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MIP Fund Accounting

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What is MIP Fund Accounting?

MIP Fund Accounting™ is a configurable fund accounting solution. The solution includes functionality for fund accounting, procurement, budgeting, payroll, human resources, timekeeping, fixed asset management, grant management, and dashboards for nonprofits and government agencies.

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February 16, 2024
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What is MIP Fund Accounting?

MIP Fund Accounting is a configurable fund accounting solution that allows users to report and track finances, streamline processes, and scale and grow based on your unique needs. MIP is the accounting software of choice, with cloud or on-premises deployment options, and designed to meet and handle the complex accounting needs of nonprofit financial management.

MIP's integrated software solution suite provides general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, budgeting, payroll, human resources, allocations management, procurement, fixed assets, grant management, and advanced security functionality. The solution enables users to manage and report on multiple cost centers at the general ledger level including multiple organizations, funds, projects, grants, programs, departments, locations, etc.

MIP Fund Accounting exclusively serves the financial management and fund accounting needs for nonprofits, schools, native nations, and government agencies with its complete, end-to-end suite of functionality and multi-segmented chart of accounts. The company states that with the right fund accounting platform and expert guidance, users can track unlimited funds, manage complex reporting requirements, streamline productivity, and make the right data-driven business decisions for an organization.

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MIP Fund Accounting Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

MIP Fund Accounting™ is a configurable fund accounting solution. The solution includes functionality for fund accounting, procurement, budgeting, payroll, human resources, timekeeping, fixed asset management, grant management, and dashboards for nonprofits and government agencies.

Sage Intacct, Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT, and QuickBooks Desktop Pro are common alternatives for MIP Fund Accounting.

