An ERP software for small to mid-sized businesses needing multi-entity, multi-lingual, and multi-currency support. Formerly Sage ERP Accpac.

Product Overview

Sage 300, previously known as ACCPAC, is an ERP software designed for small and medium-sized businesses. It offers financial and operational management, including accounts payable/receivable, general ledger, inventory control, project/job costing, and purchase order management.

This ERP system supports multi-entity, multi-location, and multi-currency operations, making it suitable for global businesses. It also integrates with Sage Intelligence for reporting and BI tools. Sage 300’s strong VAR network means it has a variety of industry-specific add-ons and tailored support services.

Pros

  • Multi-currency and multi-company support
  • Strong VAR network
  • Modules can be licensed à la carte

Cons

  • Difficult for new users; high learning curve
  • Somewhat outdated user interface
  • Some users report performance issues, especially with large datasets

Target Market

Medium-sized businesses looking for strong accounting-first modules. The average company size is 50-200 employees and revenues of 1M-10M dollars. Most users are based in the United States and Canada.

Sage 300 is an ERP software that supports multiple entities, locations, and currencies. It offers financial and operational management functionalities, including inventory control, financial reporting, and purchase order management.

Sage 300 Pricing

The median estimated spending range for buyers considering Sage 300 is $23,000. Additionally, 77% of Sage 300 reviewers report a maximum total estimated spending range in the tens of thousands of dollars for a 3-year total cost of ownership.

Select modules can be licensed à la carte. Bundle and module license costs are determined per user.

The price of Sage 300 depends on a variety of factors:

  • Required functionality (feature bundle selection)
  • User count
  • Implementation and support needs
  • Promotion eligibility
  • Vendor pricing

Customized Sage 300 pricing is available upon request.

The following chart displays a breakdown of estimated maximum spending ranges reported by software buyers who reviewed Sage 300 as a purchase option.

Target Market

Sage 300 is intended for use by small and medium-sized organizations. Based on recent review activity, the median size of organizations considering Sage 300 is 20 employees. Additionally, 57% of reviewers report evaluating the product for use in companies with 10 to 99 employees.

Additionally, this ERP system is widely applicable to numerous sectors. Its active network of ISVs and solution partners have developed add-ons to meet various industry challenges.

Other Industries: Non-Profit (5.2%), Real Estate (4.4%), Health Care (4.0%), Education (3.2%), Government (2.8%), Natural Resources (2.4%), Software Development (2.0%).

Functionality

Sage 300 includes the following core features:

Functionality Note
Accounts Payable Vendor payment automation; GL journal entry batch updates; multi-currency & multi-language check printing
Accounts Receivable A/R prepayment support; credit card processing; period end automation; user definable security authorization
Bank Reconciliation Full reconciliation audit trail; bank services security authorizations; guided reconciliation
Bill of Materials Fixed & variable cost reporting; build quantity definition
Billing Aging period definition; customer credit management; fixed price, time & materials, or cost plus project costing options
Business Intelligence Sage Intelligence integrates and is provided with a Sage 300 Business Care subscription
Cash Flow Management Bank services integration, reconciliation support, bank transfers
Commissions Management Item commission eligibility management; salesperson definable commission rates
Credit Card Processing Requires Sage Payment Solutions subscription; PA-DSS and PCI compliant
General Ledger Fiscal year definition; account segments & groups; GL security authorization control
Inventory Control FIFO, LIFO, standard, & moving average costing; serial number/lot tracking; item/SKU number customization
Job Costing Hierarchical assignment of costs project levels; burden/overhead tracking; billing integration; flexible cost category customization
Purchasing Vendor contract cost management; email integration; cost proration; returns management
Quotes Quote expiration management; quote to order conversion; customer quote history
Sales Order Management Integration with A/R for customer credit management; quote to order conversion; inventory integration; customizable fields

Key Features

Accounts Payable and Receivable

  • Control payments, organize records, and create new vendors/customers during invoice entry.
  • Drill down to transactions, import data, and schedule recurring charges.
  • Write off small balances, manage adjustments, charge interest, and track sales statistics.
  • Perform on-screen aging, review transactions, and send statements via email.
  • Generate system checks, manage prepayments, and print checks in multiple languages.

Reports include aged payables/receivables, check register, GL transactions, vendor/customer transactions.

