Sage 100 Contractor

Moving from Quickbooks to Sage has been an awesome experience. We have found the interface much easier to use and the overall set up has been amazing. Sage has walked us through every step of the process and though it hs been a lot of learning, they have assured that we have all the tools to get the answers we need. If I have any questions and need to call them, they are always available.

Hard audit trail, but archaic platform and their support has gone way down in quality over the years.

I would rather use ANY other software besides Sage. It is horrible. I do not like one single thing about it.

Too many clicks to do a simple entry. Going back to Quickbooks Contractor. So much easier to find history, entering data, payroll…everything about QB is so much better than Sage…Sage is a Horrible program…

When you compare Sage 100 vs the others we evaluated, it had as many or more features for a comparative price.

I prefer Quickbooks. Things aren’t going smoothly with this program. It’s not a forgiving software. The way we were set up ended up in the consultants benefit as they had to customize everything to get it how we needed it (i.e. $$$). We are in Toronto and the consultant we were working with was in Minnesota, so overall not the best fit. From my perspective, no good qualities stood out. I prefer Quickbooks. We were requested to upgrade to an ERP and this was what we selected based on our review of options. The whole set up from start to finish was not very smooth and our provider did not give us an adequate consultant for the process. Things took a long time.

I don’t like the way it handles the pay codes. It’s very ignorant. Software I helped design back in 1982 did it way better. Other than that, I like it pretty well. We are working in 5 different locals and our guys work at 2 or 3 different rates based on the work we are doing. I have had to set up 50 or 60 codes to use for the payroll. It’s too time consuming; you almost have to train someone to do it. That’s my opinion. All they have to do is tie the pay-rates that would be applying to that job, so when a job is set up, you can easily pull that info for payroll. I can not believe no one has done that with this program.

Owner is always in contact with someone from Sage for issues. Take that as you will.

I hated it. It was way too complex to be honest. I am used to more basic Windows type stuff, and this was taking it back a few years (like software that was from 20 years ago). It was not so much of point and click… there was too much programming I had to do to make it work. I needed a load-and-go program, and not something that I needed to hire an individual to help get it up and running.

I love it. It does everything I need it to do. It job costs, it’s easy to work with. And I am very happy that we went with this system.

We use it for straight accounting and job costing. No estimates or add-ons.

It’s not the most user-friendly, had to invest a lot of time in training. That was a big pain in the butt. My controller uses it primarily for general accounting and estimating/job-costing.

Sage 100 fits most of our needs and we are adapting to it. There is a big learning curve for reporting and form building, which we are working on.

Sage 100 Contractor is user friendly and was a breeze to figure out. I have rarely had to call for support. I am the controller for a GC and I, as well as the project managers, have been very happy with this program.

see #4

I found it to be user friendly and very easy to work with

We are a restoration company, not strictly builders and we work with insurance company’s and insurance claims and it would be nice to have some feature built into the software as far as the insurance company that we work with to see where the work comes from.

Some of the features we would like it to have would be online banking.