What is our primary use case?
Sage Intacct serves as our main accounting system for accounts receivable, accounts payable, inter-company reconciliation, global group consolidations, and banking reconciliation for treasury reporting. We are also creating many custom reports within the system.
A specific example of how I use Sage Intacct in my daily work is that the Accounts Payable team books AP bills by receiving invoices from vendors and booking them with approval while mapping the purchase orders as well. The AR team performs customer billing into Sage Intacct, and whenever they receive payments, they apply them to the respective invoices. Later in the month-end closing and reporting phase, the team conducts bank reconciliations along with performing other main closing entries or daily accounting transactions.
What is most valuable?
One of the best features Sage Intacct offers is the auto-match function with bank reconciliations because some of our group companies are into collections. We have numerous bank amounts within transactions, and this auto-match feature is extremely helpful for matching hundreds of bank transactions daily within the system. Additionally, Sage Intacct has proven to be flexible and user-friendly across various domains for AP and AR, and the control points within the system ensure that our audits are conducted smoothly and effectively with minimal questions from the auditor.
Sage Intacct has positively impacted our organization by being flexible and easy to use. Everyone working on Sage Intacct has an accounting background, and they are able to use it with minimal training because of its user-friendly interface. This system has reduced our reliance on human effort through automation, such as automated revenue schedules that recognize revenue automatically once we set up a template in the sales invoice. The same applies to AP bills, where the system picks invoice attributes directly from the invoice image, making our AP bill processing smoother and enhancing quality since we can focus more on quality controls rather than postings.
Sage Intacct assists with regulatory compliance and audit requirements in our organization by being user-friendly. The system supports audit requirements well because it complies with SOC 1 and SOC 2 reports. Our accounting audits benefit from the robust system controls, backup methods, and data security, making any request for audit trails readily available. Data remains safe, and audits proceed smoothly. Additionally, the fixed-asset module and automated revenue recognition align with ASC 606, effectively easing our audit requirements.
What needs improvement?
There are a few small things I have observed that Sage Intacct could improve, such as the ability to categorize customers or vendors, but when running aging reports, it does not allow running aging for categorized types. For instance, there are inter-company vendors and trade vendors, and the trade vendors can have sub-categories such as legal vendors, lease vendors, utility vendors, rental vendors, professional services, and audit services. When we sub-categorize these types of vendors under trade vendors, the system does not allow us to run aging exclusively for trade vendors. This is one example of a small change that could enhance the system.
I would suggest that Sage Intacct provide more content regarding integrations, specifically example videos for integrating with major players such as Salesforce. Short examples demonstrating integration processes of approximately 20 minutes would be particularly useful. On the reporting front, while Sage Intacct's reporting capabilities are good and include a paid module, any enhancements in this area would certainly add value.
I chose 8.5 as my rating for Sage Intacct because there is a good utility example from QuickBooks. In QuickBooks, when creating a vendor transaction, if you need to refund the vendor, you can track all transactions under one record. Unfortunately, in Sage Intacct, we lack this facility. There are several minor improvements that could be addressed in future updates, and while Sage Intacct is an excellent tool, it is not yet near perfection.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working here since June 2010, so it has been more than 14 years that I have worked with Sage Intacct.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Sage Intacct is indeed stable, and I do not encounter any major issues or even the slightest problems with it.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability of Sage Intacct is commendable.
How are customer service and support?
I find that customer support from Sage Intacct could be quicker; however, our reseller has provided excellent service in this regard.
I would rate the customer support from Sage Intacct a 3 or 3.5, while I would rate our reseller's support around 7 or 8.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Prior to Sage Intacct, we used multiple accounting systems as part of our group of small and mid-sized companies, including Microsoft Great Plains, Microsoft Solomon, QuickBooks Online, and Microsoft Desktop, among others. We switched to Sage Intacct to provide a centralized accounting system.
What was our ROI?
We have not maintained or created metrics related to returns on investment with Sage Intacct, such as time saved or money saved, nor have we documented how many employees we need.
What other advice do I have?
We have customized Sage Intacct for many custom reports, and we have numerous custom fields through platform services. Since we are a group of many small and mid-sized companies operating in different industries, we have a large number of highly customized reports to suit their business requirements. We have more than 150 operating entities in our Sage Intacct instance, and we have created over 100 highly customized P&L and other reports within the system. It has been really flexible for us to create many custom reports as required by management and the corporate team.
Regarding the audit controls I mentioned, we have established a delegation of authorities for vendor setups. For example, if someone creates a vendor, another team approves it. The same applies to AP bills and customer setups. We have also implemented an approval methodology based on amounts for journal entries, where a certain level of person can approve up to a specific amount, and any amount above that requires a senior person to review and approve the journal entry.
We have not evaluated in-depth how much human effort has been reduced, but we have observed that with the same or even fewer team members, various accounting teams are emphasizing more on quality and spending more time on it instead of posting. This has been really helpful, and our audits are going smoothly, leading to fewer human errors in the system.
We have successfully integrated Sage Intacct with our payment merchant, and there have been no issues with that. User access and security management in Sage Intacct is strong, with all audits conducted by Grant Thornton, and we are satisfied with how these aspects are handled. Regarding pricing, it aligns with industry standards, but due to confidentiality, I cannot disclose specific figures, though we are using a considerable number of user accounts.
Sage Intacct is deployed in our organization as a private cloud solution, with our data hosted on Sage servers.
I do not see any direct link to how Sage Intacct supports our organization's growth or expansion plans now, but Sage Intacct has proven to be an efficient tool for all group entities across different industries. It enables us to conduct accounting from a single instance, allowing us to set up an environment where numbers from various industries are synchronized to meet the required quality level for corporate dashboard reporting.
In terms of multi-entity and multi-currency operations, we are effectively using Sage Intacct for these purposes, employing a multi-currency setup and utilizing exchange rates for our consolidation and foreign exchange conversion. Everything is functioning properly, with no questions raised by auditors regarding Sage Intacct exchange rates. Sage Intacct facilitates remote work seamlessly, enabling easy collaboration within my teams as it is a web-based tool, and we have encountered minimal challenges from a system perspective.
I advise others looking into using Sage Intacct to assess their requirements carefully, including what modules they want to use. Sage Intacct is a good tool, and I believe that anyone who chooses it without extensive evaluation will not regret their decision. Additionally, Sage Intacct is suited for the service industry, and from my perspective, it is quite a versatile tool that meets various reporting needs such as AP, AR, order entry, purchasing, real estate, and construction. I rated Sage Intacct 8.5 overall.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Private Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other