A Sage Intacct renewal can be an important decision point for a growing organization. Rather than evaluating the renewal based only on the subscription price, finance leaders can use the opportunity to determine whether the platform still aligns with the organization's financial and operational requirements, entity structure, reporting needs, technology strategy and plans for future growth.
That evaluation becomes increasingly important when an organization has added entities, introduced new reporting requirements, expanded its finance technology stack or found that important processes still require spreadsheets, additional modules, third-party applications or manual work. The question is not simply whether Sage Intacct can support a particular capability, but whether the organization's current Sage Intacct environment supports its requirements efficiently and at a reasonable total cost.
Timing matters as well. Evaluating accounting software, planning a migration and preparing financial data can take time. Waiting until a Sage Intacct renewal deadline is approaching may leave finance teams with too little time to thoroughly compare alternatives, understand implementation requirements and make a well-informed decision.
Before renewing Sage Intacct, finance leaders should take a closer look at renewal terms and pricing, required modules, multi-entity and intercompany workflows, reporting and business intelligence, integrations, usability, implementation considerations and the total cost of the organization's financial technology environment.
Why evaluate Sage Intacct before your renewal date?
A Sage Intacct renewal is a natural opportunity to evaluate whether the platform still fits the way your organization operates today. Your business may have added entities, locations, employees, reporting requirements or new financial processes since the system was originally implemented. At the same time, your Sage Intacct subscription, modules, integrations and supporting services may have changed.
Starting this evaluation well before the renewal date gives finance leaders time to understand what is working, identify where manual processes or additional costs remain, and determine whether renewing Sage Intacct continues to make sense for the organization.
It also provides time to compare other accounting platforms if needed. Evaluating alternatives involves more than scheduling software demonstrations. Finance teams may need to review requirements, compare functionality and total cost, involve other stakeholders, evaluate implementation partners, plan data migration and determine a realistic implementation timeline.
Waiting until the renewal deadline is close can limit those options. In conversations with organizations evaluating Sage Intacct alternatives, Gravity Software has seen finance teams renew for another term because there was not enough time to thoroughly evaluate another platform and prepare for a transition.
The goal should not be to replace Sage Intacct simply because a renewal is approaching. It should be to give your organization enough time to make an informed decision about whether to renew, renegotiate or evaluate an alternative.
What should you evaluate before renewing Sage Intacct?
Renewing accounting software should involve more than comparing this year's subscription with next year's price. It is an opportunity to evaluate the complete financial environment your organization relies on and determine whether the platform continues to provide the right combination of functionality, efficiency, scalability and value.
The following areas can help finance leaders evaluate whether renewing Sage Intacct remains the right long-term decision.
1. Review your Sage Intacct renewal pricing and contract terms
Start by understanding exactly what you are being asked to renew. Compare the proposed renewal with your current agreement and identify changes in subscription pricing, contract length, annual increases, users, entities, modules and other recurring charges.
Questions to consider include:
- How does the proposed renewal price compare with your current subscription?
- Are there contractual price increases during the new term?
- Has your organization added users, entities or modules that affect the cost?
- Are capabilities your team needs included in the subscription or licensed separately?
- Are there integrations, partner services or other recurring expenses that should be included in the comparison?
- What commitments or notice requirements apply if you decide not to renew?
Looking beyond the renewal quote can provide a clearer picture of the platform's total cost over the next several years.
This is particularly important because pricing experiences can vary by organization, contract and configuration. In conversations with organizations evaluating alternatives, Gravity Software has encountered Sage Intacct customers whose decision to explore other accounting platforms began when their renewal economics changed—not because Sage Intacct stopped providing accounting functionality.
That distinction is important. The objective is not simply to determine whether the renewal price increased. It is to determine whether the functionality, service and efficiency your organization receives continue to justify the total investment.
2. Evaluate what is included in your Sage Intacct subscription—and what costs extra
A financial management platform may support a wide range of capabilities, but that does not necessarily mean every capability your organization needs is included in its current subscription. Before renewing Sage Intacct, review which modules and functionality your finance team uses today, what it may need in the future, and whether those capabilities require additional licensing.
Consider areas such as:
- Multi-entity accounting and consolidation
- Intercompany accounting and allocations
- Multi-currency accounting
- Fixed assets
- Inventory management
- Accounts payable automation
- Budgeting and planning
- Reporting and analytics
- Integrations with other business applications
This distinction between what is available and what is included can become increasingly important as an organization grows. New entities, more sophisticated reporting requirements or changes in financial processes may introduce requirements that were not part of the original Sage Intacct implementation.
Gravity has encountered this during evaluations with organizations already using Sage Intacct. In one case, a finance team wanted more advanced allocation capabilities but had chosen not to add the functionality because of the additional subscription cost. Another organization found that functionality it needed as its multi-entity structure became more complex was associated with a different subscription tier.
3. Identify how much accounting work still happens outside Sage Intacct
Over time, finance teams may introduce spreadsheets, reporting tools, third-party applications and manual processes to supplement their accounting system. Individually, these workarounds may seem manageable. As an organization grows, however, they can increase the amount of time required to complete routine financial processes and make it more difficult to maintain a consistent source of financial information.
Before renewing Sage Intacct, identify which financial processes are completed entirely within the system and which still depend on tools or work performed outside it.
Consider areas such as:
- Consolidated financial reporting
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Allocations
- Intercompany accounting and reconciliations
- Multi-currency calculations
- Management reporting and analysis
- Accounts payable and invoice processing
- Data exports and spreadsheet manipulation
- Reporting packages for executives, boards or other stakeholders
The goal is not to eliminate every spreadsheet or third-party application. Excel, business intelligence tools and specialized applications can remain valuable parts of a finance technology strategy. The more important question is whether your team is using those tools intentionally or because essential accounting and reporting processes require additional manual work.
Gravity has seen this distinction in conversations with Sage Intacct users. One multi-entity organization described portions of its consolidation process occurring outside the accounting system as its structure became more complex, including manual currency-related work. Another organization relied on Excel and other systems for parts of its reporting and financial processes.
Documenting these processes before renewal can reveal costs that may not appear on the Sage Intacct renewal quote: finance-team time, duplicate data entry, spreadsheet maintenance, additional software, reconciliation effort and the risk of delays as reporting requirements become more complex.
This provides a better basis for determining whether your current financial environment is still supporting the organization efficiently—or whether it is time to evaluate a different approach.
4. Evaluate your multi-entity and intercompany accounting requirements
Multi-entity accounting requirements can change significantly as an organization grows. A structure that worked well with a few entities may become more difficult to manage as additional companies, subsidiaries, locations, joint ventures or investments are added.
Before renewing Sage Intacct, evaluate how efficiently your current environment supports the complexity of your organization today and the structure you expect to manage in the future.
Consider questions such as:
- How easily can your finance team add and configure new entities?
- How much manual work is involved in intercompany transactions?
- Are due-to and due-from entries created and reconciled efficiently?
- How are intercompany allocations handled?
- How easily can finance teams consolidate multiple entities?
- Can users report across individual entities and different entity groupings?
- How are ownership structures, joint ventures or other complex relationships handled?
- If you operate internationally, how efficiently are multiple currencies and currency translation managed?
These questions become especially important for organizations that expect to continue adding entities. The evaluation should consider not only whether Sage Intacct supports multi-entity accounting, but also how much administrative effort is required to manage that environment as the organization becomes more complex.
Gravity has seen multi-entity requirements become an important part of the renewal decision for organizations using Sage Intacct. As businesses add entities, finance teams may need to reconsider how efficiently their current environment handles entity setup, intercompany activity, allocations, consolidation and increasingly complex reporting structures.
For a growing multi-entity organization, the renewal question therefore becomes more specific:
“Will our current accounting environment make it easier to manage the next 10, 20 or 50 entities—or will each new entity add more administrative work?”
That forward-looking question can help determine whether renewing the existing environment supports the organization's growth strategy or simply extends processes that are already becoming difficult to scale.
