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Sage 100 vs M1 ERP: Which is a better fit?

Updated on February 9th, 2025
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Summary
Key features rated by users
Features selected based on 4,592 reviews from Inventory Management users.
% Fit
Missing features
Not enough reviews
Feature ratings
Data Synchronization
NA
Inventory Tracking
3.0
Inventory Control
NA
Real-Time Data
3.1
Billing & Invoicing
4.1
% Fit
Missing features
Not enough reviews
Feature ratings
Data Synchronization
NA
Inventory Tracking
4.5
Inventory Control
3.3
Real-Time Data
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Billing & Invoicing
4.3
User satisfaction
4.0
User reviews345
Ease of use
3.9
Functionality
3.9
Value for money
3.7
Customer support
3.7
3.8
User reviews103
Ease of use
3.7
Functionality
3.8
Value for money
3.7
Customer support
3.9
Price starts from
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Free version
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Free version
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Best for

Company size between 10 and 200 employees. Very suitable for the areas of production, sales and professional services.

Make-to-Order, Make-to-Stock, Engineer-to-Order, Discrete, Assemble-to-Order

User reviews
pros & cons
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Video reviews
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Blake B
Ecommerce & Consumer Products Manager
4.0

Blake B.: Hi, my name is Blake. I'm a product manager for a company in the mining and metals industry, and I give Sage 100cloud a five out of five. Before choosing Sage 100cloud, we also looked at Microsoft Dynamics 365, as well as NetSuite. Ultimately, we chose Sage 100cloud because, prior to Sage 100cloud, we used Sage 50. So the users actually had the best experience upgrading to this 100cloud. They felt that the interface was familiar, but that the upgrade solved a lot of the problems we were having. We chose Sage 100cloud for three reasons. The first is that it's cloud based. The previous instance of Sage we used with Sage 50. It was an on-premise piece of software where we had to basically maintain our own database. It crashed constantly, and it was always a headache. Ultimately, the cloud fix those problems. Second, we liked the SaaS model of billing a lot more than the lump sum license fee every year. It helps spread out cash flows and thus gave our organization more predictability in financial planning. Lastly, Sage 100cloud has a lot better app integration and functionality than its predecessors. You can easily plug and play with different software applications you might have around your company, and immediately pool all the data together for a comprehensive view of your operation. From an onboarding integration standpoint, Sage was excellent. They gave us a nearly full dedicated specialist who was able to walk us through new user creation, data cleaning, and upload, and ultimately being successful with the software product after purchase. They were able to teach us how to use the new upgraded cloud. It wasn't very hard for us, because we used Sage 50 in the past. So mostly it was just enhancements and the new dashboards we could easily create. From an integration standpoint, they gave us a tutorial on how their API worked and how you can easily plug and play with other applications that might be able to use the cloud. If you're familiar with web apps in general, then Sage 100cloud won't be a large leap for you to use. If you're considering Sage 100cloud, I have a couple of recommendations for you. First and foremost, truly assess whether you need to upgrade your software. Prior to upgrading from Sage 50 to Sage 100cloud, we were feeling a lot of system and process related pain that was relevant to the Sage 50 accounting system. It was at that point where we knew we had to upgrade. If you're not feeling that cumbersome pain, maybe hold off for a little bit and conserve your cash, and perhaps pour the growth into other areas.

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Daniel K
IT Director
5.0

Daniel K.: Hi, I'm Daniel and I'm the IT director for a manufacturing company. And I give M1 ERP a five out of five stars. The main problems that we're solving is we were able to eliminate a lot of the paper trails that we had in the office. Prior to using M1, we had a traveler that was printed out and went from station to station in the assembly process of the products that we make. And we were able to eliminate that, and it just goes workstation to workstation and everything flows much smoother. Our records get updated immediately instead of the stuff having to be filed and attached to the customer records. And then, a lot of that transfer back and forth running from the computer to a filing cabinet to get stuff because everything's stored within the program itself. Pretty much the problem that it's solving for us, the fact that it does a great job of attaching our documents to the different projects that we're working from. There's not a lot of going back and looking stuff up. If we have to go back to a previous project, all of the documents, drawings and worksheets that we use for that are all stored right there with the order. We can go and see everything that it took to go and make the previous order, and any adjustments that we make in a new order gets added to. And just does a fantastic job of keeping that record for us of what we do for our clients and how we build the different products that we make. Probably the one thing that I would change about it is that some of the screens are a little slow to go and load, but I know it's due to the complexity of the queries that it's drawing from. It's like it's drawing a lot of data out of the database to go and populate the information on the screen. Some of them take a little bit more time than what I'd like. If there was a way to magically do that, that would be fantastic. But I know we're just at the limits of what the program's capable of doing with the hardware resources we've got in place.

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Activity Dashboard
207
Important
Alerts/Notifications
388
Important

Sage 100

20/45
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • API
  • Backup and Recovery
  • Budget Tracking
  • Catalog Management
  • Cost Tracking
  • Data Synchronization
  • eCommerce Management
  • Inventory Auditing
  • Inventory Control
  • IoT Integration
  • Kitting
  • Manufacturing Inventory Management
  • Mobile Access
  • Multi-Channel Management
  • Multi-Location
  • Point of Sale (POS)
  • Reorder Management
  • Retail Inventory Management
  • Returns Management
  • Status Tracking
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • User Management
  • Vendor Managed Inventory
  • Barcode/Ticket Scanning
  • Billing & Invoicing
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Customer Database
  • Customizable Reports
  • Data Import/Export
  • Forecasting
  • Inventory Optimization
  • Inventory Tracking
  • Multi-Currency
  • Order Management
  • Product Identification
  • Purchase Order Management
  • Real-Time Data
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Sales Reports
  • Search/Filter
  • Shipping Management
  • Supplier Management
  • Warehouse Management
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M1 ERP

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Sage 100
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
M1 ERP
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Sage 100
  • By Sage
  • Located in United Kingdom
  • Founded in 1981
M1 ERP
  • By ECI Software Solutions
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 1999
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