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Sage for Engineering Firms

Sage Intacct accounting software for engineering firms

Stop revenue leakage with cloud accounting built for engineering companies.

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Geo Technologies Inc.

Get the reports and dashboards built for how you do business

Sage Intacct provide easy-to-create reports, dashboards, and visualizations that are ready in real-time, allowing finance leaders and executives to look forward and plan for new projects, new service lines, staffing, and more based on what’s really happening.

  • Dashboards let you display financial and operational metrics such as profit and loss, utilization, billable hours, and much more – driving next-level insight. 

  • Project managers and team leads can instantly see their budget vs actual to ensure they are making financially sound decisions on their projects, without waiting on back-office reports.

  • Get timely, insightful financial reporting to make data-driven decisions to drive profitable projects.

Get the visibility into financial and operational data your team needs. Watch the demo

Increase cash-flow with AI powered time entry, billing automation and custom invoices

By reducing the manual and tedious tasks of preparing invoices and recognizing revenue every month, you can scale your business and increase your cash-flow. Combined with our powerful AI timesheets, you can stop revenue leakage right at the source.

  • With our artificial intelligent time entry system, you can get fast and reliable timesheets that are automatically linked to your invoicing process for fast customer billing. 

  • Manage even the most complex billing requirements for time and expense, fixed fee, milestone, subscription, and hybrid models.

AI-powered Sage Intelligent Time solves age-old problems with new technology.

Optimize project management with AI-powered resource allocation and capacity planning

Leverage professional services automation software to achieve smarter project management, optimized resource allocation, and increased profitability for your firm.

  • Harness AI for optimal resource allocation and staff productivity

  • Deliver profitable projects at scale

  • Get real-time insights to prevent project bottlenecks

  • Grow with a flexible, powerful platform

Discover marketplace partners offering pre-built integrations. Visit Sage Marketplace

Simplify and speed up consolidations to manage your organization's complexity

With push-button consolidations, you get fast closings and real-time analytics – in minutes, not weeks. Free your finance team to focus on strategy instead of tasks.

  • Aggregate transactions and activities across your organization, including multiple entities, currencies, projects and clients, and locations. 

  • With hundreds of marketplace partners, you can rely on prebuilt integrations with Salesforce, Kimble PSA, Big Time, Expensify, Nexonia.

Advanced multi-currency and consolidation accounting can cut your close time in half. Watch the demo

All Resources for engineering firms

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G2 Report

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Analysts research

2025 Professional Services Maturity™ Benchmark Report

Ebook

5 signs your engineering firm has outgrown QuickBooks

Customer success story

Aegis Project Controls boosts budget reporting frequency and gains incisive business insights with Sage financial management software

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Debora Hester

Controller, Geo Technologies, Company

Sage Intacct lets us drill into revenue and expenses for any project in real-time, and ensures huge time savings to our finance team. With this flexible way of looking at data, we're able to give senior management valuable business performance insight, rather than delivering outdated reports months later.

Geo Technologies Inc.

Engineering firms FAQs

Sage Intacct is a comprehensive financial management system with tailor-made features for project-based engineering companies. Over 1.5 million projects have run on Sage Intacct. We work with companies that have financial management needs ranging from simple cost tracking to detailed project task cost allocation and complex billing requirements. Our cloud-based system is centered on a high-powered general ledger that provides dimension-level tracking for all of your transactions. That means you can significantly reduce the number of GL accounts you use, while also significantly expanding the way you report on your data. With automation of processes related to project costing, vendor management and accounts payable, project billing, time and expense tracking, and resource management, Sage Intacct engineering accounting software can allow your finance team to focus on strategy instead of administrative processes.

Professional Service Automation (PSA) is a phrase often used to refer to a wide range of software features built to serve service-based organizations. Many PSA software providers will use the term to refer to features related to the front of the project life cycle, such as proposals, estimates, and forecasting. PSA can also include resource management, time and expense tracking, vendor management, and project billing.

Sage Intacct is a full-featured accounting solution for service-based companies. Customers rely on Sage Intacct's accounting software for engineering firms to ‘own the dollar’ for all of their project financial management needs. This covers project budgeting, billing, time and expense, AR/AP, vendor management, purchase orders, and much more. By ‘owning the dollar’ our features extend to provide robust project financial reporting, resource management, and a suite of tools designed for operations and project managers.

For many growing engineering companies, the billing process is too labor-intensive to scale. Billing can be complicated depending on the various elements that you need to include on your invoice. Sage Intacct engineering firm accounting software is built to handle even the most complex invoicing requirements, as well as the variety of revenue recognition methods that can be associated with them. Automation around time entry, expenses, invoice formats, vendors, and all the other components required for billing, are instantly available for your team to quickly draft and issue invoices. Sage Intacct helps you to scale your business without being held back by cumbersome processes.

When it comes to financial reporting, automation, accuracy, and customization are critical requirements for an effective solution. Sage Intacct financial reporting excels at all three. By leveraging the general ledger’s dimensions, reports can be grouped and sorted in a near unlimited way. Financial reporting done right can provide the insight your financial team needs to go from burdened with administrative tasks to focus on strategic planning. Whether you’re creating multiple profit and loss reports or automating project reports for your project managers, Sage Intacct can handle the accounting for your engineering firm.

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