Financial Edge vs. NetSuite ERP

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Financial Edge
Score 6.0 out of 10
N/A
N/AN/A
NetSuite ERP
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
NetSuite is a suite of ERP and accounting modules which is sold in various editions aimed at different size customers. The multi-country, multi-currency version is an additional module called OneWorld. Netsuite is a SaaS system and is not offered in an on-premise edition.N/A
Pricing
Financial EdgeNetSuite ERP
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Financial EdgeNetSuite ERP
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsUsers subscribe to NetSuite for an annual license fee. The license is made up of three main components: core platform, optional modules and the number of users. There is also a one-time implementation fee for initial setup. New modules and users and can be added as a business grows.
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Community Pulse
Financial EdgeNetSuite ERP
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Financial EdgeNetSuite ERP
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Financial Edge
1.0
4 Ratings
153% below category average
NetSuite ERP
1.1
15 Ratings
147% below category average
Pay calculation1.03 Ratings1.013 Ratings
Benefit plan administration1.02 Ratings1.010 Ratings
Direct deposit files1.02 Ratings1.39 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management1.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Reimbursement management1.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Financial Edge
1.0
7 Ratings
150% below category average
NetSuite ERP
9.1
74 Ratings
23% above category average
API for custom integration1.05 Ratings9.264 Ratings
Plug-ins1.07 Ratings9.547 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Financial Edge
1.0
9 Ratings
155% below category average
NetSuite ERP
9.2
81 Ratings
12% above category average
Single sign-on capability1.06 Ratings9.262 Ratings
Role-based user permissions1.09 Ratings9.280 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Financial Edge
1.0
9 Ratings
153% below category average
NetSuite ERP
9.3
72 Ratings
29% above category average
Dashboards1.09 Ratings9.271 Ratings
Standard reports1.09 Ratings9.370 Ratings
Custom reports1.09 Ratings9.370 Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Product A and Product B
Financial Edge
1.0
10 Ratings
152% below category average
NetSuite ERP
7.7
258 Ratings
1% above category average
Accounts payable1.09 Ratings8.3252 Ratings
Accounts receivable1.07 Ratings8.3233 Ratings
Cash management1.09 Ratings00 Ratings
Bank reconciliation1.010 Ratings00 Ratings
Expense management1.08 Ratings00 Ratings
Time tracking1.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Fixed asset management1.08 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-currency support1.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-division support1.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Regulations compliance1.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Electronic tax filing1.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Self-service portal1.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Global Financial Support1.06 Ratings9.526 Ratings
Primary and Secondary Ledgers1.08 Ratings9.528 Ratings
Intercompany Accounting1.08 Ratings00 Ratings
Localizations1.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Journals and Reconciliations1.08 Ratings9.141 Ratings
Enterprise Accounting1.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Configurable Accounting1.07 Ratings9.535 Ratings
Centralized Rules Framework1.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Standardized Processes1.07 Ratings9.437 Ratings
Inventory Management
Comparison of Inventory Management features of Product A and Product B
Financial Edge
1.0
3 Ratings
150% below category average
NetSuite ERP
8.8
48 Ratings
11% above category average
Inventory tracking1.02 Ratings9.847 Ratings
Automatic reordering1.02 Ratings8.628 Ratings
Location management1.03 Ratings9.335 Ratings
Manufacturing module1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Order Management
Comparison of Order Management features of Product A and Product B
Financial Edge
1.0
2 Ratings
152% below category average
NetSuite ERP
8.8
207 Ratings
12% above category average
Pricing1.02 Ratings9.253 Ratings
Order entry1.02 Ratings8.1203 Ratings
Credit card processing1.02 Ratings8.537 Ratings
Cost of goods sold1.02 Ratings8.848 Ratings
Order Orchestration1.02 Ratings9.521 Ratings
End-to-end order visibility1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Order exception Resolution1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Subledger and Financial Process
Comparison of Subledger and Financial Process features of Product A and Product B
Financial Edge
-
Ratings
NetSuite ERP
7.4
199 Ratings
0% below category average
Billing Management00 Ratings8.3188 Ratings
Cash and Asset Management00 Ratings9.427 Ratings
Travel & Expense Management00 Ratings8.631 Ratings
Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting00 Ratings8.527 Ratings
Period Close00 Ratings9.535 Ratings
Project Financial Management
Comparison of Project Financial Management features of Product A and Product B
Financial Edge
-
Ratings
NetSuite ERP
6.4
32 Ratings
17% below category average
Budgeting and Forecasting00 Ratings5.926 Ratings
Project Costing00 Ratings5.923 Ratings
Cost Capture00 Ratings5.922 Ratings
Capital Project Management00 Ratings4.014 Ratings
Customer Contract Compliance00 Ratings9.513 Ratings
Project Revenue Recognition00 Ratings6.722 Ratings
Project Execution Management
Comparison of Project Execution Management features of Product A and Product B
Financial Edge
-
Ratings
NetSuite ERP
