Frequently Asked Questions

Sage software is purpose-built for construction and real estate financial management. It delivers job-cost accuracy, WIP transparency, payroll efficiency, and full project financial control—far beyond what generic accounting systems can offer.

Partnering with ETHOSystems ensures you get the most out of Sage. As one of the top VAR partners for Sage construction, ETHOSystems provides best practice guidance, real-world industry experience, and implementation strategies that help you get the most from the system in a way that makes sense for your business.

• Sage 100 Contractor – Best for contractors wanting integrated job cost, estimating, payroll, and scheduling.
• Sage 300 CRE – Ideal for mid-to-large construction or development companies with complex infrastructure, multi-department workflows, or property management. On premise – server-based.
• Sage Intacct Construction – A modern, cloud-native platform designed for multi-entity financial management, automation, dashboards, and real-time visibility.

ETHOSystems helps evaluate your business needs to recommend and create the best fit—ensuring a smoother implementation that works for your business and therefore leads to higher adoption across your teams.

Sage delivers cost-code-level tracking, committed cost visibility, and integration with field operations to ensure real-time job-cost accuracy.

ETHOSystems can tailor the cost structure, reporting, and workflows to match your business needs. With training both during and post implementation we also ensure you’re your teams continue to get the most out of the software solution to help maintain accuracy and improve business insight.

Sage automates WIP schedules, percentage-of-completion calculations, and unit-cost measurements.

ETHOSystems trains your team on the built in WIP features of the software to best take advantage for your business needs, creates automations, ensuring consistent, accurate reporting for lenders, bonding companies, and audits.

Yes—Sage software integrates with a great deal of well-respected and utilized solutions like Procore, Sage Construction Management, Arcoro, Sage Estimating, and many more.

ETHOSystems specializes in understanding your business needs and helping advice on which integrations might best fit together to create the best solution for your business needs. With the desired outcome at the heart of any project we undertake, we can help ensure data flows cleanly between your financial team, project managers, and field operations.

Sage provides real-time retention, change order, billing schedule, and committed cost visibility.

ETHOSystems ensures your cash-flow dashboards and reporting tools are built correctly, giving CFOs accurate forecasting and quick access to critical KPIs.

• Sage Intacct Construction is fully cloud-based.
• Sage 100 Contractor and Sage 300 CRE can be hosted securely in the cloud.

ETHOSystems provides trusted hosting recommendations and cloud strategy guidance, helping companies transition smoothly while maintaining system performance and security.

Sage Intacct Construction excels at multi-entity, multi-location reporting with intercompany automation. Sage 300CRE offers the same multi-entity, multi-location functionality.

ETHOSystems handles the setup, consolidations, permissions, workflows, and training, ensuring your team can manage multi-entity operations efficiently and confidently.

Sage tracks compliance documents automatically (insurance, W-9s, lien releases, etc.) and enforces AP holds when needed.

ETHOSystems builds these compliance workflows to match your legal and operational requirements, reducing your exposure to risk and delays.

Sage offers strong security, access controls, and audit trails.

ETHOSystems ensures your user roles, network requirements, hosting, and data protections are implemented correctly, lowering security risk and increasing system reliability.

• Sage 100 Contractor: ~60–120 days*
• Sage 300 CRE: ~3–6 months*
• Sage Intacct Construction: ~3–5 months*

ETHOSystems uses proven industry-specific implementation methodologies, reducing downtime, accelerating user adoption, and ensuring configuration is aligned with your financial structures and job-costing methods.

*based on having someone at your company dedicated to learning the software and providing the data to ensure a smooth transition

Most companies see ROI through:

• Reduced manual spreadsheets
• Faster month-end close
• Improved labor and job-cost accuracy
• Real-time financial reporting
• Automated AP, AR, approvals, and WIP
• Stronger cash-flow forecasting
• Better project profitability visibility

ETHOSystems maximizes ROI by tailoring Sage to your workflows and providing ongoing training and optimization.

Yes. Sage handles growth in job volume, headcount, entities, and complexity.

ETHOSystems helps you scale by providing long-term strategy, integrations, and system optimization, ensuring your financial infrastructure grows with your business.

Sage is excellent for development budgets, capital tracking, draw requests, and lender reporting.

ETHOSystems configures multi-entity structures and multi-phase development reporting, giving developers complete project and financial control.

Sage provides clean audit trails, standardized reports, and consistent cost structures. Sage Intacct is the only AICPA-preferred finance solution.

ETHOSystems ensures your reporting, workflows, permissions, and data structures support smooth audits, strengthening trust with lenders, banks, investors, and bonding companies.