Sage 100cloud vs Xero

Likelihood to Recommend

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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Verified User

Manager in Manufacturing

Music Company, 51-200 employees

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Xero is well suited to my [organization] across all facets of the business. It easily handles payroll which is integrated with our Deputy account for a completely streamlined payroll process that requires very little user input. It also syncs with our point of sale, Lightspeed (Kounta) which removes any need for manual sales/revenue data entry. Managing expenses and bills to pay is also extremely easy, quick, and intuitive.

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Tom Roden

Managing Director

Exchange Specialty CoffeeHospitality, 11-50 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Sage 100cloud

Xero

Pay calculation

Benefit plan administration

Direct deposit files

Salary revision and increment management

Reimbursement management

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Xero

API for custom integration

Plug-ins

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Xero

Single sign-on capability

Role-based user permissions

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Xero

Dashboards

Standard reports

Custom reports

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Xero

Accounts payable

Accounts receivable

Global Financial Support

Primary and Secondary Ledgers

Intercompany Accounting

Localizations

Journals and Reconciliations

Enterprise Accounting

Configurable Accounting

Centralized Rules Framework

Standardized Processes

Cash management

Bank reconciliation

Expense management

Time tracking

Fixed asset management

Multi-currency support

Multi-division support

Regulations compliance

Electronic tax filing

Self-service portal

Sage 100cloud

Xero

Inventory tracking

Automatic reordering

Location management

Manufacturing module

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Xero

Pricing

Order entry

Credit card processing

Cost of goods sold

Order Orchestration

End-to-end order visibility

Order exception Resolution

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Xero

Automated Invoice Processing

Shared Services Payments

Billings Management

Customer Receipt Applications

Customer Collections

Revenue Recognition

Cash Management

Asset Management

Travel & Expense Management

Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting

Period Close

Transactions Tax

Subledger Reconciliations

3rd Party Accounting Systems

Sage 100cloud

Xero

Budgeting and Forecasting

Project Costing

Cost Capture

Capital Project Management

Customer Invoicing

Customer Contract Compliance

Project Revenue Recognition

Project Financial Performance Analysis

Project Financials Dashboard

Real-time Financial Reporting

Embedded Business Intelligence

Project Planning Collaboration

Sage 100cloud

Xero

Project Planning and Scheduling

Project Manager Dashboard

Resource Manager Dashboard

Task Insight for Project Managers

Project Manager Mobile Functionality

Team Member Task Collaboration

Team Member Mobile Functionality

Project Candidate Search

Project Candidate Comparison and Analysis

Defineable Resource Pools

Talent Profiles

Real-Time Project Reporting

Absence Management

Product Lifecycle Management

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Xero

Award Lifecycle Management

Spending Control

Indirect Cost Management

Billing

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Xero

Sourcing Team Collaboration

Sourcing Analysis

Bids Analyzed and Compared

Catalog Shopping E-Commerce for Employees

Contract Authoring

Contract Compliance Management

Contract History

Contract Renewal Automation

Contract Repository

Contract Standardization and Enforcement

Electronic Signatures

Invoice Automated Matching

Purchasing Risk and Compliance Management

Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated

Spend Compliance Management

Supplier Assessment

Supplier Communication and Collaboration

Supplier Management

Supplier Portal

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Xero

Risk Repository

Control Management

Control Mapping

Control Efficiency Assessments

Automated Control Assessments

Assessment Capture

Issue Detection

Automatic Notification

Remediation and Certification

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Xero

Transportation Planning and Optimization

Transportation Sourcing Management

Transportation Process Integration

Transportation Execution Management

Freight Payment Automation

Trade Management

Trade Regulatory Compliance Management

Customs Entry Management

Customs Document Management

Customs Document Collaboration

Fulfillment Management

Inventory Visibility

Warehouse Workforce Management

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Xero

Production Process Design

Supply Chain Business Flows

Production Management

Contracted Manufacturing Management

Configuration Management

Work Definition

Work Execution

Advanced Fulfillment

Manufacturing Costs

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Xero

Forecasting

Inventory Planning

Multi-tier Supply Chain Planning

Performance Monitoring

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Xero

Ideation Management

Requirements Management

Proposal Management

Innovation Portfolio Management

Product Master Data Management

Vendor Portal

Project Portfolio Management

Pros

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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Therese Anthony

Controller

Braeside DisplaysPlastics, 11-50 employees

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Easy to set-up/use. It took me only 15-minutes for the initial set-up.
Provide necessary integration with other applications we use. We integrate Xero with Expensify and JustWorks.
Cost-effective and therefore much cheaper than other plans out there.
Real-time link with our bank, which provides real-time account balances of what's in our bank account.
Standard reports already built-in.

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Verified User

Administrator in Finance and Accounting

Non-profit Organization Management Company, 11-50 employees

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Cons

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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Verified User

General Manager in Sales

Mining & Metals Company, 11-50 employees

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Overall it is a great platform and quite comprehensive for US based users.
However, if we focus on multinational companies that want to integrate the information of different companies in several countries within the same solution, we find the need to carry out reports outside the platform to provide the accounting structure and compliance necessary in countries outside the US.

