--- title: Macola Reviews meta_title: 'Macola Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 22 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Macola works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 3.4 review_count: 22 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-07' parent_category: name: ERP url: https://www.g2.com/categories/erp --- # Macola Reviews **Vendor:** ECI Software Solutions **Category:** [Business Activity Monitoring Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/business-activity-monitoring) **Average Rating:** 3.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 22 ## About Macola Turn static data into consumable, usable information, set up business activity monitoring to automatically execute actions when triggers are met, and improve collaboration organization-wide with workflow, document management and customer relationship management capabilities, all included. ## Macola Reviews ### 1. Transition from Macola to Acumatica **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alma S. | Accounting/HR Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2024 **What do you like best about Macola?** All modules are similar, so easy to learn. Reports are sufficient. **What do you dislike about Macola?** Ad hoc reports are through Chrystal, which is not user friendly with Excel. I suggest going straight from Excel to the database itself. Payroll module is not up to date. Had to outsource. Third party customer support is hard to find. **What problems is Macola solving and how is that benefiting you?** Bill of Material, A/P, A/R, Invoicing. For a small manufacturing business Macola satisfied most of our needs. Upgrades are absolutely necessary. ### 2. Easy to use ERP system. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** andrea m. | Customer Success Representative, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Macola?** I really enjoy how easy the program is to use. **What do you dislike about Macola?** There are certian tasks that require repeated steps. Other than that no issues. **What problems is Macola solving and how is that benefiting you?** Order entry is facilitated. ### 3. Macola for Manufacturing Operations **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gulfam H. | Group Accounting Manager, Consumer Goods, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Macola?** - Basic ERP solution for small manufacturing operations - Inventory Management - Customization and custom reporting tools **What do you dislike about Macola?** - Integration support with other applications is not adequate - Migration of data to and from Macola can be challenging **What problems is Macola solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Full cycle accounting with a focus on inventory management ### 4. Too many steps for every process **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Macola?** When Macola is not glitching or crashing, it does the job...mostly. **What do you dislike about Macola?** The processes are cumbersome. Macola glitches or crashes often and does unexplainable things. The extra support, that we pay a ridiculous amount for, is unresponsive and inadequate when we do finally get a response. **Recommendations to others considering Macola:** Find software that is newer and more user friendly **What problems is Macola solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are creating a lot of our own work arounds, and using crystal reports to hide a lot of missing fuctionality. ### 5. Accounting Assistant **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pamela M. | Service Writer/ Shop Girl, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Macola?** Easy input and reconciliations. I used Exact for AP, Expense Reports and Invoices and was able to generate Checks easily and have concise monthly reports for easy reconciliations with my bank statements. There was no guessing would something go wrong as it always went smoothly as you were using it. Even with my larger applications it handled 10,000 items as easily as 100. My banking side with it was always my easiest to get to and finish quickly as it practically did everything for me once I gave it the parameters that I needed. I worked with it and updated for 6 1/2 years. One of my favorites that I used. It was a workhorse and we needed that we went from 21 to 52 centers in my time and I had 30 Centers slated for Construction in Progress that I used Access for my invoices for my Equipment Lease Loans for the Bank and Having the originals in Macola was such a huge help to me. **What do you dislike about Macola?** Compared to Sage/ Abra it was a breeze, so nothing I disliked. Our rep/trainer Jeff super nice always made us feel we were smarter than we believed ourselves to be because of our huge workload. **Recommendations to others considering Macola:** If you have large quantities of needs in many departments Macola can help make it easy to view and organize and use for any size business. **What problems is Macola solving and how is that benefiting you?** As I mentioned we were expanding very quickly with Doctors Offices across 4 states and I was handling all the centers Banking doing backup for AP and all the reconciliations for all Credit Cards and Pharmacy deposits. Macola made my AP, my largest account easily manageable and it took so much less time than Payroll on Sage/ABRA. that was 1/2 again as many items. I was in Access so much longer to do half the work as Macola. It's a Powerhouse of Possibilities! ### 6. Macola and Crystal report writer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Janette M. | Was Buyer, Materials, Negotiator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 04, 2021 **What do you like best about Macola?** The ease of the complete system. I liked the fact you can restrict a user from buttons and models. The grouping was very easy to use. Training was very easy and creating procedures and flow charts were nice. You could use a user defined field, add it to the screen and to a form and create a report for it as well. **What do you dislike about Macola?