Accounting Seed Reviews

Best Accounting Software for Fast Growing SMB

Comments: We have been using Accounting Seed for a bit over a year now and our whole teams loves it!

Pros:

Super easy to use and easy to customize to meet your needs

Cons:

Not the easiest to transition over to and it lacks good quality consulting partners.

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Comments: I have relied upon AccountingSeed support quite heavily. If I research what I need on their great website, and then concisely ask finish questions, I have great responses and I have had tremendous help that I have heavily relied upon throughout the three years of using AccountingSeed.

Pros:

The robustness of the software is admirable. Once it is understood, the details of all transactions are right there. The really great feature is that our sales department can help with the data entry and timing of the billings.

Cons:

It is not really a fault of the software, but I didn't have any training on reporting. The reporting is robust but I feel because of its flexibility, it is crucial to have up front training in order to know how to obtain the information needed.

Great Support

Comments: We've had issues on and off using the program since going live in January 2019, however, AccountingSeed Customer Support has helped us through all of those issues. They've even done some customization for us as a courtesy. I've been working on a custom template (with Conga) for months now and the fields I need on the form were not available to us. CSR with AccountingSeed helped me today with these custom fields; he added them as a courtesy and also sent me a video on how he did this. VERY helpful to have in the future.

Pros:

My favorite feature is being able to Clone repeat transactions; vendor invoices and journal entries. The Bank Reconciliation is a breeze. Submitting a Ticket for assistance is very convenient. I get an email within a few hours with a solution.

Cons:

My least favorite features are the Financial Reports and AccountingSeed-created Forms. The reports we run are very different than what AccountingSeed offers. We've found a way to make it work by exporting to Excel, updating fields, adding/deleting, etc. Another feature is the various forms that AccountingSeed created for us; Purchase Order, Packing List and Billing. When we first started using AccountingSeed we found out they didn't have Sales Orders (order confirmations). We had to purchase another App (Conga) who created the Sales Order form for us. I'm currently working on a new Purchase Order template with Conga. The issue I have with the Billing form is that is says Billing. A lot of our customers comment, asking for the Invoice number. It's just a terminology issue; billing vs invoice. We will be creating our own Invoice template with Conga as well.

Great API and ability to customize. Standard out of the box is functionality is average.

Comments: The software works and the API gives you the flexibility to do what you want for the most part. Normal retail businesses or consultant companies shouldn't have any issues integrating the software. For heavily customized users - know what you're getting into from an investment standpoint before moving forward.

Pros:

The API has been instrumental in allowing us to make this accounting software work with all of our heavy salesforce customizations. We have a custom quoting tool, project management tool, and project profitability tracking tool that all work with Accounting Seed. The integration with SF has been a game changer for data reliability and work flow. Overall it's pretty easy to use once you know what you're doing.

Cons:

For about a year they had no way to allow for multiple tax ID's with Avalara and the API wouldn't work for it either. The last release has fixed that and made the lives of our accounting team much better. Their online tutorials and instructions aren't the easiest - improved search would help finding things. For us, since we had so many customizations with SF already, it was quite expensive on top of the Accounting Seed cost to get it to work for our company.

Customer Support is not always "responsive"

Comments: Overall, I have been happy with Accounting Seed. The latest question about how to display "total budget" column on a profit and loss statement took 7 days to get a response. You would think this would be a standard feature, but it is not. You would also think that there would be documentation how to accomplish this common report column but there was not. I received the directions for a "work a round" solutions, seven days after the initial request.

Pros:

The Accounting Seed knowledgebase is very good if you like to "dig" for solutions. It's not always easy to find, but most answers are there.

Cons:

Antiquated knowledgebase materials are not always removed so you have to sort through old stuff to find the solutions for the newest version of the software.

Bad experience

Pros:

We were not able to use the accounting software because we were never fully implemented by their partner.

Cons:

service and support wasn't helpful. After the software cancellation due to their partner going out of business, they cancelled our subscription and our salesforce instance ground to a halt. Very hard to get a hold of someone to help out solve the issue. Our SF org was left unusable.

Review from the Implementer

Pros:

The greatest PRO that Accounting Seed offered is the ease of communication with FieldFX, which is our operating system.

Cons:

The biggest CON I can see would be more of a suggestion, which is there is no credit card reconcillation application within Accounting Seed. If they added that, it would make life a little more easy.

Scalable and stable

Comments: Used for Trust Accounting

Pros:

The killer feature is the integration with Salesforce

Cons:

Requires a high degree of customization. You must be prepared for considerable costs.

Great Accounting Solution on Salesforce

Pros:

Easy to customize a lot of the features and functionality based on your business use case.

Cons:

Usability is something challenging and it makes it harder to find what you are looking for.

Excellent Support

Comments: Out of all previous support teams I've had experience with Accounting Seed client support is far above the rest. Their support agents always give critical and detailed information to help one track down issues and resolve them. It's been a pleasure engaging with them an I appreciate the dedication of their team!

Pros:

The software does what it is supposed to do and is easy to configure.

Cons:

There are features that Accounting Seed needs to implement to help small businesses save time when it comes to warehouse inventory tracking. The current process for shipping serialized items needs to be redesigned to allow for quicker processing.

Worth the money

Pros:

We chose this product for it's ability to integrate with Salesforce. A few extra steps here or there, but overall it is a great product. Other products for our industry are dated and not intuitive. Accounting Seed has a great appearance and functionality.

