Sage 100 vs. Sage 50cloud Accounting

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
Sage 50cloud Accounting
Score 7.7 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Sage 50cloud Accounting (formerly Sage 50 Accounting) is accounting software designed for small businesses. Sage 50cloud Accounting (formerly Sage 50, and formerly Peachtree) lets businesses invoice customers, pay bills, manage inventory, control costs, and pay employees. The solution includes high-level dashboards and in-depth reports.
$299
per year
Pricing
Sage 100Sage 50cloud Accounting
Editions & Modules
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
Sage 50 Pro Accounting
$299
per year
Sage 50 Premium Accounting
$449
per year
Sage 50 Quantum Accounting 3 User
Starting at $1,499
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Sage 100cloudSage 50cloud Accounting
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsAnnual traditional plan with license, monthly, and annual subscription plans available.
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Community Pulse
Sage 100Sage 50cloud Accounting
Considered Both Products
Sage 100cloud
Chose Sage 100
I didn't choose Sage 100 ERP -- it was already in use when I started at the organization over five years ago. It has the same types of pros and cons as other big hulking software suites meant to power the infrastructure of corporations. It's slow, tough to customize, and …
Chose Sage 100
All three products are very good, but at some point reach their limits and Sage 100 ERP becomes a very good, easy to use, cost effective solutions. It is also more secure than QuickBooks or Sage 50.
Sage 50cloud Accounting
Chose Sage 50cloud Accounting
I have used mainframe type programs with more bells and whistles than Sage 50. For what we do, that expensive software is a waste of money. Sage 50 is a solid program. I have used QuickBooks and they have online software that is an advantage. But it's not as good in ways an …
Chose Sage 50cloud Accounting
Sage One and QuickBooks Online can only support a micro-business. Microsoft Dynamics is too hard to use. Sage 50 is just right. Sage 100 is the big brother for the larger business needing more depth in the modules.
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Sage 100Sage 50cloud Accounting
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Sage 100
8.4
7 Ratings
15% above category average
Sage 50cloud Accounting
9.0
14 Ratings
18% above category average
Pay calculation8.67 Ratings9.014 Ratings
Benefit plan administration8.65 Ratings9.011 Ratings
Direct deposit files8.07 Ratings9.011 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management00 Ratings9.013 Ratings
Reimbursement management00 Ratings9.013 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Sage 100
1.0
8 Ratings
152% below category average
Sage 50cloud Accounting
9.0
10 Ratings
24% above category average
API for custom integration1.05 Ratings9.08 Ratings
Plug-ins1.08 Ratings9.09 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Sage 100
10.0
14 Ratings
21% above category average
Sage 50cloud Accounting
9.0
19 Ratings
14% above category average
Single sign-on capability10.014 Ratings9.017 Ratings
Role-based user permissions10.013 Ratings9.017 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Sage 100
7.4
16 Ratings
6% above category average
Sage 50cloud Accounting
9.0
21 Ratings
17% above category average
Dashboards8.610 Ratings9.020 Ratings
Standard reports8.615 Ratings9.021 Ratings
Custom reports5.014 Ratings9.020 Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Product A and Product B
Sage 100
7.6
16 Ratings
0% below category average
Sage 50cloud Accounting
8.7
24 Ratings
16% above category average
Accounts payable9.016 Ratings9.023 Ratings
Accounts receivable9.012 Ratings9.022 Ratings
Global Financial Support6.73 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Primary and Secondary Ledgers8.25 Ratings7.05 Ratings
Journals and Reconciliations10.06 Ratings9.011 Ratings
Configurable Accounting8.24 Ratings9.06 Ratings
Standardized Processes8.24 Ratings9.09 Ratings
Cash management00 Ratings9.022 Ratings
Bank reconciliation00 Ratings9.022 Ratings
Expense management00 Ratings9.022 Ratings
Time tracking00 Ratings9.012 Ratings
Fixed asset management00 Ratings9.013 Ratings
Multi-currency support00 Ratings8.910 Ratings
Multi-division support00 Ratings9.010 Ratings
Regulations compliance00 Ratings9.09 Ratings
Electronic tax filing00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
Self-service portal00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
Intercompany Accounting00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
Localizations00 Ratings7.05 Ratings
Enterprise Accounting00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
Centralized Rules Framework00 Ratings7.44 Ratings
Inventory Management
Comparison of Inventory Management features of Product A and Product B
Sage 100
7.5
10 Ratings
5% below category average
Sage 50cloud Accounting
9.0
16 Ratings
25% above category average
Inventory tracking8.010 Ratings9.016 Ratings
Automatic reordering6.78 Ratings9.010 Ratings
Location management6.75 Ratings9.07 Ratings
Manufacturing module00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
Order Management
Comparison of Order Management features of Product A and Product B
Sage 100
9.1
9 Ratings
16% above category average
Sage 50cloud Accounting
8.4
17 Ratings
12% above category average
Pricing10.09 Ratings9.014 Ratings
Order entry10.09 Ratings9.016 Ratings
Credit card processing10.09 Ratings9.011 Ratings
