--- title: "IFS Cloud ERP Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of IFS Cloud ERP. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if IFS Cloud ERP is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/3243-IFS-Manufacturing/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- 1 million+ businesses helped. Get advice Get Free Advice [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Construction Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/construction/project-management-software-comparison/) / [IFS Cloud ERP](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/3243-IFS-Manufacturing/) / IFS Cloud ERP Reviews Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. [Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/3243-IFS-Manufacturing/) Reviews # IFS Cloud ERP User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 3.9/5 - Total reviews: 30 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 3.5/5 - Customer support: 3.5/5 - Value for money: 3.4/5 - Functionality: 4.0/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 10 reviews (33%) - 4 stars: 13 reviews (43%) - 3 stars: 3 reviews (10%) - 2 stars: 3 reviews (10%) - 1 star: 1 reviews (3%) ### Most mentioned pros - Integration is essential and works fine with Microsoft programs with every SAP products. - It really works very well processing POs, monitoring assets, performing daily reports, we were also amazed how well it integrated with our other solutions. - Third, users may generate rapid reports using a set of built-in tools that are simple to use and understand, requiring no IT professional to be operational in an efficient manner. ## IFS Cloud ERP customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 30 (page 1). ### Great solution for a Small / Medium Business - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Federico A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Banking - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: October 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered This solution really brought us some challenges but opportunities as well, we are currently evaluating its permanence in the company, so far so good. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It really works very well processing POs, monitoring assets, performing daily reports, we were also amazed how well it integrated with our other solutions. #### Cons Sometimes when preparing analytic reports, accessing old data can be challenging. Another improvement opportunity is that permission's workflow, it really does not make much sense, and we need to manually create one for every situation. #### Reasons for choosing IFS Cloud ERP When performing the cost / benefit analysis IFS Cloud came with the highest ratio. #### Reasons for switching to IFS Cloud ERP We needed a robust solution to manage and control our order services and asset management. --- ### Painfully Long Onboarding, but Now OK - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: March 2026 - 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 give it a 7/10, and their customer support has been very hit or miss. We had to implement a lot of custom integrations and fields to get it to work for us. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros We used non-Cloud IFS before and going to the Cloud version was not as painful as I thought it would be. The user interface is more aligned to what you would see on modern websites and SaaS sites, but with this modern design there is less information that can fit in one screen, causing excessive scrolling. #### Cons I am pretty sure I can no longer use Function keys. Furthermore, there are some fields which are now required that I do not remember needing to fill in previously (as we had used the non-cloud version before). Both of these items has caused a slowdown in my ability to extract information. Also I have difficulty accessing all the information I want to see in one screen (laptop). Better on desktop, but still clunky even with switching over to Table view and having a scrollbar. --- ### Consider everything during implementation - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Bryanna A. - Industry: Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used unspecified for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I think IFS is a great tool for mass producers but if you custom manufacture anything then this is not the software for you. IFS works best for a standard product list with very little change. There is NO method for archiving information like a product option, customer, supplier, etc. so once something is entered in the system it is there forever and available as a selection. If your business has very little variables then this is probably the right system for you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 2/5 - Value for money: 1/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 2/5 #### Pros Good training options, support response if fairly quick. Once you learn to 'think like IFS' navigation is pretty easy. #### Cons Inflexible configuration and really only geared towards specific business types. Our custom manufacturing makes it really difficult to use many modules of the software adequately. There are a lot of things our implementation team either didn't adequately consider or configured incorrectly and we've been paying for it for a decade. Nothing is easily updated or changed and options in a drop down (or list of values) cannot ever be archived. No workflows exist in the system and permissions setup is a complete nightmare. --- ### IFS making life easy - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Gijs D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospital & Health Care - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. A tool to do my work well. It provides structure and quality to my tasks. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The software is very flexible. I don't have to adapt my processes to the software. But the software follows the processes. #### Cons The amount of options can sometimes be a bit overwhelming. --- ### Overall IFS Application Satisfaction - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: January 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. In my 3 years, I've never advocated an ERP system. IFS is something I would endorse. It is a strong system with extensive capabilities that can be adapted to practically any corporate setting. