likelihood to Recommend
ECi Software Solutions
Jobboss2 helps with creating routings, tracking hours towards those, and tracking inventory for discrete orders. It does not work well for blanket orders, consignment, or long-term agreements-type contracts with customers. Raw material tracking is completely ineffective with Jobboss2. Costing is quite ineffective with Joboss2. Production/lot planning & scheduling is ineffective and is a huge limiting factor. All of these items require manual tracking in spreadsheets. Jobboss2 has helped us get away from tracking routings with pen and paper and timesheets with pen and paper... but we're still having to use Excel to track consignment, blanket orders, job planning/when to launch new travelers, and costing/quoting. Going from pen and paper routings to digital has been a huge help overall, but the other limitations are incredibly concerning, which has led us to research & possibly switch ERP platforms.
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Sage
For small and medium business in the distribution and light manufacturing space, Sage 100 is probably the best bang for your buck. As a very scaleable system, you can modify the system to meet the needs of a growing business without making gross changes to the core of the system
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Pros
ECi Software Solutions
  • Estimating is great once you learn how to use it, and it makes repeat estimates easier than ever.
  • Time tracking is amazing for us. It has taken some time to figure out exactly how we want to use the tracking parts, but it's only because it has multiple ways to do the same thing and finding out what works best for us took some time.
  • Billing and Purchasing are a breeze. The full package is worth the money to fully integrate the entire business into JobBOSS² since it can handle it all.
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Sage
  • Simple to implement and use. Operation very intuitive so new employees are quickly trained.
  • It is very flexible with many modules and many features allows for easy customization to suit particular needs of any department or company.
  • Context sensitive help, training and support make it easy for a company to operate with out a lot of additional outside tech support.
  • Scalable plenty of room to grow as the business grows without being bloated.
  • Pricing is very reasonable.
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Cons
ECi Software Solutions
  • Ability to "click-through" from module to module is somewhat quirky and not always do-able
  • Implementation process and initial learning is very independent, more assistance and direction from ECI would be appreciated.
  • Ability to set Product Code at Order level instead of Estimate level would be quite helpful
  • Ability to add WorkCode at Line Item Specification screen would be very useful
  • Ability to enter material quantities at decimal amounts instead of whole numbers. This is a huge disadvantage of JobBOSS²
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Sage
  • It's painfully slow even for mid-sized businesses like ours without millions of transactions.
  • It crashes very, very often and has numerous critical failures.
  • Unfortunately, it's a local program so that excludes it from being used remotely. You have to be on site for it to work.
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Likelihood to Renew
ECi Software Solutions
It functions very well for us.
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Sage
I would put this out to bid, if I were at the same organization. There have been a lot of improvements and changes in enterprise software and my preference would be to find a good web-based or cloud-based tool. Lower overall cost of ownership and improved efficiency would be my target criteria for a rebid of this.
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Usability
ECi Software Solutions
It is extremely easy to learn and use E2 Shop System. It provides everything a manufacturing company might be looking for, starting from entering a new PO to shipping parts. Routers that get created from E2 Shop System also help track parts on the shop floor and is accessible from every where. E2 Shop System also now has an app, which is great when it comes to scanning router steps directly from your phone.
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Sage
It is easy, flexible, user friendly and feature laden. Out of the box or easily customized to meet our "wish" list . Sage offers a variety of modules and bolt-ons, user defined fields etc., allowing us to conduct business "our way" without forcing us into a one-size- fits- none mold or having to purchase expensive and cumbersome programming modifications
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Support Rating
ECi Software Solutions
Ashlee Ware- Product Support Specialist. We had a wonderful experience with support from Ashlee Ware and she has since become a hero in our company. Ashlee helped us research and clear several open Purchase Orders from 2015 and beyond that were still showing on the open purchase orders report in 2023.
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Sage
Sage Support is very good. I usually get a person on the phone in a short time frame and usually get my issues fixed in one called.
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Implementation Rating
ECi Software Solutions
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Sage
We had an advantage in implementing the tool in that our director of Ops had been part of the team implementing the ERP for other users so we knew what to expect and were able to avoid a lot of the challenges people sometimes face with implementations. However, the process still took far longer than desired.
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Alternatives Considered
ECi Software Solutions
We evaluated a few other ERP systems and chose JobBOSS² based on how similarly it functioned to our previous software but also wrapped all functions into one software instead of 3+. We were not at a place to go paperless, which made the decision not to utilize ProShop easy.
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Sage
I've reviewed Accpac, Syspro, SAP Business 1 and Platinum. Sage is far easier to use and setup than Syspro and SAP Business 1. Generally speaking, most accounting software does the same thing, at the end of the day, how easy is it to modify data inside the system and review to make sure that your system integrity is intact. I find that Sage 100 is excellent at these things.
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Return on Investment
ECi Software Solutions
  • We have seen improved visibility of our jobs and on how we quote our products to our customers.
  • It is nice to be able to see what is running on each station, who is running it and what part of the process the job is currently at.
  • I also like the Data Collection module as I can see in real time what all the employees are currently doing.
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Sage
  • We have seen increased efficiencies for our team members processing orders and fulfillment as they are now integrated.
  • We have cut paper/printing/mail expenses by 500% of what we previously spent.
  • Our overall cash management has improved with the visibility from Bank Reconciliation and Financial Reporting.
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ScreenShots

JobBOSS² Screenshots

Screenshot of the management interface for the daily demands of job shops and machine shopsScreenshot of analytics that provide real-time visibility into job profitability

Sage 100cloud Screenshots

Screenshot of General Ledger uses our exclusive dual grid entry for quick, efficient, and accurate data entry. The grid entry format allows you to easily customize the data entry screens.