Cost of goods sold10.09 Ratings9.015 Ratings
Order Orchestration8.63 Ratings7.85 Ratings
End-to-end order visibility00 Ratings7.45 Ratings
Order exception Resolution00 Ratings7.85 Ratings
Subledger and Financial Process
Comparison of Subledger and Financial Process features of Product A and Product B
Sage 100
8.2
6 Ratings
10% above category average
Sage 50cloud Accounting
-
Ratings
Billing Management8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
Cash and Asset Management8.25 Ratings00 Ratings
Travel & Expense Management8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
Period Close10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Financial Management
Comparison of Project Financial Management features of Product A and Product B
Sage 100
8.0
5 Ratings
5% above category average
Sage 50cloud Accounting
-
Ratings
Budgeting and Forecasting9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Costing9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Cost Capture8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Capital Project Management8.63 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer Contract Compliance7.83 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Revenue Recognition7.83 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Execution Management
Comparison of Project Execution Management features of Product A and Product B
Sage 100
5.0
1 Ratings
31% below category average
Sage 50cloud Accounting
-
Ratings
Project Planning and Scheduling5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Task Insight for Project Managers5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Mobile Functionality5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Definable Resource Pools5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Grants Management
Comparison of Grants Management features of Product A and Product B
Sage 100
7.0
1 Ratings
8% below category average
Sage 50cloud Accounting
-
Ratings
Award Lifecycle Management7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Procurement
Comparison of Procurement features of Product A and Product B
Sage 100
5.0
1 Ratings
33% below category average
Sage 50cloud Accounting
-
Ratings
Bids Analyzed and Compared5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract Authoring5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract Repository5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Supplier Management5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Risk Management
Comparison of Risk Management features of Product A and Product B
Sage 100
4.4
1 Ratings
39% below category average
Sage 50cloud Accounting
-
Ratings
Risk Repository5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Control Management5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Control Efficiency Assessments5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue Detection3.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Remediation and Certification4.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Logistics
Comparison of Logistics features of Product A and Product B
Sage 100
7.1
3 Ratings
3% above category average
Sage 50cloud Accounting
-
Ratings
Transportation Planning and Optimization7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Transportation Execution Management7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Trade and Customs Management7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Fulfillment Management7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Warehouse Workforce Management7.63 Ratings00 Ratings
Manufacturing
Comparison of Manufacturing features of Product A and Product B
Sage 100
8.2
3 Ratings
9% above category average
Sage 50cloud Accounting
-
Ratings
Production Process Design8.42 Ratings00 Ratings
Production Management8.43 Ratings00 Ratings
Configuration Management8.42 Ratings00 Ratings
Work Execution8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Manufacturing Costs8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Supply Chain
Comparison of Supply Chain features of Product A and Product B
Sage 100
7.8
3 Ratings
7% above category average
Sage 50cloud Accounting
-
Ratings
Forecasting8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Inventory Planning8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance Monitoring7.63 Ratings00 Ratings
Product Lifecycle Management
Comparison of Product Lifecycle Management features of Product A and Product B
Sage 100
1.4
1 Ratings
135% below category average
Sage 50cloud Accounting
-
Ratings
Proposal Management1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Product Master Data Management2.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Sage 100Sage 50cloud Accounting
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(20 ratings)
9.0
(34 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.6
(5 ratings)
9.6
(12 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(5 ratings)
10.0
(8 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(3 ratings)
10.0
(7 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(4 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Sage 100Sage 50cloud Accounting
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Sage
Sage is great for portability and exchange with external accountants as it is widely used and people will be able to read your data in. It's a very good and complete solution for a little business where one person can handle all of the accounting. I doubt that it scales well to large companies with several in-house accountants working at the same time.