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros IFS makes reporting simple and may be done in a variety of ways, including using the incorporated Excel export tool. Second, may utilize the Business Analytics functionality to create complicated states and feed specialized views nightly to avoid affecting your production environment while compiling and running complex SQL queries. Third, users may generate rapid reports using a set of built-in tools that are simple to use and understand, requiring no IT professional to be operational in an efficient manner. #### Cons Very few customization choices, no employee self-service access, no automatic approval routines in the system, and a user interface that is difficult to use. If require a manual to download a report, something is plainly wrong with the UX design. --- ### IFS Applications is Perfect - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Burak C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Telecommunications - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: October 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros IFS Applications can be added into Microsoft Excel as an add-on and creates a separate tab of its own on Excel. All the reports that have been generated through IFS is customizable and transferrable to Excel as well. #### Cons There are not much cons but sometimes generating a report takes some time and if there is a slight connection lost, it becomes too slow and there is no stop/execute button to stop the action. #### Vendor response Hi Burak, Thank you for sharing your experience of using IFS Applications. Your feedback is highly valued here at IFS. Kind regards, Rebecca Global Reputation Specialist at IFS Replied October 2020 --- ### IFS - One Platform ERP System - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Maria B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Management Consulting - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Managing tax reporting and customer credit management. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros This product provides ease of navigation and user friendly. It's robust in functionality and connectivity of multiple modules. #### Cons I have been a user and a consultant for this product and so far I like all its features --- ### Very good however needs improvement - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: William F. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Government Relations - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: March 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Have just started using Cloud version, before that the team used IFS applications but now the support has ended so the company moved to Cloud. Movement was smooth but some trainings were necessary. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Very useful with reports, both creating and modifying, faster than the cloud version, gets better each time. Integration is essential and works fine with Microsoft programs with every SAP products. #### Cons The company integrated IFS with SAP products, went well however minor issues are still occurring every time, especially migration of accounts. The daily usage is not very user friendly, navigating between modules are very confusing. --- ### IFS user since 2008 - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: John B. - Industry: Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered As with any ERP, the best way to evaluate is to talk to other companies that use it. Make sure that you talk to the users, not just the IT department or the ERP owner. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Most of our departments are using it across the company. Financials, Manufacturing, Maintenance, Sales, Logistics, Engineering, etc. Good integration options and nice programming interface. Lots of development resources to continually make improvements. Last major version seemed like the biggest one so far. #### Cons Like many ERPs, the user interface has lots of things that users will ignore or IT has to hide. If you have a weird process that isn't the norm in the industry, it will take more work to implement it. Support has room to improve. --- ### I'm a new user, I've been using IFS since 6 month. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: February 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It really is a gold mine for a business. Every department can work on a single software to achieve all the goals of a company. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 2/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros What I like the most about this sofware is that there are so many possibilities, Very complete software. #### Cons However, what I don't like about this software is that it is not easy to learn and to use at first. For exemple, you need to create pick list, then print pick list, then keep the pick list number and go in the print manager to finally get the pick list... it is not efficient. --- ### IFS Applications - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: TJ H. - Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I would definitely recommend IFS! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros IFS Applications software is very intuitive and very easy to use. There is so much functionality available in the software and the great thing is, if a field is missing on a certain screen, it is easy enough to create the field that either references another field in the database, or is a free form field allowing you to enter whatever data you want into it. #### Cons I really cannot think of anything that I do not like about the software. Occasionally, there is some data that I would like to see on a certain screen, but if it is not there, it is easy enough to add it. --- ### This management system offers a wide variety of features and support to streamline supply chain inefficiencies - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Pavan P. - Industry: Food & Beverages - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 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: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The ability to track, locate and edit multiple stock sites within our warehouse. The ease of the search feature when searching for specific items, for example: tracking maintenance work orders not only by who the mechanic was who performed, but down to the minute by minute tracking of progress. #### Cons Search queries take long at times, and when they do take too long there's no "cancel" feature. This prompts several people to simply hard-close the program and reopen instead of waiting for the program to load. At times the program also freezes if too many features are accessed at once. --- ### Consistently difficult for end users - Overall rating: 2/5 - Reviewer: Ann S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Chemicals - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 1/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The software has a wide range of features and it's proven possible to integrate it into our systems for proficiency testing; services are now tied to prepayment. But the best thing about it is ceasing to use it for the day #### Cons As set up at this company, the user interface is appallingly hard to use and frequently generates incomprehensible error messages. Today's was "External projects must have an activity sequence" - on a pre-posting form that had _no space for an activity sequence_. That seems completely typical. --- ### Robust/Adaptable - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Rich S. - Industry: Aviation & Aerospace - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I've never recommended any ERP system in my 25 years. I would recommend IFS. It is a solid system with a very powerful functionality and can be tailored to fit to almost any business environment. