What do you dislike about Accelo?
Quality of the software. Shockingly terrible customer service. Manipulative and predatory sales tactics.
This software was built a long time ago and has not been modernized to the extent it should have. Many modern User Experience functions are not included. It feels like early 2000's software that has had a UI facelift. The look is more modern, but the function is not.
The user guides are not up to date and are not extensive. Finding out how this thing works is a tough slog.
Help desk resources made some comments to us along the lines of "yes we know you've been sending us tickets very regularly". Seems they have a joke with each other about how our company reaches out to for help too often. Shouldn't this be a sign that they should improve the customers experience rather than laughing about how often they have problems? If you want to talk to someone who "almost" understands how the software works you must pay $300/hr.
There are bugs that will make you wonder how this company is still in business.
We've been using the software for 6 months and we've identified at least 4 bugs that they agree are not intended function. 4 in six months?! These are not small bugs either:
1. Template "overdue invoice" reminder sends a belligerent email to your customer without your consent. Their response is "We will prioritize this bug with the needs of other customers".
2. The customer portal has data labeled incorrectly for your customers so your customers are unclear on how they are getting charged. Was told they would "prioritize this with other needs" even though the fix is just changing a few text fields.
3. When consultants input time they are given access to your list of contacts within the customer even though user permissions are set not to allow this. Gives your consultants and potential third party partners a complete list of your sales contacts within a customer. It took 4 meetings with Accelo for them to understand why this was a bad thing. Then finally admitted it was a bug and given the "we will prioritize this" line.
4. Contractor license does now allow for valuable company reporting. We have about 20 contractor licences that we were sold. Then after implementation we find out none of their data flows into company reporting. Can't see them in profitability for the company etc. Why would anyone ever want a license where the financial data produced by that user does not flow into company reporting? Customer service manager told me "yes, well you have to understand that we want you to pay for the full license". Well, we were sold these other licenses and never told that the data would not flow into reporting until after implementation. Then we met with a senior implementation person that said no that's not intended function. He said he would get back to us with a fix, we never heard back. Still can't see profitability across the whole company.
It's like being sold QuickBooks, then after you go through implementation you are told told "sorry the license you bought won't allow you to make a Balance Sheet you should buy the higher license that is 4x the cost of the one you bought"
Bugs in software is understandable; it happens. Good software is hard to make and few do it at a high level. However, there is no excuse for bad customer service and predatory sales tactics.
We evaluate software for a living. Accelo fails miserably in ease of use, function, price, customer service. It's bad. Really bad. Stay away if you value your sanity and hard earned cash. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.