Reviewers rate In-Person Training highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of MIP Fund Accounting are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is being used by the Accounting department only. We use the AP module and partial AR module for budgeting purposes and we distribute financial reports to other departments and our Board of Directors Committee.
  • Customizing reports makes it easier to meet the needs of the reviewers before posting.
  • Submitting a 1099 is very user-friendly.
  • The AP module is very easy to navigate. Easy vendor set up. Cutting checks is very easy as well.
  • Running AP/AR aged reports are not able to pick unposted transactions which can be time-consuming at times to wait for an AP batch to be posted.
  • Reviewing and printing from the vendor/customer activity screen is painful—you have two option print a summary, that is easy but not detailed and once you choose the detailed option and you highlight the entries, it doesn't pick them all.
  • Printing preferences are sometimes a pain to set up, we recently hired a new employee and we had to contact the MIP support line because none of the obvious settings were not helping her printing reports in landscape or every time she turned off her PC, the settings will be changed again.
MIP has a great variety of options. You can customize the system reports and you can save and lock them so other users can not mess them up. This is extremely useful when you need reports once a year for audit purposes and you can run them with a click of a button. I wish all reports can include unposted transactions. MIP is great and easy to navigate and has great chat support, as well as a university website and forum groups where users can share their experience and recommendations. MIP listens to its users and upgrades and streamlines very often.
Jon Dize, CFRE | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MIP is our accounting and scholarship system. We keep track of all donations, scholarship distributions, and write all invoices and checks from MIP as well. Our accountant then uses it for reconciliation and adjustments/Journal Entries.
  • The Interface is easy to understand. It is a typical accounting system. Not as intuitive as I would want, but the accountant loves it better than Quickbooks.
  • As far as accounting software, it appears to be a powerful solution. Yes, it does. Again, the accountant loves it.
  • In our area, it is widely used. Lots of MIP users, yes.
  • Creating reports is not easy. Not the best with reports. Not intuitive.
  • Integration with sister product FR50 is horrible. They may be owned by the same company, but the interfaces, reports, etc. are not at all similar.
  • How we use it for scholarship management is less than desirable. We had to "make it work".
Good for accounting. Not great for scholarship management.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MIP is being used across the finance department. It is being used for financial reporting purposes. It is intended to track payment information for orders placed by the purchasing department. The budget department creates entries that set aside funds for particular purchases, in which the budget officer enters the estimated funds needed along with the fund coding information. It is also used as a user-friendly option for accountants to enter payment/funding information so that the data can be turned into a static file and transmitted to the uniform standard accounting system used by the State of Texas Comptroller's office among all state agencies. The MIP interface is more user friendly to the accountant and the data fields required for particular categories of purchases/payments are easier to view because of the one-line, white space table. Also MIP allows shortcuts to address the problem of multiple or even hundreds of coding lines that need to be copied for a particular category of payments, allowing for saving time and resources in order to record a payment.
  • MIP is user-friendly and enables efficient data entry. For example, as an accountant, I often see purchases that need to be paid with multiple lines of code. Often the amount of coding lines reaches over 100 lines of code. For these purchases, the budget department does not code the purchase and as an accountant with many bills to pay, I appreciate that MIP provides shortcuts like F6 to copy a whole line under the one above or F5 which allows me to copy down only one field if needed. It saves me a lot of time to copy data versus having to re-key information.
  • MIP provides options to run quick reports on orders and purchases. With few clicks of a button, I can run a report on the encumbrance status (i.e. the funds set aside for purchases) and see if an encumbrance has been previously used up whenever I am unsure that an invoice has been paid. I can also run reports on past years funding information to see how a particular contract or purchase has been paid years prior when old staff used old processes.
  • MIP offers an "Excel export" and "PDF export" option for payment reports. This option often saves a lot of time, particularly when I have to make an entry for a transaction that has 100 lines of funding code and I am looking for where I made an error in my entry of debits. I am often off by only a few pennies in my entries and the ability to export my file into excel allows me to run a pivot table and find my error easily. This way, I save time and work smarter.
  • The MIP software often freezes in the middle of my line entries or it will freeze up when I run a report. That said, I often deal with documents that have over a hundred lines of code and this may be the reason why the software takes a minute or two to load properly.
MIP would be well suited for a small company with small average data entry lines for one transaction. It would be a terrible idea for a company that has more documents which require 100 lines of code or more. The reason being because as an accounts payable accountant, the MIP software freezes often whenever I need to enter transactions of 100 lines of code or more.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use MIP fund accounting for our general government and enterprise funds tracking information not only by fund, but department as well. We used to use QuickBooks and switching to MIP enabled us to track shared expenses across funds and the financial reporting ability has been extremely helpful in preparing year end financial statements for our auditors.
  • Creating disbursement codes to share expenses across departments
  • Ability to create your own financial statement formats for various reports
  • Drill down in reports for easy access to detailed data
  • Awesome customer support is always there to help you
  • I would love to be able to have my GL codes print in alphabetical order by name in the Profit and Loss report
  • Print GL Codes alphabetically in P&L
  • My only complaint Print GL codes alphabetically in P&L report
Switching from QuickBooks to MIP fund accounting made it so much easier to truly do my job. [We are] able to have one company with separate funds and departments. Being able to create the accounting code segments to suit your personal needs was nice. The only downside is make sure you are truly satisfied with your accounting code setup because you can't change this after you are using the software. In my case I added an activity code that I don't use.
Cesar A Siso L | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This is an amazing software for accounting, you can do a lot of things to manage your budget, prices, and more. The interface is awesome and the support has great quality. In our institution, we use MIP to follow and keep the track of our budget and expenses, for example if we work with a community we can set their needs, create and projects, a follow the expenditure in each topic of that project. The software also helps us to have reports quickly about our activities and finances.
  • Good for accounting, we manage a lot of projects at the same time, and the app help us to keep on track of each one, also we can make reports about the accounting for the communities or government.
  • Excellent budget tools, you can manage the budget with high precision and detail, you can add activities, expenditures, costs, personal involvement in the project and set the budget for each one.
  • A perfect interface, it has a friendly and nice interface, you can create graphics and tables easily, and you can watch in your computer or devices all the information at the same thing, to have a better explanation of the project.
  • It is a little expensive for small companies, to personal use or startup, because of that many people prefer to use a free software or with GNU license instead of Abila.
  • It demands high professional profile, it is not for any kind of professional, the people who is going to work with the app requires certain level of knowledge in accounting and administration.
  • It can be difficult to use in some cases, especially the ones related to the opinion of the community where the changes happen too fast, so you need to creat all the tables and graphics again and again until the people be agree.
If you need a tool to manage the budget, accounting and administration of your business, then MIP is for you. This software goes beyond, because you can handle a lot of things simultaneously, you can manage and track your budget, administration and accounting with a great interface and even in your devices. Unfortunately, it is an administration software and if you work in a project that is going to be changing continuously the app can be a little useless, because every change you do will demand a lot of time and that is not very useful.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MIP Fund Accounting is used by our HR, Accounting, and IT departments to manage employee, payroll, benefit, and budget data across the entire organization. In my experience the chief problem it addresses and the reason for continued use is it is an accounting system designed directly for non-profits.
  • Managing employees is a breeze.
  • Payroll and direct deposit is very easy to implement using MIP.
  • Plenty of canned reports and the option to build custom reports.
  • MIP was originally designed as various modules. Even with the current unified UI, it still feels like you are navigating between modules.
  • Their sales team can be frustrating to work with, it seems the resources they have to give to potential customers are limited.
In a non-profit entity, I have not seen a product as well conceived as MIP Fund Accounting.
Bruce Emmerling | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MIP is used as a comprehensive accounting package for the whole organization. It offers a wealth of services tailored to non-profit organizations and their particular needs. The software provides support for payroll, membership activities, business operations, and more. It offers a number of reporting tools and is fairly easy to use, especially for regular end users.
  • The interface and operations of MIP Fund are fairly easy to utilize and learn.
  • It offers some excellent tools for managing a non-profit operation.
  • The software makes it easy to streamline operations into one system without dealing with separate departments working with different systems.
  • Sometimes support can be a bit off and challenging to get by phone.
  • Some of the reporting tools are not as robust as some competing products.
  • Vendor training costs can be high if needed by an organization.
The product is really well suited for small to medium non-profit organizations and other types of operations. Its features might not be as applicable for commercial businesses or large organizations. Some organizations may want to weight its fees and costs when choosing the product. Overall its features are well integrated and quite useful for organizations that may not need a more complex accounting product.
David Gerber | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We migrated to MIP over 6 years ago from a COBOL mainframe system. We have been extremely happy with the transition. We generate over 100 separate financial statements on a monthly basis. The system is easy to use and everything is integrated. Our managers have up to date access to financial information which is a great benefit. We are able to generate many reports that allow us to track our financial information. The only con is having to use Drill Reports to have a more robust reporting system. Drill Reports is very expensive for only getting one developer license.
  • MIP is extremely easy to use and migrate through the system.
  • We are able to create separate financial statements to match each grant's reporting requirements.
  • End users have real-time access to information.
  • I would like to see a grand total at the end of page breaks. Currently you are able get a total on each page break but you need to manually add each one for a grand total.
  • On the 990 reporting it is not required for a segment to be restricted. We should be able to identify a program or gl code within a segment if something is restricted.
  • Enhance reporting to allow all end users to adjust reports unlike Drill Reports where only one user has the ability to create reports.
MIP is fully integrated and allows us to have access to real-time data. It is easy to use and navigate. We are able to create many financial statement report formats that allow us to match a grant for reporting. I would love to see a grand total at the end of a report when you use page breaks. That would be extremely helpful.
January 18, 2019

