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Know Which Projects Make Money Before the Month Is Over

Your people drive revenue. Your projects drive margin. But when time, cost, billing, revenue, and reporting live in separate systems, finance sees the truth too late. Sage Intacct connects project financials, billing, reporting, and the general ledger so finance and delivery leaders can act while the work is still in flight.

15 min

Invoice Run, Down From 2 Days

68 Days

DSO, Down From 120

441%

Modeled 3-Year ROI

$1.7M

Modeled Net Present Value
WHY A CONNECTED FINANCIAL SPINE MATTERS

Create One Financial Spine From Project Setup to Cash

Sage Intacct is cloud financial management software with project-based capabilities for service firms. It can connect project accounting, time and expense, billing, accounts receivable, accounts payable, revenue recognition, reporting, and multi-entity financial management.

The goal is not to move the same manual process into a new screen. The goal is to give finance, project managers, and leadership a shared view of the economics of the work.

What Sage Intacct Helps You See

  • Project and client P&Ls, drilled down to the transaction
  • Budget-versus-actual, updated as work happens
  • Earned, billed, unbilled, and deferred revenue
  • Billing status across time, milestones, and retainers
  • Utilization and margin by client, practice, or service line
  • Consolidated results across entities and currencies
SEE IT IN ACTION

Watch How Sage Intacct Connects Project Financials to the General Ledger

KEY CAPABILITIES

One Platform for Project Financials, Billing, and Reporting

See Margin Through the Dimensions That Run Your Firm

Tag transactions with the business context that matters, such as client, project, department, location, service line, practice, or another firm-specific dimension. Build financial reports from those dimensions without multiplying general-ledger accounts for every reporting view.

What you gain: Project and client P&Ls, budget-versus-actual analysis, drill-down reporting, and a clearer view of which work creates or destroys value.

Move From Approved Work to Accurate Billing Faster

Connect project costs, approved time, expenses, milestones, and billing rules to the financial workflow. Reduce manual invoice assembly and create a visible review trail before the invoice reaches the client.

What you gain: Fewer handoffs, faster billing, clearer billing status, and less dependence on private spreadsheets.

Match Revenue to the Economics of the Engagement

Support project-based billing and revenue-management requirements without rebuilding every schedule outside the accounting system.

What you gain: Better visibility into earned, billed, unbilled, deferred, and recognized revenue, with reporting that connects the contract to the general ledger.

Give Project Managers Answers Without Losing Financial Control

Use role-based dashboards and reporting so project leaders can see the data they need while finance retains the accounting structure, controls, and audit trail.

What you gain: Earlier intervention on budget overruns, fewer routine report requests to finance, and better accountability for project outcomes.

Scale Entities and Offices Without Rebuilding Finance

Manage multiple entities and consolidate financial results while preserving local and business-unit detail.

What you gain: A finance architecture that can support new offices, acquisitions, entities, currencies, and service lines with less manual consolidation.

Connect Your Systems Through an Open API

Connect CRM, time, expense, payroll, banking, and other systems through Sage Intacct's integration ecosystem and open API, instead of reconciling data across disconnected tools after the fact.

INDUSTRY USE CASES

Built for Firms Where People, Projects, and Expertise Drive Revenue

Consulting and Advisory Firms

Track engagement economics, partner or practice performance, utilization, billing status, and project margin. Support time-and-materials, milestone, fixed-fee, recurring, and blended commercial models as requirements dictate.

IT Services, Managed Services, and Implementation Firms

Connect recurring and project revenue, professional services delivery, time and expense, billing, and client reporting. Integrate financial data with CRM and service-delivery systems instead of reconciling them after the fact.

Marketing, Creative, and Digital Agencies

See profitability by client, campaign, project, service line, or team. Give account and project leaders current budget-versus-actual information before scope creep becomes a write-off.

Engineering and Specialist Project Firms

Track project costs, labor, budgets, billing, WIP, and margin across long-running or multi-phase engagements. Preserve financial control while giving delivery leaders current project information.

Staffing, Recruiting, HR, and PEO Firms

Analyze client, service-line, office, and entity performance. Connect finance with the operational systems that manage placements, people, time, payroll, or client delivery.

Life Sciences and Other Regulated Consultancies

Create a controlled financial system for complex project work, role-based access, multi-entity reporting, and revenue-management requirements while integrating specialized delivery platforms.

WHY ADSS GLOBAL

Accelerate Success With the Right Implementation Partner

ADSS includes data migration in every Sage Intacct implementation. Our plans define what historical detail moves, what stays archived, how opening balances are handled, and how migrated data is reconciled before go-live.

