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[Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/121198-MIP-Accounting/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/121198-MIP-Accounting/alternatives/) # MIP Accounting User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.1/5 - Total reviews: 69 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 3.9/5 - Customer support: 4.1/5 - Value for money: 3.9/5 - Functionality: 4.0/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 26 reviews (38%) - 4 stars: 32 reviews (46%) - 3 stars: 8 reviews (12%) - 2 stars: 2 reviews (3%) - 1 star: 1 reviews (1%) ### Most mentioned pros - MIP is a great fund accounting software. - This is a solid software program with options to add modules for organization needs. ### Most mentioned cons - Client services failed to deliver adequate service and cannot recommend MIP cloud. - so difficult to use, interface is not intuitive, reporting and queries not easy to use. ## MIP Accounting customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 69 (page 1). ### Very nice! - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Tia C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospital & Health Care - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros We have been using this for accounting for quite awhile and have not have any issues. It has great support and options to be able to work for what our non-profit is always needing. #### Cons The reporting could be better, more customization would be great. As a non-profit it is always something that we need reporting on and nothing is ever perfect. But that does go for many products too. --- ### Ok for the $, but only if you have it on premises, stay away from their cloud one. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Carlos R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Loved it when it was on premises, hate their cloud version and the exorbitant prices for services #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros System is great for the $ but ONLY if you have it on premises. Once you move to the cloud they nickel and dime you to death. Any changes you need, they will charge you dearly for it. For example once we moved to the cloud, adding a new segment and changing history >$7K, I used to have a SQL engineer do it for $1K. #### Cons High costs of their customer support for any change #### Reasons for choosing MIP Accounting experience with MIP for over 20 years #### Reasons for switching to MIP Accounting Acumatica doesn't work for non-profits that have a lot of Federal grants --- ### MIP Fund Accounting Review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jeanette J. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: September 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Great product and customer service. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Ease of use and relevant to the needs of our agency. #### Cons We have had no issues with the software. --- ### Cloud Conversion/ Client Services - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Akkegra H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros When the software was hosted on premises, it was almost flawless. #### Cons It was pushed to move to our account to the cloud and functionality and updates to the on prem software was starting to lag and more bugs were encountered. When our org migrated, the process was cumbersome and we were charged over $550 for a 'modern overview' that I would have waived if the charges were transparent. Client services failed to deliver adequate service and cannot recommend MIP cloud. --- ### Great Platform! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jeanette R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Accounting - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall very happy with MIP and the way it works. It was a good choice for us! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros MIP is a great fund accounting software. It has been very valuable for our organization and makes it easy to keep everything in order and organized. #### Cons System is sometimes glitchy and it's hard to find tutorials for learning new things in the software. --- ### Sturdy and reliable accounting software - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Individual & Family Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall good, reliable and serves our current needs. We'd prefer a system that did not require annual updates performed by our applications team, but it's something we can live with. Customer support is helpful but can be hard to reach at times. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros It is reliable and doesn't crash. Good suite of features that suit our essential needs, such as payroll, AP, AR, reports, budgets and fund management. Other tools are add ons that we do not currently use but had to contract with a few additional third parties to meet our needs. #### Cons Annual fee and need for annual updates. Normally these are not too cumbersome but occasionally they are more difficult to implement for our applications team and it takes up a good chunk of their time. --- ### University Fundraising Team - Overall rating: 2/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I personally found the coordinative POSSIBILITIES to be high, however the learning curve made it hard for the average user to become functional. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 1/5 - Functionality: 2/5 #### Pros I enjoyed the ability to get an entire University on board and working in the same direction. Additionally, the ability to coordinate accounts is very helpful. #### Cons The learning curve is hard. It is easy to use poorly, and difficult to use easily. I became an adept user, but the difficulty in getting up to speed typically meant that other colleagues accomplished only the basic tasks, or neglected using it at all. --- ### MIP is a good nonprofit software that is cost affordable - Overall rating: 2/5 - Reviewer: Peter T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros MIP has everything you need however there are many different features such as payroll and etc that will cost more to be added on #### Cons It is not up to update. I love the lay out but I can see a lot of improve that could make the workflow and journal entries easier/faster --- ### Great software for mid-market non-profits - Overall rating: 3.5/5 - Reviewer: Paige B. - Industry: Civic & Social Organization - Product usage: Used unspecified for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2015 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The Saas version makes it easy to implement and easy on the IT department (they don't have to do anything). It also makes it easy to access from anywhere. We moved from Blackbaud because their system was so clunky and I couldn't