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Certinia ERP Cloud

Certinia ERP Cloud
Formerly FinancialForce ERP Cloud

Overview

What is Certinia ERP Cloud?

Certinia ERP Cloud automates financial management on the Salesforce platform. The customer-centric ERP software includes a general ledger, automated billing processes, and financial intelligence.

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What is Certinia ERP Cloud?

Certinia ERP Cloud automates financial management on the Salesforce platform. The customer-centric ERP software includes a general ledger, automated billing processes, and financial intelligence.

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  • No setup fee

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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Features

Payroll Management

Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.

8.4
Avg 7.1

Customization

This addresses a company’s ability to configure the software to fit its specific use case and workflow.

8.4
Avg 7.3

Security

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

8.4
Avg 8.0

Reporting & Analytics

Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.

7.9
Avg 7.0

General Ledger and Configurable Accounting

Financial management solution, including capabilities for general ledger and configurable accounting

7.9
Avg 7.6

Inventory Management

The ability to track and manage the flow of goods or materials into and out of an inventory.

10
Avg 7.8

Order Management

The ability to process orders, and track them from quote to cash.

8.1
Avg 7.7

Subledger and Financial Process

Revenue management solution including capabilities for subledgers and financial processes

8.7
Avg 7.4

Project Financial Management

Project financial management solution including capabilities for project budgeting, cost control, billing and contract management.

9.3
Avg 7.6

Project Execution Management

Project execution management solution including capabilities for project scheduling, resource management, and team member task management.

8.2
Avg 6.8
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Product Details

What is Certinia ERP Cloud?

Certinia ERP Cloud (formerly FinancialForce ERP Cloud) automates financial management on the Salesforce platform. The customer-centric ERP cloud software includes a general ledger, automated billing processes, and financial intelligence.

Certinia ERP Cloud Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
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Frequently Asked Questions

Certinia ERP Cloud automates financial management on the Salesforce platform. The customer-centric ERP software includes a general ledger, automated billing processes, and financial intelligence.

Sage Intacct, NetSuite ERP, and QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise are common alternatives for Certinia ERP Cloud.

Reviewers rate Inventory tracking and Automatic reordering and Location management highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Certinia ERP Cloud are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Leaves Some Functionality to be Desired

Rating: 6 out of 10
January 07, 2022
DB
Vetted Review
Verified User
Certinia ERP Cloud
1 year of experience
FinancialForce Subscription & Usage Billing brings the ability to manage high numbers of active subscribers to our television service as well as auto-bill monthly and integrate with our other systems. While it's helpful in its integration with SF and our CRM, it also leaves some usability and functionality to be desired.
  • Contracts
  • Sales Invoices
  • Integration with Salesforce
Cons
  • Ease of use
  • Clearer defined terms inside of specific features
  • Constant errors
It works for our team due to the fact we manage a high number of customers who all subscribe to a service and need to be auto-billed monthly on a contract-style basis. This type of billing service would not be well suited for a company that has a small number of customers or a company that has a one-time transaction instead of auto-billing.

New FinancialForce implementation

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 13, 2019
Vetted Review
Verified User
Certinia ERP Cloud
1 year of experience
We were using NetSuite as an ERP and it was clunky. We wanted a modern system that integrated well with our current CRM, Salesforce. FinancialForce ERP looks to the average user that this is just part of Salesforce and native to the system. This allowed us to have adoption to the system rather quickly.
  • Resource planning.
  • Hours tracking.
Cons
  • It might have been the implementation but it causes some apex errors.
  • Default fields are not enough. We need to customize which we'd rather not do.
I think it is well suited for our current process which involves project management for our services teams which includes implementation and customization. We have found that this has greater flexibility to our overall team as it is easier to add required fields in Salesforce than to request it from NetSuite since we do not currently have a NetSuite administrator.

Accounting in the cloud

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 30, 2019
Vetted Review
Verified User
Certinia ERP Cloud
3 years of experience
The Accounting and Finance department uses FinancialForce Accounting (FFA) for A/P and general ledger transactions. Our entire organization uses Salesforce as our CRM so this allows for interaction between the systems. We were able to automate A/P and allow outside departments to access vendor and A/P information. We have created dashboards and reports of financial information that can be shared with other departments.
  • User interface is more modern and user-friendly than other software
  • Dashboards allow for good visual interpretation
  • Reports are able to be customized to better fit users' needs
Cons
  • Financial reporting could be easier to use
  • More out-of-box reports for standard reconciliations (bank rec, aging, etc.)
  • Some of the processes are time-consuming (running an aging, cash matching, printing checks)
FFA is a good product if you want the ability to customize functionality and reporting. However, all the setup can be overwhelming if you are looking for an out-of-the-box solution. FFA is a great choice is you are already using Salesforce and want to report on KPIs directly from the source data. There are a lot of applications to help you feed data into the system or export it out in a usable format.

FinancialForce -- For a growing small company

Rating: 5 out of 10
July 27, 2019
Vetted Review
Verified User
Certinia ERP Cloud
3 years of experience
FinancialForce is being used as our accounting system. We integrated it with SalesForce, but only the accounting department is using FinancialForce. It helps us in recording transactions and creating a trial balance, for which we are able to build financial statements in excel. We have other in-house development to help us auto-bill the invoices generated from FinancialForce.
  • FinancialForce has a very familiar user interface if you have experience using SalesForce. Since it's built on top of the SalesForce UI, it doesn't take long for people to learn to navigate around. This helps when onboarding new employees.
  • There is a lot of customization available. Since SalesForce is highly customizable, so is FinancialForce. This will help if you have an in-house developer that can tailor to whatever specific business need your company has. This pertains to layouts or reports that are being built.
  • It has better scalability than QuickBooks.
Cons
  • Since SalesForce was not made with accounting in mind, building FinancialForce as a module on top of SalesForce gives problems because the overarching architect of SalesForce cannot facilitate all the accounting requirements.
  • The FinancialForce integration team was not very good, and did not help us set up our FinancialForce very well. Their customer support is also lacking and takes a long time to respond and troubleshoot our problems.
  • FinancialForce doesn't actually build financial statement reports. We were only able to run a trial balance, and we had to build the statements ourselves in Excel.
It is good for a small business starting their growth phase. Quickbooks is not very good scaling from a small company to a midsized company. If your company does not have the resources to invest in NetSuite, FinancialForce may be a better option. If your business is not a subscription business, FinancialForce will be easier to manage.

FFA Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 01, 2019
Vetted Review
Verified User
Certinia ERP Cloud
1 year of experience
FinancialForce is being used mainly within the Finance & Accounting department, but its functions are well-recognized across the company. It addresses problems in multiple areas such as Payables and Receivables, Reporting, Data Analysis, and other functions.
  • Comprehensive spreadsheets and dashboards with filtering functions.
  • Ease of file upload and conversion to and from Excel.
  • The overall spread of the homepage makes for easy access to whatever information you're looking for.
  • I believe FFA has a tremendous ability to data easy to access by all departments, but also is complex enough to retrieve specific data that is needed.
Cons
  • I am a full supporter of FFA.
More appropriate - Payables & Receivables, Reporting. Less appropriate - Document library containing multiple departments' files.
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