Accounting Seed vs Dynamics 365: Which is a better fit?

Emmett H.: Hi. My name is Emmett. I'm the Chief Financial Officer of a mid-sized consulting company. I give Accounting Seed a five rating, and for more reviews, click on the link below. So we use Accounting Seed for all of our client billing and for all of our payments. We also use Accounting Seed to generate our periodic financial reporting on performance of the company, income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statements. We may also drill in on a particular account to see what's going on, to see the nature of charges. So we can look at our income statement and drill down to see what has resulted in a particular expense, what the accounting record was. That's what we do. That's what we use Accounting Seed for. Accounting Seed is built on the Salesforce platform, so that means it's got all of the tools and capabilities that are there available for developers to create business process automation. So they have, for example, approval flows already easy to configure and set up. They have a very good regime for controlling access to different application functionality or to read, write, edit, delete capabilities on specific fields. So it's built on the Salesforce platform. It's very, very robust platform. No downtime that we've ever experienced, and that's the first thing. Second thing is that it's just basically easy to do all the things that we need to do. Nothing significant, but a couple reporting things that it's possible to do outside of Accounting Seed with an export to Excel with a pivot table, but producing reports, I don't like the fact that you can't produce a report with divisions across the top or as columns and the general ledger codes as rows. You can do a lot with reporting, but you can't do that structure, and that's a very useful structure.

Adoba: Hi everyone, my name is Adoba. I lead technical and product at Alphora, a team of roughly seven to nine. I rate Dynamics at a four out of five. So we use Dynamics most for sales and our marketing. The sales Microsoft relationship, sales is a big part of what we do. We also use the service part, which is the customer service. The marketing part of Microsoft Dynamics help us keep in touch with our customers and our sales reps with the product. So being in the Microsoft ecosystem is one of the best things with Dynamics. You have access to the entire product line that just works seamlessly together. Like I said, we do sales, CRM, marketing. All of those things are the individual products that we considered, but Microsoft was able to bring them together. The product for our sales, which we use the most, has really grown. The features that they've added has just been tremendous, and that's the best part about Microsoft Dynamics for us. I think there's always an issue with seat based billing, which is what we have with Dynamics today. I think that's just the biggest issue, and sometimes I think being part of the ecosystem of having access to Microsoft Dynamics to their products is an advantage but sometimes it can also be a disadvantage because, for us, we had everything siloed before in different other products but when we decided to use Dynamics we had to bring sales together into one product, bring marketing together into one product, bring our [inaudible 00:01:22] together into one product. That's sort of a disadvantage. I'm not sure how well these three things are able to work outside of each other if they're not connected under the same system so it was a huge consideration for us and I think for anyone who is wanting to use Dynamics.