NetSuite ERP vs. Sage 100

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
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.
$0
Per Seat per Month
Pricing
NetSuite ERPSage 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
NetSuite ERPSage 100cloud
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
NetSuite ERPSage 100
Considered Both Products
NetSuite ERP
Chose NetSuite ERP
NetSuite is a good source of information and holds its own with the other ERP systems I have used. There are some advantages and some disadvantages, but being able to grow our company using NetSuite has been very helpful and we will continue to use the software and implement …
Sage 100cloud

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Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
NetSuite ERPSage 100
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
1.1
15 Ratings
147% below category average
Sage 100
8.4
7 Ratings
15% above category average
Pay calculation1.013 Ratings8.67 Ratings
Benefit plan administration1.010 Ratings8.65 Ratings
Direct deposit files1.39 Ratings8.07 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
9.1
74 Ratings
23% above category average
Sage 100
1.0
8 Ratings
152% below category average
API for custom integration9.164 Ratings1.05 Ratings
Plug-ins9.447 Ratings1.08 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
9.1
81 Ratings
11% above category average
Sage 100
10.0
14 Ratings
21% above category average
Single sign-on capability9.262 Ratings10.014 Ratings
Role-based user permissions9.180 Ratings10.013 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
9.1
72 Ratings
27% above category average
Sage 100
7.4
16 Ratings
6% above category average
Dashboards9.171 Ratings8.610 Ratings
Standard reports9.170 Ratings8.615 Ratings
Custom reports9.170 Ratings5.014 Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
7.6
256 Ratings
0% below category average
Sage 100
7.6
16 Ratings
0% below category average
Accounts payable8.3250 Ratings9.016 Ratings
Accounts receivable8.3231 Ratings9.012 Ratings
Global Financial Support9.426 Ratings6.73 Ratings
Primary and Secondary Ledgers9.428 Ratings8.25 Ratings
Journals and Reconciliations9.041 Ratings10.06 Ratings
Configurable Accounting9.435 Ratings8.24 Ratings
Standardized Processes9.337 Ratings8.24 Ratings
Inventory Management
Comparison of Inventory Management features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
8.8
48 Ratings
11% above category average
Sage 100
7.5
10 Ratings
5% below category average
Inventory tracking9.747 Ratings8.010 Ratings
Automatic reordering8.528 Ratings6.78 Ratings
Location management9.235 Ratings6.75 Ratings
Order Management
Comparison of Order Management features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
8.7
205 Ratings
11% above category average
Sage 100
9.1
9 Ratings
16% above category average
Pricing9.153 Ratings10.09 Ratings
Order entry8.1201 Ratings10.09 Ratings
Credit card processing8.437 Ratings10.09 Ratings
Cost of goods sold8.748 Ratings10.09 Ratings
Order Orchestration9.421 Ratings8.63 Ratings
Subledger and Financial Process
Comparison of Subledger and Financial Process features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
7.3
197 Ratings
1% below category average
Sage 100
8.2
6 Ratings
10% above category average
Billing Management8.4186 Ratings8.24 Ratings
Cash and Asset Management9.327 Ratings8.25 Ratings
Travel & Expense Management8.331 Ratings8.24 Ratings
Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting8.527 Ratings8.24 Ratings
Period Close9.435 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Project Financial Management
Comparison of Project Financial Management features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
6.3
32 Ratings
19% below category average
Sage 100
8.0
5 Ratings
5% above category average
Budgeting and Forecasting5.926 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Project Costing5.823 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Cost Capture5.822 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Capital Project Management4.014 Ratings8.63 Ratings
Customer Contract Compliance9.413 Ratings7.83 Ratings
Project Revenue Recognition6.722 Ratings7.83 Ratings
Project Execution Management
Comparison of Project Execution Management features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
4.0
17 Ratings
52% below category average
Sage 100
5.0
1 Ratings
31% below category average
Project Planning and Scheduling8.514 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Task Insight for Project Managers3.311 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Project Mobile Functionality3.010 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Definable Resource Pools3.68 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Grants Management
Comparison of Grants Management features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
3.1
12 Ratings
84% below category average
Sage 100
7.0
1 Ratings
8% below category average
Award Lifecycle Management3.57 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Procurement
Comparison of Procurement features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
3.3
19 Ratings
71% below category average
Sage 100
5.0
1 Ratings
33% below category average
Bids Analyzed and Compared3.58 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Contract Authoring2.010 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Contract Repository3.58 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated3.613 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Supplier Management9.513 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Risk Management
Comparison of Risk Management features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
3.2
11 Ratings
68% below category average
Sage 100
4.4
1 Ratings
39% below category average
Risk Repository3.58 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Control Management2.011 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Control Efficiency Assessments3.57 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Issue Detection3.58 Ratings3.01 Ratings
Remediation and Certification3.58 Ratings4.01 Ratings
Logistics
Comparison of Logistics features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
3.0
17 Ratings
78% below category average
Sage 100
7.1
3 Ratings
3% above category average
Transportation Planning and Optimization2.89 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Transportation Execution Management2.88 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Trade and Customs Management2.88 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Fulfillment Management9.414 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Warehouse Workforce Management2.511 Ratings7.63 Ratings
Manufacturing
Comparison of Manufacturing features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
8.9
16 Ratings
17% above category average
Sage 100
8.2
3 Ratings
9% above category average
Production Process Design8.512 Ratings8.42 Ratings
Production Management8.514 Ratings8.43 Ratings
Configuration Management9.410 Ratings8.42 Ratings
Work Execution9.412 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Manufacturing Costs8.514 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Supply Chain
Comparison of Supply Chain features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
7.8
131 Ratings
7% above category average
Sage 100
7.8
3 Ratings
7% above category average
Forecasting7.717 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Inventory Planning7.4128 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Performance Monitoring8.514 Ratings7.63 Ratings
Product Lifecycle Management
Comparison of Product Lifecycle Management features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
3.8
13 Ratings
62% below category average
Sage 100
1.4
1 Ratings
135% below category average
Proposal Management2.610 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Product Master Data Management3.29 Ratings2.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
NetSuite ERPSage 100
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(354 ratings)
8.0
(20 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.2
(49 ratings)
7.6
(5 ratings)
Usability
8.6
(231 ratings)
9.0
(5 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(16 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(15 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
7.1
(215 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
In-Person Training
7.3
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
6.4
(10 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.4
(17 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
8.7
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.3
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.0
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
4.8
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
5.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
NetSuite ERPSage 100
Likelihood to Recommend
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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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
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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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
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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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
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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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
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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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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Reliability and Availability
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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Sage
No answers on this topic
Performance
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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Sage
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
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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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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In-Person Training
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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Sage
No answers on this topic
Online Training
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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Sage
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
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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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
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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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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Scalability
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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Sage
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
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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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

NetSuite ERP Screenshots

Screenshot of one view into the most critical business processes.Screenshot of Mobile-friendly design

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.