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Microsoft Dynamics GP

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What is Microsoft Dynamics GP?

Microsoft Dynamics GP is an ERP software with accounting capabilities. It includes various packs for customizability and features tailored to specific industries’ needs. GP is offered as a perpetual license or subscription.

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What is Microsoft Dynamics GP?

Microsoft Dynamics GP is an ERP software with accounting capabilities. It includes various packs for customizability and features tailored to specific industries’ needs. GP is offered as a perpetual license or subscription.

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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.

6.8
Avg 7.5

Customization

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

7
Avg 7.7

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 8.2

Reporting & Analytics

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

6
Avg 7.8

General Ledger and Configurable Accounting

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

6.4
Avg 7.6

Inventory Management

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

7.8
Avg 7.5

Order Management

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

5.5
Avg 7.6
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Product Details

What is Microsoft Dynamics GP?

Microsoft Dynamics GP is an Enterprise Resource Planning and accounting software. It includes financial management and accounting, HR and payroll, business intelligence and analytics, and reporting capabilities. The Extended Pack also has inventory management and specific capabilities for certain industries, such as professional services and construction. The Customization pack includes built-in tools for integration with other products and applications, such as exporting to Excel. The Extended Human Resources and Payroll pack features greater flexibility for managing employees in the U.S. GP is offered as a perpetual license or subscription.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Microsoft Dynamics GP is an ERP software with accounting capabilities. It includes various packs for customizability and features tailored to specific industries’ needs. GP is offered as a perpetual license or subscription.

NetSuite ERP, Sage 300, and Sage Intacct are common alternatives for Microsoft Dynamics GP.

Reviewers rate Role-based user permissions and Inventory tracking and Manufacturing module highest, with a score of 8.9.

The most common users of Microsoft Dynamics GP are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Microsoft Dynamics GP - Improved information

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 24, 2017
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Dynamics GP
4 years of experience
MS Dynamics is primarily used by the accounting department. It is a huge upgrade from our previous Green Screen DOS based software. Smartlist and the Excel button are some of our favorite features.
  • Get information out though Smart List -- super easy.
  • Import large data such as purchase card detail.
  • Copy and paste short journal entries.
Cons
  • Sometimes system gets hung up and takes a while to troubleshoot.
Microsoft Dynamics GP is well suited for a medium sized company. It can handle multiple companies and large amounts of journal entries and reporting. It is easy to export information and send to a requestor.

Microsoft Dynamics GP is not my first choice

Rating: 5 out of 10
April 12, 2018
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Dynamics GP
4 years of experience
Microsoft Dynamics GP (MDGP) is being directly used by our accounting department for all our financial reporting. MDGP is being indirectly used by our Parts Department, Sales Department, and HR Department by having the information flow through exports into GP for all costing and customer billing purposes. I use it to input journal entries for payroll and journal entries for project costing twice weekly.
  • It doesn't allow for easy access as it has restrictions placed on users. This allows for inputted information to retain it's integrity.
  • It can be scheduled to import or export information from other systems cutting down on time spent configuring data.
Cons
  • It is not very user-friendly.
  • Very costly especially for customer support.
  • Processes are complex with too many steps for completion.
MDGP is well suited for accounting purposes. It is not suitable for payroll.

Considering Microsoft Dynamics for your distribution business?

Rating: 7 out of 10
May 18, 2015
BP
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Dynamics GP
6 years of experience
It is used for GL and AR & AP. A third party module is used for advanced planning and inventory management.
  • Simplicity of exporting smartlists directly to Excel in order to quickly analyze data
  • Ability to quickly import large journal entries as well as other data using integration manager
  • Printable manuals make it easy when you want to look for how to do something specific
Cons
  • Reporting and the ability to export reports to Excel; like a historical AP or AR aging; inventory reports
  • Regarding inventory management GP is only adequate to support a distribution type of business or the most basic high level manufacturing
  • It cannot be used in an advanced manufacturing environment; our company currently uses a third party inventory and planning module and will be searching for a replacement; as controller of the company I cannot defend the opinions from our Operations group that GP cannot handle our business without requiring a third party interface
Microsoft Dynamics GP is very well suited for distribution but it cannot be a solution for complex manufacturing.

GP good for the user and the systems Integrator

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 08, 2015
JG
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Dynamics GP
9 years of experience
Dynamics GP is currently being used by our comapny as the the Accounting, Finance and Logistics teams. It provides a common tool that can be used across multiple departments. Its easy to use and provides many ways to integrate with the company's ERP system. We also use the Analytic Cubes, Management Reporter along with the out of the box SSRS reports for reporting.
  • The Inventory module integrates smoothly with the Accounting module. Along with the our third party Logistics addin, we can use handheld scanners to maintain our inventory.
  • Writing reports for use within GP is easy. I have written reports and published to GP within 30 minutes
  • The econnect API is easy and straight forward. We use it for many custom integrations such as automatic Invoice and Payables document generation.
Cons
  • More out of box reports that can be exported to excel in tabular form. There are to many text based reports that even though they can be exported to excel, are still not in a form that allows easy used.
  • Easier setup of the Web Services,
  • More workflow capabilities
Out of the box, GP offers a solution that can be used by many of the internal functionality groups. This includes logistics, Payables, Collections, Receivables and Purchasing. When you add the ability to drop third party tools into GP, you now have a flexible application that can be extended well beyond its original boundaries.

Chief Financial Officer

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 11, 2015
CS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Dynamics GP
8 years of experience
We used Microsoft Dynamic GP to process our payables, track our expenses by entity, and run monthly and annual financial reports. We have eight different Tax IDs and eight different bank accounts which require us to have separate, distinct sets of books. GP is a great, easy-to-use tool that helps us keep track of each of our entities and run complete sets of financials for each one. We also have some very complicated allocations we have to do for our leasing company. This requires us to set up allocation accounts so each expense only has to be entered once, and the system will do the allocations behind the scenes. I've worked with several other GL packages, including QuickBooks, and none of them had the ability to perform complicated allocations.
  • FRx is a very simple third party report writer that makes report running so easy and straight forward. But it can also use more advanced features such as reporting trees so multiple sets of financials can be chained together.
  • The allocation accounts are a great feature of GP. It makes the process of allocating salaries and other expenses when necessary a breeze. If your organization does any type of expense sharing across entities, departments, etc, consider using GP to do that.
  • Overall ease of use. I absolutely love GP. I am a Microsoft Certified Professional in Version 9. It is very intuitive, extremely easy to navigate, simple to set up, and easy to maintain. It has great reporting features, has a simple budget import/export feature, and is truly the best GL package on the market.
Cons
  • With respect to the allocations, once the expense is entered into the allocation account, you lose the ability to run any detail on just the total of the expense. It would be nice if you could run a trial balance on the allocation accounts the same way you can with regular accounts.
  • I've always thought security set up could be a bit simpler. It actually has gotten better through the years. Specifically, with eight separate entities, it would be nice to have a "master" setup where you could call up one group entity, assign the users rights, and then be finished. Currently, whenever I have a new user, I have to call up each individual entity and select all of the features I want the user to have. That means I have to do eight steps for each user.
I love GP. I have for years. I've been a GP consultant, and have been a user for eight years. Before making the decision to select an accounting package, ask such questions as: What types of financial statements do I want? How detailed do I want them? Do I want to create separate entities or will departments work? GP has a very simplistic, onboard report writer. But if you need the ability to customize your reports, you should consider FRx. I believe FRx may be called something different now. It has a very advanced set of allocation accounts that I highly recommend to anyone that has to allocate expenses.
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