MIP Saved The Day!!!

Joan A. Cox, CMA CPA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MIP Fund Accounting is being used by the finance department and the purchasing department only. All general accounting and financial reporting is performed via MIP. In addition, the purchasing department uses MIP to enter encumbrances to track open purchase orders. Use of MIP has fostered collaboration amongst various departments whose responsibilities impact financial reporting and monitoring of budgets. MIP makes producing financial reports very easy and the ability to quickly modify any report is very helpful.
  • MIP export to MS Excel functionality is so easy to use and helps us to quickly begin research and/or analysis.
  • The reporting features allow us to pick and choose which columns/fields we would like to see on reports.
  • The option to include or exclude unposted transactions provides a good mechanism for what-if scenarios as it relates to financial statement amounts.
  • The year-end adjustment feature is new for us however it saves valuable time when reviewing transactions/reporting in preparation for our annual audit.
  • I'd like a better way to forecast expense that allows me to use a different multiplier or factors to augment individual line items.
  • I would like the ability to develop the budget within the software so it would be easier for variance analysis between current budget and new budget or current actuals vs proposed budget

MIP is well suited for organizations with multiple funding sources, multi-year and cross-year reporting, and numerous cost centers/expense charge codes. The common chart of accounts helps with consistency in reporting across an organization and to external users. Consolidation of different grants is easy to complete and reporting can be performed on any time period.

I don't [think] it is appropriate for smaller organizations that do not have complex accounting or reporting requirements. Many nonprofits have a small staff which might find MIP more structured than they may need to their reporting.

