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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 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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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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The most common users of Microsoft Dynamics GP are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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August 12, 2019
Dynamics GP - Manufacturing and Back Office, MRP
Dynamics GP is the ERP/MRP solution for a client with over 100 employees and 25 GP users. We use the Manufacturing module in addition to the Sales, Inventory, and back office functions. It is the accounting program for the whole company, and as a manufacturer it is responsible for bills of materials, logistics, planning, ordering, and general ledger.
- Great Plains started as back office/accounting, and that is still it's strong suit.
- SQL and the GP programming language, Dexterity, provide a robust, scalable, and stable platform with well documented maintenance and repair procedures. Relatively easy to manage, tune, and support.
- Microsoft support for GP verges on "particularly well". Doesn't quite get there but good enough once you know what you're doing
- Strong partner network, including the GP User Group (GPUG)
- Number of windows required for some functions- lots of clicking
- Complex interface for users who work in different modules
- Communication from Microsoft about future of GP as they continue to promote Business Central and Dynamics 365- confusion and concern among users and partners about how long GP will get first-level support and development.
- The web client flat-out sucks, you will need RDS or Citrix to support remote users. If you stick with desktop clients it enormously increases your workload as every update requires you update every client. RDS is the way to go just to simplify the update procedure, but RDS is an additional licensing and support cost. Still more cost effective to not use the desktop client.
- Reporting- you will almost certainly have to get a third-party reporting program- Management Reporter is complex and squirrely, the built-in Report Writer is a nightmare to work with. Word Templates work well but aren't user-friendly and because they get all their data from Report Writer sometimes just doing a simple change requires a lot of skill and time.
July 12, 2019
Dynamics GP Can Be a Useful Accounting/GL Solution
Our company started to use Dynamics GP as a supplemental General Ledger software to coincide with our POS software Horizon Retail Solutions. We had a nightly feed sent from Horizion into Dynamics GP to track our accounting in our general ledger. Unfortunately, Horizon did not have a complete set of journal entries, so we have moved on from Horizon and Dynamics GP. Currently we are still paying license fees to have access to historical GL detail, but we will probably not continue that indefinitely.
- As it's a Microsoft product, it's integrated closely with Excel. Every report can be easily exported to Excel.
- Dynamics GP has a broad suite of options. You can use it as a complete ERP system if desired.
- Lots of programs have native integration with Dynamics GP.
- There's initially a high learning curve for the software. The user interface is not very intuitive.
- I recommend hiring a consultant to help with integration and ongoing services. It's not a stand-alone product.
Microsoft Dynamics GP is currently being used as the main inventory control, as well as A/P, A/R and all financial records for two of our sister companies in two different countries. The software may have a few shortcomings, but so far it has been able to keep up with most of our needs on the areas described above, until now.
- Flexible reporting of all departments with Smartlist.
- Good A/R interface.
- Good A/P interface.
- Intuitive and very user friendly, for the most part.
- Inventory control and storage.
- Lot tracking of previous sales.
- Better integration with other software.
It is being used across the whole organization—HR module, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Accounting/Finance, Management Reporter, etc.
- It integrates really well with other software products such as CRM, Qlik Views, etc.
- It has the ability to process a high volume of data, which can then be pulled up in useful reports through Smartlist or Management Reporter.
- It makes processing a high volume of data easier through import templates and API/integration connectors to other programs.
- From an audit perspective, it would be useful to be able to drill down from batches to individual transactions on all levels—especially sales postings. This is a large limitation with GP.
March 01, 2019
Sturdy General Ledger
Microsoft Dynamics GP is used SOLELY by my company's accounting department. We primarily utilize the software's general ledger function/capabilities. Additionally, we utilize the purchasing/AP, fixed assets, bank reconciliation, and other modules. We leverage the solution in populating/maintaining our books (accounting) for our entire company. Similar to other general ledgers, MS Dynamics GP allows us to customize our chart of accounts to fit our business needs. Note, the software offers many modules that were are not currently using.
- The solution we use is housed on our internal servers. As a result, we are capable of accessing the underlying tables via MS SQL Server. This allows us increased visibility to the data we have populated over the years.
