I wouldn’t recommend Accounting Seed to enterprise companies. However, Accounting Seed is the best cloud accounting tool for small and medium-sized companies that are yearning to automate accounts payable and receivable, inventory management, and invoice customization in one integrated platform.
Iris Financials meets our needs by providing a single platform for our finance users to access real time data. This is aided by accurate reporting which can be accessed over the cloud or on premise, we chose the cloud solution. Our users report that the system is methodical and matches out working processes.
Custom reporting seems cumbersome, but it could just be that we need better instructions, more examples, maybe some more canned reports. My company needs the ability to compare multiple years, and more than one budget in a report - we start with an approved board budget and then we reproject each quarter.
Non profits need to print financials by restriction level - this has also been very awkward - all the data is there but I have to piece it together in an excel spreadsheet every time I want it.
In general, the materials needed for non profits is not as accessible as it could be.
It always works well. We've never had programming issues. Never. It is easy to customize. The system can grow with you as your business grows and changes. Being cloud-based you can work from anywhere. It is intuitive. You have all the features of Salesforce, like workflows, that work perfectly in Accounting Seed. Having that full integration with Salesforce allows you to see all our data in one platform
Once implemented Iris Financials is fairly intuitive to use. Our staff report that they can use the system comfortably after only a few hours of training. Depending on any previous systems that you use implementation can be quite lengthy but the migration team we dealt with worked with us and helped us to get the most out of setup experience.
We seldom have had to use their support but when we have, they have been responsive and actually were able to answer our questions in a simple, nontech language. You don't have to be a programmer to talk to them!
Honestly, Accounting Seed was the only one I focused on when looking to switch from our existing program. It showed in the partner app store and stated it was created native to SalesForce. As I read through it's capabilities, cost, etc., I knew it was the right choice.
FMS was used previously in our organization but it lacked any central overview (MAT View) which made it difficult to manage and collect/analyze data . IRIS Financials added this much needed central layer to assist our CFO and finance users, and transfer them in to a central way of working.
