Sage 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.
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QuickBooks Desktop Pro
Score 8.3 out of 10
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Quickbooks Desktop Pro is accounting software from Intuit, Inc. It includes core accounting features, plus analytics and exportable reports. It is offered in on-premise and SaaS forms.
I have used some other Oracle products, I just can't remember which ones. I have used all of these products in different capacities. The Oracle products I used were used a long time ago, before cloud based accounting was a thing. So, those systems were more dated and required …
BlackLine can't support on financial activities like Sage Intacct does. Quickbooks doesn't provide the features like multi-entity & doesn't have many features which Sage Intacct has NetSuite: Complex to implement & higher price model
One of the multi-entity solution's most significant weaknesses is its inability to handle revaluations of foreign currency accounts. It needs to be manually worked out and posted, which is standard functionality in entry-level systems like Xero/Quickbooks. It has added more …
Sage Intacct is user-friendly and configurable. It is reasonably priced for a medium-sized organization that requires a system that requires more complex software than a basic accounting package.
Sage Intacct has benefits like having access to all entities at once instead of constantly logging in and out. It is also cloud-based, and multiple users can be logged in and work simultaneously. Real-time insights across multiple entities and importing multiple bills via CSV …
I did not personally have a say in switching systems/ software's, however I have been able to more effectively communicate updates that would improve our experience with Sage Intacct and feel that changes like that wouldn't be possible in QuickBooks. We could no longer …
Netsuite is not beginner friendly, Quickbooks desktop is outdated and QuickBooks Online has technical issues which would take time to be resolved. Overall Sage is easier to use and easily understandable. Help Page in the UI has most things covered to have the seamless experience
Sage Intacct has much more to offer than QuickBooks. Sage Intacct's budgeting and planning features, in addition to Fixed Assets and Inventory Control are game changers.
Quickbooks could never stack up against Sage Intacct, they're not even on the same page for what Sage Intacct offers and what Quickbooks offers. Granted, Quickbooks is a great program for simpler companies and users, but for what we need and use it for, there's no comparison …
Sage Intacct performs well compared to other products that I have used. It is more robust than QuickBooks and much more user friendly than Open Systems. It performs very similarly to NetSuite with it's features and reporting. None of the other products I have used at the time …
I believe the company chose Sage Intacct because it was the best option at the time and would provide all the features needed to run a regional charter school program across multiple school locations. It also was compatible with Bill.com.
I prefer intacct to any version of quickbooks because it simplifies every process and helps to avoid mistakes. QBO has lots of features that are confusing and requires skills that don't come naturally to accountants. QBD is better, but it still can't pull reports according to …
Sage Intacct is far more robust and offers so many more options. My favorite thing about Sage Intacct is the financial reporting capabilities and the ability to make your own reporting. It is easy to learn and quick to set up new reports. There are many reports available but …
I received QuickBooks Pro as part of my franchise start-up. It was not a critical element for the operations of the business. I had come across Intacct through the AICPA, and noticed their affiliation. I am separately working with a new business start-up, and like the fact that …
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Other than industry specific software, we don't see any major desk top competitors. Online is different - that is still being sorted out. QuickBooks is much cheaper than Intacct.
QuickBooks Pro is much more user friendly and easy to navigate. The organization of QuickBooks Pro is easy to get used to and things are where you would expect them to be located. The home screen on QuickBooks Pro is convenient and easy to customize. The help menu on QuickBooks …
It is well-suited for nonprofit accounting with its ability to track expenses and revenues by both department and funding source. It is easy to set up vendors and customers for invoices and bill payments. It is less appropriate for proper budget management and purchasing with multiple approvers, particularly when edits are required.
For a small business, QuickBooks Desktop Pro is great! For a larger, more complex business, another system may be more beneficial. We actually run multiple businesses on QuickBooks Desktop Pro, but all are very small. The help feature is sometimes so beneficial, and sometimes it seems like you just can't get the right answer and need to find a workaround - but this is usually for more complex issues.
Custom, real-time financial reporting. I am able to streamline my reporting to pull in various account groups and calculations which save me time from having to do it in Excel.
Out of the box standard reports for clients who don't require as custom of reporting or even as a great starting point to build out reports.
Integrations with other platforms, such as Airbase, various banks, Rippling, etc.
The dashboard module is extremely helpful in my monthly review of various entities.
QuickBooks Desktop Pro has been around for a few years and after an update[,] they force you to look at the changes/updates before you can use [them] after updating.
QuickBooks Desktop Pro does not have 2FA.
QuickBooks Desktop Pro should offer a way to store backups to a personal cloud without having to map a local network drive.
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.
I'd love to keep using it, and do intend to - though we've not been pleased with price increases over the past several years. In fact, we used to subscribe to the payroll service, but QuickBooks priced themselves out of reach for us, so we discontinued that. Currently, pricing would be the primary reason for NOT renewing, if we didn't.
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.
The set up was quite easy. I took some online training causes, and figured our the rest pretty quickly. The only issue I had during the implementation process was it was very hard to change some of the GL Account name to reflect the needs of a non-profit organization, such as Net Assets. At the end I had to scratch what I did, and used the existing formats that the third-party bookkeeping firm shared. Everything else is simple and easy to manage and implement.
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.
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.
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.
They are awful. Intuit doesn't spend real money on support. They appear to have typically said, first-level script readers who are sending messages to the senior people for anything even a little bit difficult. Many of them don't speak particularly good English. Considering that they recently doubled (or, if you are paying annually, tripled) their pricing, and touted as one of the benefits that it includes [..] support, it's a real ripoff. However, we have to use the product because it is ubiquitous. I look forward to the day a competitor comes up with something good enough, which has excellent support, that matches all the features QuickBooks Desktop Pro currently has [...] or at least gives us a way to have all the functionality we currently have without excessive sacrifice [...] so that we can switch. I was very satisfied with QuickBooks for many years. This latest [rise] in price, and their sheer gall at touting the benefit of the 100 to 200% increase as being [the] inclusion of support, is what turned me so far against them.
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.
Best thing I ever did was to attend a two day training seminar on QuickBooks, I learned an immense amount in a short time with hands on training by experts. I strongly recommend such training for anyone using any part of the software. It will pay for itself in the first month.
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.
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.
We implemented the software ourselves. The training we received on the software was done by taking a community course teaching us how to use QuickBooks. It allowed me to get started with some basics of how to use the program and have not needed much assistance since completing the course work.
As a CPA in public accounting, I was exposed to many systems. I was in on the ground floor with the implementation of NetSuite for a client; it was clunky, the reporting was ugly, and it wasn’t user friendly. Sage Intacct is a great option for mid-size organizations who have outgrown Quickbooks.
We tried switching from QuickBooks Desktop Pro to QuickBooks Online, but there were a lot of issues and bugs so we ultimately decided to stay with Desktop Pro. Unfortunately, we are losing a lot of Online Banking capabilities on 5/31 as we have an older version of QB, but we plan to stick with Desktop Pro. In terms of invoicing, SaaSOptics beats QuickBooks in almost all aspects as it's all automated and takes seconds to create and send invoices. However, SaaSOptics is not really a full ERP program so it wouldn't serve us as a main bookkeeping software like QB.
Sage Intacct has made a very positive impact to our business objectives; it has provided strong ROI through automation features that reduce manual data input and associated risk of error, enhancing accuracy and operational efficiency.
It empowers us to make data-driven decisions that further refine our strategic plan by bettering the process of financial close with real-time and detailed reporting.
This also extends to multi-entity management, which eased consolidation and thus supported growth and scaling. This feature-rich software finally serves to drive productivity further and facilitate resource usage.
