Sage Construction Suite vs QuickBooks Desktop Comparison

It's specialized for the construction industry

It doesn't integrate with QuickBooks if you do a conversion

This product is great for Job cost analysis. Product allows you to get detailed information on each job/project if set up correctly.

Compared to Quickbooks this product is not user friendly. Standard reports are not built in. We spent alot of time and money to create standard reports that Quickbooks offers for free.

The software makes accounting for the construction industry very easy. We converted from QuickBooks, and there is a world of difference in what Sage 100 allows you to do vs QuickBooks.

The report writer is not especially easy to use. It could be more user-friendly to those who don't have much of a computer programing background.

Sage 100 ties your whole business together nicely in one product. Information on the areas of your business is at your fingertips

When trying to make some changes to information put into the program is often hard to do or cannot be done at all.

breadth of features accessible pricing for a mid sized construction business Microsoft products and QuickBooks integration

because of the breadth of functionality it takes some time to assimilate, specifically for estimators new to online estimating tools

Was easy for me to learn since I had been using Quickbooks for many years before this.

I found all aspects easy to learn and integrated well with payroll and all other areas of my job.

It can do progress billing, but I think pretty much every software out there does and also most customers make me bill in their portal anyways.

Because the users are so expensive and it is so user unfriendly, I enter everything that happens into this software. Have to go into every recurring invoice and put the month. (ie for the month of "august" such a pain. why can't it use a code or something. I bill on the first of every single month. for 15 years. Nobody else will learn it so they do change orders in word (no calculations) so the #'s get all messed up. We have a manual PO log because it doesn't (really) track PO's. It says it can bank rec but that has never worked.

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Sage construction software is good if you are a very large construction firm with multiple employees

Sage construction software wasn't a good fit for our little construction company that just need to use quickbooks online

since it is a licensed platform it is on my desktop and ready to use.

the reporting set ups are cumbersome. When you need to update the software, it won't work again until every license is updated here. It can be slow as well.

The software is pretty straight forward, not super complicated to deal with. As a smaller specialty subcontractor we used this and it did a great job helping us keep track of jobs, accounting, and payroll, while being able to still keep certain departmental costs split up to ensure profitability. The reporting was decently robust as well.

The software feels old and not up to par with current technologies. The database is a flat file (foxpro I believe) and although you can get data out of it via odbc connections, it leaves a lot to be desired vs a SQL database.

I have been working with the software for over 25 years and the fact that everything is integrated helps to run a drywall company much easier.

Performing the annual updates to both the server and each desktop has always been a challenge.

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The Sage Desktop makes it easy to maneuver in the software. It's fairly easy to import and export data.

Need separate software to print checks (not native to Sage). Not able to drill-down in reports. Difficulty with handling multiple users - when one user is viewing a report on screen, other users cannot login. Future period balance sheets which cross a fiscal year are difficult to create because of how retained earnings is posted. Unable to tell the current period when entering report parameters.

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Job Costing functions are great. Integration with GL is great. Payroll is smooth and easy to use. The service module works well for our paint department.

Lack of "additional features". We use a 3rd party timekeeping app. It is a silly waste of time to have to do this. Sage should easily be able to develop their own timekeeping app that does what Clock Shark does. Along with timekeeping would be a way to schedule your people to jobs. Also, I could see a total rewrite to a html/cloud base version.

The ability to work across different projects and have everything flow through to the proper financial levels.

I am not a fan of having to void incorrect transactions rather than simply correcting them. If something is not in a closed period, it should be able to be easily adjusted. The bank rec feature is not very user friendly. I can easily see non accounting professionals mess this up. The reporting functions are not that great...

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We really like Report Designer which allows us to modify the "canned reports" or create our own reports in a format we'd like to see.

It's expensive to purchase, but over the long run, it's been worth it. Not crazy about Desktop.

Job data, inventory and vendor data are all tied together so you can run job cost reports and drill into the data easily.

At the moment - limited abilities to push/pull data through API's. Payroll works well - but the one timekeeping system that has API's into Sage 100 Contractor did not work for us.

I do like that you have more lock down control than you do with Quickbooks. I also like that there are several ways to get to something.

The reports need serious improvement, and that you can't have more than one address for a vendor. I also don't like that the attachments link can be broken so easily. We got a new server and moved everything over, but it broke the links to the attachment data. Also, we purchased Sage because we were told Procore would link to everything, well, here we are 2 years later and we still cannot push invoices from Procore to Sage 100. The ability to correct some issues are difficult if not impossible.

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I like the vendor's customer service commitment; I like that they're a phone call away. I like Sage 100 Contractor because, in comparison to QuickBooks Contractor, it's a data manager of massive proportions. I never thought I'd see the day that our little company would outgrow QuickBooks, but I'm incredibly grateful for the ease of transition and the amazing intuitive forces built within Sage 100.

