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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Sage Intacct

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ASage Intacct is a cloud ERP system targeted at high-growth small and medium-sized businesses. Intacct includes applications for core financials and accounting, purchasing, order management, and financial reporting and business intelligence. It also integrates with 3rd party software like Salesforce.N/A

    PayPal Enterprise Payments

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/APayPal Enterprise Payments, formerly Braintree, is a billing platform which stores credit card data directly from the merchant’s systems on secure servers, and it allows for cards to be recharged or refunded. It also supports international payments.N/A

    WooCommerce Subscriptions

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AWooCommerce Subscriptions is a premium extension for WooCommerce which supports recurring payments and subscription-based services and products.N/A
    Pricing
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    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Standard Pricing
    2.9% +$0.30
    per transaction
    Custom Pricing
    Contact for quote
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Sage IntacctPayPal Enterprise PaymentsWooCommerce Subscriptions
    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsMust contact sales team for pricing.——
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    Community Pulse
    Sage IntacctPayPal Enterprise PaymentsWooCommerce Subscriptions
    Considered Multiple Products
    Sage
    Chose Sage Intacct
    We left Financial Force for Sage Intacct, which is in every way superior for our needs.
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    PayPal
    No answer on this topic
    Automattic
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
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    57%
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    50%
    Delivers good value for the price
    3 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    9 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
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    5 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    525 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    3 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    9 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    80%
    Implementation went as expected
    597 Answers
    67%
    Implementation went as expected
    4 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
    Features
    Sage IntacctPayPal Enterprise PaymentsWooCommerce Subscriptions
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of Sage Intacct and PayPal Enterprise Payments and WooCommerce Subscriptions
    Feature
    Sage Intacct
    7.0
    360 Ratings
    8% below category average
    PayPal Enterprise Payments
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    Pay calculation7.05 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Benefit plan administration6.45 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Direct deposit files7.14 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Salary revision and increment management6.94 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reimbursement management7.5360 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Sage Intacct and PayPal Enterprise Payments and WooCommerce Subscriptions
    Feature
    Sage Intacct
    7.6
    871 Ratings
    0% above category average
    PayPal Enterprise Payments
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    WooCommerce Subscriptions
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    API for custom integration7.8818 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Plug-ins7.4660 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Sage Intacct and PayPal Enterprise Payments and WooCommerce Subscriptions
    Feature
    Sage Intacct
    8.7
    1318 Ratings
    6% above category average
    PayPal Enterprise Payments
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    WooCommerce Subscriptions
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    Single sign-on capability8.81076 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.61283 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Sage Intacct and PayPal Enterprise Payments and WooCommerce Subscriptions
    Feature
    Sage Intacct
    7.8
    1411 Ratings
    0% below category average
    PayPal Enterprise Payments
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    WooCommerce Subscriptions
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    Dashboards7.81270 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports8.01372 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports7.61358 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
    Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Sage Intacct and PayPal Enterprise Payments and WooCommerce Subscriptions
    Feature
    Sage Intacct
    7.9
    1550 Ratings
    4% above category average
    PayPal Enterprise Payments
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    WooCommerce Subscriptions
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    Accounts payable8.21440 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Accounts receivable8.01264 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cash management8.01342 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bank reconciliation8.11331 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expense management7.9940 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Time tracking6.9505 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Fixed asset management7.3688 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-currency support7.8518 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-division support8.5847 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Regulations compliance7.6516 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Electronic tax filing7.7384 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-service portal7.4646 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Global Financial Support8.0378 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Intercompany Accounting8.4893 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Journals and Reconciliations8.71247 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Enterprise Accounting8.1536 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Configurable Accounting8.1733 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Centralized Rules Framework7.9528 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standardized Processes8.3857 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Inventory Management