get financials out of it easily. With Abila, it's very easy to run a variety of financials that I can tailor to my needs. It's also very easy to drill down (not from the financial reports) to find the detail I'm looking for with links to supporting documents (i.e. invoices). The A/R, fixed asset and other modules let us keep accounting for everything in one place. #### Cons The financial reports are a bit limited in terms of showing groupings of departments without being able to show the total on the same report. It can't do monthly balance sheets on one report. And you can't enter operational/non-financial data for more comprehensive reporting. The wait time for calling into their help center is still unacceptable (hold times of no less than 30 minutes). They know about this and, instead of fixing it, tell users to use their chat function. While their response time on chat is very fast, I hate having to type out my issues and responses. I just want to talk to a live person. --- ### Workplace utilizes for Electronic Requisition system - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Performing Arts - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: September 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros We were able to move away from wasting so much paper and doing paper purchase orders for everything. MIP allowed for us to move into an easily submittable format. #### Cons Navigating the software itself can be clunky. I'm not sure if we have an older version or not, but there's some standard keystrokes that are different than intuition would say. The enter key saves and closes something and the tab key functions more as a traditional enter key which really messed with me for awhile. --- ### Use - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Yvonne S. - Industry: Construction - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2017 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 1/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 2/5 #### Pros Loads of options, Layout is nice, Support, job costing, all the report options, and vendor and customer lists #### Cons Not user friendly Small fonts and tabs. US version looks better Uses not give you cash accounting option --- ### Ok Accounting Software - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Anne L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It was just OK- didn’t love it didn’t hate it. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I really enjoyed all the functions of this software system. It never lagged or crashed on me. #### Cons I did not enjoy how there are limits to how many users could be on the software. Sometimes, I would not be able to log in the system because there were too many of my colleagues on it so I couldn’t do my work. It was frustrating. --- ### Payroll & Benefits Coordinator - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Leslie E. - Industry: Philanthropy - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: November 2016 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I would like to do more precise reports, like who is on BCBS HMO and who is on BCBS PPO. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I like the tabs. I can quickly access what I need because the tabs make it so simple. I love love love the fact that I can put an annual salary on the Current Pay tab and it will calculate everything the salary and hourly rate for me. I love that! Every-time I have questions I can call over there and I get help. Even if I get these crazy ideas to try to do something new I ask my sales person Dan and he gets the answers for me. #### Cons Why do I have to enter some information more than once? I have to enter exempt and non-exempt on Current Job tab, Job History tab and Current Pay Tab...Why? Also the W-4 issued by the IRS says Single, Married or Married but filing at a higher Single rate. The box Single/head of household is confusing. On Address & Phone tab why do the Home, Cell & Fax boxes have "Ext" in the box? No one has an Ext at home or on their cell phones. Now you are just being lazy. --- ### Easy to tailor to your industry needs. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Brenda C. - Industry: Primary/ Secondary Education - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: August 2017 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I'm still learning, but the more often I use Abila, and the more familiar I become I am enjoying the software more and more! It's very well designed. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros There are a lot of features, and it's easy to get overwhelmed if you are new to accounting, however, if you are a quick learner and explore the features at length you can quickly figure things out until your transactions become intuitive. #### Cons It does assume a certain level of accounting proficiency on the part of the user. Those starting out will probably require some support in navigating. The "Help" search feature is very technical. --- ### Abila can be your primary accounting software - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Mukul K. - Industry: Management Consulting - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: November 2016 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Owing to the fact that modules can be added into the existing system, Abila offers a very versatile solution. We use it as a primary accounting software but it can be extended to HR as well as other departments just by the addition of modules. It is not too tough to learn but definitely some amount of time is needed initially to get used to it. Makes the process pretty smooth after that. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros 1. Abila offers modules that are customizable to suit the needs of small, medium and large size companies. These modules can also be purchased in parts as the requirements of the company change with time. 2. It offers a very good customer support system who help in setting up the accounting system initially and also help during operation if need be. 3. Fits the budget if you only buy the modules you need in case it is for a smaller organization with limited requirements. #### Cons 1. Some features of the Abila software cannot be changed once the system has been set up like the number of digits in the fund code. 2. There could have been more number of options in the formatting of financial statements generated using this software. 3. Since it requires training in the initial to begin using the software, there is a cost involved in doing so. --- ### Great solution from anywhere! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Robyn S. - Industry: Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: August 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Cloud based was awesome as was security. It really felt like your information was secure. It had all the modules in an easy to use place. #### Cons It was a little expensive for a small company and didn’t need the cloud. I wish it had inventory and shipping capabilities to keep from buying two software packages and reconciling them. --- ### Complex but worth it - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Praise A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Philanthropy - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2017 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Very robust and advanced. You will be able to track a lot of expenses and produce a host of reports. #### Cons Without proper training, it could be very challenging for an entry level employee. It requires an extra attention to detail --- ### MIP - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Michell A. - Industry: Civic & Social Organization - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: October 2016 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I have utilized this software in previous organizations and find it to be a great enhancement from QuickBooks. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros More secured --- ### Abila Nonprofit Online & NW Metro Atlanta Habitat for Humanity - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Camellia C. - Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified - Reviewed: December 2016 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Our office used Abila (formerly known as Sage) from 2010-2015. While Abila seems to be a great tool for our finance department (who has continued to use Abila after the development department switched to Cloud Essentials by Salesforce), the product was not up to date with the needs of a fundraising and development department. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 2/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 2/5 --- ### Abila MIP Fund accounting - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Lisa N. - Industry: Philanthropy - Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified - Reviewed: September 2015 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 3.5/5 #### Pros Vendor was fabulous in explaining how to use the product and went out of their way to make sure we received any answers needed. #### Cons It's not fully implemented yet so I can't report about it. --- ### Abila MIP Fund Accounting - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Mannat P. - Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: November 2016 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. The work for my company is to improve the accounting period and to streamline the data entry. Before this my company would produce financials manually in excel by copy and pasting. By purchasing Abila MIP Fund Accounting Drillpoint module, I was able to link my accounting system directly to excel reducing my financial statement preparation time from four hours to fifteen minutes. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 --- ### Abila MIP Fund Accounting is functional and reliable - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Lauren R. - Industry: Government Administration - Product usage: Used unspecified for less than 6 months - Reviewed: September 2014 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4.5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4.5/5 #### Pros Transitioning from our old software to Abila Fund Accounting was nearly seamless, thanks to the Abila support team. The product is reasonably priced and very functional. It meets our needs extremely well. #### Cons The reporting functionality is not at all intuitive. --- ### Great product - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Alexandra C. - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: January 2017 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. This software has the variety of features which are a must to have for a small to medium business. The speed and efficiency are top notch. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 --- ### Account Software Crisis - Overall rating: 1/5 - Reviewer: Rose l. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Nightmare #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 1/5 - Value for money: 1/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 1/5 #### Pros Nothing about the software is user friendly and the training process is a nightmare. the company keeps switching trainers who leave the company and leave their clients with no connection to know what is going on #### Cons The technology feature is very difficult and the modular build up is not effective to pull out reports. #### Reasons for switching to MIP Accounting MIP promised to provide ease of services and efficiency --- ### Used when it was Sage - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Brittany E. - Industry: Construction - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: January 2017 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. When I used this product, I did not work in the accounting department, I worked in the Warranty/Repairs Department of a construction company. However, we used this software to make notes, bill for repairs, find out when a warranty should be issued upon customer being paid in full, and communicate with the accounting department as they were in another building than our department. The invoicing feature was very straight forward and easy to use. Checking if a customer was paid in full was also easy. Making notes was also easy but the categorization of the notes could have been better. It was just a long list with no differentiation or date categorization. You just had to scroll through a giant list of notes to hopefully find what you needed to know, and hopefully someone put a name and a date by the note so you could ask them additional questions if they did not list enough detail. Switching from different screens was a little time consuming. When I used this software, there was no ability to set an action request. I'm sure by now they have changed this and made it possible to set actions or reminders for yourself or others. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Multiple users can be on the program at one time. It is relatively user friendly as long as you have basic computer knowledge. #### Cons The time it took to go from one feature to another was frustrating when you are on the phone with a customer and needed to get to several different places quickly, however, that could have been due to the number of users we had on our server at a given time. If an older person, who has limited computer knowledge were to try and use this program, they may need a training course to become comfortable using it. ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/121198-MIP-Accounting/reviews/?page=2) --- MIP Accounting Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice