Intuit Enterprise Suite vs. M1

We are a small non-profit organization and this product has allowed us to save time and resources by providing a platform for new and existing employees to get their information all in one place. Paying bills and receiving revenue is easy to track in this manner and customer support has been very effective when we need them.

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Implementation is by far the weakest link in the ECI/M1 process. Although the tool is powerful, the client is expected to drive the process of learning the tool, planning the meetings with consultants, identifying risks and making mitigation plans, etc. without any samples, guidance or assistance on the part of ECI. The tool is best suited to high volume, standard product manufacturers who build to inventory or to order without much variation. The shop floor routing and time tracking are straightforward if you can master the convoluted Unit Of Measure calculations. The tool is either hosted locally or accessed through Remote Desktop. Shop floor is web enabled but the main desktop for M1 is still a relay which makes connectivity a potential issue. Moving this platform to a truly web hosted environment would substantially improve connectivity and eliminate compatibility issues with Apple products

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• Ease of processing payroll and providing all necessary reports and documents in one software such as tax forms and forms related to the financials.
• Ease of creating purchase orders to tie to vendor bills to track purchases made by the organization.
• Ease of creating financial reports with various filters and exporting them to PDF or excel for a simpler read and study of profit vs. losses.

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• Manage inventory counts. Good precision on quantities in and out, through shipping, MI, MR, and receipts.
• Job costing shows great details on labor, operations, and materials to be used. I wished that would do better in outside operations that would return, but we still think it is great.
• Ability to track changes (changelog), showing all changes that had in a particular place. Such as where, when, and by whom a line item unit price was changed in a PO.
• Link, traceability, keeping history. If done correctly, it is amazing to keep the history of a part/lot.
• The amount of user rights/customization is unbelievable. It can be hard to set up in the beginning, but it is great that you can give some very specific access to a user, and it is not (in general) as a package.

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• Reports could be more tailored to Construction
• Budgets Can Be Refined a little more
• Credit Card and Lines of Credit Could be Larger for Enterprise Customers

• Some of the functions are pretty detailed - and so they take a while to generate screens and pages in reports.
• We actually use it for 2 companies we own - and it would be nice if the inter company communication was a little smoother. It's hard to share some data, and not everything is possible to be shared.
• Customized reports need to backed up before any updates to M1 or they're lost. It seems M1 overwrites the report folders everytime you run an update - so you have to keep track of what you've changed in Crystal Reports and restore it.

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Because I love the software and the people behind it are passionate about building the features to support business growth. They have built so many features I have asked for and it gets better and better

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IES has been an excellent partner of Gridmatic and they continue to enhance on their process. Due to dev in reporting is the reason I am unable to give 10 rating.

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Because it would be helpful if ECI would provide better documentation, communication and workflows to understand how each field interacts within the system and how each of those touch other areas within M1. It would also be useful if ECI would provide prescheduled training for how to customize things with M1 through Design Studio

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Excellent. I am the first Lighthouse customer and I see first hand that their team cares, they care about not just the features but about their customers and their success. They truly want their customers to succeed

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Support has been great and timely

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Intuit Enterprise Suite reports are so much better. There are many to choose from and users can build reports specific to their needs. Reconciling bank accounts is so much easier. The capability Intuit Enterprise Suite has to make the process simple means there is less time spent with recons being out of balance.

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Our customization requirements were not that high and based on a price/cost benefit M1 was the winner. SAP was considered but the upfront costs and challenging learning curve together with the lack of flexibility in the SAP HANA public cloud version made the M1 choice more natural. SAP Services is usually more expensive compared to M1.

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• QuickBooks supplies a platform for basic accounting
• It allows us to operate our business from a banking and taxes perspective.
• It could do much more from a business management perspective.

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• Time savings having to only enter certain information once and have it follow through the entire order process from quote to cash

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