Sage 300: Frustrated User
February 02, 2019

Sage 300: Frustrated User

Chris Michel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 2 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate

We have three operators using it every day to prepare construction estimates. We put in material and labor take-offs as well as subcontractor and supplier bids. Then we send the budget to the accounting software where we can run our purchase orders, track our labor hours, do our billings, and pay our suppliers.
  • Once you get it set up with all the vendors and cost codes, it works okay to manage all the transactions.
  • It is made for construction, tailored for the way we use it.
  • Flexible, you can modify every input and make it the way you want it.
  • They have never dramatically changed the software in the last 20 years. The format could be improved.
  • Very expensive. Pay every year for upgrades that don't really change anything. Need to pay for each user.
  • Really hard to set up correctly. New users need to spend a month of labor getting all the cost codes in there and all the vendors in the system.
  • The system crashes a lot, you'll be working along and then you get a critical error and need to restart it.
  • We could have invested in something much lower cost and saved ourselves a lot of money. Probably would have been happier in the long run.
A few years ago we looked at Computerease. We were amazed at how great the reports looked and how flexible the software was. We felt like it would be much better and less expensive. We were just worried about all the time it would take to set up a new system. Timberline took so long that we didn't want to go through that again.
Only works for construction but I believe there are a lot better systems out there.