Cons:

This product is not ready for the insurance industry.

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Comments: Our overall experience was good. We transitioned from Quickbooks to Accounting Seed and it was a major transition, but the accounting seed team worked with us to make sure it went smoothly.

Pros:

We chose accounting seed because it integrates with Salesforce and it was the only Accounting software available at the time that could fully integrate within our platform. We also have a high number of credit card transactions that we have to reconcile each month and liked the Bank Direct Connect functionality.

Cons:

There were some limitations within the software, but if feel with each update, the Accounting Seed team works to offer updates and solutions to key issues.

An Excellent Value Financial Solution

Comments: Overall, we have had good experiences. The package has a straightforward install (save once when we didn't have the correct release, and good to very good support. The Knowledge Base is helpful.

Pros:

Having a financial solution on the Salesforce platform is a game-changer for development and implementation speed. Real-time financial information available at the Account, Opportunity, and Project record level increases the speed, accuracy, and relevance of critical business intelligence. This, in turn, translates into greater business agility while exponentially increasing confidence in the processing and assessment of business threats and opportunities.

Cons:

Recently the platform and license costing has been a bit of a moving target. I have evangelized for this product and assisted several of our clients with AS implementations, and more than once we have found out significant cost impacts after the initial purchase. The bank connections have also been challenging, as while the advertised "1400" banks might sound like a lot, we have discovered the hard way that having a bank name on the list does not guarantee a connection, as each bank can have several connectors, and not all are compatible with Accounting Seed.

Easy to use once customized accordingly

Comments: Our team enjoys using the system

Pros:

Ease of use and customization to meet our needs

Cons:

Troublesome to transition over from Xero.

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Comments: It has been a fantastic journey and a learning one for me

Pros:

The control features in Accounting Seed has made TQM a must for us. It is easy to use

Cons:

Reporting features should be improved - sometimes I am confused as to what "type of amount" - ledger amount, report amount, converted, etc to use. At other times you need to pay a lot of attention so as not to report negative values as positives. Training on the use of the app should not be limited to what they currently have in Accounting Seed University/knowledge based articles - it should be repackaged and broadened to include all aspects of the software (including financial cubes and how they are used)

Complete and Comprehensive General Ledger and Financial Reporting

Comments: The system overall is a fabulous product that goes far beyond the functionality of other accounting solutions, such as: Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains, Sage, Quickbooks, Servman, Aljex, and Epicor.

Pros:

Accounting Seed is intuitive, has internal controls, an audit trail, produces all financial statements including a Statement of Cash Flows, a full general ledger, has exemplary customer support, and combined with Salesforce applications, provides for complete and comprehensive financial reporting

Cons:

There are some minor issues with the application, but nothing that prevented me from using it. For example, I would like to see the company name and logo on the financial statements.

A Limited Accounting Software Option

Pros:

Because it is small, the CEO often provides customer support. It overlays onto SalesForce (more or less). It was cost-effective compared to other options.

Cons:

This is a small company so the software has some pretty significant limitations. It was very difficult for us to adapt to use via SalesForce, and had a lot of accounting quirks that we had to develop workarounds for (not because of issues on our end, but because of flaws in the software). Customer service was slow to respond and was--more often than not--helpful. Much of the software could not be modified or edited by our team to better meet our needs, which made it unwieldy to work with more often than not.

Decent. Gets the job done but very clunky.

Pros:

Everything in one place. It's easy enough to view everything we need to for the most part.

Cons:

Very very clunky. It's design could be a lot better and easier to view. Does it work? Yes but again it feels very convoluted at times.

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Comments: I would say it has been positive once we got the system where we needed it. We had lots of customization done as the standard Accounting Seed didn't work for our company needs.

Pros:

It integrated with Salesforce, which is why we purchased the product.

Cons:

It is limited in reporting features and you have to do a lot of "unapplied" and "unpost" to fix an error in an entry.

Great option for Salesforce

Pros:

Our organization needed a Salesforce-based accounting solution. Accounting Seed has helped us connect all of our business transactions to fiscal records in the same system.

Cons:

Some of the reporting features are limited and configuration at time of implementation took more time to complete than anticipated.

Add on-vendor for Salesforce

Comments: It's okay. Support is through Veruna as they partner together. Accounting Support through Veruna is non-existent. No training provided during on-boarding and they charge hourly rates to support after on-boarding. Not a good experience.

Pros:

Embedded in our org with Salesforce as an add-on tool.

Cons:

Difficult to use. No training support provided.

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Comments: Good

Pros:

Accounts Payable and Journal entries and Financial reports

Cons:

Customisation for the currency format is limited only shows dollar sign

Accounting Seed is the best Salesforce Account software we've found

Comments: Overall, very positive

Pros:

It comes pre-packaged with helpful pages that are formatted. Recurring Billings is the most valuable feature that we rely on

Cons:

Some basic features that you'd expect that are available in Quickbooks, for example, were not available in Accounting Seed

Nice Product

Comments: On the whole its easy to use, it could do with more features.

Pros:

The Knowledgebase is easy to use, very often I can fix an issue by looking there.

Cons:

Updates are often released without proper testing and have often delayed workflows or caused problems.

My appreciation of Accounting Seed

Comments: It makes transaction processing easier and provides the needed support for virtual work.

Pros:

It makes virtual work very easy! It is cloud based and one can work from anywhere.

Cons:

Report building is a bit cumbersome and should be improved upon.