A mid-range accounting program for both Macintosh and Windows operating systems.
Connected Accounting and ERP is a business management application designed for small to midsized companies. Connected can be deployed on traditional networks, with both Mac and/or PC clients, or in the Connected on Demand hosted cloud. The application offers exceptional audit trail and security to help save time and avoid errors in tasks like financial accounting, inventory management and production, and order entry.
Connected is offered in two configurations: Core Accounting and Enterprise. Connected Core Accounting consists of the General Ledger, Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable modules and is an ideal solution for a company looking for a financial management without any additional features or cost.
Connected Enterprise includes all core accounting options but also includes:
Distribution: Connected supports complex distribution environments, with precision inventory costing, multiple discount structures, multi-location inventory, and customer quote and order management.
Manufacturing: Detailed manufacturing with multi-leveled BOM’s, commitments, shortages, approvals, and purchasing across components or for specific manufacture work orders.
Food and Medical Supplies: Small producers and distributors of food and medical products know that the key is traceability. Easily manage your lot controlled inventory and trace it through purchasing, production, and final sale to customers.
The Connected Consolidation plugin is used for combining transactions from multiple Connected company files into a single company file from which Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Financial History, and other G/L reports can be generated. This process although tedious and error prone when performed by manually with spreadsheets, requires only a few simple clicks with the Consolidation plugin.
The Accounting module, the cornerstone of the Connected integrated software system, includes General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, and Accounts Payable. This easy-to-implement module delivers a powerful set of financial management tools. Standard features include up to eighteen open periods, profit centers and departments, and complete detailed audit trails.
The Accounting module, the cornerstone of the Connected integrated software system, includes General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, and Accounts Payable. This easy-to-implement module delivers a powerful set of financial management tools. Standard features include up to eighteen open periods, profit centers and departments, and complete detailed audit trails.
The Connected Consolidation plugin is the first in a new line of Connected add-on products designed with specific user needs in mind. In the case of the Consolidation plugin the need is for combining transactions from multiple Connected company files into a single company file from which Balance Sheet, Income Statement and other G/L reports can be generated. This process although tedious and error prone when performed by hand requires only a few simple clicks with the Consolidation plugin.
The Inventory Control module includes sales orders and purchase orders as well as full-featured multi location inventory control. Connected’s order entry and purchasing are bundled together into a single module and do not have to be purchased seperately.
Other module features include MRP reporting, FIFO costing, detailed movement tracking, and several volume and customer specific discount options. Connected’s Inventory Module is ideal for a growing distribution, light manufacturing, or retail operations.
The Job Costing module is linked to the G/L, A/R, A/P, and I/C module to give you a powerful set of costing tools. This module includes revenue and cost allocations, time sheet entry, time billing, and auto invoice creation.
Additional features include estimates with multiple revisions, multiple cost/revenue phases per job, multiple employee billing and cost rates, and expense report tracking.
Connected’s Job Costing module is a must for any time sensitive operation such as design, consulting, construction, and property management.
Core Financials is essentially a General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, and Accounts Payable. Enterprise includes more functionality.
After a lot of research and reviewing I went w/ Accountek for my ERP Software. It seems to be a Good affordable fit for me.
In comparison to other complex double entry software I used for many years (that unfortunately stopped their Mac version), I find Connected to be clunky and inelegant. I admit I have only looked at it and used it myself briefly, since it is my office manager and my bookkeeper who use it regularly, but it frustrates me way too often when I need to fill in for a vacation. For instance, California changes sales tax amounts pretty often, and I found that I had to change the sales tax in three different places for each county or city in order to complete some invoices. That seems ridiculous to me. The invoicing set up doesn’t fit our needs, so we have to do a tortured workaround to copy our invoice information and create a sales journal. We should just be able to take our invoices and enter the figures into a sales report without the needless time spent creating fake invoices that will never be sent to anyone. It would save hours. I wanted to change years ago when Account Edge appeared, but my office people were already used to Connected and we had paid for it, so they resisted, and I gave in. Now, I’m sorry I did. Connected gets the job done, but I think it’s an inelegant time waster for us, since it has not allowed us to customize invoices for our needs, and that and the details like making changes in sales tax percentages are just too time consuming.
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Inelegant, clunky, inefficient.
Great program and company does what it can to help, but it did not work out the way we hoped and we ended up spending more than we needed.
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Needed accounting but mostly what we needed was other functionalities. They really only had inventory management (in terms of what we needed) and specifically we needed to track inventory and pump out lot numbers and labels. From an accounting perspective, it was complex. We had to invest a lot into training myself to use it, and we spent a lot of money afterwards for the yearly support and calling on specific issues. At the end of the day, we still had to pay an accountant to deal with all our accounting stuff because the program itself was not simplified enough. It was too complicated for us to trust doing the accounting through the program. In terms of support we got from Connected, when we would pay for it, we’d get support. Because we were not heavy reliant on it for accounting purposes anymore, the only time we needed help was when we had an issue specific to the inventory management (3 times a year) so we stopped paying them for the yearly support. We’d still have to pay an hourly rate for phone calls with them.
Works for us, we’re happy.
Does what we need it to! Pretty happy with it!
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