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MIP is used by our agency mainly by the accounting department. Our directors of the grant programs use the software for report purposes only. The accounting department uses the accounts payable and accounts receivable daily. We do not at this time use the payroll module. The reports are easy to filter in order to provide the information you need to review, file or provide for meetings. Our company had used MIP for 12 years and it has met our needs.
  • reports - easy to filter information
  • easy to enter data into the software
  • great technical support
  • instructions for added features that are available are not clear, ie attaching invoices to AP entry
The software allows us to create distribution codes for different allocations that are necessary for our agency.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use MIP Fund Accounting across the whole organization as our primary budget and financial accounting software.
  • Ease of installation and upgrades.
  • SQL database back end. Makes for easy integration.
  • Easily set up test company for testing new features.
  • Full active directory group integration.
  • Support for an Application server (file share) on a different server than the database server.
From a technical perspective, we are very happy with MIP Fund Accounting. We would prefer support for having the file share on a different server than the database server for security and best practice reasons.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MIP Fund Accounting is used by a couple of departments in the organization that focus on fund accounting. It helps us understand the sources of funding as well as generally keep things organized. It is really helpful as well because it matches compliance standards so we never had a worry in bringing them on as sometimes fundraising is risky.
  • Compliance Standards
  • Prepping for audits
  • Reporting capabilities
  • Interface
  • A bit hard to onboard
  • Sometimes it just takes a little longer to load
I think that MIP Fund Accounting is well suited to helping nonprofits raise funds in an efficient, trackable, and compliant manner. It is relatively easy to understand and interact with the interface and I think that its display, in general, is pretty user-friendly. Another thing that we have used its product for is prepping for audits!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MIP Fund Accounting is used by our small public television station as our accounting software program.
  • Creates reports with ease.
  • Easy to use to track grants we receive.
  • You can not just delete or edit an incorrect journal entry. You have to actually reverse the entry and re-enter the correct journal entry.
MIP Fund Accounting works very well to track grant income and expenses that our organization receives.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MIP Fund Accounting is used by a client of my company in a specific department for basic accounting.
  • Budget transaction is simple to use
  • Journal entry is intuitive
  • Check writing feature is very user-friendly
  • Increased Windows 10 support
  • Easier installation and upgrading features
MIP Fund Accounting is well suited for the non-profit clients.
January 15, 2019

I recomend Abila!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MIP Fund accounting is currently being used by the fiscal department and by the executive director. We use it to address business problems such as budget management, payments to vendors including the electronic payment feature, payroll including managing employee information, payroll taxes, direct deposits to employees, accounts receivables and billing, bank reconciliations, and tracking program revenue and expenses.
  • MIP Fund Accounting has great support, they are always quick to respond and always find a solution or at least an answer. They also have a feature to easily request product enhancements.
  • They give the user the ability to modify reports which is extremely helpful to be able to tailor reports to specific needs.
  • Help and Support! If you are unsure of a feature the system has a great diagram for how the process works, click on a picture in the diagram and it opens up that feature. Once that window is open there is a Help button on just about every screen that, once clicked, takes you to an extensive library of procedures, descriptions, tips and important information.
  • They put on a great annual training.
  • The Budget Worksheet isn't the simplest to use and understand how the outcome will reflect. It took me some trial and error, and writing my own in-house procedures to feel comfortable with the budget worksheets.
  • There are so many modules that Abila offers that it can be frustrating to learn that in order to obtain a certain feature you have to purchase another module, which may come with way more than you need or want. For example, with the Payroll Module you can select Direct Deposit for an employee but without the Direct Deposit module I can't access the feature to email the pay stub vouchers to those employees with Direct Deposit.
  • There are so many reports available that it can be hard to remember where the report you need is located. Some reports don't include Unposted Transactions and some don't allow the same level of customization.
We are a small company with around 30 employees, some full-time and some part-time, with funding from multiple sources but mostly government grants. It works great for our needs. It would be well suited for a company with less employees and less programs that do their own payroll and program management. It would be well suited for a company with more employees and more programs that also do everything in-house. Companies could forgo the Payroll module and still get good use out of it with the A/R and A/P and Budget modules. I cannot think of a scenario where MIP is less appropriate.
January 15, 2019

Track like a Pro

Louise Johnson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it primarily in our fiscal department, but provide information from the system to all departments.
  • Reporting is a great asset.
  • Cost allocation to different funds through payroll is a breeze with this system.
  • I like that you can choose who can perform different functions, and restrict access on an as needed basis.
  • I would like to be able to pick and choose which entries to post within a batch.
It is a great tool for an agency that has multiple funding sources, providing reporting and tracking of all expenses and income for each program, as well as within divisions.
Joselito Perez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MIP Fund Accounting is our main GL accounting system in which we use the GL, cash, AP, and fixed asset modules. One of the great things of MIP is the flexibility with accounts and reports variations. We also take advantage of the upload capabilities to upload journal entries and invoices that have multiple lines such as the one allocated across our funding.
  • The AP system has invoice control to avoid duplicate invoices.
  • Abilia MIP also has the flexibility to print 1099 statements for subcontractors.
  • As with any other Fund Accounting software Abilia MIP can track all the funds in separate trial balance
  • Entering budgets is relatively easy
  • Although MIP has strong reports, there a few that can improve, i.e. cost center report in Proforma, P &L report by funding Proforma.
  • MIP has recently added the features to handle credit memos but it still needs improvement, as there are some aspects where an invoice is entered against a credit and there is another entry created not in the payment register.
MIP is suitable for non-for-profit companies that need to manage different funds and track activity individually by funding. Because of the cost associated with MIP, I would not recommended for small non-for-profit organizations or companies that do not have extensive funds to track separate.
Ryan Husbands, MBA, CPA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MIP is the accounting software we use for our organization's general financial needs. We maintain all accounting, for both operating finances and charitable endeavors, with this system. Its use is restricted to the Finance Department in our relatively small organization, but the reports we produce using this software is used by all members of our extended staff. All reporting to our Board of Directors is also used with MIP reports that we have developed ourselves over time.
  • MIP Fund accounting is functional and robust. In terms of it's efficiency, it can provide the flexibility you'd want in regards to customizing it's functionality. But I do admit that I sometimes find it unwieldy to learn, and perhaps not the most intuitive software that I've ever come across.
  • We found the pricing to be competitive when compared to other softwares, and it has improved over the years we've used it, but at times the support could be better. I've noticed a big difference in ability between customer reps in the times I've called them.
  • I find that MIP is not at all robust when compared to its competitors. I find a lot of the functionality limited when compared to other similar software suites, like Microsoft AX for example.
  • There are glitches with MIP. Our auditors noticed that the bank reconciliation reports did not match the financial statements. When I called MIP customer support to find out why this was, he was evasive when I asked him whether this was a glitch or not. He finally admitted this was "a problem that had to be remedied".
MIP gets the job done, but there are so many improvements that could be done to it. Also, I find that the waiting time to talk to MIP customer support could be improved...I often wait over 30 minutes to speak to someone.

