Upgrading QuickBooks to Acumatica

Product Distributors Find Acumatica Cloud ERP is the Key to Growth after QuickBooks

Youngevity and The Simple Stores among hundreds of firms upgrading to Acumatica to gain cloud ERP benefits while easily integrating with internal systems.

BETHESDA, Md., November 1, 2011Acumatica, a provider of Cloud ERP software, today announced that QuickBooks customers are upgrading in droves to Acumatica to handle the complexities caused by success and expansion. Growing businesses like The Simple Stores and Youngevity moved to Acumatica to eliminate manual processes by accessing an integrated set of accounting, inventory, sales, ecommerce, and customer management applications.

Youngevity (www.youngevity.com) is a health products distributor that needed complex inventory management and an application programming interface to connect to their proprietary sales tracking system. Acumatica Cloud ERP delivered the ability to handle increasing capacity requirements while providing users with access to real-time data and reports from anywhere. Most importantly, by replacing QuickBooks, Youngevity was able to reassign personnel from routine manual processes to growth and investment opportunities.

“Acumatica saved us time and money processing over 4,500 orders per day,” said Chris Nelson, CFO at Youngevity. “Since Acumatica is cloud-based and can scale rapidly, the software can support our double and triple digit growth rates more cost effectively than traditional solutions such as SAP and Epicor.”

The Simple Stores (www.thesimplestores.com) is an online furnishings retailer that needed ecommerce integration, access to their business data from anywhere, and profitability analysis. By upgrading from QuickBooks, The Simple Stores was able to link purchase orders with sales orders to determine profitability on drop shipments and use sophisticated web services to integrate with their best in breed ecommerce system. Acumatica’s API allowed The Simple Stores to use common development tools and internal resources to develop integrations in a couple weeks instead of months quoted by other web-based vendors.

“We saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in customization and operational expenses using Acumatica’s development tools to support our unique supplier relationships,” said Brad Busino, President at The Simple Stores. “This allowed us to grow beyond QuickBooks and keep costs low so we can help more customers save on home furnishings.”

Acumatica is the only ERP vendor that allows businesses to upgrade from QuickBooks to a web-based solution that can be deployed on-premise, hosted, or purchased as an all-inclusive SaaS solution. QuickBooks customers who have upgraded to a SaaS solution become frustrated by vendor lock-in that leads to recurring price increases. QuickBooks customers who have upgraded to client-server solutions find that it’s expensive to manage the additional complexity of client software, VPNs, and terminal services required to gain access from anywhere. Acumatica deployment flexibility allows customers to overcome issues with both SaaS-only and client-server solutions.

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