5. Review your financial reporting and business intelligence needs
Financial reporting requirements often become more complex as an organization grows. Finance teams may need to report across multiple entities, departments, locations, projects or other dimensions while providing executives and other stakeholders with timely access to financial information.
Before renewing Sage Intacct, evaluate whether your current reporting environment gives your finance team the flexibility and visibility it needs without creating unnecessary manual work.
Consider questions such as:
- How easily can your team create consolidated and entity-level financial reports?
- Can users drill from consolidated results into the underlying financial activity?
- Can you report across departments, locations, projects or other dimensions that matter to your organization?
- Does your reporting structure support the way management wants to analyze the business?
- How much time is spent exporting data to Excel to prepare or modify reports?
- Are recurring management, board or investor reports distributed efficiently?
- Can financial data be combined with operational information for broader business analysis?
- Do executives and other decision-makers have timely access to the information they need?
- Are additional reporting or business intelligence tools required to achieve the desired level of analysis?
Using Excel or a business intelligence platform does not necessarily indicate a problem. These tools can provide valuable flexibility and advanced analysis. The important distinction is whether they extend the accounting system intentionally or compensate for reporting processes that are difficult to complete efficiently within the current environment.
This has surfaced in Gravity's conversations with Sage Intacct users. Organizations have described relying on Excel and other tools for portions of reporting, analysis and financial processes as their requirements became more complex. Those additional steps can become an important consideration when evaluating the overall efficiency of the finance technology environment.
Before renewing, consider not only whether your organization can produce the reports it needs today, but how easily the reporting environment can adapt as management asks new questions, entities are added and financial and operational data becomes more complex.
6. Evaluate workflow automation and manual accounting processes
As transaction volume and organizational complexity increase, manual accounting processes can consume more of the finance team's time. A renewal is a good opportunity to evaluate which recurring processes have been automated and which still depend on manual data entry, spreadsheets, emails or repetitive administrative work.
Before renewing Sage Intacct, review the workflows your team completes every day, month and quarter.
Consider questions such as:
- How much manual data entry is required for routine accounting transactions?
- How are accounts payable invoices captured, coded and routed for approval?
- Are approval workflows aligned with your organization's policies and entity structure?
- How much manual work is involved in allocations and recurring transactions?
- Are intercompany processes automated or dependent on finance-team intervention?
- Can recurring reports and financial information be distributed automatically?
- Are notifications and approvals incorporated into existing workflows?
- Where are finance employees repeatedly entering, exporting or reconciling the same information?
- Could AI or workflow automation reduce repetitive accounting tasks while maintaining appropriate financial controls?
The objective is not to automate every accounting process. Some transactions and decisions appropriately require human review. Instead, identify repetitive work that consumes finance-team time without adding meaningful value.
This was a consideration in Gravity's conversations with organizations evaluating Sage Intacct. For example, one organization described allocation requirements that remained manual because the additional functionality it considered would have increased its subscription cost. Other evaluations have identified processes that continued to rely on spreadsheets or supporting applications outside the core accounting environment.
As AI becomes more widely incorporated into financial management, this evaluation should also look forward. Finance leaders should consider how their accounting platform can support emerging capabilities such as AI-assisted invoice processing, natural-language access to financial information, intelligent workflow automation and other tools that may reduce routine accounting work.
The renewal decision should therefore consider both how efficiently the platform supports your finance team today and how its automation capabilities align with the way you expect the team to operate in the future.
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7. Consider usability and the administrative burden on your finance team
Accounting software can offer extensive functionality, but the value of those capabilities also depends on how efficiently finance teams can use and administer the system. As organizations grow, additional entities, users, dimensions, workflows and reporting requirements can increase the amount of system administration required.
Before renewing Sage Intacct, consider how the day-to-day experience affects productivity across your finance team.
Questions to consider include:
- How easy is Sage Intacct for new employees to learn?
- Can occasional users find the information and functions they need without extensive training?
- How many steps are required to complete common accounting tasks?