General Ledger and Consolidations

  • Integrate financial tools, manage accounts, and schedule recurring entries.
  • Drill down to transactions, create budgets, and produce customized financial statements.
  • Print consolidated statements, merge accounts, and perform currency translations.

Reports include GL transactions listing, income statements, posting journals, trial balance, export/import audit.

Fixed Asset Management

  • Integration with Sage 300 GL.
  • Manage construction-in-progress, depreciation, and asset inventory reconciliation.

Inventory Control and Order Entry

  • Real-time data access, manage units of measure, and assign vendors.
  • Combine items into kits, manage costs and prices, and track serial/lot numbers.
  • Enter orders, shipments, and invoices; manage multiple shipments and invoices.
  • Assign sales to salespeople, set payment terms, and customize order templates.
  • Track sales commissions and serial numbers.

Reports include aged orders, sales history and statistics, salesperson commissions.

Project and Job Costing

  • Assign resources, set up estimates, and manage contracts.
  • Track costs, recognize revenue, automate billing, and manage inventory transfers.
  • Record equipment usage, manage timecards online, update revenue and cost estimates, and review project status.

Purchase Order and RMA

  • Track vendors, update purchase orders, and combine orders/invoices.
  • Use various costing methods, restrict access, and design custom forms.
  • Identify product faults, process claims, track returns, and assign RMA numbers.
  • Create sales orders for replacements and speed up data entry.

Multicurrency and Multi-Company Management

  • Analyze and report on multiple business units.
  • Set up companies in various databases.
  • Support multiple companies, languages, and currencies.

Alerts and Alerts Server

Enhance communication by monitoring data fields and automating notifications.

System Manager and Security

  • Control access to Sage 300 modules, ensuring data integrity and security management.
  • Create reports and graphs with Excel, automate bank reconciliation, and track checks.
  • Maintain tax authorities, calculate surtax, use security groups, and automate transactions.

Reports include bank transaction types, currency rates, data integrity log, bank reconciliation status, security groups.

Sage CRM and HRMS

Manage customer relationships and align people with business objectives through integrated CRM and HRMS functionalities.

Sage Intelligence

Access critical data for improved operations and strategic planning with customizable dashboards and security features.

Transaction Analysis and Optional Field Creator

Support unlimited optional fields for enhanced reporting and analysis.

US & Canadian Payroll

  • Handle employee earnings, benefits, and government reporting
  • Track benefits, deductions, earnings, and use flexible account structures.
  • Process payroll in different currencies and provide direct deposit.
  • Print government reports and handle tax calculations.

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Real World Evaluations

Explore data detailing the functional requirements, anticipated spending ranges, and company attributes of 50 businesses who recently considered purchasing Sage 300.

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User Reviews of Sage 300

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Submitted on February 22nd, 2021 by Anonymous

I use Sage ERP. It has modules for making orders, shipment and invoicing of orders. There is also an inventory module. Other modules are Accounts Receivable and Payable modules .

The Good…

I am ok with the functionalities of the modules but my biggest headache is response time from the application server. Why is Sage ERP 300 client part not working. We are all using Remote Desktop which I believe put a lot of stress on the server. We installed the web version but that one too is not working

The Bad…

Response time is bad

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Submitted on January 27th, 2021 by Danny

It’s a non-intuitive clunky system that is missing the modern features available in much cheaper solutions.

The Good…

The side-panel allows for quick navigation between modules. Recurring-transactions are a helpful feature.

The Bad…

It seems like it takes 3 steps to do what can be done in 1 step in other programs (ex: to record a transaction, you must first post it in it’s source-ledger, then a second time in the General Ledger). Can’t drill down in reports like in Quickbooks. There are 5 different places to enter transaction descriptions, and it seems like none of them show up in the GL transaction report… and our consultant has no clue how to fix that.

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Submitted on December 10th, 2020 by Anonymous

Sage promoted Sage300 as a migration path from Sage BusinessVision. Our implementation failed to launch. Sage 300 is an overpriced under featured product in comparison to the product it was trying to replace. Many extra features that were included in Sage BusinessVision where extra cost. Sage 300 does have a better relational data base than Sage BusinessVision. This was a fixable problem in BV if the developer cared. Avoid this product unless you want less performance and more accounting staff to do less.

The Good…

No much after a failed launch.

The Bad…

Add some features and provide value to customers migrating from BV

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Submitted on September 22nd, 2019 by Anonymous

It is necessary to make the printer as default.

