See a world beyond PS Financials With Sage Intacct for Education
Stop using PS Financials. Grow your multi-academy trust WITH A true cloud accounting PLATFORM.
SEE THE DIFFERENCE
PS Financials (IRIS)
Sage Intacct for Education
No discovery
ION Discovery workshop
No project management
ION Project Manager
Guided self-implementation
ION Consultant Implementation
No one-to-one training
ION Post-setup training
No quality assurance
ION ISO 9001 certified QA process
Avg 12 weeks to live
Avg 4 weeks to live
Success
No Success
PS FINANCIALS (IRIS)
SAGE INTACCT FOR EDUCATION
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Windows desktop/Server software
It’s no longer 1990, stop using traditional desktop software that requires manual setups and updates, causing hours of manual processing.
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TRUE CLOUD Accounting you can access from anywhere
Sage Intacct is securely run in the cloud and can be accessed from anywhere in the world from a browser.
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Requires a user manual
Facebook doesn't come with a user manual, so neither should your accounting software.
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simple to learn, easy to use
Intuitive to use and easy to navigate, you'll be up and running in no time.
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OUTDATED user experience
Have you seen Hot tube time machine? Great film, but you don’t want your accounting software to look like it’s 30 years ago.
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industry-leading modern accounting product
Sage Intacct is a modern Cloud Accounting product and was Gartner's no1 accounting product for customer satisfaction.
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Poor reporting capabilities
With a lack of advanced reporting, PS Financials is limited in the insights and reporting. Not a problem if you don't know what you don't know!
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incredibly powerful and easy-to-use reporting studio
Sage Intacct provides an amazing reporting studio that allows you to design, build and run your own multi-dimensional reports. Sapientia Education Trust said "'the best we have ever seen".
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Requires install and manual updates
As traditional desktop software, PS Financials requires manual installs and downtime each time the software faces an update. Anyone seen my USB stick?
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No installs required, automatically updates
You don’t need to install Sage Intacct as it is true-cloud and accessed directly from a browser. It rolls out automatic updates 3 times a year during out of office hours to minimise disruption.
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No automated banking integration and manual imports
A requirement for most MATs but not currently offered on the PS Financials platform. Even Xero has this!
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uk bank integration for daily bank feeds
Sage Intacct for Education integrates directly with your banking, automagically receiving a feed of transactions every day.
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SLOW, COMPLEX approval processes
As a rigid platform, PS Financials slows down approval processes and complicated approval workflow set up.
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Easy-to-setup approvals
Sage Intacct for Education enables you to build customisable workflows to set-up purchase order approvals quickly and easily.
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Limited System Integrations
PS Financials can integrate with other IRIS products but offers limited options when it comes to third party applications.
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full api to integrate with other applications
As Sage Intacct is cloud-based, there are a world of apps that you can integrate. It even has its own app marketplace.
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No Spend insights
An outdated system that offers no insight into spend management and remaining budgets.
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Control spend and advise budget holders
Sage Intacct will advise your budget holders on spending capabilities and stop overspend before it happens - Empowering smart buying.
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difficult and expensive to extend and configure
Need a new school adding? With PS Financials, its going to be expensive!
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easily add new schools and expand capabilities
Sage Intacct let's you setup new entities in second. No need to get a consultant in.
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limited support
Our clients that moved from PS Financials have told us that calling PS Financials for support is like removing your own teeth. Painful.
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industry leading support provided by ion experts
Great news, we have an amazing service desk, on-hand support and a wealth of clients that can vouch for our amazing support services.