    Comparison of Inventory Management features of Sage Intacct and PayPal Enterprise Payments and WooCommerce Subscriptions
    Feature
    Sage Intacct
    6.8
    499 Ratings
    7% below category average
    PayPal Enterprise Payments
    -
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    WooCommerce Subscriptions
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    Inventory tracking7.8365 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automatic reordering5.58 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location management8.5464 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Manufacturing module5.25 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Order Management
    Comparison of Order Management features of Sage Intacct and PayPal Enterprise Payments and WooCommerce Subscriptions
    Feature
    Sage Intacct
    7.5
    738 Ratings
    2% above category average
    PayPal Enterprise Payments
    -
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    WooCommerce Subscriptions
    -
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    Pricing7.7461 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Order entry8.0656 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Credit card processing7.4466 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cost of goods sold6.314 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    End-to-end order visibility8.2380 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Sage IntacctPayPal Enterprise PaymentsWooCommerce Subscriptions
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (1599 ratings)
    1.0
    (15 ratings)
    8.9
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.2
    (85 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    4.7
    (140 ratings)
    5.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.1
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (14 ratings)
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    (0 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    10.0
    (15 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    2.4
    (129 ratings)
    1.6
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    Online Training
    1.0
    (14 ratings)
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    (0 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    1.0
    (22 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    3.0
    (13 ratings)
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    (0 ratings)
    -
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    CPA Rating
    7.8
    (26 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
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    Ease of integration
    6.2
    (311 ratings)
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    Product Scalability
    2.0
    (12 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
    1.0
    (11 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    1.0
    (11 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Sage IntacctPayPal Enterprise PaymentsWooCommerce Subscriptions
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Sage
    It depends on the scale and nature of the organisation, but for a business like ours, i.e. a medium sized business with several entities operating in more than one location with different currencies, I think it is a very good fit. It is relatively easy to get to grips with and provides a good level of functionality.
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    PayPal
    Braintree is a lower cost alternative to many of the options business owners have through their bank. However, they will need to be techy or be working with a developer to set up. The setup and backend isn't as user friendly as alternatives. Braintree is a great option if you'll need to manually type in credit card details. Banks will sometimes charge a lot more for that option. The manual option is nice if your clients aren't as tech savvy and prefer to pay over the phone than to pay on your website.
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    Automattic
    WooCommerce Subscriptions is a solid option for WordPress based eCommerce sites, particularly if you are already using WooCommerce as your eCommerce platform. It works for simple subscriptions, allows for customization in terms of email notifications, pricing, coupons, etc. It obviously would not be a good fit for non-WordPress websites, and it may be too much if all you need are very simple subscription plans.
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    Pros
    Sage
    • Excellent roll-up reporting of various categories of expenses across multiple depts. Data is not siloed when we want to find all revenue sources across business entities, for example, or even down to details such as what is spent on "discretionary" expense elements.
    • Coding nomenclature is flexible and makes sense across business areas. Again, this allows for both more effective capture of data and with reporting slices and iterations.
    • Sage Intacct's open architecture (availability of APIs and already existing hooks) has made integration with other system tool-sets easier than we would ever have thought.
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    PayPal
    • Braintree has excellent integration with the BigCommerce platform. The switch of our previous payment processing gateway to Braintree was very easy and only required a few clicks.
    • Tying into Braintree's BigCommerce integration, for company's like ours that are on the BigCommerce enterprise plan, Braintree's rates for BigCommerce enterprise customers are extremely competitive and saved us money.
    • Braintree has a pretty easy to use portal that can be accessed through the same login we use for PayPal which we are using in conjunction with Braintree with ease.
    • I've only had to call Braintree twice and my customer service issues were handled extremely quickly and easily.
