NetSuite ERP vs. Sage 100

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
NetSuite ERP
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
NetSuite is a suite of ERP and accounting modules which is sold in various editions aimed at different size customers. The multi-country, multi-currency version is an additional module called OneWorld. Netsuite is a SaaS system and is not offered in an on-premise edition.N/A
Sage 100cloud
Score 7.1 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Sage 100 (or Sage 100cloud is a business management software offering a broad range of modules designed to meet the many needs of virtually any business. It encompasses financial operations and accounting, payroll, business intelligence, CRM, eBusiness, manufacturing and distribution.
$0
Per Seat per Month
Pricing
NetSuite ERPSage 100
Editions & Modules
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Sage 100 ERP Standard
Per Seat per Month
Sage 100 ERP Advanced
Per Seat per Month
Sage 100 ERP Premium
Per Seat per Month
Sage 100 ERP Online
Per User per Month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
NetSuite ERPSage 100cloud
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsUsers subscribe to NetSuite for an annual license fee. The license is made up of three main components: core platform, optional modules and the number of users. There is also a one-time implementation fee for initial setup. New modules and users and can be added as a business grows.
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Community Pulse
NetSuite ERPSage 100
Considered Both Products
NetSuite ERP
Chose NetSuite ERP
NetSuite is a good source of information and holds its own with the other ERP systems I have used. There are some advantages and some disadvantages, but being able to grow our company using NetSuite has been very helpful and we will continue to use the software and implement …
Sage 100cloud

