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25 reviewers had the following to say about Aplos Accounting's features:
Some things I like best: *easy to use *the "dashboard" gives a quick read on finances at a glance *fund-based accounting makes it easy to track various donations *customer service is excellent *cloud-based design makes access easy from anywhere Things I would like to see improved: *I would love to be able to integrate payroll with Aplos *Report can be customized, but not always as much as we would like Overall, this is an excellent product for the value and I would recommend it to anyone starting out.
Pros
Ease of use Fund-based accounting Cloud-based design Scalable Excellent customer support
Cons
Wish it included payroll integration Would like to be able to customize reports more
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Hoping for a more robust Contacts module (email, texting, more information tracking) in the future!
Pros
Great reporting. Easy to use.
Cons
The Contacts module is very limited - would be great to have more contact management tools (email, texting, grouping, tracking) so that we wouldn't have to have a separate software for that.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Aplos Accounting
Please look into improving Contacts management.
Aplos is perfect for the small to a medium-sized church that handles their finances via committee. The controls are intuitive, the reports are straightforward.
Pros
Reports are easy, data entry is easy, reconciling is easy.
Cons
In order to track who gives what, you will need to duplicate your entire database of people into it first, then maintain the duplication.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Aplos Accounting
If you don't need it to tie into an already existing database of people, run to Aplos as fast as you can. It's wonderful.
Buy this software for your church!
Pros
Menu layout; integration between accounting and contributions; like the ability to enter a person in contribution management and it automatically gets entered in people database; reports are what I need; flexibility in making improvements to the system; they listen well; ease of use, don't necessarily have to be a CPA to use it.
Cons
the refreshing after entering a transaction takes 2 or 3 seconds instead of a split second :-)
Rating breakdown
Thanks for the positive feedback, William. We have done a lot of work since your original comment to improve the speed of the software, so I hope it is now lightening fast for you.
We switched from QuickBooks Non Profit to Aplos last year and haven't looked back!
We run most of our invoicing through AP and Aplos does not have a strong tie between AP and payments, making it cumbersome to pay multiple invoices with one check.
Pros
The dashboard is very powerful and provides a lot of data up front.
Cons
Some navigation is awkward (like entering Percentage before Amount in AP, needing to click multiple + signs to expand sections in some reports, and having to enter each dollar amount to pay bills when the full amount should be the default).
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Aplos Accounting
Small non-profits will probably really like this software, but I think it still needs a few bells and whistles to be useful to medium-sized businesses.
Aplos support staff have been over-the-top and better-than-expected helpful, from initial import or data to addressing specific features we wanted.
Pros
Non-profit structure, multiple seat accessibility online, online giving integration, Form 990 head start
Cons
Ability to contact Donors individually or as selected segments or as a whole is missing.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Aplos Accounting
Aplos is the best choice among other similar products out there. They are working to improve features and are responsive to customer concerns. Price point is or could be an issue.
Pros
The customizable reports and standard reports make this the flexible program we need around here.
Cons
BUT, it's simple to download transactions to a file and import that file into Aplos.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
I would recommend it to anyone who needs both an accounting and donor management solution for their non-profit organization.
We were looking for a program for our nonprofit that would provide a customer records management system, accounting system and credit card processing.
Pros
Affordability, ease of use and AWESOME customer service.
Cons
We haven't had a chance to check out all the programs or to run reports yet. So far everything is working well.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Aplos Accounting
Check it out - Aplos gives a free trial and they give a 50% discount if you purchase the software during the free trial period.
For some of the reports I have to export the data and manipulate it in excel to get Debit and Credit Columns on reports that would usually have that info.
Pros
Ease of use
Cons
Reporting is not very detailed You can not manipulate the reports to get info you need
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Aplos Accounting
If you have simple accounting needs this software works great... especially for the price!
Pros
Great product, for nonprofits looking for a full financial management and accounting software!
Cons
When integrating for each account, I have to keep making sure it's on the right account if I go from transaction to integration.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Monthly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
Although this is a fully featured double-entry bookkeeping system, it is very easy for non-accountants to understand and use.
Cons
I would like more flexibility in reporting, in particular the ability to customize the layout of printed reports.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Aplos Accounting
Use the free trial offer, and play with it using some of your own data.
Understanding flow of fund accounting.
Pros
Nothing to say. Dashboard is nice, if the data is correct and updated.
Cons
They develop updates and implement them without knowing how it could impact the user and the users data that is imported through an API. Just started with at at the beginning of 2017 and am already considering looking for another software.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
As a new client, the product and technical support to become familiarized with implementing this software has been superior, especially as compared to their competing vendors whom I've had to contact in this respect while in the process of evaluating which product best serves our needs.
Pros
Personally, the most appealing feature of this company's software is the attractive format in which all information is presented, along with the flexibility to analyze and report specific financial data that is compatible with what I've become familiarized with using previous methods of performing these tasks.
Cons
It does not offer all of the customization options I would like to have available for our reporting and accounting purposes.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
As someone who has been afraid of setting up a chart of accounts, I am so glad that we picked Aplos. I feel like we are going to be able to organize and present our finances so much more professionally than ever before.
Pros
Aplos has many good Introductory materials, and does a lot to help you get set up. There is also good customer support, and helpful webinars for when questions do arise.
Cons
Aplos doesn't integrate with a number of applications, which would be helpful such as payroll, or most Donor Management platforms.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Aplos makes is easy for us to track and keep donor information
Pros
It can track giving records from week-to-week and generate year-end giving statements.
Cons
I wish the giving statements were easily customizable. They look good, but it would be great for us if we could customize them.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
I really like how flexible and customizable it is!
Cons
I do wish the reporting and descriptive graphics were a little more dynamic.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
It integrates donation management with accounting so I'm not having to use two systems.
Cons
And they charge a premium to be able to access some functions that feel as basic as what is included in QuickBooks software.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Monthly
Likelihood to recommend
I find this accounting program easy to understand and use.
Pros
Easy transaction entries, I like the duplication of entry feature. Reconciliation is easy and fast.
Cons
When I enter an online payment it puts it in the check register and I can't remove it from the list.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
We switched to Aplos in February, the support as we transitioned was amazing.
Pros
Web based, true fund accounting, great customer service, the reports are easy to read and understand, everything is real time.
Cons
The only con I can think of is the reconciliation screen is not as customizable as I would have liked.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
Accounting, credit card processing, year-end tax statements, donor communication, fund management.
Cons
There is no function to create a deposit slip for the bank. I'm told they are working on it. Sometimes the navigation between functions is a little inconvenient. We had used quickbooks for many years and I like this product so much better for fund accounting.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Aplos Accounting
Make good use of the free trial period. Ask questions--the support team is very helpful and open to suggestions.
Even with the bank integration issues with some of my clients and the lack of apps that connect, I still highly recommend this awesome accounting and donation tracking software!
Pros
I love the "tags" for tracking fundraisers, programs, projects, etc.
Cons
Not very applications integrate with it such as Hubdoc and Bill.com that I use with my bookkeeping clients.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
The platform is easy to navigate through and good customization. It's also cloud based so it can be accessed anywhere
Cons
I sometimes find that the reporting options are limited compared to competitor software.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Anytime I have contacted the company I have received excellent help.
Pros
Has all of the reports I need even for the contribution reports for taxes.
Cons
Some times I get lost in all of the reports because there are so many.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering Aplos Accounting
This company is so easy to work with. Give them at least a trial I think you will love it!