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Overall, IFS is a powerful system with a great deal of functionality. It is fairly easy to use, and to customize to specific company and user requirements. #### Cons The English used in the package at times is difficult to follow/understand. Customer support is well... Customer support and finding third party consulting firms is challenging, at least in the US. --- ### IFS has been a great experience - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jay G. - Industry: Mining & Metals - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I would certainly recommend IFS to other customers. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros We like the flexibility as well as the stability. IFS support has been great to work with. When we have worked with R&D, it's obvious that they care about the customer. #### Cons While it does not do everything the way we want it to, IFS is interested in making improvements so that it does. --- ### Not Built As HRIS - Overall rating: 2/5 - Reviewer: Jana V. - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. There better options (value for the money) at the market. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 1/5 - Value for money: 1/5 - Functionality: 2/5 #### Pros Our company is using one of the IFS modules as HR management SW - storage of emplyoee data across the division (12.000+ employees). The system is built for larger organizations, allows to keep history data, create multiple business entities and give access to different people for each entity. #### Cons Very low customization options, no employee self service access, no automated approval flows in the system, very user undfriendly interface. If you need a manual to be able to download a report, something is clearly wrong when it comes to UX design. --- ### Bad advices from consultants - Overall rating: 2/5 - Reviewer: Roald B. - Industry: Mining & Metals - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used other for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 2/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Many functionalities that seem to do exactly what we want. IFS looks intuitive and together with the system manual you will be able to make some small steps yourselve. #### Cons Often bad advice is received, where the IFS consultants don't even know how their own system works. This ends up in our company investigating and testing ourselves how some functionalities work. Handling of bugs by IFS is not customer friendly, and even if they admit that there is a design mistake in their software it will be unlikely for them to solve it. Another big disadvantage is the lack of a large online, open community. --- ### IFS - interface with 17 countries - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Megan A. - Industry: Logistics and Supply Chain - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: July 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 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros IFS was a great software choice if you have multiple countries that you need to consolidate. The reporting module allows you flexibility to create reports. #### Cons There was a longer learning curve with IFS than software I have used in the past. When you are dealing with multiples entities there are many steps that you need to go through. --- ### The best for high volume information processing - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Ebrahim A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: February 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 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros User friendly Open database structure Ease of interface and integration Ease of automation Unlimited user-configurations and customized reports Availability of a wide array of features #### Cons Extremely costly to buy and maintain Slow customer support ticket processing Unavailability of local support --- ### One stop shop application - Overall rating: 4.5/5 - Reviewer: Jeff S. - Industry: Glass, Ceramics & Concrete - Product usage: Used unspecified for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2016 - 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: 4.5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Includes everything from opportunity to product delivery. When implemented properly, there is no need for outside programs to encompass all aspects of your business. #### Cons Not always user friendly, too many times if you don't have real good knowledge of the areas you are working with, you don't know how to solve problems because you don't know where the missing/invalid data resides. --- ### IFS is a very robust software. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Sara C. - Industry: Aviation & Aerospace - Product usage: Used unspecified for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2016 - 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: 3.5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The vendor relationship is very good. I really enjoy the various user group meetings that are held. The product is fairly straight forward. #### Cons Our original implementation was rough. I don't feel like the consultants really understood our needs in order to help us move to our first ERP. --- ### A review from a Network Admin - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Lee R. - Industry: Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing - Product usage: Used unspecified for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2016 - 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: 2.5/5 - Value for money: 3.5/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Once it is setup, it runs pretty smooth! I like that is a web base application #### Cons If I had one wish, I wish IFS could be either a SQL base or Oracle base product. --- ### IFS review - Overall rating: 4.5/5 - Reviewer: Jonathan B. - Industry: Glass, Ceramics & Concrete - Product usage: Used unspecified for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2016 - 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 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros its ability to capture data and have historical records. I #### Cons the most trouble I had is searching for past data. once I got more experience it is easier. --- ### IFS user Payroll - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Lynne M. - Industry: Building Materials - Product usage: Used unspecified for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2016 - 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 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros User Friendly, When help is needed they are available #### Cons There is nothing I do not like about the product. Easy to use. --- ### IFS CLoud - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Rob M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Transportation/ Trucking/ Railroad - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered existing software, mainly used by long standing employees as we integrate to a different system #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Ease of access - Transferring manual data to produce freight rates was a simple process #### Cons Pricing per/consignment - found that it was too expensive compared to other services ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/3243-IFS-Manufacturing/reviews/?page=2) --- IFS Cloud ERP Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice