Who Uses NetSuite?
NetSuite is ideal for small to midsize businesses.
What Is NetSuite?
NetSuite is the world's #1 cloud accounting solution, providing a unified platform to streamline back-office processes to areas like CRM, inventory, and ecommerce. NetSuite empowers businesses of all sizes and industries to optimize financial close, reduce IT costs, and eliminate operational inefficiencies with our built-in business intelligence, reporting, and real-time visibility -- allowing you to focus on key, revenue-generating decisions, rather than worry about your back-end systems.
NetSuite Details
NetSuite
http://www.netsuite.com
Founded 1998
NetSuite Cost Overview
NetSuite does not have a free version and does not offer a free trial.
Free Version
No
Free Trial
No
Deployment
Cloud, SaaS, Web
Training
In Person
Live Online
Webinars
Documentation
Support
24/7 (Live Rep)
Online
NetSuite Features
Accounting Software
- Accounts Receivable
- Bank Reconciliation
- Billing & Invoicing
- CPA Firms
- Expense Tracking
- Fixed Asset Management
- Fund Accounting
- Government
- Nonprofits
- Payroll Management
- Project Accounting
- Purchase Orders
- Tax Management
Accounts Payable Software
- 1099 Preparation
- Aging Tracking
- Approval Process Control
- Cash Management
- Check Writing
- Data Extraction
- Duplicate Payment Alert
- Electronic Funds Transfer
- Fraud Detection
- Invoice Processing
- PO Reconciliation
- Recurring Payments
- Vendor Management
Accounts Receivable Software
- ACH Payment Processing
- Aging Tracking
- Billing & Invoicing
- Check Processing
- Collections Management
- Customer Statements
- Online Payment Processing
- Overpayment Processing
- Partial Payments
- Receivables Ledger
- Recurring Billing
Apparel Management Software
- Billing & Invoicing
- Catalog Management
- Inventory Management
- Materials Management
- Order Management
- Product Management
- Production Management
- Purchasing
- Returns Management
- Shipping Management
- Supplier Management
- Supply Chain Management
- Warehouse Management
Business Intelligence (BI) Tools
- Ad Hoc Reports
- Benchmarking
- Dashboard
- Key Performance Indicators
- Performance Metrics
- Predictive Analytics
- Profitability Analysis
- Publishing / Sharing
- Scorecards
- Strategic Planning
- Trend / Problem Indicators
- Visual Analytics
Business Management Software
- Billing & Invoicing
- CRM
- Employee Management
- Financial Management
- Inventory Management
- Marketing Management
- Order Management
- Performance Metrics
- Project Management
- Purchasing
- Scheduling
- Time & Expense Tracking
- Training Management
- Vendor Management
Distribution Software
- Barcoding / RFID
- Import / Export Management
- Inventory Management
- Order Management
- Purchasing
- Returns Management
- Sales Forecasting
- Shipping Management
- Warehouse Management
ERP Systems
- CRM
- Distribution Management
- Enterprise Asset Management
- Financial Management
- HR Management
- Inventory Management
- Order Management
- Project Management
- Purchase Order Management
- Reporting/Analytics
- Supply Chain Management
- Warehouse Management
Financial Management Software
- Budgeting & Forecasting
- Cash Management
- Consolidation / Roll-Up
- Currency Management
- Financial Reporting
- Investment Management
- Project Management
- Revenue Recognition
- Risk Management
- Tax Management
Financial Reporting Software
- "What If" Scenarios
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Audit Trail
- Balance Sheet
- Budgeting/Forecasting
- Cash Management
- Consolidation/Roll-Up
- Data Import/Export
- General Ledger
- Multi-Company
- Profit/Loss Statement
Inventory Control Software
- Barcoding/RFID
- Check-in/Check-out
- Cost Tracking
- Forecasting
- Inventory Optimization
- Inventory Tracking
- Item Management
- Reorder Management
- SKU/UPC Codes
- Serial Number Tracking
- Supplier Management
Inventory Management Software
- Alerts/Notifications
- Forecasting
- Inventory Optimization
- Kitting
- Manufacturing Inventory Management
- Mobile Access
- Multi-Channel Management
- Product Identification
- Reorder Management
- Reporting/Analytics
- Retail Inventory Management
- Supplier Management
- Warehouse Management
MRP Software
- Bills of Material
- Document Management
- Inventory Management
- Order Management
- Production Scheduling
- Quality Management
- Quote Management
- Reporting/Analytics
- Safety Management
- Supplier Management
- Supply Chain Management
Manufacturing Execution Software
- Document Management
- Forecasting
- Inventory Management
- Order Management
- Quality Management
- Supplier Management
- Supply Chain Management
- Traceability
Manufacturing Software
- Accounting Integration
- ERP
- MES
- Maintenance Management
- Material Requirements Planning
- Purchase Order Management
- Quality Management
- Quotes/Estimates
- Reporting/Analytics
- Safety Management
- Shipping Management
Order Management Software
- Backorder Management
- Catalog Management
- Inventory Management
- Order Entry
- Order Fulfillment
- Order Tracking
- Recurring Orders
- Returns Management
- Shipping Management
- Special Order Management
Project Management Software
- Agile Methodologies
- Budget Management
- Client Portal
- Collaboration Tools
- Cost-to-Completion Tracking
- Customizable Templates
- Gantt Charts
- Idea Management
- Kanban Board
- Milestone Tracking
- Portfolio Management
- Resource Management
- Time & Expense Tracking
- Traditional Methodologies
Resource Management Software
- Capacity Management
- Collaboration Tools
- Drag & Drop
- Forecasting
- Reporting/Project Tracking
- Resource Scheduling
- Search/Filter
- Skills Tracking
- Utilization Reporting
Retail Management Software
- CRM
- Commission Management
- Email Marketing
- Employee Management
- Loyalty Program
- Mail Order
- Merchandise Management
- Multi-Location
- Order Management
- Purchase Order Management
- Reporting/Analytics
- Returns Management
- eCommerce
Supply Chain Management Software
- Demand Planning
- Electronic Data Interchange
- Import/Export Management
- Inventory Management
- Order Fulfillment
- Sales & Operations Planning
- Shipping Management
- Supplier Management
- Transportation Management
- Warehouse Management
Warehouse Management Software
- 3PL Management
- Barcoding/RFID
- Forecasting
- Inventory Management
- Multi-Location
- Order Management
- Purchasing
- Quality Management
- Real Time Synchronization
- Receiving/Putaway Management
- Returns Management
- Shipping Management
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NetSuite Reviews
Read all reviewsOverall rating
Average score
Alvaro I.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use3 /5
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Features & Functionality5 /5
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Customer Support5 /5
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Value for Money5 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 13/07/2018
"Great ERP"
Comments: Help us at a time we were growing the company, so right now we are more efficient and have real time data because of Netsuite.
Pros:
- Very Robust and Fully customizable
- Have an API and so connect with third party and other tools you use internally can be definitely doable.
- Multiple currencies, locations and internationalization help you when you have to access in different subsidiaries
- Have great tools for making reports
The support have been great the last 2 or 3 times I used it.
Cons:
- Sometimes tends to be slow, It seems like that was a problem with the implementation but in general it feel slow.
- The UI looks old, but does what you need.
- The documentation is really heavy and sometimes is hard to find things there.
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 13/07/2018
Mark W.
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Overall Rating4 /5
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Ease of Use4 /5
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Features & Functionality4 /5
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Customer Support3 /5
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Value for Money4 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 14/10/2020
"NetSuite Review"
Comments: NetSuite has served as well as a full-feature ERP system. We can manage many aspects of our business all in one system including managing projects, recording timesheets, order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, internal case support, CRM, and more. I feel that NetSuite is much easier to learn and more intuitive than other systems, but it still requires time to set the system up for a company's individual needs. NetSuite is set up for wide-ranging customizations, but in many cases these customizations are necessary to get the full benefit of the program. Our time investments in NetSuite have paid off, but the program definitely requires a lot of love to adapt to the changing needs of the business.
Pros: I really like the user-friendly appearance of NetSuite, especially compared to other older systems. I think the appearance makes NetSuite inviting and accessible. In general, the program is easy to learn, and NetSuite does multiple updates every year to add to the features.
Cons: There are times where it feels like features are inexplicably absent from NetSuite. Users have the ability to submit enhancement requests, but it can take years before these are implemented. Additionally, tech support can be hit and miss on providing effective solutions to problems.
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 14/10/2020
Verified Reviewer
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Overall Rating2 /5
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Ease of Use1 /5
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Features & FunctionalityUnrated
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Customer Support4 /5
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Value for Money3 /5
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Likelihood to RecommendUnrated
- Reviewer Source
- Source: GetApp
- Reviewed on 09/07/2015
"Too Complicated for Daily Use"
Comments:
Netsuite was chosen by our company around 9 months ago and has been in use since January 2015. Implementation was long process and was expensive. Costs include the purchase of main licence, an expensive per-person licence, paying a consulting firm to run the implementation project and having a dedicated in-house employee as "admin" to support the other users.
Netsuite has brought some great changes to our company and improved our record keeping hugely. It has also brought transparency to many of the processes and highlighted bottlenecks.
There are many downsides however, we have run into a plethora of technical problems with logic and programming along the way, while error messages abound (much to the annoyance and over-work of the consultant's team). All of the glitches have been worked out and customer service from the NS themselves has been extremely fast and professional.
Adding to the downsides, Netsuite is probably the LEAST intuitive system I have used since the 90s. It really seems like it is stuck in the past. There are hardly any icons, no drag and drop and navigation is inconsistent. Additionally, as a general manager, I need to extract information and data quickly and easily, but I cannot. Every time I want to extract data I have to go to our in-house admin for her to "write a search" in a logic/language that took her months to learn. Nobody else has time to learn that, so nobody else can do it. To my knowledge, NS has poor graphing capabilities and is very rigid in that I cannot easily change the way data is displayed once it is graphed. Usually, if I want data and I have not got time to wait for the admin to write the search pattern for me, I just export a large amount of data with a predefined/standard search and filter it and graph it with Excel - but this always begs the question, why are we paying through the nose for a program (NS) that is so difficult to use that it forces me to use another program (Excel) to make up for its inadequacies?
I could go on with the downsides of how unusable it is from a manger's point of view - there is a lot to say, but I think you get the picture.
The biggest downfall of Netsuite for me is that it is so hard to use that staff really do not want to use it. This is particularly evident in the sales department. They will only really use it for what they really have to use it for: making quotes, so we lose out. Customer data does not get sufficiently recorded, project details are lacking, contacts are hard to look up, customer account history is never recorded (we can't even find the field to put that in). Other systems we used before, e.g. Zoho CRM, Pipedrive and even Excel, are easy to use and therefore get used by the staff. A system such as Netsuite might have a beautifully coded backend, but if it discourages use through extreme user-unfriendliness, it becomes an almost useless system.
Pros:
Solid back end
Keeps excellent and accurate records that are easily audited
Brings transparency to processes
Cons:
Too difficult to use and therefore staff refrain from using it for all but the most essential tasks
Requires an in-house expert to help run the system
Requires months of repeated training to get staff up to speed
Poor for tracking customer account history
Extremely difficult to extract and graph the data that you need from it
Rigid and hard to change display and parameters of any data displays
Very expensive
- Reviewer Source
- Source: GetApp
- Reviewed on 09/07/2015
Tony M.
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Overall Rating4 /5
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Ease of Use4 /5
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Features & Functionality4 /5
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Customer Support3 /5
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Value for Money3 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 25/08/2020
"all in one solution"
Pros: customisability to suit needs of our growing business
Cons: cost to set up and run and for employees to be able to successfully use
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 25/08/2020
Mariana V.
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Overall Rating4 /5
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Ease of Use4 /5
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Features & Functionality2 /5
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Customer Support3 /5
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Value for Money3 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 23/06/2020
"Pros and Cons - Don't fall for their sale pitch"
Comments: - The implementation has been extremely frustrating and disappointing. The sales team pushes for a sale that does not include all the client's needs, resulting in the need for change orders which causes delays. -The implementation team is friendly and proactive but inexperienced/ with little supervision - I can tell they are working hard to find solutions for me, but they seem to be scrambling to figure things out without proper help/ and experienced person in the team. - They have a tendency to promise things they are not able to deliver - for example, they sold me a 3-way match solution that they were not able to deliver it. Their excuse is that it wasn't working because of the partial receipt feature we need. Still, to me it is a very serious issue if they are selling things they can't deliver. - Lastly, as it relates to reviews that you can't customize NetSuites, the truth is, you might be able to, but it will most likely be out of your scope. Although the change order may not be extremely pricey, the delays on the project may be extensive. And I'm not talking about 'unique customization' - I would think blanket POs/ partial receipts, 3-way match would be included in the original sales of a client that made extremely clear that the Procure to Pay module was the most important module to them.
Pros:
- The software allows for some visual customization of the home page based on each role that is easy to do without the help of a programmer. For example, customize the views for each roles, set up alerts, etc.
- The search bar within the software works extremely well, which makes it easier to navigate;
- The use of the software is intuitive and easy to follow/ learn;
- The SuiteAnswers articles are very helpful in answering questions/ showing how to do anything one may need in the system.
Cons: Before selecting this software, I read several reviews saying the biggest issue was the how difficult it was to customize the software. Here are some actual examples: 1. If you want a new field (which they call segment) to be tracked for reporting purposes, you need to create a costume segment, which wont be part of the basic product the sales team sells to you. Also, just found out that it can not created as a mandatory field. 2. All NetSuite modules are standard/ out of the box. Even though we emphasized that Procure to Pay was the absolutely most important module to us, the sales team pushed the basic procure to pay module, which did not include Blanket POs or 3-way match. The thing is the sales team pushes the basic solutions to close the sale, but then later you are stuck having to process change orders, which although are not very expensive, each take about 2 weeks to process, delaying the project. 3. After delaying our project to include 3-way match and blanket POs (2-week delay), the implementation issues begun. It turns out that the 3-way match that they sold to us does NOT work. What the system was able to do is a 2-way match. Also, the system does not allow for an approval flow for releases of blanked POs. Lastly, the costume segment can not be a mandatory field as it doesn't work on blanket PO releases. In Summary - The sales team will push their most simple out of the box version, upgrades result in delays.
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 23/06/2020