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Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
NetSuite ERPSage 100
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
1.1
15 Ratings
146% below category average
Sage 100
8.5
8 Ratings
18% above category average
Pay calculation1.013 Ratings8.08 Ratings
Benefit plan administration1.010 Ratings8.06 Ratings
Direct deposit files1.39 Ratings10.08 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
9.2
74 Ratings
24% above category average
Sage 100
6.5
9 Ratings
11% below category average
API for custom integration9.264 Ratings3.06 Ratings
Plug-ins9.747 Ratings10.09 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
9.4
81 Ratings
16% above category average
Sage 100
5.3
15 Ratings
40% below category average
Single sign-on capability9.462 Ratings4.415 Ratings
Role-based user permissions9.480 Ratings6.314 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
9.6
72 Ratings
32% above category average
Sage 100
6.9
17 Ratings
1% below category average
Dashboards9.671 Ratings2.011 Ratings
Standard reports9.670 Ratings9.016 Ratings
Custom reports9.670 Ratings9.715 Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
7.8
273 Ratings
3% above category average
Sage 100
7.6
17 Ratings
0% above category average
Accounts payable8.3267 Ratings9.017 Ratings
Accounts receivable8.2246 Ratings9.013 Ratings
Global Financial Support9.726 Ratings5.04 Ratings
Primary and Secondary Ledgers9.728 Ratings9.06 Ratings
Journals and Reconciliations9.241 Ratings9.17 Ratings
Configurable Accounting9.735 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Standardized Processes9.737 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Inventory Management
Comparison of Inventory Management features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
8.9
48 Ratings
14% above category average
Sage 100
6.9
11 Ratings
12% below category average
Inventory tracking9.947 Ratings6.111 Ratings
Automatic reordering8.828 Ratings6.78 Ratings
Location management9.435 Ratings6.06 Ratings
Order Management
Comparison of Order Management features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
9.1
219 Ratings
17% above category average
Sage 100
7.9
10 Ratings
3% above category average
Pricing9.653 Ratings9.110 Ratings
Order entry8.0215 Ratings9.110 Ratings
Credit card processing8.737 Ratings4.410 Ratings
Cost of goods sold9.148 Ratings9.110 Ratings
Order Orchestration9.721 Ratings8.63 Ratings
Subledger and Financial Process
Comparison of Subledger and Financial Process features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
7.7
214 Ratings
4% above category average
Sage 100
7.7
7 Ratings
4% above category average
Billing Management8.3203 Ratings7.05 Ratings
Cash and Asset Management9.727 Ratings7.06 Ratings
Travel & Expense Management9.231 Ratings6.05 Ratings
Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting8.827 Ratings8.24 Ratings
Period Close9.735 Ratings7.26 Ratings
Project Financial Management
Comparison of Project Financial Management features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
6.5
32 Ratings
16% below category average
Sage 100
8.0
5 Ratings
5% above category average
Budgeting and Forecasting5.926 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Project Costing5.923 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Cost Capture5.922 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Capital Project Management4.014 Ratings8.63 Ratings
Customer Contract Compliance9.713 Ratings7.83 Ratings
Project Revenue Recognition6.822 Ratings7.83 Ratings
Project Execution Management
Comparison of Project Execution Management features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
4.1
17 Ratings
49% below category average
Sage 100
5.0
1 Ratings
30% below category average
Project Planning and Scheduling8.814 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Task Insight for Project Managers3.311 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Project Mobile Functionality3.010 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Definable Resource Pools3.68 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Grants Management
Comparison of Grants Management features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
3.1
12 Ratings
82% below category average
Sage 100
7.0
1 Ratings
6% below category average
Award Lifecycle Management3.57 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Procurement
Comparison of Procurement features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
3.3
19 Ratings
70% below category average
Sage 100
5.0
1 Ratings
32% below category average
Bids Analyzed and Compared3.58 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Contract Authoring1.910 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Contract Repository3.58 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated3.613 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Supplier Management9.813 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Risk Management
Comparison of Risk Management features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
3.1
11 Ratings
70% below category average
Sage 100
4.4
1 Ratings
37% below category average
Risk Repository3.58 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Control Management1.911 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Control Efficiency Assessments3.57 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Issue Detection3.58 Ratings3.01 Ratings
Remediation and Certification3.58 Ratings4.01 Ratings
Logistics
Comparison of Logistics features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
3.1
17 Ratings
73% below category average
Sage 100
7.1
3 Ratings
6% above category average
Transportation Planning and Optimization2.89 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Transportation Execution Management2.88 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Trade and Customs Management2.88 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Fulfillment Management9.714 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Warehouse Workforce Management2.511 Ratings7.63 Ratings
Manufacturing
Comparison of Manufacturing features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
9.2
16 Ratings
22% above category average
Sage 100
8.2
3 Ratings
11% above category average
Production Process Design8.812 Ratings8.42 Ratings
Production Management8.814 Ratings8.43 Ratings
Configuration Management9.710 Ratings8.42 Ratings
Work Execution9.712 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Manufacturing Costs8.814 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Supply Chain
Comparison of Supply Chain features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
8.1
140 Ratings
14% above category average
Sage 100
7.8
3 Ratings
11% above category average
Forecasting8.317 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Inventory Planning7.4137 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Performance Monitoring8.814 Ratings7.63 Ratings
Product Lifecycle Management
Comparison of Product Lifecycle Management features of Product A and Product B
NetSuite ERP
3.9
13 Ratings
58% below category average
Sage 100
1.4
1 Ratings
134% below category average
Proposal Management2.610 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Product Master Data Management3.29 Ratings2.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
NetSuite ERPSage 100
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(373 ratings)
8.0
(21 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.2
(49 ratings)
7.6
(5 ratings)
Usability
8.6
(232 ratings)
9.0
(5 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(16 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(15 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
7.1
(216 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
In-Person Training
7.3
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
6.4
(10 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.3
(17 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
8.7
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.3
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.0
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
4.8
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
5.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
NetSuite ERPSage 100
Likelihood to Recommend
NetSuite
If you are looking for customization and automation, NetSuite excels. It is really great for transactional accounting and business processes—reporting and visibility into your accounting and transactions are outstanding. However, I might not choose NetSuite if you run a business that uses process manufacturing or very complex products. It certainly would be able to handle it, but it is not ideally suited.
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Sage
For small and medium business in the distribution and light manufacturing space, Sage 100 is probably the best bang for your buck. As a very scaleable system, you can modify the system to meet the needs of a growing business without making gross changes to the core of the system
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Pros
NetSuite
  • Revenue recognition. We get information from Salesforce and we build the revenue recognition engine that I'm really pleased. We avoid a lot of manual work by doing this.