- How easily can administrators add entities, users, dimensions and other organizational structures?
- Does the finance team frequently rely on a small number of experienced users to navigate or administer the system?
- How much training or outside consulting is required when requirements change?
- Are routine configuration changes handled internally or do they require assistance from a partner or consultant?
- Has system administration become more time-consuming as the organization has grown?
Usability can be particularly important for lean finance teams. A platform may support the required accounting functionality but still create additional work if routine processes require extensive navigation, specialized knowledge or ongoing administrative support.
This has surfaced in Gravity's conversations with Sage Intacct users. One growing multi-entity organization described Sage Intacct as less user-friendly than it wanted as its financial environment became more complex. Another organization evaluating alternatives identified navigation and ease of use as important considerations for employees who did not work in the accounting system every day.
Usability should therefore be evaluated alongside functionality. Before renewing, consider whether the system helps your finance team work efficiently today and whether it can remain manageable as you add employees, entities and financial complexity.
8. Review your integrations and overall finance technology stack
Sage Intacct may be only one part of your organization's financial technology environment. Finance teams often rely on additional applications for accounts payable, expense management, budgeting, reporting, payroll, payments, CRM and other operational processes.
Before renewing Sage Intacct, look beyond the accounting platform itself and evaluate how well the entire technology stack works together.
Consider questions such as:
- Which applications are integrated with Sage Intacct today?
- Are those integrations reliable, or does the finance team regularly troubleshoot data synchronization issues?
- Are employees entering the same information into multiple systems?
- How much data is exported and imported between applications?
- Which financial processes require separate third-party applications?
- What additional subscription, integration or consulting costs are associated with those applications?
- Can financial and operational data be brought together easily for reporting and analysis?
- Does your current technology environment align with your organization's broader technology strategy?
- Could consolidating systems or using a more connected platform reduce complexity?
The goal is not necessarily to eliminate specialized applications. Some organizations benefit from purpose-built systems that integrate with their accounting platform. The important question is whether each application adds meaningful capability or has become necessary to compensate for gaps or inefficiencies elsewhere in the financial environment.
Gravity has encountered Sage Intacct environments where the accounting platform was supported by additional applications, spreadsheets, reporting tools and outside services. When those costs and processes are evaluated together, the financial technology environment can look significantly different than it does when considering the Sage Intacct subscription alone.
This is also an opportunity to consider your organization's broader technology direction. If your business has standardized around platforms such as Microsoft 365, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Power Automate or other business applications, evaluate how easily your financial system connects financial data with the tools employees already use.
Understanding the complete technology stack provides important context for the renewal decision and sets up the next evaluation: the true total cost of maintaining the current environment.
9. Calculate the total cost of your Sage Intacct environment
The subscription price on a Sage Intacct renewal is only one component of what your organization may spend to operate its financial management environment. Before renewing, calculate the broader total cost of ownership so you can make a more meaningful comparison between continuing with Sage Intacct and evaluating another accounting platform.
Your analysis should consider costs such as:
- Sage Intacct subscription and renewal pricing
- Users, entities and additional modules
- Implementation or configuration services
- Sage Intacct partner or consulting services
- Third-party applications and integrations
- Accounts payable, expense management or payment applications
- Budgeting, reporting and business intelligence tools
- Integration development and maintenance
- Training and ongoing system administration
- Internal finance-team time spent on manual processes
- Spreadsheet-based reporting, reconciliations and other work performed outside the accounting system
Some of these costs are easy to identify because they appear on an invoice. Others are less visible. If employees spend hours each month exporting data, maintaining spreadsheets, reconciling information between systems or completing processes manually, that effort is also part of the cost of maintaining the current financial environment.
Gravity has seen this broader cost structure during evaluations with Sage Intacct users. In one organization, the financial environment included Sage Intacct alongside additional systems, spreadsheets and outside services. Looking at those components together provided a more complete picture of the organization's financial technology investment than the Sage Intacct subscription alone.