** Needs more used defined fields. Their is nothing really bad about the Macola system **What problems is Macola solving and how is that benefiting you?** User defined fields are great for personalized company use. ### 7. Old easy system **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Macola?** Ot was easy to get around and all information was found quickly at times **What do you dislike about Macola?** When running some reports it took a while **Recommendations to others considering Macola:** Make sure to get the most up to date system due to the older versions run slower, but it is an easy to use program **What problems is Macola solving and how is that benefiting you?** It ran along with Microsoft for billing, and it was a short and sweet work ### 8. Clunky, awakrd to use **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Pharmaceuticals | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2020 **What do you like best about Macola?** Seeing what was available from stock to use **What do you dislike about Macola?** Awkward clunky software for a simple problem, made a mountain from a mole hill **Recommendations to others considering Macola:** Would not consider as the user interface is too complicated to use on top of usual task during daily work. It should be easy and quick to complete and as it stands it takes too long to complete any shop order **What problems is Macola solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solves issues of running out of stock before a process starts, can see what is available before conducting processes ### 9. Easy to search **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Machinery | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2020 **What do you like best about Macola?** Easy to search for companies in your database, easy to find past transactions, either by customer, PO#, or item purchased. Easy to find inventory location and quantities. Purchase Order looks professional and is easy to create. **What do you dislike about Macola?** May just be our system, but costs from Sales order often don't transfer to Purchase Order. Can be tough to enter quantities and add new inventory to system. **Recommendations to others considering Macola:** Make sure you don't modify it so much that you can't use updates as they happen. We modified it so much that we can't use the updates. **What problems is Macola solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving: maintaining multiple inventory locations and keeping a history of parts ordered by customer. ### 10. Easiest way to fetch data **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gireesh R. | Process Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2020 **What do you like best about Macola?** It is very easy to fetch data of the customers as well as items **What do you dislike about Macola?** I like everything. Each and every functions are very good, so doesn't matter the dislikes. **Recommendations to others considering Macola:** It's a genius application for an order management company **What problems is Macola solving and how is that benefiting you?** Can perform refund to the desired account of the customer. ### 11. Very positive. I enjoyed using this system. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kayla R. | Junior Financial Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2020 **What do you like best about Macola?** It is very user friendly and easy to learn. I also felt that it was quick to use. **What do you dislike about Macola?** Sometimes it would crash and you would lose the information you had inputted. But what system doesn’t crash sometimes? **Recommendations to others considering Macola:** I recommend implementing macola. **What problems is Macola solving and how is that benefiting you?** How quickly I can enter a journal entry. ### 12. My experience with Macola was great! One of the better accounting software's around. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food Production | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Macola?** Good Workflow automation with personalized workspaces and a v7ariety of customer support services **What do you dislike about Macola?** Unfortunately it has limited APIs for third-party cloud services with little to no means to cost inventory items. **What problems is Macola solving and how is that benefiting you?** The versatile business project management tools, including document management features, process workflows, inventory management and automation capabilities have allowed for us to attain more accurate information in those areas and additionally, it allowed us to better streamline quality management processes, and better support our finance and accounting activities such as payments and order processing. ### 13. 5 Years of using Macola has been very good **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Terry K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 15, 2020 **What do you like best about Macola?** Reliability is the best feature for the price **What do you dislike about Macola?** Some features in manufacturing modules are not suited well for our plant **Recommendations to others considering Macola:** Having the ability to modify screens would be a plus **What problems is Macola solving and how is that benefiting you?** Better data for tracking issues in the plant ### 14. Easy to use quickly anyone can learn and strt working **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2020 **What do you like best about Macola?** Simplicity Easy to learn first time useh any financial tool and i just love it **What do you dislike about Macola?** No shortcuts yes its simple but if we compare this with SAP not t code type shortcut keys available here **Recommendations to others considering Macola:** Not very costly as compare to SAP anyone can use this very easily **What problems is Macola solving and how is that benefiting you?