4.1
17 Ratings
50% below category average
Project Planning and Scheduling00 Ratings8.614 Ratings
Task Insight for Project Managers00 Ratings3.311 Ratings
Project Mobile Functionality00 Ratings3.010 Ratings
Definable Resource Pools00 Ratings3.68 Ratings
Grants Management
Comparison of Grants Management features of Product A and Product B
Financial Edge
-
Ratings
NetSuite ERP
3.1
12 Ratings
84% below category average
Award Lifecycle Management00 Ratings3.57 Ratings
Procurement
Comparison of Procurement features of Product A and Product B
Financial Edge
-
Ratings
NetSuite ERP
3.3
19 Ratings
71% below category average
Bids Analyzed and Compared00 Ratings3.58 Ratings
Contract Authoring00 Ratings2.010 Ratings
Contract Repository00 Ratings3.58 Ratings
Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated00 Ratings3.613 Ratings
Supplier Management00 Ratings9.613 Ratings
Risk Management
Comparison of Risk Management features of Product A and Product B
Financial Edge
-
Ratings
NetSuite ERP
3.1
11 Ratings
71% below category average
Risk Repository00 Ratings3.58 Ratings
Control Management00 Ratings2.011 Ratings
Control Efficiency Assessments00 Ratings3.57 Ratings
Issue Detection00 Ratings3.58 Ratings
Remediation and Certification00 Ratings3.58 Ratings
Logistics
Comparison of Logistics features of Product A and Product B
Financial Edge
-
Ratings
NetSuite ERP
3.0
17 Ratings
78% below category average
Transportation Planning and Optimization00 Ratings2.89 Ratings
Transportation Execution Management00 Ratings2.88 Ratings
Trade and Customs Management00 Ratings2.88 Ratings
Fulfillment Management00 Ratings9.514 Ratings
Warehouse Workforce Management00 Ratings2.511 Ratings
Manufacturing
Comparison of Manufacturing features of Product A and Product B
Financial Edge
-
Ratings
NetSuite ERP
9.0
16 Ratings
18% above category average
Production Process Design00 Ratings8.612 Ratings
Production Management00 Ratings8.614 Ratings
Configuration Management00 Ratings9.510 Ratings
Work Execution00 Ratings9.512 Ratings
Manufacturing Costs00 Ratings8.614 Ratings
Supply Chain
Comparison of Supply Chain features of Product A and Product B
Financial Edge
-
Ratings
NetSuite ERP
7.9
132 Ratings
9% above category average
Forecasting00 Ratings7.817 Ratings
Inventory Planning00 Ratings7.3129 Ratings
Performance Monitoring00 Ratings8.614 Ratings
Product Lifecycle Management
Comparison of Product Lifecycle Management features of Product A and Product B
Financial Edge
-
Ratings
NetSuite ERP
3.8
13 Ratings
63% below category average
Proposal Management00 Ratings2.610 Ratings
Product Master Data Management00 Ratings3.29 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Financial EdgeNetSuite ERP
Small Businesses
QuickBooks Self-Employed
QuickBooks Self-Employed
Score 9.1 out of 10
Acumatica
Acumatica
Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Accounting Seed
Accounting Seed
Score 8.3 out of 10
Infor VISUAL
Infor VISUAL
Score 7.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
Score 8.1 out of 10
SAP Business ByDesign
SAP Business ByDesign
Score 7.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
Financial EdgeNetSuite ERP
Likelihood to Recommend
1.1
(10 ratings)
8.5
(356 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.2
(49 ratings)
Usability
2.0
(1 ratings)
8.6
(231 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(16 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(15 ratings)
Support Rating
1.0
(1 ratings)
7.1
(215 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(2 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
6.4
(10 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
6.4
(17 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(5 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(3 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(8 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
4.8
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Financial EdgeNetSuite ERP
Likelihood to Recommend
Blackbaud
  • Financial Edge is well suited for traditional day to day accounting, accounts payable, and related needs.
  • Financial Edge dashboard does not provide a snapshot view of data that I have found are available through other platforms (like QBO).
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NetSuite
Really in this hybrid environment, being up in the cloud and being able to securely access the data and work from anywhere, I think it's a real game changer for my team. So I really like the fact that NetSuite keeps up with security features and allows users to access it from anywhere.
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Pros
Blackbaud
  • Financial edge is able to be customized in a way that fits our organization.
  • Financial edge is able to provide reports to our end-users on budget versus actual account balances.
  • Financial edge is able to handle a large volume of transactions with ease, having built-in capabilities for batching and balancing.
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NetSuite
  • NetSuite does analytics very well.
  • They do reporting very well. I love the ability to have control over how the information flows through my NetSuite, my user roles, and my responsibilities. I can assign certain tasks to certain people, and they do that and then also have the control to approve that and make sure it's done correctly.
  • Just being able to drill down into a particular GL account or into a particular line item and see what really makes that up and what's driving our certain costs.
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Cons
Blackbaud
  • Customer service blames the customer, and never offers solutions other than "wait it out." I've always been told it's my computer, even though everyone else at my work has the same issues.