  • We send out invoices electronically from the system. We use it for the fixed asset now with the new lease opinion that we just adopted in January 2022. We leveraged technology, specifically the features in NetSuite to help us account for that.
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Sage
  • Simple to implement and use. Operation very intuitive so new employees are quickly trained.
  • It is very flexible with many modules and many features allows for easy customization to suit particular needs of any department or company.
  • Context sensitive help, training and support make it easy for a company to operate with out a lot of additional outside tech support.
  • Scalable plenty of room to grow as the business grows without being bloated.
  • Pricing is very reasonable.
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Cons
NetSuite
  • Certain exports out of the system. There are some pages that you can export to Excel and some pages you can't, I don't know why. So it seems like it should be all functionalities there.
  • Some of the bank feeds have broken quite a bit and I'm not sure why. So we have to constantly go in there and readjust that on the reconciliation tab. I know that's new and robust and it's going well. It's more of taking out GL data instead of what's remaining in that account. As far as if I'm looking at a rec for a particular asset, I know there's GL data that goes through there. What I want to know is what's the balance in that account made up of as far as what's remaining there. So that's the kind of stuff I would buy with advice.
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Sage
  • Database backend, Sage 100 relies on the ProvideX database, which has limited ODBC functionality
  • Document management. Paperless Office is not a robust solution for Sage 100 and feels like an add-on.
  • Support. Getting support is tricky, and you will usually have to work with your reseller/support partner.
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Likelihood to Renew
NetSuite
NetSuite is able to cover all of our needs, spanning multiple departments and managerial levels. We use it daily for a multitude of functions, including creating promotions, estimating inventory, pulling historical reports, forecasting sales, and more. Overall, we're very satisfied with NetSuite as an ERP solution and recommend it to medium to large businesses.
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Sage
I would put this out to bid, if I were at the same organization. There have been a lot of improvements and changes in enterprise software and my preference would be to find a good web-based or cloud-based tool. Lower overall cost of ownership and improved efficiency would be my target criteria for a rebid of this.
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Usability
NetSuite
As a user, it is a steep learning curve with little to no guidance. Oracle relies pretty much only on their massive documentation library and does very little to guide users in context. As an Administrator, it's frustrating that field naming is totally different depending on your context.
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Sage
It is easy, flexible, user friendly and feature laden. Out of the box or easily customized to meet our "wish" list . Sage offers a variety of modules and bolt-ons, user defined fields etc., allowing us to conduct business "our way" without forcing us into a one-size- fits- none mold or having to purchase expensive and cumbersome programming modifications
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Reliability and Availability
NetSuite
It has been very reliable. I can only think of 1-2 times in 4.5 years that we have had issues getting in, and in each case were able to get back in within 1 hour. There has not been a major downtime
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Sage
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Performance
NetSuite
Most of the time the performance is very good. Pages load in a few seconds; financial reports take less than 5 seconds; basic searches take a few seconds. But performance can be sporadic throughout the day and cause the run time to triple.
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Sage
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
NetSuite
I would like to give 8 rating for NetSuite support and reason for that is below: Whenever we faced any technical or functional issues we tried to reach out to NEtSuite support but response was not immediate. We told them about the urgency of the issue but still we were not getting response on time. Then, we have to reach out to AE to get things resolved.
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Sage
Sage Support is very good. I usually get a person on the phone in a short time frame and usually get my issues fixed in one called.
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In-Person Training
NetSuite
I had in person training for a day when first got the software. The training was good. The challenge was that there was a large gap between training and when we went live so we forgot quite a lot
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Sage
No answers on this topic
Online Training
NetSuite
Online training is quite strong. I have used for specific pieces of functionality.However it is not sufficient in all areas.
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Sage
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
NetSuite
I felt NetSuite Professional Services did an excellent job of guiding us in the implementation. I also felt our internal teams were a little resistant to the change and engagement of new software. Had we performed better engaging and buying into the new software, I would be able to rate the implementation better. Therefore, the lower number should not be viewed as a deficiency with the software or the professional services teams, but as an reminder of how important complete buy-in from the local users is.
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Sage
We had an advantage in implementing the tool in that our director of Ops had been part of the team implementing the ERP for other users so we knew what to expect and were able to avoid a lot of the challenges people sometimes face with implementations. However, the process still took far longer than desired.
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Alternatives Considered
NetSuite
Well, the reason why I'm with NetSuite is because obviously it beats out those other options quite considerably. It gave us the whole ecosystem that gave us everything we needed. I didn't need a dedicated administrator whose full-time job is to deal with it like our current system would need to really be useful. I can find people or train people how to use it right away. So for us, that really beats it out compared to the Sage and QuickBooks where we were looking at it from a perspective of, yeah, we can find people who are experts in those fields. They don't scale up to the size that we need as we're going to really quickly go from R&D company into doing tens of millions of dollars a year in revenue and activities. So that's where it beats us out over say Sage or QuickBooks is it's got that complete scalability. We can go to multiple subsidiaries, foreign currency, not a problem. It's got that full functionality.
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Sage
I didn't choose Sage 100 ERP -- it was already in use when I started at the organization over five years ago. It has the same types of pros and cons as other big hulking software suites meant to power the infrastructure of corporations. It's slow, tough to customize, and doesn't connect well with other software. It does bring all the information into one place, which is great
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Scalability
NetSuite
We have been able to scale our business 25X without any major overhaul with Netsuite. Its dashboard setup makes onboarding new employees very easy and allows data to be shared across multiple offices. Its cloud setup does not put any pressure on IT to scale servers or other infrastructure. We have been able to become much more efficient in all aspects of the business.
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Sage
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
NetSuite
  • Positive impact, again, it's our source of truth, so we are able to not have questions about how much money we have in the bank or do we have enough material to build this job. Being able to know those things immediately is super valuable.
  • I mean it's the grease that skids the wheels that gets us to accomplish the things that we do in our business.
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Sage
  • We have seen increased efficiencies for our team members processing orders and fulfillment as they are now integrated.
  • We have cut paper/printing/mail expenses by 500% of what we previously spent.
  • Our overall cash management has improved with the visibility from Bank Reconciliation and Financial Reporting.
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ScreenShots

NetSuite ERP Screenshots

Screenshot of one view into the most critical business processes.Screenshot of Netsuite's mobile-friendly design

Sage 100cloud Screenshots

Screenshot of General Ledger uses our exclusive dual grid entry for quick, efficient, and accurate data entry. The grid entry format allows you to easily customize the data entry screens.