Penta vs Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate

Penta is a construction ERP for specialty contractors, combining financial management, payroll, job costing, and field service. Financial tools provide real-time insight, integrated job and service costing, role-based workbench panels, multi-level reporting, and automated intercompany entries. Payroll handles timecards, job-cost integration, prevailing-wage calculations, multi-union payroll, tax reporting, and an employee portal. Job costing brings together accounts payable, accounts receivable, purchasing, payroll, estimation, and forecasting for reporting and current cost visibility. Field service includes customer setup, work orders, dispatching, mobile job details, invoicing, payroll integration, and financial reporting. The system supports progress billing, retainage tracking, commitment tracking, and advanced project reporting. Listed integrations include OnBase, REQUORDIT, DTI, Rhumbix, Procore, SAP Concur, Avalara, and XOi Vision. PentaConnect APIs cover project management, accounts-payable routing and payments, service management, and timecards. Penta Cloud Hosting runs on AWS and is stated to be SOC 2 Type II certified. Pricing is available on request.

Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate helps contractors, developers and property managers manage projects, properties, subcontractor and vendor risks, and work across project phases. Sage describes it as suited to larger businesses handling job costing, accounting, payroll, project management, service management and property management. It includes more than 1,400 prebuilt report formats and supports custom reports.

Sage Field Operations tracks assignments, work orders, quotes, preventive maintenance, purchase orders, equipment, site history, notes and time worked. Sage Paperless Construction organizes and routes drawings, RFIs, invoices, lease agreements and contracts with an audit trail. Service functions include dispatching, agreements, field work order entry and a customizable customer portal for work requests and history. Property management supports varied properties, flexible lease options and contractual details. Listed integrations and add-ons include Sage Construction Management, Sage Paperless Construction, Sage Field Operations, MyAssistant and Office Connector; partner listings include GCPay, Ryvit, Procore and Raken. The product is listed for Android, iOS and Windows, while requirements specify Windows Server and supported Windows workstation editions. Subscription pricing is available on request.