It can also be helpful to evaluate costs over several years rather than comparing only the next renewal period. Consider expected growth in users and entities, additional functionality the organization may need, renewal pricing, consulting requirements and the cost of maintaining integrations as your financial environment becomes more complex.
For growing organizations, the decision may also involve whether moving to a larger, more complex ERP system is necessary. Understanding the cost and complexity of traditional ERP systems can help finance leaders evaluate whether a more focused financial management platform is a better fit.
The objective is not simply to find the accounting platform with the lowest subscription price. It is to determine which approach provides the functionality your organization needs at a reasonable total cost while supporting the efficiency, controls and scalability your finance team requires.
10. Determine whether Sage Intacct still fits where your organization is going
A renewal decision should consider more than whether Sage Intacct meets your organization's requirements today. Finance leaders should also evaluate whether the platform and their current configuration can support where the organization expects to be over the next several years.
Growth can introduce new requirements quickly. Additional entities, acquisitions, new locations, international operations, more complex ownership structures and increased transaction volumes can all change what the finance team needs from its accounting platform.
Before renewing Sage Intacct, consider questions such as:
- How many entities do you expect to manage over the next several years?
- Will acquisitions, subsidiaries, joint ventures or other ownership structures increase accounting complexity?
- Will your organization need additional currencies or international reporting?
- Are reporting requirements becoming more sophisticated?
- Will executives expect faster access to consolidated financial and operational information?
- Will increased transaction volume require greater workflow automation?
- Can new entities and financial structures be added efficiently?
- Will your organization need additional modules, applications or integrations as it grows?
- Does the platform align with your organization's broader technology strategy?
- Can the current environment scale without significantly increasing administrative effort and total cost?
These questions are especially important for growing multi-entity organizations. Gravity has spoken with Sage Intacct users whose requirements changed as they added entities, introduced more complex reporting needs or needed additional functionality. In some cases, those changes became a reason to evaluate whether their existing Sage Intacct environment remained the right long-term fit.
That experience illustrates an important distinction: outgrowing an accounting environment does not necessarily mean the software lacks functionality. The organization's requirements may simply have evolved beyond the configuration, processes, cost structure or operating model that originally made the system a good fit.
Before signing another Sage Intacct renewal, consider whether you are renewing a financial environment that supports the next stage of the organization—or extending one that your finance team is already beginning to work around.
Should you renew Sage Intacct or evaluate alternatives?
After reviewing your renewal terms, functionality, workflows, reporting requirements, technology stack and total cost of ownership, the next question is whether Sage Intacct continues to be the right fit for your organization.
For some organizations, renewing Sage Intacct will make sense. If the platform continues to support your financial requirements efficiently, your team is comfortable using it, and the overall investment aligns with the value it provides, changing accounting systems may introduce unnecessary disruption.
For others, the renewal process may uncover reasons to evaluate alternatives. These could include increasing costs, growing reliance on additional modules or third-party applications, manual processes, reporting challenges, usability concerns or changing multi-entity requirements.
Consider evaluating Sage Intacct alternatives if:
- Your organization has significantly changed since Sage Intacct was implemented.
- You are adding entities faster than your existing processes can efficiently support them.
- Intercompany accounting, consolidation or multi-currency processes require significant manual work.
- Finance teams rely heavily on spreadsheets or other applications to complete routine accounting and reporting.
- Additional modules, integrations or consulting services are increasing the total cost of the financial environment.
- Reporting requirements have become more complex or management wants greater access to financial and operational insights.
- Your team wants greater workflow automation or AI-assisted accounting capabilities.
- The current environment no longer aligns well with your broader technology strategy.
- Your proposed renewal has caused you to reconsider the long-term value of the platform.
Evaluating alternatives does not mean you have decided to leave Sage Intacct. It gives your organization an opportunity to compare the current environment with other financial management platforms before committing to another contract term.
Most importantly, allow enough time for that evaluation. Comparing accounting platforms may involve requirements gathering, demonstrations, stakeholder input, pricing analysis, implementation planning and data migration considerations. If the process begins too close to the Sage Intacct renewal date, the organization may have little practical choice but to renew—even if it has identified reasons to consider another platform.
