Item: MIP Fund Accounting
Rating: 9
Author: Tracie Lambright

Overall Satisfaction with Abila MIP Fund Accounting

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use MIP as our main accounting system to manage our federal and state grants. It is primarily used by our finance staff and CFO only.

Pros and Cons

Pros

MIP's functionality for our office includes fund accounting, grants managements, payroll, human resources, and timekeeping.
It allows us to report on multiple cost centers for multiple organizations and programs across all grants on the federal and state level.
The imbedded reports writer provides extensive reports and you can customize them anyway you want them or your board wants them.

Cons

Sometimes pulling reports or building the reports to give you the results you want is difficult to achieve.
Creating budgets was a challenge at first as was updating those budgets when revisions occur.
We would like to see a copy and paste function added so when entering or changing descriptions you don't have to continually keep typing them over and over.

Return on Investment

Having all the modules in one convenient place has saved our company money as well as time.
Our finance team is much more efficient because of the combined modules, its a one-stop shop!
One negative impact is how long it takes someone to be trained to use the software effectively and efficiently.

I have used QuickBooks Premier for Non-Profits in a previous job, but not at my current position. They have used MIP for several years prior to me coming on board. QuickBooks was much easier to learn, but I don't feel it has as much functionality as MIP does with the use of multiple federal and state managements and reporting.

Likelihood to Recommend

I think it is great for fund accounting and grants management. We manage multiple federal and state grants so using MIP helps keep everything in order. We also love the fact that we can process our payroll, use MIP's timekeeping system and it holds all of our HR data as well. It's like a one-stop shop!

MIP Fund Accounting Feature Ratings

Evaluating Abila MIP Fund Accounting and Competitors

Products Replaced

Not Sure

Key Differentiators

Price
Product Features
Product Usability
Product Reputation
Prior Experience with the Product

Evaluation Lessons Learned

I wouldn't change anything.

Abila MIP Fund Accounting Support

Support Rating

They are excellent in customer service and usually resolve issues within a short time.

MIP Fund Accounting Customer Support Pros and Cons

Pros	Cons
Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved Kept well informed No escalation required Immediate help available Support understands my problem Support cares about my success Quick Initial Response	None

Using Abila MIP Fund Accounting

Usability

It is great and easy to use once you have had some training, some are more complex than others, but overall it is a great product.

Usability Pros and Cons

Pros	Cons
Like to use Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent Feel confident using	Difficult to use Lots to learn

Easy Tasks

I love the fact that you can pull in data from Excel spreadsheets and vice versa.

Difficult Tasks

Reporting and budget have been difficult and time consuming at first, but once you get the hang of it you are okay.

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