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    Automattic
    • Recurring payments
    • Dunning / retrying of payments if it fails the first time
    • Automatically removing access if payments fail
    • Keeping records of who is on which subscription
    • Users can manage their own subscription
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    Cons
    Sage
    • The budgeting module is archaic. It needs to have more application features, including tracking changes made throughout the year.
    • The creation of reports is complicated and lacks sufficient filtering options during the process.
    • The Purchasing module should be more flexible, allowing users to add change orders to an existing PO rather than creating a new one.
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    PayPal
    • Not a very good subscription management platform for a Saas business, but they make up for it on the API with others that are
    • Doesn't have a lot of additional features, but that's what you'd expect out of a payment processor
    • Very expensive per transaction, but the reality is that any processor who helps early stage companies accept online payments are expensive.
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    Automattic
    • Better syncing to ActiveCampaign for renewal reminders
    • Make it easier for clients to update their credit cards and have it automatically apply to all subscriptions
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Sage
    Sage Intacct is continuously evolving and increasing it's functionalities. I am excited to attend conferences to learn what is in the roadmap for future releases. Additionally, using Sage Intacct allows me grow as a professional, I am really enjoy the knowledge that I have within the product to be able to share my experiences.
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    PayPal
    There's a huge cost in migrating payment providers, and we're very happy with Braintree so far.
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    Automattic
    We are very likely to renew our Woo Commerce subscriptions add on. We are dedicated to WordPress and plan to grow our business significantly. Woo Commerce subscriptions enables us to manage and extend our subscription revenue easily. We did not have this a few years ago and we have seen the uplift in revenue from using it!
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    Usability
    Sage
    The ease of use as a seasoned user is wonderful; however, new users struggle to adapt to the program efficiently. Better training videos--all in one location--would be beneficial. The use of a "sandbox" environment is a great tool for new employees or for the fiscal department to test certain journal entries or other transactions to verify accuracy of data.
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    PayPal
    As a product, functionality has been fine for us. In our experience, some issues during On Boarding but because we had a dedicated Account Manager assigned to us, these issues were dealt with. Now we are a customer, it feels like they have stopped caring about us or aren't interested in working with us to resolve any issues we have.
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    Automattic
    I like almost everything about WooCommerce Subscriptions EXCEPT one of the main reasons we started using it has never worked out. When we started this subscription box company, I discovered that it was difficult to track how many of each unique product we needed to order to fulfill subscriptions. In my naivete, I thought it was a simple task . 4 years later, I have recently developed my own custom solution (after learning 5 different programming languages) and I now use the WooCommerce and WooCommerce Subscriptions API to get the data I need from the store en masse. Basically, I offer multiple selections that customers can make as part of their subscriptions. WooCommerce does not offer totals or reports for anything up that is not tracked using a 'variation ID' which you have to manually generate. My products have 80 or so variations per product sometimes and the WooCommerce system was actually a little buggy when I tried setting them all up at once so I gave up. Now I know that without that info, the selections in orders are treated as metadata and handled almost as if they are not relevant to the order
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    Reliability and Availability
    Sage
    There has only been one occurrence where Sage Intacct was not available to me, however I had already been working a number of hours trying to get a project completed. It honestly allowed me to step back and take a much needed break.
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    PayPal
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    Automattic
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    Performance
    Sage
    As fas as integration is concerned I don't feel this slows Sage Intacct down at all. However, sometimes I do feel it takes some larger reports more time to load due to all the detail. As well as, I "move very fast" in my motions so sometimes I double click on fuctions too quickly and the system seems to think that I have a duplicate request.
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    PayPal
    No answers on this topic
    Automattic
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    Support Rating
    Sage
    Only a few times have we had to reach out to support, and every time we did, we received a relatively quick response and a solution was found fairly quickly. Only once was there an issue that took longer than a week to resolve, but it still did eventually get solved.
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    PayPal
    Their support is a joke. There's nothing "supportive" about them. Every time I call in with an issue no one has an answer or even a recommendation. I am put on hold and no one ever comes back. It's time to find another processor.
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    Automattic
