Sage 100 Contractor Review
Overall Satisfaction with Sage 100 Contractor
Sage 100 Contractor is currently being used by the admin and management of the organization. The field employees do not have access to the software. Sage 100 Contractor is our ERP. We use the GL, AP, AR, PR, and JC modules. Sage 100 C provides solutions to job costing. In the construction industry, it is important to follow budgets vs. actual costs, and Sage 100 Contractor helps us achieve this need.
Pros
- Sage integrates very well with our field time tracking software called Exaktime. We import the start/end time card data that includes job costs directly to the PR module which greatly reduces the time it takes to process payroll.
- Sage 100 C payroll calculations and WC/GL overhead calculations are easy to use and understand. The WC/GL overhead calculations are posted to project costs in real-time allowing for accurate total cost reporting of the project.
Cons
- Sage could do a better job with developing canned reports. We spent a lot of time in our office building reports Sage considers custom but could be canned.
- In some instances, vendor transactions are supposed to be 1099'd, and other transactions are not. In Sage, there is no way to identify a transaction as exempt from 1099 for a vendor that is typically issued one.
- Sage 100 costs us annually approximately 5.8K. We would lose tens of thousands or more if we didn't have the capability of tracking costs. The ability to get income statements by job (nearly live) is invaluable.
Sage 100 is superior to QuickBooks products because Sage 100 allows us to customize our cost codes. The cost codes can be used in the field for payroll tracking and imported directly to payroll. The cost code historical costs are also evaluated to arrive at a manhour cost per task which is then used to develop future bids. This functionality is not available in the QuickBooks product.
Do you think Sage 100 Contractor delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Sage 100 Contractor's feature set?
Yes
Did Sage 100 Contractor live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Sage 100 Contractor go as expected?
No
Would you buy Sage 100 Contractor again?
Yes
Sage 100 Contractor Feature Ratings
Using Sage 100 Contractor
5 - Estimating, business development, AP, AR, and management.
2 - The IT professional must have an understanding how to upgrade software and also understand the equipment needed to support the software. The management personnel must be able to teach others how to use the software.
Management must also understand internal controls to set up security and restrict access as needed.
Management must also understand internal controls to set up security and restrict access as needed.
- job cost
- payroll processing using cost codes (streamlining)
- we use an ODBC connection to build spreadsheets that will show us "live" where we stand forecast to actual on a monthly and YTD basis
- We build an ODBC connection to the payroll records which will show management what our total labor overhead costs are by skill type. This allows us to set our hourly costs for change order work and ensure we cover all direct and indirect costs of doing business including management labor, safety training, equipment repairs, etc. These costs are indirect costs which are not posted directly to projects, but are important when calculating costs per hour per man in a given skill set.
- We woulds like to utilize estimating more broadly to import budgets and change order budgets.
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