We provide support and training across Sage Intacct, Sage 300, Sage 100, and a full suite of end-to-end business solutions. Our client base spans multiple industries, from small nonprofits to publicly traded companies.

  • Top 10 Overall Reseller for Sage
  • Sage Diamond Partner
  • Sage Select Partner
  • Sage CEO Circle Member
  • Support and training for Sage Intacct, Sage 300, and Sage 100
  • End-to-end business solutions for multiple industries
FIT CHECK

Is Sage Intacct the Right Fit for Your Firm?

Worth a serious look when

  • Project, client, or service-line profitability is difficult to see without spreadsheets
  • Billing depends on time, expenses, milestones, retainers, recurring services, fixed fees, or other complex rules
  • Finance and delivery use different versions of project performance
  • Month-end, consolidation, revenue schedules, or management reporting require heavy manual work
  • You are adding entities, offices, currencies, service lines, or acquisitions
  • You need your CRM, time, expense, payroll, banking, or specialized delivery systems to connect with finance
  • Growth is increasing workload faster than the finance team can absorb it

It may be more system than you need when

  • You have a simple, single-entity operation with straightforward billing and reporting
  • Basic bookkeeping already gives leadership the project and financial insight it needs
  • There is no willingness to standardize processes, define ownership, clean data, or train users
  • The buying decision is based on a feature checklist rather than a measurable business problem

That is why the first conversation should be a fit review, not a generic demo.

See What Sage Intacct Can Do For Your Firm

Discover how a connected financial spine can improve project margin, billing speed, revenue accuracy, and reporting across every entity you run.

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$4M

Additional Profit, Halloran

300

Invoices Processed Monthly

68%

Billable Utilization, Halloran

10 Days

Monthly Close, Down From 20
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CUSTOMER PROOF

Proof Is Better Than Promises

Worksighted: 300 Monthly Invoices, Two Days to 15 Minutes

Worksighted, a Michigan IT services provider, moved from QuickBooks to Sage Intacct as its operations became more complex. Its close moved from 14–15 days to 10–11 days, while managers gained self-service access to reporting.

15 min

Invoice run, from 2 days

10–11 days

Monthly close, from 14–15
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Halloran Consulting Group: $4M in Additional Profit

Halloran had project and financial data split across QuickBooks, OpenAir, Salesforce, and spreadsheets. It adopted a blended-rate billing model supported by Sage Intacct insights and customizations, contributing to $4 million in additional profit.

+12%

Project margin

50%→68%

Billable utilization

68 days

DSO, from 120

$1M/mo

Cash flow opened up

10 days

Monthly close, from 20
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Customer outcomes are individual results, not guarantees. The Forrester study was commissioned by Sage and modeled a composite organization based on four customer interviews. Forrester recommends using your own estimates to evaluate potential ROI.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Sage Intacct for professional services?

Cloud financial management software with capabilities for project-based service firms — project accounting, time and expense, billing, AR, AP, revenue management, dimensional reporting, and multi-entity financials, in one connected platform.

Does Sage Intacct include professional services automation?

Sage Intacct includes project financial management and basic resource-management tools. Sage Intacct PSA is a separate, AI-powered solution for firms needing advanced resource allocation, capacity planning, and portfolio management, and requires separate licensing.

How does Sage Intacct track project profitability?

Transactions are tagged and reported by dimensions like project, client, department, location, or service line, so teams can compare budgets, costs, billing, revenue, and margin, and drill into the underlying detail.

Can Sage Intacct support complex professional services billing?

Sage describes support for time-based, milestone, retainer, success-fee, blended-rate, and value-based billing. The exact design depends on your contracts, approvals, invoice format, and revenue-recognition needs.

Can Sage Intacct connect with our CRM, time, expense, payroll, or PSA system?

Yes, through an open API and integration ecosystem. Specialized operational systems can stay in place while Sage Intacct becomes the financial system of record.

Is Sage Intacct only for consulting firms?

No. Sage positions it for many project- and service-based organizations, including consulting, IT services, marketing and creative agencies, engineering, accounting, legal, staffing and recruiting, HR and PEO, and other specialist service firms.

How much does Sage Intacct cost?

Pricing depends on the company, users, entities, modules, integrations, migration, implementation, and support requirements. A useful estimate separates subscription, one-time implementation, optional PSA or other modules, integrations, data migration, training, and ongoing support.

How long does implementation take?

There is no honest universal timeline. Scope depends on entities, modules, integrations, data quality, migration history, reporting, controls, and the availability of the client team. Discovery should produce a phased plan with clear responsibilities, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.

Can ADSS migrate us from QuickBooks, Sage 300, or another ERP?

Yes. Our migration plan defines what historical detail moves, what stays archived, how opening balances are handled, and how data is reconciled before go-live.

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