Sage 100 Contractor

Score5.7 out of 10

48 Reviews and Ratings

What is Sage 100 Contractor?

Sage 100 Contractor is a construction accounting and project management software. It is intended to provide primary accounting and other management capabilities across a construction project lifecycle, including estimating, service management, and reporting.

Categories & Use Cases

Construction Management

Support for external payroll vendors
Support for external payroll vendors is the ability to integrate with 3rd-party payroll services.
Category average: 7.8
Salary revision and increment management
Salary revision is the ability to modify individual employee pay.
Category average: 7.9
Plan distribution & viewing
Users can compare different versions of plans, and view live updates/revisions to plans (usually from a mobile device in the field).
Category average: 8.5

Change orders
A change order (or variation order) is a component of the change management process in which changes in the scope of work (or project brief) agreed to by the client, contractor and architect are implemented.
Category average: 7.9
Issue tracking & punchlists
Users can track issues from the field, and create punchlists upon substantial completion.
Category average: 8.2
Takeoff tools
Allow users to list the materials and quantities they will need for the project either manually from hardcopy blueprints or electronically from digital blueprints.
Category average: 7.4

#1 most frequent

Construction

58.7%

253 installations of 431

#2 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

8.1%

35 installations of 431

#3 most frequent

Manufacturing

6.5%

28 installations of 431

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Finance and Accounting (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Sage 100 Contractor with our independent contractors to assist them with financial management of their construction projects. The robust reporting that Sage 100 Contractor provides allows our IC's more improved job costing, accounts payables and receivables reporting, and subcontractor management. Sage 100 Contractor has improved our teams productivity supporting IC's.

Pros

Job Costing
Budgeting
Subcontractor Management
Estimating Jobs

Cons

Software maybe be too complicated for smaller contractors
The dashboard information my be a bit much for some users
Still an on premise software without a cloud option

Return on Investment

Improves our productivity
Reporting on jobs time cut by 30%
IC's have better handle on finances thus making us the trusted advisor

Usability

Alternatives Considered

QuickBooks Desktop Premier and QuickBooks Online Advanced

Other Software Used

QuickBooks Online Advanced, Xero, Zoho Books

Paul Goetz

Project Manager at Patriot Electric (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Sage 100 Contractor for all the accounting, invoicing, estimation, reporting. It was ok at first but the more we set it up, the more we started to run into issues.

Pros

General Accounting
Reports

Cons

Estimation
Payroll
Time card
Takeoffs
Job Cost tracking
Phone integration

Return on Investment

Bad product
Requires other software

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Contractor Foreman and Jobber

Other Software Used

MSCTIME, Microsoft Excel, Sage 50

Matthew Diluzio View profile

CFO in Finance and Accounting at Silverwood Landscape Construction (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Sage 100 Contractor for accounting, project management, purchasing, and payroll. We love that it does all of that and more in one easy-to-use program with great support.

Further, Sage 100 Contractor is built on SQL, allowing custom connections and reporting, enabling us to maximize our utilization by creating apps catering to our unique needs.

Pros

Payroll
Project Management
Purchasing (with added customization)
Support
Reporting

Cons

Progress Billing (3-7 Menu) needs a complete overhaul. It is missing modern functionality, connections to 3rd party billing platforms like Textura and Procore, and it has minor bugs that we have to contact support for because there are no workarounds.
Payroll is also somewhat anchored in the past. Payroll records are not calculated automatically; meaning that extra steps are needed in order to process payroll. These extra steps make troubleshooting slow and add waste to the DB because a new records are needed in order to view different payroll scenarios, particularly when processing bonus and employee reimbursements.
Purchasing (within both Estimating and PM) and project management both could use more integration with each other. For instance, change orders do not support database parts from purchasing which would help when creating a CO budget within Sage 100 Contractor. Purchasing is missing the functionality of importing a vendor price list and assigning both price and the vendor's part number to parts within Sage 100 Contractor. This has to be done manually or via a custom SQL import script.

Return on Investment

Through the custom reporting tool, we have been able to give our PM team reporting that allows them to view up to date costs along with budget projections and other relevant information leading to improved invoicing and reduced WIP liability.
Sage 100 Contractor is a lot more streamlined and easy to teach than previous ERPs leading to both employee retention and reduced difficulty in attracting talent.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

ViewPoint and Acumatica

Other Software Used

Oracle Textura Payment Management, Procore

Heather Bala View profile

HR Administrator in Human Resources at Positive Energy NY LLC (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

Reports
Payroll
Invoicing

Cons

Some of the tax calculations, payroll steps had to be sorted out
System glitches - sometimes boots you out of the system

Return on Investment

Our payroll process is more time consuming now versus with previous vendor

Alternatives Considered

QuickBooksPOS

Verified User

Employee in Finance and Accounting (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Sage 100 Contractor used on a daily basis. I love the support they provide. Turnaround time is quite short. I have one rep that I e-mail and she usually responds within 24 hours. I have not had very many issues that could not be fixed right away. The rep that we had helped us through an upgrade and fixed little issues right away. These little issues were not very significant. The representative also gave recommendations on speeding up our system by archiving files that had not been archived since the program was installed. The representative looked around and suggested ways to streamline processes which I was not aware of.

Pros

Reports are easy to read.
Recurring Journal Entries are easy to set up.
Bank Reconciliations are clear and concise.

Cons

Reports are not always easy to export to Excel worksheets.
Reports sometimes do not fit all on one pages...columns too wide.

Sage 100 Contractor

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Categories & Use Cases