I think that its commensurate to the needs of any small to medium sized organization, but I wonder as to how competitive it would be for large scale entities.
Erich Koch | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) and use MIP to keep track of all our financial accounting information. We use MIP to properly track our various grants via revenue/fund codes, and we also use MIP to scan in invoices and contracts so we can have everything stored digitally which makes finding and retrieving historical information easier. MIP is also used to keep track of our fixed assets, and we use MIP to track our various departments so individual financial statements can be produced for these areas with ease.
MIP is a good product if you understand its capabilities and are willing to invest the time to set up its many robust features. When I first used MIP I did not like the program due to never using it before. Once I started using it though, and began to understand its various features, I learned to love this program because it allows for finance professionals working in FQHCs to capture data in ways to satisfy federal reporting requirements for things like the UDS and Medicare Cost Report more easily. Also if you set it up correctly, you may not need as many people in the accounting department to get the work done thanks to distribution tables, stored ability to retrieve and use old JE entries, and being able to upload large amounts of data like a payroll.
We are looking to expand our use of MIP via the payroll module which we feel would eliminate having to import 3 entries that we have to do through ADP. MIP is a really good product provided it is set up correctly from day one and you take the time to learn how to use it's features properly.
  • It allows you to create folders in which you can scan invoices, business associate contracts, and contracts in general by vendor. This allows us to keep everything in one place digitally. The good thing about this is that it speeds up finding old invoices, and allows you to send audit selections to the auditor faster due to the items selected already being scanned in digitally.
  • MIP allows for the creation of distribution codes. These are nice as they allow you to charge out common costs to multiple departments in a quick manner. Without this feature, one has to key in manually many line items into the system each and every month. Plus this feature allows for consistency, and elimination of keying errors.
  • If you have the Chart of Accounts set up properly, this system allows you to better track items by departments, Revenue/Fund codes, Location, and by GL. This is important as it allows for better analysis, tracking and reporting.
  • As for the budgeting module, this is also nice as you have the ability to upload your budget via a CSV file or you can manually cut and paste your numbers from excel into the system as well. The key thing though is setting up your budget template to match the format in MIP when cutting and pasting.
  • They need to better explain how to create definition files so end users can learn how to upload large amounts of data into the system. As of right now, most end users have to contact a consultant to create the definition file and pay literally thousands of dollars in order to do uploads.
  • The financial statement reports could be better. When I created the income statement, the profit is shown as a credit, while a loss is shown as a debit which makes it look funny for presentation purposes. I now have to key everything into Excel so it doesn't do this. The reports could be better if it allowed a way to add statistics to the report. Most FQHCs present stats like visits, Days Cash on Hand and so on. It would be nice to be able to have these stats shown in the financial statements.
  • MIP needs to allow for easier copying and pasting items into the fields. In the Budget module, you can't right click and paste. You need to select the "Edit" and then paste from the drop down menu.
Because I work in the FQHC world, I would recommend this product specifically for any business or end user within that field. This product allows people in this field to comply with federal reporting requirements, makes it easier to track grants, and allows for the slicing and dicing of financial statements in many ways which is important in this field. This product is good for most day to day accounting functions and is pretty robust as well for an FQHC. This product is probably less appropriate for large healthcare systems where you want to keep track of statistics which this product cannot currently do.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Finance is currently the only department to use MIP Fund Accounting. We use it to record all financial information and to produce reports for other departments in the whole organization. MIP is able to record revenue and expense information for more than 20 programs under the same company. We are able to run reports for the entire company, or just the specific portions we are interested in.
  • Predesigned report templates to suit many different types of reporting needs
  • Easy to use and learn the basics
  • Grows comfortably with a company, no matter if it is small to large
  • It is not easy to find out if an invoice has been paid; you need to run a report first then search.
  • Unable to have unposted information in balance sheet accounts
  • Suspense items in bank reconciliations do not automatically carry over from month to month
It is very easy to run reports to get information quickly. And it is also easy to change the report output to make sure you are only getting the most essential information.

It is not very easy to find out if an invoice has been paid if a program person came to ask. I also wish it was easier to search for a vendor by location or EIN (in case the vendor changed their name).
Jacien Squires | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use MIP to process our organization's payroll, accounts payable, HR, and track inventory. Members of our accounting department are the only ones that use this program. The program tracks all of our assets, income, and expenditures. It also tracks employee information and inventory items. We use MIP to generate our end-of-year tax forms as well.
  • Processes Payroll. Once setup properly, payroll can be completed in a few clicks.
  • Processes Accounts Payable. Can track several funds and programs as well as several vendors.
  • HR module needs LOTS of work. Most areas in this module feel rushed and only half-function. For example- sick leave calculations don't pull the correct anniversary date, causing the results to be off by up to a month.
  • The 1095-C tax module was a complete joke this year. Nothing auto-populated like promised, causing us to do a lot of hand entries. We purchased the HR module almost exclusively for the 1095-C reporting. Ended up being a waste of money.
  • Reporting can be very limited.
  • Reporting abilities can be very limited at times. We had to write a separate SQL program to pull the data that we needed for our retirement fund. The MIP system couldn't pull the data we needed. Being able to write our own SQL code for reports would be nice, but the system doesn't allow for it.
  • Response time on the MIP tech support line can take up to an hour sometimes. Once you get someone, they don't always know what they're doing. We've gotten 2 completely different responses to the same questions, depending on who answered the phone.
Well suited for medium to large organizations that need to track many different funds and programs. Might be overkill for smaller organizations.
Maryann Freepartner | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
At PCHS, we use MIP for HR, Payroll, General Accounting and Financial Reporting, Budgeting, Accounts Payable and limited Accounts Receivable.
  • For in-depth analysis of the GL transactions, reports can be filtered to drill down on an account, a time period, a vendor, a department or grant, and then downloaded to Excel for use in pivot tables and other analysis.
  • We use MIP for grant budgets and reports, making the preparation of financial backup for monthly, quarterly and annual reporting quick and easy.
  • The budget module can generate budgets from the actual prior period history to the dates specified. This area can really give you the ability to generate a budget with limited manual input.
  • The help support is usually very quick to get back to you, to point out where you can find the information and help you navigate the knowledgebase materials. Everyone I spoke to gives a sincere impression that helping you is the most important thing for them. I appreciate that friendly manner!
  • I would personally love to have more "cut, copy and paste" functionality within the modules. In particular, when using journal entries there is no ability to "copy" 20 lines of entry, edit the department and move the amounts from debit to credit to reclassify items from one department (or grant, or gl code) to another.
  • The bank reconciliation function is time consuming. Since we do a direct deposit, we have 140 or so "checks" for each payroll whereas the bank statement has one big debit. Each of these has to be individually checked off. When you move to another window and come back, the list jumps around and you can accidentally uncheck or check the incorrect item. It is very hard to troubleshoot when you have a lot of bank items.
  • This may be a function of PCHS being in Alaska, but I find the training to be generally expensive. Since we have a limited budget for training and travel, particularly for accounting support staff, I have not been able to attend any of the multi-day training courses and have had to train myself. I have just purchased the summer training pass and hope to be able to get a lot of value from about 10 live webcasts for $795 instead of $125 per hour. Up to now I have not been able to attend the multi-day training because of the high training cost (about $500 per day for live classroom training) combined with airfares, hotels and other travel costs. Additionally the consultants who are willing to travel to our location want about $1,600 per day for one-on-one training. Any free webinars are generally for the purpose of selling add-ons or additional modules.
  • I find the user manuals to be hard to read. They all start with you having a new installation, so it is hard to find the information you need without doing an online search. Usually I do a live chat to narrow it down.

