Sage 100

Who has used eRequester with Sage 100? Do you know relatively total cost broken out by product/maintenance and install? Has this worked well for a site that wants to automate purchase order origination and approval? Any others that should be considered?

@WayneSchulz we have two installs of the tool up and running that I can think of off the top of my head and both are happy with the solution. We have a third implementation underway right now integrating to Sage100 Premier vs 2013. I have attached a copy of their price list and current documentation that I have on-hand. Some are a little out of date but may be of some help. (As always, please keep confidential) We work with Scott Pape and they run a pretty good shop. They will customize the solution (within reason) to fit special needs or populate UDF's. They have always delivered on time.

Very helpful thanks!

@JimWoodhead has been recommending them also. I have one client using it for a couple years now. They seem to appreciate it and is working well for them. Pricing with implementation can go beyond 20K (25 named users) though.

For those who need a purchasing control system (think larger non-for profits and distributed organizations) the cost savings can provide a great return on investment.

Shawn that's exactly what we have - NFP who is growing after a merger. Unfortunately in this day and age the customers seem to either want us to project mange the search (at no cost) and locate and help select a vendor (at no cost) or they do it themselves which often leads to more problems or an ROR.

Ya know, I once had a NFP publisher explain the difference between for profit accounting and NFP accounting in a very succinct way. For profit accounting focuses on revenue and profitability. NFP's focus on how they spent donor's money. That's why requisition management systems bring such value into the NFP environment. They can get better insight into budgetary spending by quantifying pending requisitions, approved requisitions, and purchase orders. This is similar to encumbrance accounting used by many municipalities.

Wayne - You should talk to Jim Woodhead about this. He was just at NATO in Germany, updating their Sage 100/eRequestor system.

We implemented eR for a government mandated agency. Overall, it's been successful with some challenges that preclude a glowing reference. There are some significant differences and limitations between processes in eR and Sage 100, so beware. There are several modules so mixing and matching requires a true understanding of desired workflow. Call me for more insights.

Thanks everyone - the customer called with a general ""Does Sage do electronic purchase order?"" My first advice to her was to pull together a requirements list. I suspect like most customers they will let the salesperson guide their requirement list.