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Pros
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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Sage
  • It has the capability of "Single Click" processes that allows you to turn Quotes into orders, instant invoicing and track A/R in the Order Screen
  • I can email Sales Orders directly to my Customer and also remind them of past due from a single screen. I can track Project, Closeouts, Over Seas order by setting up Jobs and clicking the job name in Order Entry.
  • You can use recurring entries and copy and paste on the P&L, using masking for department reporting and budgeting
  • You can use the BI feature and export into Excel in Pivot format and utilize Timeline and Slicer to see the company overall performance by months, day or years
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Cons
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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Sage
  • Sage 50 could use some improvement in the Invoicing Module to allow for more flexibility in the design of the Invoice fields. The report customization tools could use some upgrading for easier use.
  • Fixed assets management module needs to be included with unlimited number of fixed assets.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Sage
I use this rating simply because I have a thriving Sage 50 consulting practice and will continue to keep my expertise in the product. I have consulted on both Sage 50 and QuickBooks for over 25 years so I have to maintain expertise in the solution as well as accounting and verticals.
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Usability
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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Sage
Sage delivers what it promises. The whole accounting package is user friendly and can be easily picked up by a novice. The support is second to none. They always keep us abreast of new technologies and/or changes to accounting that would impact us. The range of reports fits both small and large companies.,
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Support Rating
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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Sage
Although I have only needed to call tech support on three occasions through out the entire time of usage, each time my problem was quickly resolved by people who were obviously well trained and easy to understand. Sage 50 Premium Accounting is a reliable and "bug-free" product that is regularly improved upon.
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Implementation Rating
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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Sage
Sage 50 is a strong accounting software package. It will work efficiently if it is installed correctly. If one puts garbage in, one will get garbage out. Also it is important to train the staff to use Sage 50 properly. It is also important to set up security for each user.
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Alternatives Considered
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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Sage
As we did the conversion almost 10 years ago it is hard to answer this question. At the time it was the ease of being able to produce both cash and accrual financial statements and reporting that led us to pick Sage
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Scalability
Sage
No answers on this topic
Sage
I define scalable from two perspectives; 1) the scalability to handle more bookkeepers/accountants using the product, and 2) the scalability to handle increasing customer/vendor/employee and transactional data. Sage 50 does a good job on both fronts. From the single users operating a micro-business accounting for customer invoices and bill payments only, to the multi-staff, multi-location, multi-departmental complex transactional operation. Although Sage 50 is quite expensive for that smallest user, it is quite inexpensive for the larger business entity. So, for the new enterprise expecting rapid growth, Sage 50 is the application of choice.
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Return on Investment
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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Sage
  • Sage definitely needs to do a better job with customer service. I have had to use them only a handful of times and it was not a great experience but not the worse I've seen. They didn't make us a priority and I felt that they didn't have a sense of urgency. They did address my lack of satisfaction and I can see that they are at least aware of the issues and they are trying to correct them.
  • Sage is exactly what we need in my current organization and I wouldn't change it for another system. I have used quite a few in my lifetime and I would say that it fits our needs.
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ScreenShots

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.