Sage Intacct vs. Sage Accounting

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Sage Intacct
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Sage Intacct is a cloud ERP system targeted at high-growth small and medium-sized businesses. Intacct includes applications for core financials and accounting, purchasing, order management, and financial reporting and business intelligence. It also integrates with 3rd party software like Salesforce.N/A
Sage Accounting
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
Sage Accounting is online accounting software made to simplify life for small business owners, entrepreneurs, and freelancers by providing the functions needed to take care of daily business to-dos. Users can create and send professional quotes and invoices, track income and expenses and know where the business' financials stand. Every Sage Business Cloud Accounting subscription includes unlimited access to support as well as automatic backups and product updates.N/A
Pricing
Sage IntacctSage Accounting
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Sage IntacctSage Accounting
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsMust contact sales team for pricing.Versions and pricing listed are for CA products. Versions available and pricing may vary by country. * 2 months free to start, or free for 1 month to try, then $19/$43/$62 +tax/mo (tier depending). Offer valid for new customers only on monthly subscriptions of Sage Business Cloud Accounting. After the promotional period, the monthly subscription rate will renew at the then current rate. May not be combined with any other offers or discounts. To ensure continuous service the subscription plan is an automatically renewing plan. Subsequent months will automatically be billed to the same credit card each month on the anniversary date of purchase. Plans can be terminated at any time prior to the renewal data and not charged for renewal.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Sage IntacctSage Accounting
Considered Both Products
Sage Intacct
Chose Sage Intacct
Sage Intacct is much better than Sage One in many ways. Sage One did not have the option for multiple branches. Sage One did not have built in communities for messaging specific departments. Sage One had a very user friendly dashboard which made viewing sales reports on graphs …
Chose Sage Intacct
I was not the one who selected it but I am the employee who uses it all day long every day, and I can say this is the easiest system to learn and get around in that I have every used in my 20plus years of doing A/P
Sage Accounting