We have multiple departments and multiple grants that cross departments, so having the GL-Dept-Grant account coding enables you to pull reports by grant, by department, and by any combination thereof. Additionally you can download the information to Excel and create a matrix report to review data and give you operational input.

Because the software is purchased module by module, I would recommend really looking at your needs to see if you need the power of MIP or if a less sophisticated process would work equally well. For example, the fixed asset module is more than we need, so we use another program and copy over the journal entries to MIP.

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use MIP to do the process on most of our checks. It is an easy software to use, and it allows our organization to keep track of all of our expense records. We can check our records at all times, and verify dates and totals paid. We also find it to be very helpful for our year end audits. We can run a variety of reports sorted by GL accounts, by dates, and other. The only thing I don't like is that some reports are buggy. For example I cannot run a report that includes both check numbers, and GL numbers on the same report. The tech support is excellent. I have called them up for some issues and they usually resolve my issues the same day.
  • Ability to run various reports based on the data available
  • Ability to import Excel data into MIP
  • Tech support is fast
  • Reports could be more functional - have the ability to have both GLs and check numbers on reports
  • Some issues with license validation at random the software will decide not to work
  • Addition of new features more often
  • Add address verification support like ADP. ADP can verify addresses without having to google.
This software is great for non profit organizations that need to comply with yearly audits. Its saves our organization a lot of time to be able to run reports for our yearly audit. The reports can easily be run, and new reports can be created with ease with little experience.
Shirley Merrick | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MIP Fund Accounting is utilized for all our electronic accounting needs - general ledger, payroll, and reports to board and management.
  • Ability to produce reports to management and funding agencies
  • The audit trails are fantastic
  • User Friendly
  • Ease in navigating through modules
  • Ability to exclude inactive, discontinued, terminated, etc., vendor and payroll accounts when looking up accounts
  • "Select All" option when transferring from payroll to general ledger
  • Expanding fields available for filtering when generating reports in payroll
MIP is great for working with medium sized and up companies but is really complicated for small agencies. I know of a small agency with the software that constantly has trouble navigating the software. They sometimes contact us for assistance because we are using MIP.
January 09, 2018

Abila MIP great tool

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
MIP allows for a much quicker way to produce financials statements than using Excel. MIP address unique needs that NFPs have. MIP also makes data entry extremely easy. MIP does a great job of balancing flexibility with ease of use.
  • Reporting
  • Data entry
  • Ease of use
  • More customization
  • Statistical reporting
  • Works much better as an on premise software than hosted
It is well suited for non technical people because it is easy to use. It is a little rigid so there are not that many customization options.
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