Get the automation, scalability, and compliance you need to manage your growing business with a solution built for government contracts.
Your Projects
Your business is unique. So should the solutions you use to run your business. Unanet delivers true end-to-end business solutions focused on the needs of your project-based business
Your industry
Unanet solutions feature best in class functionality tailored to Government Contractors. Unlike software built for all or versioned generically for industries
Your success
Focus on what matters: your business success. Obliged to follow compliance guidelines and meet security standards, provide automated support to eliminate the burden and risk of Compliance guidelines
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Comparison Table |
Unanet |
QuickBooks |
| Basic Accounting | ||
| Project-based Accounting and profit/loss | ||
| Revenue Recognition | ||
| Flexible, compliant time and expense tracking & management | ||
| Project Budgeting & Planning | ||
| Built-in Indirect Rate Calculations (provisional and actual) | ||
| Resource Management | ||
| Flexible Project Billing for Cost-type and other contracts | ||
| Contract status, clause management, and reporting tools | ||
| Real Time Reporting for cost pools, billing, invoicing, and performanc | ||
| Built-in DCAA compliance support and configurable guardrails | ||
| Standard government forms and formats |
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QuickBooks vulnerability:
Poor processes
Internal controls based on spreadsheets and periodic updates put the focus on detecting mistakes, not preventing them. Fixing a misstep in the compliance arena can be very expensive.
The Unanet Advantage:
Compliance by design
An ERP system purpose built for government contracting performs data assurance as it’s entered, not after the fact as a separate process. When compliance is designed in, it becomes an outcome and a state, not an effort or a process.
QuickBooks vulnerability:
Lagging reports
Project and Financial Metrics are lagging 4-6 weeks, with no way to course correct. All you have is an error-prone, outdated periodic snapshot.
The Unanet Advantage:
Continuous insight
Report, analyze, and visualize data for business drivers, including resource allocation, revenue, cost, cash flow, and profitability. Leverage real-time, interactive reporting and analytics to make informed business decisions with confidence.
QuickBooks vulnerability:
Disparate Systems
PMs keep separate systems in spreadsheets because they can’t access or don’t trust the corporate system for project information.
The result? Too much time spent reconciling siloed project data and no real-time project insights.
The Unanet Advantage:
One system for all projects
Get real-time insights across all projects, resources and financials in one application. No disparate systems means no double-entry, no spreadsheets to “books” reconciliation and no out of date project reporting.
QuickBooks vulnerability:
Costly Errors
Spreadsheet-based billing processes are expensive and time-consuming to maintain, not to mention error-prone and almost impossible to document. When an error occurs, finding the bad data or formula can take hours. Not finding it is even worse.
The Unanet Advantage:
Automated Invoicing
Automate your billing process from a single-source of truth that is easy to review, adjust and invoice. Flexible templates and streamlined invoicing help you deliver more accurate invoices fast with revenue calculated and recognized instantly, drastically shortening your invoicing cycle and increasing time to cash.
QuickBooks vulnerability:
Rising costs
There are no economies of scale associated with disparate systems or spreadsheet billing. So, you consume twice the resources. PM costs to maintain shadow systems increase. Spreadsheet billing increases G&A costs directly with project count.
The Unanet Advantage:
Increased efficiencies
Achieve significant economies of scale with each new project - with true, fully integrated ERP systems. Project Managers have visibility into cost and status information, amounts billed and resource consumption and availability - all without keying any data into spreadsheets. And the reports they give customers always match the bills.
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DCAA seems to love our reports, and our program manager can run a report and it tells him everything he needs to know, right out of the system. It’s been great.
- The compliance-readiness of the ERP solution put the firm in strong position to start
winning prime U.S. government contracts. Already the firm has won three prime contracts. - The firm can easily accommodate different contract structures thanks to the ERP system’s
GovCon-friendly flexibility. - Stellar support during and after implementation has set the stage for success.
- The ERP system’s reporting tools have helped put Makai in the good graces of DCAA
auditors and the firm’s own program manager. - Simplified processes are saving time and data-entry drudgery.
With Unanet, our month-end close is phenomenally smooth.
- Saved 5 days in the close each month due to time saved on payroll, invoicing, and any adjustments
- Experienced great time savings in processing payroll – it used to take 90 minutes, now it takes only 30 minutes due to single system capabilities
- Was able to eliminate the use of complex unbilled Excel spreadsheets
Our goal is to be a billion-dollar enterprise. With Unanet ERP GovCon, we feel like we have a system that will grow and scale with us. It’s a big win.
- Full data migration in 2 months, not 18. After A complicated integration and migration process that might take 12 to 18 months or more with other ERP systems, with countless hours of employee time along the way, took just two months to execute, saving BlueHalo staff hundreds of hours of implementation time.
- One Enterprise ERP System is doing the work of a dozen. All the disparate data and processes that once resided within multiple ERP systems across 11 companies (Deltek Costpoint, Quickbooks, PROCAS, and Deltek GCS, among others) now have a single, secure and readily accessible home within Unanet ERP GovCo accounting requirements
- Major improvements in Project Reporting and Planning
Make the leap
800+ QuickBooks customers have already made the switch to Unanet for their project-based accounting.