- I doubt this sets MS Dynamics GP apart from competitors, but the ability to "batch" journal entries for approval is very easy and straight forward.
- Our independent consultants were able to build a "paste from MS Excel" integration, which we use to easily populate journal entries.
- If there are ever any network "hang ups" during the posting of batches/journal entries, the system has safeguards in place to ensure that your books aren't sacrificed.
- The Smartlist function is an easy way to build ad hoc reports.
- The fact that the software is housed on internal servers could be seen as a "con". These days, moving to cloud-based solutions feels like the right move.
- The reporting feature could use some updating.
- Not sure if this is due to outside influences (our network), but the solution can run rather slow at times. It feels like it is slowed down the most when all users are currently active. Once again, this may be of no fault to MS Dynamics GP.
- The ability to troubleshoot issues usually requires help from COSTLY independent consultants.
February 11, 2019
Dynamics GP for Lease Accounting
Dynamics GP is currently being used by a few people in our organization to track the accounting for our business. It does a great job of recording leasing, repossession, and sales, along with our payroll and organizational expenses. Through the use of third-party software, we are able to integrate it into our leasing software and it does most of the accounting work for us.
- Integration with other products.
- Recording of leasing, repossession, and sales transactions.
- I have not used a lot of accounting software in the past, just QuickBooks years ago, so as far as my knowledge goes is it easy enough to use and does the job it is intended to do.
February 19, 2018
GP is Generally Passable ;)
We use GP to manage our GL, AR and AP. We don't use it to its full potential as we use a home-brewed system to do our invoicing, which integrates to GP. We are currently looking to use it more fully to solve some problems (spreadsheets!) that we are facing.
- Generally things flow pretty logically - if you don't have previous experience with GP you can figure it out.
- Rock solid - we rarely have errors or unexplained weirdness pop up.
- Handles our multicurrency environment just fine.
- Might be a limitation of our older version, but it only allows us to run and have open one report at a time. Seems like a pointless limitation.
- The documentation in some areas is less than clear. Thankfully, answers can usually be found with enough Googling.
January 29, 2018
Microsoft Dynamics GP
We primarily use the Financial, Sales, Purchasing modules. We easily integrated Microsoft Dynamics GP with our in-house equipment rental and event reservation system to speed up sales invoicing and PO processing to ensure accuracy. We rely on GP for all of our financial reporting, fixed asset management, and project job costing. We've been using GP since 2014.
- Integration with Microsoft Excel for reporting and analysis
- Easy to navigate
- Great tools to pull and review financial information
- I love that they're starting to listen to the users more and incorporate changes based on what we ask for.
- There are a few quirky things but nothing that stands in the way of getting the job done.
- I would love to be able to control the size of the text within the entry windows.
August 24, 2017
Microsoft Dynamics GP - Improved information
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.
- Sometimes system gets hung up and takes a while to troubleshoot.
The product is being used as our ERP solution and is used by most in the organization. We have contracted with a preferred vendor for the manufacturing and sales estimating/quoting module as the standard module does not meet our specific needs for material traceability. We also use third party services for payroll, HR and timekeeping which we are currently looking into bringing in-house using this product. Quality and expense reporting are also add-on modules.
- ACH payment processing works well.
- Smart list capabilities
- Dashboard capabilities
- Reporting is insufficient.
- Manufacturing module insufficient.
- Costing features don't seem to be well configured. Landed cost is particularly problematic for us.
- Seems to be easy for records to go astray. Difficult to clear items from reports in AP and purchase receipts.
- Would like to see a workflow purchase requisition solution resident in GP.
November 11, 2015
Chief Financial Officer
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.
- 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.
November 11, 2015
GP isn't perfect, but it is a very good product for its space!
I use Dynamics GP internally for the accounting of my consulting business. I am also a Microsoft reseller dealing exclusively in Dynamics GP and affiliated 3rd party products. The product is in use as a core accounting product as well as a full ERP system for several customers. Modules include general ledger, payables management, receivables management, inventory, sales order processing, purchase order processing, project accounting, manufacturing, and a broad variety of tools for reporting and data extraction.