  • Website is constantly "under maintenance" and it somehow never gets better.
  • The Database View is outdated and glitchy. Honestly get rid of it.
  • The Crystal Report is the only way to handle monthly recurring statements, and Financial Edge does not offer support for it anymore. Good luck figuring that out on your own.
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NetSuite
  • Honestly, right now, my biggest pain point is kind of our own doing, but I would appreciate a little bit more support and help in the area of performance management and kind of understanding how our application is built, what are the best choices for customizing or solving a problem in terms of performance, because our company is rather large, we have a lot of data coming in and out, and that has been an issue for us recently.
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Likelihood to Renew
Blackbaud
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NetSuite
NetSuite is able to cover all of our needs, spanning multiple departments and managerial levels. We use it daily for a multitude of functions, including creating promotions, estimating inventory, pulling historical reports, forecasting sales, and more. Overall, we're very satisfied with NetSuite as an ERP solution and recommend it to medium to large businesses.
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Usability
Blackbaud
It's user friendly, when it wants to be.
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NetSuite
I have given this rating due to below use cases: - Order Management - Advanced Revenue Management - Invoicing - Automated Billing - Inbound and Outbound Integrations with applications such as Salesforce, Zip, Stripe, Mavenlink, Avalara, Floquast - Project management and billing - Training -Customer Support - Knowledge Article Support
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Reliability and Availability
Blackbaud
No answers on this topic
NetSuite
It has been very reliable. I can only think of 1-2 times in 4.5 years that we have had issues getting in, and in each case were able to get back in within 1 hour. There has not been a major downtime
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Performance
Blackbaud
No answers on this topic
NetSuite
Most of the time the performance is very good. Pages load in a few seconds; financial reports take less than 5 seconds; basic searches take a few seconds. But performance can be sporadic throughout the day and cause the run time to triple.
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Support Rating
Blackbaud
I would give this a zero if I could. Here's the deal. Once you request a chat with a representative, they immediately respond. So responsiveness: 10/10. However, they have a tendency to (always) tell you that whatever problem you're experiencing is your problem, not theirs. They offer no solutions and never take responsibility for their website malfunctioning
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NetSuite
The account rep changes quite often, which requires restarting. Suite Answers is a very good tool but can be hard to use for somebody who is not fully confident with Netsuite. Asking questions that are not already answered in Suite Answers can be rough. Training is readily available, but most of the time stays on the surface and doesn't answer medium to more advanced questions.
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In-Person Training
Blackbaud
No answers on this topic
NetSuite
I had in person training for a day when first got the software. The training was good. The challenge was that there was a large gap between training and when we went live so we forgot quite a lot
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Online Training
Blackbaud
No answers on this topic
NetSuite
Online training is quite strong. I have used for specific pieces of functionality.However it is not sufficient in all areas.
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Implementation Rating
Blackbaud
No answers on this topic
NetSuite
I felt NetSuite Professional Services did an excellent job of guiding us in the implementation. I also felt our internal teams were a little resistant to the change and engagement of new software. Had we performed better engaging and buying into the new software, I would be able to rate the implementation better. Therefore, the lower number should not be viewed as a deficiency with the software or the professional services teams, but as an reminder of how important complete buy-in from the local users is.
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Alternatives Considered
Blackbaud
Financial Edge is more economical than GuideStar, and more focused on the financial successes than simply the management of funds and general data.
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NetSuite
Well, the reason why I'm with NetSuite is because obviously it beats out those other options quite considerably. It gave us the whole ecosystem that gave us everything we needed. I didn't need a dedicated administrator whose full-time job is to deal with it like our current system would need to really be useful. I can find people or train people how to use it right away. So for us, that really beats it out compared to the Sage and QuickBooks where we were looking at it from a perspective of, yeah, we can find people who are experts in those fields. They don't scale up to the size that we need as we're going to really quickly go from R&D company into doing tens of millions of dollars a year in revenue and activities. So that's where it beats us out over say Sage or QuickBooks is it's got that complete scalability. We can go to multiple subsidiaries, foreign currency, not a problem. It's got that full functionality.
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Scalability
Blackbaud
No answers on this topic
NetSuite
We have been able to scale our business 25X without any major overhaul with Netsuite. Its dashboard setup makes onboarding new employees very easy and allows data to be shared across multiple offices. Its cloud setup does not put any pressure on IT to scale servers or other infrastructure. We have been able to become much more efficient in all aspects of the business.
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Return on Investment
Blackbaud
  • Like any enterprise software, there are costs/investments ahead of return. It isn't something you would implement without support.
  • During the significant financial downturn, we were able to use FE to forecast trends and make budget adjustments easily. It transformed communication about forecasting and cuts with assurance.
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NetSuite
  • Positive impact, again, it's our source of truth, so we are able to not have questions about how much money we have in the bank or do we have enough material to build this job. Being able to know those things immediately is super valuable.
  • I mean it's the grease that skids the wheels that gets us to accomplish the things that we do in our business.
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