No answer on this topic

Features
Sage IntacctSage Accounting
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Sage Intacct
7.0
Ratings
10% below category average
Sage Accounting
9.3
Ratings
18% above category average
Pay calculation7.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Benefit plan administration6.40 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Direct deposit files7.10 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management6.90 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Reimbursement management7.80 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Sage Intacct
7.9
Ratings
3% above category average
Sage Accounting
8.6
Ratings
12% above category average
API for custom integration8.10 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Plug-ins7.80 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Sage Intacct
8.8
Ratings
5% above category average
Sage Accounting
9.7
Ratings
15% above category average
Single sign-on capability8.80 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Role-based user permissions8.70 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Sage Intacct
7.9
Ratings
0% above category average
Sage Accounting
9.3
Ratings
16% above category average
Dashboards7.70 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Standard reports8.10 Ratings9.80 Ratings
Custom reports8.10 Ratings9.70 Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Product A and Product B
Sage Intacct
8.1
Ratings
4% above category average
Sage Accounting
9.1
Ratings
16% above category average
Accounts payable8.50 Ratings9.80 Ratings
Accounts receivable8.30 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Cash management8.10 Ratings9.80 Ratings
Bank reconciliation7.90 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Expense management8.20 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Time tracking7.80 Ratings6.60 Ratings
Fixed asset management8.00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Multi-currency support8.30 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Multi-division support8.80 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Regulations compliance7.80 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Electronic tax filing7.20 Ratings9.70 Ratings
Self-service portal7.50 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Global Financial Support8.10 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Intercompany Accounting8.70 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Journals and Reconciliations8.70 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Enterprise Accounting8.30 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Configurable Accounting8.00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Centralized Rules Framework8.00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Standardized Processes8.30 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Primary and Secondary Ledgers00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Localizations00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Inventory Management
Comparison of Inventory Management features of Product A and Product B
Sage Intacct
6.6
Ratings
11% below category average
Sage Accounting
6.9
Ratings
6% below category average
Inventory tracking7.50 Ratings6.70 Ratings
Automatic reordering5.50 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Location management8.30 Ratings5.70 Ratings
Manufacturing module5.20 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Order Management
Comparison of Order Management features of Product A and Product B
Sage Intacct
7.7
Ratings
0% below category average
Sage Accounting
8.2
Ratings
6% above category average
Pricing8.10 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Order entry8.20 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Credit card processing7.70 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Cost of goods sold6.30 Ratings7.60 Ratings
End-to-end order visibility8.10 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Order Orchestration00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Order exception Resolution00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Sage IntacctSage Accounting
Small Businesses
QuickBooks Self-Employed (discontinued)
QuickBooks Self-Employed (discontinued)
Score 8.9 out of 10
QuickBooks Self-Employed (discontinued)
QuickBooks Self-Employed (discontinued)
Score 8.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Zoho Books
Zoho Books
Score 8.9 out of 10
Zoho Books
Zoho Books
Score 8.9 out of 10
Enterprises
Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
Score 10.0 out of 10
Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
Score 10.0 out of 10
All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
User Ratings
Sage IntacctSage Accounting
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(0 ratings)
9.9
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.9
(0 ratings)
8.5
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(0 ratings)
9.9
(0 ratings)
Availability
7.2
(0 ratings)
8.7
(0 ratings)
Performance
7.0
(0 ratings)
9.2
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.8
(0 ratings)
9.9
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.2
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Online Training
2.0
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.8
(0 ratings)
9.5
(0 ratings)
Configurability
7.1
(0 ratings)
9.2
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
10.0
(0 ratings)
9.3
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.3
(0 ratings)
8.8
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
7.0
(0 ratings)
9.3
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.3
(0 ratings)
9.3
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Sage IntacctSage Accounting
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well-suited for nonprofit accounting with its ability to track expenses and revenues by both department and funding source. It is easy to set up vendors and customers for invoices and bill payments. It is less appropriate for proper budget management and purchasing with multiple approvers, particularly when edits are required.
Read full review
Pastel also helps users to save time when it comes to bank and supplier reconciliations. Capturing into pastel is also easy. The merit of pastel is that it is very efficient and simplifies most of the financial accounting and human resource management tasks. I have discovered that some long batches (more than 2000), if posted during peak hours, tend to fail during posting and resume later, but at this point, doubling, trebling, or even quadrupling transactions.
Read full review
Pros
  • Custom, real-time financial reporting. I am able to streamline my reporting to pull in various account groups and calculations which save me time from having to do it in Excel.
  • Out of the box standard reports for clients who don't require as custom of reporting or even as a great starting point to build out reports.
  • Integrations with other platforms, such as Airbase, various banks, Rippling, etc.
  • The dashboard module is extremely helpful in my monthly review of various entities.
Read full review
  • Bank integration - being able to extract banking transaction into Sage Accounting.
  • Allocation rules - transactions are auto-allocated once allocation rules have been set up. This is a great time-saver.
  • Flexibility - the ability to view transactions, click on them to the allocation point and rectifying if required saves having to create journals, and therefore time. General ledgers therefore stay cleaner and more user-friendly.
Read full review
Cons
  • Downloading bill register reports for all the entities at the top level would be helpful.
  • An increase in the Time frame of the Auto-Log out feature for security will be helpful.
  • I think there is some room in the automation part that can be improved.
Read full review
  • I find it difficult to record journals in cloud accounting. Maybe I just don’t have the knowledge.
  • It’s important to export all unrecorded sync bank transactions to Excel to send to clients to explain the payment receipts before being posted. This function is not available on the cloud and makes life harder, having to call out the transactions to clients over the phone.
Read full review
Likelihood to Renew
Sage Intacct continues to well-satisfy our needs and is an easy-to-use product. Service reliability has been excellent. The ability to integrate Sage Intacct with best-in-class companion products that handle expense reporting, budgeting, etc... makes Sage Intacct an excellent value. We continue to be extremely well-satisfied with the results and performance of our experience using Sage Intacct.
