Switching from Sage 300 CRE to Sage Intacct Construction
Moving from Sage 300 CRE to Sage Intacct Construction gives you real-time visibility, automation and scalability—essential for modern construction finance.
Baker Tilly’s construction and real estate team has successfully completed over 40 migrations from Sage 300 CRE to Sage Intacct Construction. As an AICPA-preferred provider ecosystem provider, we bring deep expertise in accounting technology and construction workflows. Our proven approach ensures a smooth transition with minimal disruption, delivering faster closes, better reporting and scalable cloud architecture.
The limitations of Sage 300 CRE
Sage 300 CRE has long supported the construction industry due to its capabilities. However, it lacks the flexibility and scalability that modern firms need to stay competitive. Cloud solutions like Sage Intacct Construction remove these barriers with secure access anywhere, seamless integration and automation. Discover why making the move to the cloud is a smart step for forward-thinking companies.
Why choose Sage Intacct Construction?
Modern cloud financial solution
- True cloud-native accounting platform
- Best-in-class technology with open APIs for seamless integration
- Lower IT and administrative costs with cloud deployment
- Highly customizable and thoughtfully designed
- Real-time visibility through interactive dashboards
- Single source of truth for all stakeholders
- Intuitive, user-friendly interface
- Recognized leader in financial management
- Trusted, rock-solid financial core
- AICPA endorsed: Sage Intacct is the only preferred provider of the AICPA
Benefits of cloud accounting for construction finance leaders
Your next step toward smarter construction management
No servers, no stress.
There's no reliance on on-premise servers or infrastructure, no need to maintain networks or IT staff and no issues when remotely accessing the system with hardware that might cause issues.
Updates without the headaches
Year-end updates and version control issues are a concern that is nonexistent when your entire team is working off a web-based version of your financials.
Turn days of work into hours
Automate repetitive processes to speed up month-end closes, eliminate manual entry and reduce errors.
What you'll gain by switching
Sage Intacct Construction not only improves workflows. It transforms them. Take advantage of faster month-end closes, smarter insights and integrations that keep your business ahead of the competition.
Feature | Impact |
Automated AP/AR | 40% efficiency gains |
Month-end close | 25-50% faster |
Integration options | 10x more than Sage 300 CRE |
Entity consolidation | Effortless multi-entity management |
Reporting | Instant access, no manual syncs |
Sage product comparison chart
Explore the key differences between Sage 300 CRE and Sage Intacct Construction, and uncover powerful features you might be missing.
| Feature | Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate | Sage Intacct Construction |
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| Payroll | Payroll application offered as standard module |
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| Third-party applications | Limited alliance integrations | 200+ Sage Intacct Marketplace Partners |
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| Job cost reporting | Library of existing reports and queries available | Interactive dashboards, standard reports, with powerful customization |
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| Subcontractor compliance | Feature set to record subcontractor agreements, subcontractor change orders, manage lien waivers, certificates of insurance and retention |
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| Retention tracking | Standard | Standard with increased workflow flexibility |
| AIA billing | Standard | AIA billing templates |
Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
Before purchasing new accounting software, you want to feel confident in your investment. Here’s a list of commonly asked questions.
What are the biggest differences between Sage 300 CRE and Sage Intacct Construction?
- No obsolescence! Your cloud platform is constantly up to date and using the latest technology.
- The majority of your IT expenses are converted from capital to operational, adding valuation to your business
- A full-time IT staff without the cost of a single employee
- IT staff that is never on vacation, never gets sick and doesn’t require benefits
- Reduced IT cost for software maintenance, upgrades, fixes and patches
- Secure data centers with leading providers
- Automatic backups of your data
Check our Sage 300 CRE vs. Sage Intacct construction comparison chart
How long does it take to transition?
At Baker Tilly, our Sage Intacct specialists will cover everything you need to get your team set up for success with your new financial system. With our proven methodology and repeatable process, you can be up and running between three and six months.
How can I trust that this is the right move for my company?
Sage Intacct is recognized as for financial leadership. It is the only preferred provider of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the world’s largest membership association for CPAs which sets the standard for the accounting profession. We are the only vendor to have earned this endorsement.
What’s happening with accounting software in the construction industry?
Construction companies are increasingly choosing cloud solutions, which are quite mature and offer superior features to on-premises solutions. In addition, cloud solutions offer an enhanced user experience, intuitive reporting and analytics, streamlined integration and access from anywhere on any device with just an Internet connection.
Sage has invested heavily in Sage Intacct as part of its “Sage Business Cloud” initiative. Their acquisition of Intacct in August 2017 was a central part of their strategy for growing business.
What type of enhancements can I expect for Sage 300 CRE?
For Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate (CRE), enhancements to future releases will be limited to minor feature improvements, bug fixes, compatibility with the latest Microsoft platform, Pervasive SQL software and integrations with third-party alliance solutions.
There are no plans to re-architect Sage 300 CRE as a true cloud product.
How does a solution like Sage Intacct compare to Sage 300 CRE?
When you compare Sage 300 CRE vs. Sage Intacct Construction, you'll see that Sage Intacct has many of the same features as Sage 300 CRE along with additional capabilities like
- Deep financial and operational insight with unlimited data dimensions
- Real-time reporting, dashboards and key performance indicators (KPIs)
- Automated multi-entity management to support intercompany transactions, continuously consolidated financial and operational reports, centralized payables and receivables
- Advanced features including deferred revenue management, project accounting, multicurrency and global consolidations.
- Pre-configured integrations with other best-in-class applications such as Salesforce, AvidXchange, HR Solutions, Expense Report and countless others with hundreds of Sage Intacct Marketplace alliances through modern application programming interfaces (APIs).
- Web-based access from any device
What problems does Sage Intacct alleviate?
- Over-reliance upon Excel spreadsheets for reporting and analytics
- Too much paper shuffling
- Too many emails
- Inefficiencies in accounting department
Who should explore Sage Intacct?
Sage Intacct is ideal for many companies and certainly worth the exploration. This doesn’t mean that you have to migrate immediately, but it’s always strategic to understand your options, especially if one of more of the following is true of your organization
- Rapid growth: Happening now or anticipated in the next 12-18 months
- Multi-entity/location: Managing a complex organizational structure requiring consolidations, eliminations, inter-entity transactions, allocations, etc.
- Integration: Using one or more cloud solutions for lines of business that need to integrate to core finance
- Release management: Falling behind on enhancement releases and updates.
- Infrastructure: Struggling to manage servers, operating systems, security patches and protocols to protect against malicious hacker threats, backups and recovery, etc.
What are some of the specific benefits for my organization of migrating to Sage Intacct?
Our clients have consistently seen significant benefits in three areas
- Improved project reporting and visibility
- Real-time reporting and dashboards
- Automated business processes
- Streamlined integration
- Business intelligence/artificial intelligence (AI)
Relying on a cloud solution makes me nervous. Why should I consider cloud-accounting?
The benefits of online financial software can transform your business. Sage Intacct offers a lower cost of ownership than legacy on-premises solutions. Sage Intacct delivers world-class security backups and disaster recovery, protecting your financial data at a much higher level and at a lower cost than if you did it yourself.
Sage Intacct also delivers automatic quarterly software updates — no business disruption, no costly hardware upgrades and no additional service costs for your organization. You’ll always be on the latest release of the software.
Switching solutions sounds a lot like work; how can Baker Tilly help?
We understand that moving to a news solution is a lot of work. Baker Tilly is uniquely positioned to provide a smooth migration from Sage 300 CRE to Sage Intacct.
Baker Tilly has converted many Sage 300 CRE clients to Sage Intacct through our proven customer success plan which includes implementation, data migration and training resulting in a successful project.
Will my Sage 300 CRE data migrate to Sage Intacct?
Baker Tilly has done many 300 CRE data migrations to Sage Intacct for our customers. Historical data migration usually consists of two years of data.
Some Sage 300 CRE alliance solutions such as hh2, Procore and TimberScan are also compatible with Sage Intacct through the APIs.
Because Sage Intacct is purpose-built for the construction industry, it’s possible that “out-of-the-box” capabilities may negate the dependency of particular add-ons like MyAssistant and Office Connector.
We recently renewed our Sage 300 CRE support plan. Are there incentives to recoup some of that investment?
Yes! Sage and Baker Tilly want to make sure you have the best solution and technology platform to operate your construction business effectively and profitably. There are customer loyalty incentives that reward your existing relationship with us.