It takes a bit of a learning curve to adjust after so many years of a simplistic accounting system (QB), but it's well worth it for the data results we receive and the amount of time, talent, and energy saved.

I like being able to do accounting data entry for all of our companies using one screen. Unlike QuickBooks, I don't need to close down the application for each company.

AP and Billing modules don't link. I create internal billing for our sister companies using Quick Bill and then have to manually enter into AP for each company.

I would highly recommend this software for any large sized (5 million and above) construction business. It tracks your fixed assets, as well has a variety of other strong accounting functions.

This isn't exactly the most user friendly software, and alot of the times it will be people switching from Quickbooks to this software. It may have a steep learning curve.

I love being able to enter information in once and have that info available throughout the various modules.

I'd prefer to access the software in a more stable, user-friendly way than via Microsoft Remote Desktop (which is currently used).

It leaves good audit trail for everything you do. As a bookkeeper this is invaluable for reconciling (unlike Quickbooks). Versatility in Job reports and tracking so much data for making smart business decisions.

It takes a long time to become truly proficient and is not designed for people without strong accounting abilities and knowledge. Some features are not intuitive. If you need custom reports you either need to take extensive classes or pay an expert (time consuming for the first and expensive for the second).

The Employee time ttracking, the project setup, basic HR setup and employee information. It is straight forward to use.

Limited ability to make the software work for your particular processes. Link to Quickbooks, US based does not work particularly well with Canadian taxes. We have to correct for rounding errors manually.

Its a very good all in one program I haven't really has enough time to get into but it seems like it has everything we need

the uniformity of the reports, I would like to customize my reports, and use my reports to have quick links to invoices and other reports. basically i want my reports like quickbooks has them

very user friendly, easy to set up accounts, payroll is easy to use, help key is very beneficial for everyone

don't have anything against it, how can anyone not like it, I would work with quick books over any other product

The catagorizing of expenses is easy. This makes inputing what was spent very efficient. The reporting system is easy to use and allows me to see an overview of the company's health.

There isn't a way to track projects efficiently for the construction industry

Ease of use, functionality, contributes in coordinating estimating and billing. Really easy to use and learn.

Some problems with integrating with other software. We do not have a general construction management software that integrates readily.

the ease of use is the best feature. recent experience with other programs has led to this opinion

the lack of project tracking. An add on to the program that was specifically for construction management would be great

It caters to large company with inventories. Works best with companies in construction as well.

The updates are somewhat not gratifying. You need to upgrade into the latest upgrade in case you miss a feature or two if you are using a 4-year old QBD Pro software installed in your desktop.

The amount of detail that can be entered into the software as it relates to construction accounting.

The aesthetics of the interface design seem a little dated. It seems like it would make it a little more enjoyable to have a more contemporary-edgy design. Accounting is a pretty dry topic to begin with. Therefore, having a more fun and contemporary design could potentially make the accounting experience a little less dry.

We provide the infrastructure support for QB Pro. It is easy to setup and administer/backup.

Sometimes we have challenges with the app going into a single user mode and causing access problems for multiple/simultaneous users.

Easy to use. The customer support is always very helpful. I love the fact that I can use the system for accounting and payroll

does not have everything I need for invoicing construction jobs. ex: different types of invoicing for the same job with different vendors.

I find Quickbooks easy to use and mainly taught myself how to use it, with a little help. I use many types of software for our school so having something that is intuitive and not complicated is important to me.

I currently use an older one-time software purchase of Quickbooks. To buy the latest software is quite expensive. Purchasing a monthly subscription is an option but given many software have gone in that direction, it can all add up in monthly or annual fees

Very easy to input data and keep things organized. Was nice to be notified when permits or certificates expired. Very user-friendly for the payroll duties.

This software requires a lot of double data entry which takes up a lot of time. This worked when we were under 25 employees great. Once we were above that we needed to upgrade. also, with the upgrades, we usually lost our security settings for each user, opening up the ability for people to possibly view things like payroll- that was a real set back

It is very easy to use. I can set up multiple companies on the desktop version. I works well for construction businesses.

You can only use on the desktop that it was set up on. You have to make sure you back it up to save your data.

Easy to use and set up with step by step instructions. Fully integrated payroll with updates and e-filing and e-payment abilities.

Customer service not the best. Usually get someone that I don't understand or they don't understand me. Reporting not easily customizable - some limitations pertaining to construction industry

Simplicity and ease on managing finance and VAT tax return calculation. Payroll, online invoices and balance sheet creation. Bank statements reconciliation. Inventory and order management.

Personally, nothing to complain since it cut cost of hiring physical account experts and maximise account department efficiency and accuracy .