Gravity has encountered this exact situation with a Sage Intacct customer. The organization began evaluating alternatives after changes in its renewal economics but ultimately renewed Sage Intacct for another year because leadership did not want to rush the software evaluation and migration process.
If your renewal is approaching, the best time to determine whether Sage Intacct remains the right fit is before the renewal deadline determines the decision for you.
How far in advance should you evaluate Sage Intacct alternatives?
If you are considering whether to renew Sage Intacct or move to another accounting platform, start the evaluation well before your renewal date. Waiting until the contract is close to expiration can make the renewal deadline—not your organization's requirements—the deciding factor.
There is no single timeline that works for every organization. The amount of time needed depends on factors such as the number of entities, complexity of the accounting environment, integrations, data migration requirements, stakeholder availability and the implementation requirements of the platform being considered.
For a meaningful evaluation, finance leaders should allow time to:
- Document current accounting processes and pain points.
- Identify requirements for multi-entity accounting, intercompany transactions, consolidation, reporting and other financial processes.
- Determine which stakeholders should participate in the evaluation and final decision.
- Research and compare potential accounting platforms.
- Attend demonstrations based on your organization's actual requirements.
- Compare software, implementation and ongoing costs.
- Evaluate integrations and data migration requirements.
- Review implementation partners and project resources.
- Obtain internal approval and complete contract negotiations.
- Develop an implementation and transition plan that avoids unnecessary disruption to financial operations.
If an alternative is selected, the implementation timeline also needs to account for system configuration, data migration, integrations, testing, training and preparation for go-live. Organizations may also want to coordinate the transition with their fiscal year, audit schedule, budgeting cycle or other important financial deadlines.
Starting early does not commit your organization to replacing Sage Intacct. It creates options. If the evaluation confirms that Sage Intacct remains the best fit, the organization can approach the renewal with greater confidence. If another platform is a better fit, there is more time to make the transition thoughtfully.
Gravity has seen what can happen when those timelines converge. One organization began evaluating alternatives after its Sage Intacct renewal became a concern, but leadership ultimately renewed for another year because it did not want to rush the software evaluation and migration process.
The practical lesson is simple: do not wait for the Sage Intacct renewal notice to begin evaluating your accounting system. Build enough time into the process to decide whether to renew, negotiate or transition based on what is best for the organization rather than what the calendar allows.
What should you compare when evaluating Sage Intacct alternatives?
If your renewal evaluation indicates that it is worth considering other accounting platforms, the next step is to compare alternatives based on your organization's requirements rather than simply creating a feature checklist.
Many financial management platforms support similar core accounting capabilities. The differences often become clearer when you evaluate how those capabilities work in practice, how much manual effort is required and how the platform will support your organization as it grows.
When comparing Sage Intacct alternatives, consider:
- Multi-entity accounting and how entities are managed within the system
- Intercompany accounting, allocations and eliminations
- Consolidated financial reporting and entity-level drill-down
- Multi-currency accounting and currency translation
- Dimensions and the flexibility to analyze financial information across the organization
- Financial reporting and business intelligence
- Budgeting and planning
- Accounts payable and invoice processing
- Workflow automation and approvals
- AI capabilities and how they apply to everyday finance processes
- Integrations with the applications your organization already uses
- Ease of adding entities, users and new organizational structures
- Usability for both finance teams and occasional users
- Implementation approach, data migration and training requirements
- Subscription pricing, implementation costs and long-term total cost of ownership
During demonstrations, ask vendors to show how your organization's actual workflows would be handled. If intercompany accounting is a major challenge, for example, ask to see the complete process rather than simply confirming that the software supports intercompany transactions. If consolidated reporting is important, ask to see how users move from a consolidated financial statement to individual entities and underlying financial activity.
The same approach applies to automation and AI. Rather than asking whether a platform “has AI,” determine what finance employees can actually accomplish with it. Can AI assist with invoice processing? Can users ask questions about financial information using natural language? Can workflows and approvals be automated while maintaining appropriate financial controls?