- Core accounting functionality is exceptional - for processing A/P, A/R, and G/L transactions, this product is the best mid-market solution available.
- Reporting has improved significantly over the years. The product has many tools developed by Microsoft and in conjunction with accounting specific needs, such as SQL reporting services, smartlist builder, and Excel reporting.
- The user-interface is user-friendly and easy to learn - very similar to other Microsoft products.
- Supply chain management is adequate but not exceptional, and there are challenges tying the product to a website front end. These features are present and work fine in many environments but are often lacking for customers who need more robust systems.
- Reporting tools often require consulting expertise or an internal business analyst to develop. Many smaller companies don't have this skill set, so it can be costly to upgrade to GP from a smaller packages like QuickBooks.
- Some features that are available in competing products are still not present in GP, such as full copy-paste functionality and more intelligent workflow/batch processing functions.
September 30, 2015
Basic general ledger needs
Microsoft Dynamics GP replaced an older system. It is used across the organization and supports the main accounting and payables functions. Due to the highly specialized billing requirements of our business we use a custom billing software.
- Detailed expense tracking
- Unitary accumulation and reporting (operating statistics)
- Statistical reporting is troublesome, not very robust
- Management Reporter can cause challenges to getting the data required; requires a super expert user to figure out. We have been fortunate in having a personal friend as an expert, otherwise we would end up paying exhorbitant prices to design what should be routine reports.
May 20, 2015
Microsoft GP
We use Microsoft Dynamics GP for AP, payroll and finance. Our AP is managed through the system as is our payroll and time management. We have an integrated time clock as well. Additionally, we generate financial statements with GP. We do not use across departments. Our sales order entry, AR and manufacturing uses different software and interfaces to GP.
- Financial reporting is easy and can be done with the reports that are set up in the system.
- Payroll and time management is easy to manage in GP. The integrated time clock posts hours directly into GP. The steps to generate the payroll are short and easy.
- We found the sales order entry process to be cumbersome and requires too many steps to get the invoice posted and the documents for customer generated. We process many sales orders in a day and need a system that allows for quick entry and processing. This system did not meet that need.
- We have a fairly simple manufacturing process. The manufacturing module seemed to be geared to more technical and in depth processes and we were not able to find a way to fit it to our needs. We wanted a system that would allow the accounting to be as straightforward and basic as our manufacturing process is.
May 08, 2015
GP comments
We use as a GL package (including AR and AP) and the Management Reporting function for department reporting and Consolidated Reporting. The software was a great help in managing our intercompany transactions.
- Can set up intercompany transactions to enter on both sides with one journal entry, do not have to go into each company. Improved workflow process in this area.
- System controls-Can set up good interal controls for access to entities and can limit access by user type.
- Consoldiated Reporting-System allows for setting up Reporting Tree structure and different roll ups in the reporting tree
- Management reporter and the consolidated reporting process are somewhat clunky, not the easiest to use. Reports often need manual edits to make the presentation expereince better for end users.
- The system is not the most intuitive, have worked on other systmems such as MAS 500 or Epicor that are much easier to use.
- Missing functionality-the reporting function does not allow you to easily pull expense accounts across companies. Reporting is not the most robust.
May 05, 2015
Great valueand functionality
We use the software in the Finance/Accounting department. We use the GL and AP modules extensively. We use the AR module for a small area of our company.
It is a very solid, flexible product that can be adapted to any company or industry.
- We send some vendor payments by ach. We used another add on product to send an email remittance so they would know what was being paid. The software now has a built in area for this which makes set up and execution easy.
- We have a few subsidiaries that are involved in different kinds of businesses. We can tailor the software to fit each business but still consolidate the results.
- Distributing information to other departments is very easy, even though they don't have direct access to the software. We have created many reports and download them in various formats.
- We like the functions that we use.
May 05, 2015
Microsoft Dynamics GP With Office 365 AND CRM
Microsoft Dynamics GP is being used for internal accounting and for client accounting. We act as the outsourced CFO for them. The client module integrates with every accounting CS module seamlessly and allows us minute-by-minute total knowledge of the financial affairs and conditions of the client.