    The ticketing system of WooCommerce and WooCommerce Subscriptions is not state of the art. I wish it were an intercom type of support, But I honestly very rarely need support so it's partially a non-issue. Documentation is also very good so it preemptively addresses things that you might typically need support on. One thing I hate about WooCommerce plugins' support MO is that you're always asked to reset to the standard WP theme and deactivate all plugins, which is near impossible to do in a production environment. So their preliminary steps for offering support are highly onerous.
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    In-Person Training
    Sage
    I have taken in person training classes at several of the annual Sage Intacct user conferences. It is very interactive and the trainers are very easy to follow and understand. They are great at getting everyone in the class involved. They also make sure everyone has learned to task before moving to a new one.
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    PayPal
    No answers on this topic
    Automattic
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Sage
    The free training is very minimal. For what we pay for the service, I would like more training. We end up training new users in-house because the provided free training is not nearly comprehensive enough. That being said, the training provided, for the material covered, was adequate and relevant for the given topics.
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    PayPal
    No answers on this topic
    Automattic
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Sage
    I would not use a thrid party administrator to implement your system, especially if you are going to be modifying the system at all. Use Intacct implementors as they will be able to better support you on any issues that come up after you go live.
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    PayPal
    It is simple for a developer to do.
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    Automattic
    It was a smooth and easy implementation for us. Downloaded the add-on and made a few integrations to salesforce and shipstation and we were up and running within a day
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    Alternatives Considered
    Sage
    We evaluated Sage Intacct alongside many other options, but Blackbaud and NetSuite were the frontrunners. They all were cloud-based and capable systems, but for our team, Sage Intacct was the clearer choice for a few reasons.
    First, usability. Our team has varying levels of accounting experience, and Sage felt more intuitive across those different levels. The others could be powerful, but it also felt like it required more technical depth to navigate day-to-day, which was a concern for a small team. Second, functionality out of the box. Sage Intacct had more of what we needed built in without requiring a significant number of add-ons, which kept the solution simpler and the pricing more predictable.
    Third, nonprofit fit. Sage Intacct is purpose-built for organizations like ours, and that showed in the functionality available and the system's overall design. And finally, our implementation partner, RSM, was well-versed in Sage Intacct and gave us confidence that we would have the right support behind us. That partnership was part of the overall value of choosing Sage.
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    PayPal
    Braintree is better at handling international payments and supporting a variety of payment methods that can all be configured from the same dashboard. Braintree supports PayPal, Venmo, Apple Pay, Google Pay, etc. in addition to simply credit cards like Stripe. Braintree has a vault of existing user payment methods so the user doesn't have to re-enter their information each time.
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    Automattic
    We liked that WooCommerce Subscriptions was easier to implement, use, and (slightly) modify over Shopify's subscription model. We can implement and grow Wordpress and WooCommerce (with subscriptions) on our micro-sites fairly quickly and without much long term hassle. The UI is pretty easy to navigate, and the code is a bit simpler than Shopify's (from what we reviewed).
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    Scalability
    Sage
    You can do a lot with this system and integrate it with a lot of your additional systems you use daily.
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    PayPal
    No answers on this topic
    Automattic
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    Return on Investment
    Sage
    • Positive - It runs better than our old software when we all work together, rather than having to sign off on each other and deal with syncing issues.
    • Negative - It's not as easy to go back to fix an amount, a date, etc. Sometimes, a very small mistake needs to be corrected by voiding and redoing the entire transaction.
    • We can successfully sync other software we use with Intacct! It reduces workload when things are automated.
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    PayPal
    • Simplified billing so we spend less time on it
    • Saved $20 a month or more when compared to alternatives that have a monthly charge.
    • It gives peace of mind because we know that any service we use in the future will likely integrate with Braintree
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    Automattic
    • Increased recurring monthly/yearly revenue
    • Decreased time spent managing billing and subscriptions manually
    • Eliminated manual onboarding time, creating accounts by hand, etc.
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    ScreenShots

    Sage Intacct Screenshots

    Screenshot of Accounts Receivable: Automate accounts receivable processes.Screenshot of Revenue Recognition: Automated and compliant revenue recognition with complete support for ASC 606 and IFRS 15.Screenshot of Real-Time Reporting: Real-time reporting with up-to-minute financials across multiple business dimensions. Show only the metrics that matter based on the user viewing the dashboard.Screenshot of the times and expense management dashboard, which is customized to reflect the user's role, displaying relevant information that aligns with their position, thereby presenting each individual with the data most pertinent to their responsibilities.Screenshot of the detailed company metrics used to forecast business growth.Screenshot of the order management workflows, which are automated to accelerate quote-to-cash sales