Read full review
I could not live without Sage Accounting, it has become an integral part of my everyday. The more I have used Sage Accounting the more I have fallen in love with it. I am excited to be part of this ever-evolving accounting system that has grown from strength to strength, making life easier is something Sage does so well.
Read full review
Usability
The ease of use as a seasoned user is wonderful; however, new users struggle to adapt to the program efficiently. Better training videos--all in one location--would be beneficial. The use of a "sandbox" environment is a great tool for new employees or for the fiscal department to test certain journal entries or other transactions to verify accuracy of data.
Read full review
Sage Accounting is built for the business owner/user and not the accountant, it therefore guides the user and thus detailed accounting knowledge and experience is not a necessarily a prerequisite . It offers a monthly price and therefore no significant up front spend and it tailorable to your business with useful dashboards that again you can tailor to instantly see what's important to you.
Read full review
Reliability and Availability
There has only been one occurrence where Sage Intacct was not available to me, however I had already been working a number of hours trying to get a project completed. It honestly allowed me to step back and take a much needed break.
Read full review
Sage has been always available when I want it. If there is any maintenance work to be done by the Sage team, you are told well in advance. Maintenance is generally carried out late at night or before the day begins for most of us. It continues to be the most reliable software I use.
Read full review
Performance
As fas as integration is concerned I don't feel this slows Sage Intacct down at all. However, sometimes I do feel it takes some larger reports more time to load due to all the detail. As well as, I "move very fast" in my motions so sometimes I double click on fuctions too quickly and the system seems to think that I have a duplicate request.
Read full review
Performance is top notch, if it is not, it is probably your wi-fi connection. It has happened that pages load slowly because of an error on Sage side but almost never. Overall reports load fine, the site is fast, navigation is fine. I have a client that has so many invoices, it is slow or gets stuck when you try to load a report for a whole year but it is just too many invoices, it makes sense. Just take 2 report for 6 months and combine them, its not an issue for me. I am happy with Sage Accounting's performance.
Read full review
Support Rating
Only a few times have we had to reach out to support, and every time we did, we received a relatively quick response and a solution was found fairly quickly. Only once was there an issue that took longer than a week to resolve, but it still did eventually get solved.
Read full review
The support is world class - never ever during 30 plus years in business I have received such helpful, knowledgeable and genuine support as I have from Sage. At Sage people matter and i can chat to someone safe in the knowledge that they will actually listen and assist. This also backed up by huge online portfolio of help and resources
Read full review
In-Person Training
I have taken in person training classes at several of the annual Sage Intacct user conferences. It is very interactive and the trainers are very easy to follow and understand. They are great at getting everyone in the class involved. They also make sure everyone has learned to task before moving to a new one.
Read full review
Staff are always friendly, and patient, always work at a speed that suits you. You are never rushed, and In only a short time they seem to be able to help you make great strides. It has been a pleasure not a chore, learning how SAGE Accounting works and benefits me and the company.
Read full review
Online Training
The free training is very minimal. For what we pay for the service, I would like more training. We end up training new users in-house because the provided free training is not nearly comprehensive enough. That being said, the training provided, for the material covered, was adequate and relevant for the given topics.
Read full review
I find the online training was very informative and they answered all my questions. I am also certified in Sage One and provided online training in the program which I have set up several people on and they love how it keeps them organized.
Read full review
Implementation Rating
I would not use a thrid party administrator to implement your system, especially if you are going to be modifying the system at all. Use Intacct implementors as they will be able to better support you on any issues that come up after you go live.
Read full review
The clients' business owner worked with Sage on implementation before I began working for them. After consultation with them it is clear the process was quickly performed and without complication. The key takeaway was that Sage is seen as a partner to the business. That said, it was always necessary to engage with an accountant such as myself to extract the best out of the software.
Read full review
Alternatives Considered
As a CPA in public accounting, I was exposed to many systems. I was in on the ground floor with the implementation of NetSuite for a client; it was clunky, the reporting was ugly, and it wasn’t user friendly. Sage Intacct is a great option for mid-size organizations who have outgrown Quickbooks.
Read full review
The first integration we had created for our product was with QuickBooks Online. There was a fair amount of work put in to create this solution, and a huge amount of testing to make sure it works properly. Once Sage Accounting had an API available for integration, we included this as well, as a fair number of our customers use Sage products. While there were challenges coming from the difference between product APIs, Sage Accounting was overall easier to implement, and more straightforward with actions and expected outcomes.
Read full review
Scalability
There is so much that we have yet to learn with and about Sage Intacct, I am excited for the future.
Read full review
You can use Sage in your company for various aspects/positions such as bookkeepers, invoicing clerks, accountant, purchasing etc. Everyone can have their own user login and permissions can be set that specific people can do specific jobs without being able to access other peoples progress or accounts of the company.
Read full review
Return on Investment
  • Sage Intacct has made a very positive impact to our business objectives; it has provided strong ROI through automation features that reduce manual data input and associated risk of error, enhancing accuracy and operational efficiency.
  • It empowers us to make data-driven decisions that further refine our strategic plan by bettering the process of financial close with real-time and detailed reporting.
  • This also extends to multi-entity management, which eased consolidation and thus supported growth and scaling. This feature-rich software finally serves to drive productivity further and facilitate resource usage.
Read full review
  • Being cloud-based, meaning I can work from anywhere, has had a massive ROI, as I am no longer tied to the office.
  • CoPilot has meant we can spend more hours creating work for our business than chasing for payments.
  • Statement Runs mean we do not have to spend half a day carrying out the tasks individually.
Read full review
ScreenShots

Sage Intacct Screenshots

Screenshot of Accounts Receivable: Automate accounts receivable processes.Screenshot of Revenue Recognition: Automated and compliant revenue recognition with complete support for ASC 606 and IFRS 15.Screenshot of Real-Time Reporting: Real-time reporting with up-to-minute financials across multiple business dimensions. Show only the metrics that matter based on the user viewing the dashboard.Screenshot of the times and expense management dashboard, which is customized to reflect the user's role, displaying relevant information that aligns with their position, thereby presenting each individual with the data most pertinent to their responsibilities.Screenshot of the detailed company metrics used to forecast business growth.Screenshot of the order management workflows, which are automated to accelerate quote-to-cash sales

Sage Accounting Screenshots

Screenshot of the All-in-One DashboardScreenshot of the Accounting DashboardScreenshot of an Invoicing Quote EstimateScreenshot of the Purchases TrackerScreenshot of Stock InventoryScreenshot of a VAT Returns List