The Good…

ORder Entry

The Bad…

day end processing

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Submitted on December 20th, 2018 by Anonymous

Good for Accounting, not so good for Estimating/Takeoffs

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Submitted on October 15th, 2018 by Anonymous

I love the Sage 300 solution. It’s a great solution and I’ve used it for 9 years

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Submitted on December 12th, 2017 by George S

We have about 13 companies. We picked 3 of the smaller ones and implemented Sage 300 for them. Sage 300 has been working for a year now. We are probably about 2 weeks away from going live with payroll for the companies and will eventually be rolling out Sage 300 for all 13 companies combined.

The Good…

Nothing really.

The Bad…

I probably would have gone with something else. When I went through our provider, at the end of the day, they are consultants. They’ll introduce you, they’ll sell you the system, and then when it was time to implement and build, it was “ok I’ll show you 1 or 2 steps and then I’ll give you homework”. For the most part, if you are trying to learn something, what they are doing was showing us how to build a system from scratch. None of my staff is capable to handle that with our day to day work. All we wanted was a company to bill us and train us and we can go from there. But since we already had the solution in place, there wasn’t much we could do (except train ourselves). Now when we get ready to add this software for the rest of our entities, we are going to bypass the consultants and go to Sage directly to get this set up. The provider took almost a year, but Sage directly only took a few weeks to get back to us with answers.

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Submitted on December 12th, 2017 by Anonymous

We strictly use it for payroll. The integration has changed all of our manual processes. The bank reconciliation and customizing of the code on it is great. Our provider helped set all of that up and we are happy with it thus far.

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Submitted on October 25th, 2017 by Anonymous

We were coming from QB desktop. It wasn’t a full ERP suite so when we went to Sage 300 the ERP suite of it was definitely helping our business in growth in the future.

The Good…

Does what we are looking for it to do. It’s flexible and allows you to add components to it and it seems forward thinking enough. Overall it’s achieving what we thought it would for our company.

The Bad…

I will say in a lot of ways, Sage 300 is similar to some of those bigger systems like SAP in regards of it’s not very intuitive. It’s a bit archaic in the structure of it and it’s a little bit more frustrating going from a system like QB to this ERP. We didn’t know to expect that (more complexity and more cumbersome of a system to use).

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Submitted on October 25th, 2017 by Anonymous

So far so good. Halfway through; we have the ERP up and running and are working on CRM implementation.

The Good…

Traceability and audit trail. We are liking the CRM (at least how it looks) in terms of visualization for our sales staff.

The Bad…

They don’t mention the add-ons that will be needed upfront. It’s a lot of added purchases that you don’t think of when budgeting. And a handful of them are from third-parties.

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Submitted on January 29th, 2015 by Anonymous

Very flexible and easy to use system as long as you understand accounting. I would recommend this to any larger company that needs more the QuickBooks can provide

The Good…

Very strongly supported with excellent training available online

The Bad…

Step by step guide would be nice for new users

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Submitted on August 21st, 2014 by Anonymous

dont like anything about this company and this program. it is NOT user friendly at all

The Good…

for new users this software is VERY Difficult to understand and use. How about some GREAT and easy to follow training? THe gal that we paid over a lot of money to install and teach the program gets an F-. She did NOT teach this software to the one who needs it the most. She spoke way too fast and it was very difficult to understand. NO printed materials were given out. This would have been most helpful.

The Bad…

it is NOT easy to follow. THe help pages offer no help. How come there is no on line support for this very very expensive system? I know how expensive it is since I cut the check.

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Submitted on January 31st, 2014 by Jeremy

We purchased accounts receivable software for managing customer accounts, sending invoices/statements, accepting cash or credit card payments.

The Good…

It seemed very versatile and customizable

The Bad…

The interface seems a bit outdated but more or less inline with its competitors or better. It seems nobody has brought web2.0 us to full featured accounting software as of yet.

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Submitted on December 16th, 2013 by Anonymous

provides the necessary management of our data as expected

The Good…

easy to use

The Bad…

None

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Submitted on December 16th, 2013 by John

it is gl accounting package with sufficient detail at transactional level for us to manage a/p a/r and P&L mgmt.

The Good…

Transactional detail and ties with our existing systems in UK

The Bad…

too early to tell have not implemented yet