The objective is to understand not only what each accounting platform can do, but how it would change the way your finance team works.
Organizations ready to begin that comparison can use our Sage Intacct alternatives guide to explore the capabilities to evaluate, how Gravity Software approaches multi-entity financial management, and the differences between the platforms.
Why growing multi-entity organizations consider Gravity Software as a Sage Intacct alternative
For organizations that determine their current Sage Intacct environment no longer aligns with their requirements, Gravity Software provides an alternative designed specifically for growing multi-entity organizations.
Gravity brings advanced financial management, multi-entity accounting, reporting, business intelligence, workflow automation, AI and connected operational capabilities together on the Microsoft Power Platform. Beyond core accounting, organizations can support more advanced financial and operational processes within the same connected environment while extending capabilities through familiar Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft 365, Power BI, Power Automate and Copilot.
Organizations evaluating Gravity can consider capabilities such as:
- Managing multiple entities within a single accounting database
- Automated intercompany transactions, due-to and due-from entries, allocations and eliminations
- Real-time consolidated financial reporting with entity-level visibility
- Multi-currency accounting and currency translation
- Flexible dimensions and hierarchical reporting structures
- Financial reporting, statistical accounting and Microsoft Power BI
- Workflow automation and approvals using Microsoft Power Automate
- AI-assisted invoice processing and accounting automation
- Microsoft Copilot for interacting with Gravity financial information using natural language
- Advanced functionality including subscription billing, payment portal and residential property management
- Operational capabilities including purchase order management, sales order management, inventory and bill of materials
- The ability to add entities as the organization grows without recreating the accounting environment for each company
This approach can be particularly relevant for organizations whose Sage Intacct renewal evaluation reveals that growth is increasing the amount of manual work, additional applications or administrative effort required to manage their financial environment.
That was the experience of one growing renewable energy organization that had originally selected Sage Intacct partly for its multi-entity capabilities. As the organization expanded and added subsidiaries, joint ventures and investments, its requirements around entity setup, consolidation, multi-currency accounting and reporting became more complex. The finance team wanted a more repeatable approach to adding entities and reducing manual processes. After evaluating its evolving requirements, the organization migrated from Sage Intacct to Gravity Software.
The objective of a renewal evaluation is not to determine that one accounting platform is universally better than another. It is to determine which platform best supports your organization's entity structure, financial processes, reporting requirements, technology strategy, expected growth and total cost of ownership.
For a deeper evaluation, readers can explore our Sage Intacct pain points article to understand common challenges organizations may encounter as their requirements evolve, or review our Gravity Software vs. Sage Intacct comparison to compare the platforms across multi-entity accounting, reporting, automation, AI and other financial management requirements.
Planning ahead for your Sage Intacct renewal
A Sage Intacct renewal should give your organization an opportunity to look beyond the next contract term and evaluate whether your financial management environment continues to support the business effectively.
Starting the process early gives finance leaders time to review renewal pricing and contract terms, assess current workflows, identify manual processes, evaluate the complete technology stack and determine whether the platform can support future growth. It also provides enough time to evaluate alternatives without allowing the renewal deadline to dictate the decision.
If Sage Intacct continues to provide the functionality, efficiency and value your organization needs, renewing may be the right decision. If the evaluation identifies growing costs, increasing manual work, reporting limitations, additional technology requirements or changing multi-entity needs, it may be time to compare other financial management platforms.
The important part is to make that decision based on where your organization is going—not simply because another renewal date has arrived.
Evaluate whether Gravity Software fits your organization
If your Sage Intacct renewal is approaching and you're considering whether to renew or evaluate alternatives, Gravity Software can help you determine whether its approach to multi-entity accounting aligns with your requirements.
A personalized demonstration can show how Gravity handles your entity structure, intercompany accounting, consolidated reporting, workflow automation, business intelligence and AI while giving your team an opportunity to ask questions based on the processes you manage today.
Schedule a demo to see whether Gravity Software is the right fit for the next stage of your organization's growth.
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