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Manager in Professional Services

Accounting Company, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Sage 100cloud 7.6

Based on 5 answers

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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Verified User

Manager in Corporate

Computer Hardware Company, 11-50 employees

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Xero 2.1

Based on 26 answers

In addition to the matters covered in this review, my reason for renewing this product is that Xero's functionality and the constant updates that the company provides, makes the software even more business friendly. The software therefore builds a brand loyalty among customers.

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Sarang Mandke

Consultant - Cloud accounting integration, Real Time Accounting

FuturebooksAccounting, 1-10 employees

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Usability

Sage 100cloud 8.2

Based on 4 answers

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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Therese Anthony

Controller

Braeside DisplaysPlastics, 11-50 employees

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Xero 9.0

Based on 53 answers

Xero has a very clean design and a pleasant, easy-to-navigate GUI. It was immediately understandable how to reconcile book charges without a tutorial. Creating and sending invoices are fairly straight forward; and financial reports are easily customizable. Xero also has a support database that gives quick solutions to most issues.

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Verified User

Executive in Corporate

Biotechnology Company, 1-10 employees

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Reliability and Availability

No score

No answers yet

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Xero 9.0

Based on 10 answers

We have been actively using and 100% Xero based for our ecommerce accounting practice for over 4 years. There has on been one real outage for more than 5 minutes. Xero was open and transparent about the outage, what they were doing to resolve the issue, and provided 15 minute updates. Showing how they care about their customers and partners. Plus, showing that their customers care too, were understanding, and went surfing or in our case took a nap. Couldn't run our business without Xero as a partner.

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Scott Scharf

Co-Founder

Catching CloudsAccounting, 1-10 employees

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Performance

Sage 100cloud 9.1

Based on 1 answer

No answer on this topic is available.

Xero 10.0

Based on 8 answers

Pages generally load quickly, but it's a fairly common occurrence to have pages taking a bit longer than I'd like to load (as in, 4+ seconds). Occasionally I have to refresh a page to get it to work. Bank feed and integrations tend to be slow in general, but that could easily be due to API latency on the side of the other parties. Most of the time, though, the bank feeds refresh before I login so it's not a huge problem. Not necessarily good performance compared to a local app like QuickBooks desktop, but definitely good performance for a cloud application. Room for growth? yes.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Corporate

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Support Rating

Sage 100cloud 7.7

Based on 2 answers

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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Joseph Mancuso

Sage 100 ERP Consultant

CPA Technology, LLCComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Xero 4.4

Based on 19 answers

Support has always been responsive and quickly resolved any questions I have. The only reason I don't give full points is because there's no way to call for immediate help. I'm fine with this because I don't need it badly enough to pay for it

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Dave Olsen

CFO

RenewableTech VenturesVenture Capital & Private Equity, 11-50 employees

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Online Training

No score

No answers yet

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Xero 10.0

Based on 5 answers

All of Xero's training is online and available for anyone (business owner or accountants) to learn and become experts in their system. There is a range of content from product training to real world webinars from their partners. Xero is beautiful accounting software and their training is the same.

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Scott Scharf

Co-Founder

Catching CloudsAccounting, 1-10 employees

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Implementation Rating

Sage 100cloud 6.0

Based on 1 answer

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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Verified User

Manager in Corporate

Computer Hardware Company, 11-50 employees

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Xero 9.7

Based on 10 answers

If it can be done, time the implementation near a new fiscal year so you can start clean. Otherwise, you have to go back and do historical data from the beginning of the fiscal year, which can be brain draining.

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Andre Yeu

Owner / Head Trainer

When Hounds FlyConsumer Services, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

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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Brett Witzel

IT Manager

SternoCandleLampFood & Beverages, 201-500 employees

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For the purpose of which we use Xero, I have not used any alternative systems. However, for certain aspects of it such as expense management, we decided to go with Webexpenses to replace the expense management features of Xero. This was because Xero lacked the automation, control and visibility we needed to correctly manage our company's expenses.

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Verified User

Analyst in Finance and Accounting

Information Technology & Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Scalability

No score

No answers yet

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Xero 10.0

Based on 6 answers

Over 600 plus apps available for integration and easy to create standard charts of account and report templates to implement across multiple entities. Same pricing regardless of number of transactions or users. Real benefit is variety of integrated apps that allow you to automate processes and have functionality that 10 years ago was only available in ERP systems costing hundreds of thousands.

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Verified User

Partner in Finance and Accounting

Accounting Company, 1-10 employees

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Return on Investment

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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Joshua Curlett

Chief Operating Officer

Sound ProductionsRetail, 11-50 employees

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Excellent positive impact on ROI - easy to use, saves time related to bookkeeping
Improved access to financial information - excellent reports
Improved bill payment time - can easily see what bills are due and the amounts
Improved accounts receivables collection time - can easily see when invoices are coming due

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Nicola (Nicki) Morris

CEO | Management Consultant

The Neoteric GroupManagement Consulting, 1-10 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Sage 100cloud Editions & Modules

On-premise Edition

Sage 100 ERP Standard	¹
Sage 100 ERP Advanced	¹
Sage 100 ERP Premium	¹

Per Seat per Month

SaaS Edition

Sage 100 ERP Online	¹

Per User per Month

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Xero Editions & Modules

Edition

Early	$11¹
Growing	$32¹
Established	$62¹

per month

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Rating Summary

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