** Time saving firstafall we can do other work by give someone quick knowledge about macola ### 15. Excellent reliable software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark O. | Production Biochemist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Macola?** Speed, reliability, zero bugs or issues in 10 years of use **What do you dislike about Macola?** Maybe a bit unintuituve for new users, steep learning curve at first but perfect after that. **Recommendations to others considering Macola:** Nothing better out there. **What problems is Macola solving and how is that benefiting you?** Inventory, stocktaking, reports. ### 16. Macola Progression **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Printing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2020 **What do you like best about Macola?** I never had any problems with the program. **What do you dislike about Macola?** Reporting for new years when old years hadn't been officially closed was always a little tricky. **Recommendations to others considering Macola:** It's a good program. It will handle a lot of data. I was able to generate a lot of useful information from the Macola database. **What problems is Macola solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was managing a companies finances. ### 17. Macula great system **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Networking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Macola?** Very easy to use. MRP was excellent. A/P and A/R were very easy to use and balance. **What do you dislike about Macola?** I think Macola was excellent. Nothing to dislike about it. **Recommendations to others considering Macola:** Great software easy to use and implementation was easy. **What problems is Macola solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solved a lot of shortage problems. Inventory really was near perfect at fiscal year end. ### 18. Accounting Software **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Macola?** I appreciated the bank reconciliation process including the reporting. I liked that you can work on several months at a time unlike Quickbooks. **What do you dislike about Macola?** The program is not intuitive to those accustomed to a windows based program or online platforms. It's not easy to figure out how to locate or even perform certain basic bookkeeping and accounting tasks. **What problems is Macola solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking inventory ### 19. Macola Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Machinery | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Macola?** I like how simple Macola is to use. It's a very user friendly software with a short learning curve. **What do you dislike about Macola?** Macola lacks a lot of features that new ERP systems now offer. It could use a refresh to bring it up to todays standards. **What problems is Macola solving and how is that benefiting you?** Macola helps us with inventory management. It allows us to make BOM's and allocate parts. ### 20. Macola isn't the most user-friendly system. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Macola?** I like the way that I can use the multi-level pegging tool within Macola MRP to figure out how the material I'm purchasing is being allocated to purchase orders. This makes it easy for me to tell what is generating my material requirements. **What do you dislike about Macola?** My greatest dislike of Macola is its reporting. The reports are very outdated in appearance, which makes them more difficult to read. They also don't have good ways to export reports to excel directly out of Macola, which would be my preference. **Recommendations to others considering Macola:** I would be very hestitant before purchasing Macola. We had a bad experience with the training, and have continued to have mixed responses from the consulting team on the best way to use this product. **What problems is Macola solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Macola as our company's primary ERP system. My particular use of the system is for its MRP tools. I have personally benefitted from the great detail that Macola includes regarding planned shop orders and customer orders. ### 21. Macola Pros and Cons **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Macola?** Macola's order entry system and customer creation is fairly straight forward and user friendly. Additionally, the integration with Avalara and other plugins is beneficial. **What do you dislike about Macola?** Macola is a complicated system, with many of the reports needed to run the business not readily available, thus requiring consultants to set them up. Then testing must be done to ensure the accuracy of the reports. Nothing with Macola is quick, so be prepared to be patient if you choose to utilize this system. Macola doesn't have a way of being able to see quote conversions, because once you convert a quote to an order the quote disappears, so if you are looking for conversion percentages you have to track them outside of Macola. **Recommendations to others considering Macola:** Set aside time to fully integrate the system and take advantage of any training that you can get your hands on - knowledge is power and you need all of the knowledge you can get your hands on with Macola. **What problems is Macola solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Macola to track our quotes, opportunities, and orders. It has given us clearer long term visibility, to be able to better prepare inventory, order the supplies needed, staff properly, etc. ### 22. Macola Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tory W. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Macola?** I like how easy it is to jump from screen to screen. Going from Item entry to BOM's is simple. **What do you dislike about Macola?** It's not set up for the type of business that we are in. **What problems is Macola solving and how is that benefiting you?** Very easy to search for items. 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