MIP is functional but not always useable
October 07, 2016
MIP is functional but not always useable
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Abila MIP Fund Accounting
We use MIP Fund Accounting to manage all of our general ledger account functions. We only use it within the accounting department and primarily to manage our GL and Accounts Payable. Our AR is entered into the system but we do not like the invoice interface. Additionally the budget and projections are kept outside of MIP as we have found it bulky to work with. Financial statements are prepared in Excel after a Trial Balance Report is run out of MIP.
- It is accurate
- Too many postings. For example to cut a check you need to post the AP batch (even for a single check) and then post again for the check run. There are so many steps to do a simple transaction.
- Reporting is not intuitive and it is hard to figure out how to get a report that will give you the information that you need. I find that I have to run multiple reports to figure out if it has the correct information.
- Actual dates and effective dates, if these get out of sync for any reason it is very hard to correct and I find having two dates to be unnecessary.
- I don't feel that it has any positive or negative impact. It is a functional accounting software but it does not go above and beyond to make our business easier.
We have used this functionality and it has been adequate for our reporting. I appreciate that you can easily filter reports based on individual funds which makes reporting easier.
We use MIP daily to record AP, cut checks, receive AR and manage all aspects of our general ledger function.
We are using MIP because they were able to manage our unique general ledger account number needs that are state mandated. I don't find the program to be as easy to use or intuitive as other systems I have used in the past. It is clunky and requires so many steps in order to do even simple functions.