- Real time accounting between us and the client
- Saves all work papers emailed, faxed, or scanned to the client folders for financial statements and taxes on our schedule
- No client calls about "the computer made a mistake?'
- Easier training on installation and integration
- Cost to install - varies widely between the Microsoft Partners
April 29, 2015
GP the best ERP: affordable and easy to deploy and use.
GP is being used across the whole organization, and it is the main ERP for the organization. This is a holding company composed by 6 manufacturing companies, which each of those are being managed in GP. The main products are row materials so one of the challenge was to integrate GP with the PLC and the batching systems. GP was the only ERP that allowed this kind of integration. The integration is in real time, and eliminated a lot of manual process in order to create invoices and manage receivables. In addition to that this company is located in Puerto Rico where payroll is a little different than US, specially in the calculation of vacation and sick Hours, with GP we were able to custom the GP vacation and sick window entry to manage the special needs for Puerto Rico's payroll. Other challenge was to manage requisitions from the remote sites, this process was out of control and using Business Portal, we were able to automated the purchasing process and have a better control on all the items that were requested from remote sites.
GP has been so flexible to adapt to the company requirements, even though we do not have experience in Dexterity where able to create new functionalities just using extender.
GP has been so flexible to adapt to the company requirements, even though we do not have experience in Dexterity where able to create new functionalities just using extender.
- Adaptability to new functionalites, easy to customize
- Easy to Integrate with other Third party software and a lot of third party software in teh market that integrates with GP
- Easy deployment for future upgrades
- Increase real-time data sharing and integrate business processes in any organtization
- Great reporting Tools , you can build reports from scratch and customize templates for specific individuals or groups to deliver information across the entire organization
- Improve the Vacation and Sick accruals calculation, basically we would like to have different options or schedule to setup the vacation and sick hours.
March 31, 2015
Great Plains Can Do Amazing Things
We use Microsoft Dynamics GP for Accounting, A/R, A/P, Payroll, and HR functions. The whole organization uses it except for any operational departments that don't deal with money or accounting. One issue using Great Plains has solved is having all the departments using one system instead of many.
- It's ease of use is a plus for many people in my organization, the layout of the software is well received.
- The software is very flexible. We have a few 3rd party add-ons we have purchased and Microsoft is very supportive of having these add-ons to meet our needs.
- Great Plains offers a software developer kit (SDK) called eConnect that allows extensive importing through .Net programming into Great Plains. This flexibility has been great when the need to import large files on a regular basis.
- The support tools from an Admin stand point is great. Check links and reconcile are very good at fixing issue when they come up.
- Microsoft support is great. They fix the issue quickly and describe why it happened.
- A lot of document amounts can't be changed or updated, you have to delete them and recreate them if the total is wrong. This can cause a lot of extra hand keying of transactions if they mistyped them.
- Integration Manager is limited and would benefit in have more options available to the end user.
- Having a client application that ties into the server would be good. Currently we either remote into the server to access GP or use Citrix. It would be nice to have a way for users to access GP without Citrix or Remote Desktop.
December 18, 2014
Midwest Partner uses and sells Microsoft Dynamics GP
The company I work for (Summit Group Software) is actually a reseller of the Microsoft Dynamics GP product, along with Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Having worked with GP for 15 years and seeing it grow from version 5.0 to the currently release of 2013, I can say that I am pleased with the progression that GP has made with Microsoft and I always look forward to future releases to see what they have added. The next release is due out in December (GP 2015) and really looking forward to what I have heard will be great enhancements.
- GP is a great application to integrate other financial data to. The robustness of SQL helps GP adapt well to being able to integrate information.
- GP with SQL is great to be able to provide Business Intelligence and get that information out to the related parties instead of relying on your accounting team to get you that information.
- GP is always getting more functionality and moving with the times. Example in GP 2013 they released a web version so that you can access GP from any where, even a coffee shop!!
- The internal reporting to GP is very old school and would like to see a tighter integration to SSRS or other reporting tools. (There are add-ons that do this well, but having it built into GP would be great)
- Sometimes software packages put together by "developers" miss some of the simple things that "accountants" think of, and there are just some of those simple things that one has to just work around.