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Epicor ERP vs SAP Business One comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.2
Epicor ERP led to varied success in efficiency and cost savings, with some organizations achieving significant operational improvements.
Sentiment score
2.3
SAP Business One offers quick ROI through operational efficiency, resource savings, and cost-effectiveness, reducing costs by 20%-30%.
It continued to make the company lean and more profitable by providing tools to manage business operations better, such as production scheduling, finance, and estimating products.
We have saved the equivalent of three or four man-days a week across the business.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.8
Epicor ERP's customer support is inconsistent, with mixed reviews on technical help, quick responses, and variable problem-solving effectiveness.
Sentiment score
5.7
SAP Business One support quality varies by partner, with users praising technical help but reliant on partner effectiveness.
Epicor's support is strong with extensive self-help options.
When issues are raised to customer support, they direct us to work with the partner.
The technical support is good and rated eight.
The previous user left the company without sharing their password, so at that time I need to log those particular issues or reset the password; the facility is not available in the current system, and I have to raise tickets, waiting for updated passwords, which is very critical.
When the system or solution has a failure unrelated to the database, they become lost.
Through the SAP portal, we can access direct support, which includes notes and a massive community for resources.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.6
Epicor ERP offers scalability for small to medium enterprises, accommodating numerous users and diverse functionalities but not extremely large organizations.
Sentiment score
7.6
SAP Business One is scalable and flexible, suitable for SMEs, but has integration and complexity limitations.
Epicor ERP scales extremely well, allowing for multi-company and multi-plant operations.
SAP Business One is not very scalable, as it is aimed at medium to small-scale industries.
If your company is looking for an ERP to run end-to-end business, this is the solution.
The scalability of SAP Business One is very high.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
Epicor ERP stability varies across versions, with improvements in 10.2, yet updates still cause crashes for some users.
Sentiment score
7.6
SAP Business One is a stable, reliable platform with minimal bugs, consistently updated despite occasional regional and version-related issues.
Epicor ERP has experienced multiple crashes and performance drops multiple times.
I rate the stability of SAP Business One an eight out of ten.
 

Room For Improvement

Epicor ERP is complex, costly, and lacks updates, hindering user adoption with insufficient automation and demanding customization.
SAP Business One faces challenges with outdated design, limited scalability, complex integration, insufficient features, and cost efficiency issues.
There's extensive customization required for Epicor ERP, and the standard process is not suitable.
The solution lacks scalability as it targets medium to small-scale industries.
They also need to plan for integrating a small HR or payroll module.
Costing audits are required, but this is not available in SAP Business One.
 

Setup Cost

Epicor ERP costs start at $110,000 with $9,000 annually, featuring flexible licensing, customizable options, and competitive pricing.
SAP Business One offers moderate pricing with reasonable license costs, but high maintenance fees may impact smaller businesses.
While the exact current licensing costs are confidential, it is approximately 50% of Oracle's cost.
We are satisfied with the pricing and anticipate savings of seventeen percent across the organization.
Epicor ERP is value-conscious in pricing, offering more compared to competitors.
It is expensive compared to other modules or ERPs.
 

Valuable Features

Epicor ERP offers user-friendly customization, powerful integration, comprehensive analytics, and supports diverse manufacturing needs with insightful features.
SAP Business One excels in financial management, customization, and integration, offering flexibility, automation, and comprehensive module handling for SMEs.
The real-time analytics support decision-making by using dashboards to manage insights for roles throughout the company, including production, finance, sales, and purchasing.
The most significant features of Epicor ERP for our business process are quality control and supply chain management.
If you're doing a project management module, it is linked with finance. Unless finance is implemented, this module cannot be completed.
The general ledger, balance sheet, trial balance, cash flow statement, and all other reports are updated simultaneously.
Regarding reporting capabilities, SAP Business One provides in-built reports and allows us to use crystal reports, which we can customize and develop our own reports alongside running SQL queries with the query generator to create SQL reports.
One of the biggest advantages of SAP Business One, especially in the public cloud, is that many features are standardized, which reduces the need for customization.
 

Categories and Ranking

Epicor ERP
Ranking in ERP
15th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SAP Business One
Ranking in ERP
4th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
70
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the ERP category, the mindshare of Epicor ERP is 3.8%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Business One is 3.4%, down from 6.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Khalid Jalal - PeerSpot reviewer
Requires extensive customization and fails to meet manufacturing needs
My overall experience with Epicor ERP is extremely bad. I just finished a call with the team, and the experience is really unsatisfactory. I will not recommend it to anyone. There's extensive customization required for Epicor ERP, and the standard process is not suitable. Though it is meant for manufacturing, it is not performing the manufacturing job effectively. Regarding the installation process, the implementation is not the problem as the installation is fine. The issue lies with configuration. Although it's supposed to be configurable, it requires customization for everything we need to do. When comparing to JD Edwards and in-house applications, a process that takes one minute in those systems takes ten minutes in Epicor ERP because users have to navigate through different screens constantly. If a user forgets to switch to one screen, the process remains incomplete, making end-user training extremely difficult. There's no automation and workflow feature that can be used without customization. Everything requires changes, making it similar to developing a new platform from scratch. Initially, we anticipated some benefits from using Epicor ERP, but based on the current outcome, it has been completely unsuccessful. The main issue is that everything requires customization rather than configuration. Unless they change their whole approach from customization to configuration, this product should not be used anywhere.
Hatem Mohamed Nageeb Salama - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides efficiency for small businesses, but requires costly add-ons for broader capabilities
I am currently using SAP products but not primarily selling SAP. Regarding real-time data processing capabilities, it is partially helpful for decision-making. It has built-in capability for real-time data, but it's not interactive data analytics. People need another solution such as Power BI to be integrated to get real-time data with interactive analytics. When it comes to customizing reporting in SAP Business One, it has the capability to customize reports via SAP Crystal Reports. It has a good amount of reports, but for each business, you need to understand exactly what the customer needs to customize their reports. The solution includes a mobile app to access key business information, though it is a very weak mobile app. The main benefit SAP Business One provides to users is ease of access. It's very good to present to customers, both from the interface and capabilities perspective. It's suitable for small to medium companies, making the buy-in for the solution very good. The pricing for SAP Business One is very competitive. Overall, SAP Business One is a very good solution for small to medium businesses. If your company is looking for an ERP to run end-to-end business, this is the solution. You need specific add-ons to run in specific industries, but it's approximately 70% good for most small to medium companies. My overall rating for SAP Business One is 7 out of 10.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
19%
Computer Software Company
10%
Healthcare Company
7%
Construction Company
6%
Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Healthcare Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Epicor ERP?
The licensing cost for Epicor ERP is a concern. The licensing becomes cheap, which leads people to opt for it, but then they encounter troubles similar to ours. The licensing was reasonable when we...
What needs improvement with Epicor ERP?
My overall experience with Epicor ERP is extremely bad. I just finished a call with the team, and the experience is really unsatisfactory. I will not recommend it to anyone. There's extensive custo...
What is your primary use case for Epicor ERP?
I have been using Epicor ERP, and it's still in implementation. We decided not to proceed because it is not workable for us. Anything we want to use requires complete customization. It's not a matt...
Are there any advantages of SAP S4 HANA over SAP Business One (SAP B1) apart from the cost?
SaP Business One is a complete solution for business management. The software applications are broad, ranging from accounting to project management and human resources. It is very versatile and com...
What do you like most about SAP Business One?
It's user-friendly and comes with comprehensive manuals. So, it is easy to learn to use SAP Business One
 

Also Known As

Epicor SaaS ERP
Business One
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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Ego Pharmaceuticals Pty. Ltd
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